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O'Malley takes party's message to New Hampshire
— Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley took center stage before a convention of New Hampshire Democrats Saturday, rallying the faithful in a state important to his party's hopes to hold the White House in November — and to his own future should he...Tags: Talk Shows (genre), Regional Authority, Civil Rights, Minority Groups, Executive Branch
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Harford's Craig wins Young Republicans straw poll for 2014 gubernatorial nod
Maryland Young Republicans have put Harford County Executive David Craig on top in the organization's first straw poll for the 2014 gubernatorial election. The poll was taken at the MDYR annual convention in Annapolis Saturday, according to a news...Tags: Harford County, Michael Steele, Republican Party, Annapolis, Elections
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Redistricting map foes say they've passed first test
Opponents of the congressional redistricting plan devised by Gov. Martin O'Malley and General Assembly leaders said Thursday they have passed the first test for putting the measure on the November ballot by gathering enough voters' signatures to keep...Tags: Referenda, Regional Authority, Voting, John P. Sarbanes, Labor Legislation
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Democrats denounce GOP petition drive
After Maryland Republicans appeared to have cleared the first hurdle in their challenge to Maryland's new congressional district map, the state Democratic chairwoman said the party will "consider all options" to fight the GOP effort to challenge the...Tags: Democratic Party, Republican Party, Elections, Anne Arundel County
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Cardin pushes Senate version of anti-domestic violence bill
Sen. Ben Cardin used a roundtable discussion in Prince George's County on Thursday to call on House Republicans to pass the Senate version of a bill that would reauthorize hundreds of millions of dollars of spending on domestic abuse shelters and violence...Tags: Prince George's County, Sandy Adams, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Illegal Immigrants
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Md. a two-party state for political corruption
In his recent commentary, "Too many Md. politicians have chalk on the shoes" (May 25), Douglas Schmidt gets points for originality for inventing a standard he can use to smear people who have committed no crime. However, he uses it mostly to smear...Tags: Political Corruption, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Ellicott City, Elections
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Avoiding 'Taxmageddon' requires compromise
It's bad enough when economists contradict each other, but it's even more frustrating when they contradict themselves. Or, as George Bernard Shaw once observed, if all economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion. That...
Tags: Congressional Budget Office, Money and Monetary Policy, Barack Obama, Public Finance, Democratic Party
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President to president
"You will be our president when you read this note," George Herbert Walker Bush wrote to Bill Clinton, the man who defeated him in the 1992 campaign, denying Mr. Bush the provisional vindication that reelection provides until history has its chance to...
Tags: John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, The New York Times, George H.W. Bush, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Md. Democrats have no shame
Enough is enough. Partisan politics in Maryland has hit an all-time low. As Maryland is hurling headlong into financial ruin, the working, legal resident taxpayers are being taxed to the hilt. Both parties have their collective heads in the sand or at...Tags: Republican Party, Democratic Party, Elections
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GOP has been taken over by extreme voices
As someone who was close to many Republican leaders in the past, it is sad to see what has become of that party. This country (and I mean this sincerely) needs a principled, reasonable and responsible Republican party. The Republican leadership today...Tags: Barack Obama, Petroleum Industry, Republican Party, Mitt Romney, Pikesville
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Mikulski plan for women's pay gets new push
A proposal to expand equal-pay protections for women, long championed by Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, was thrust into the national political spotlight Wednesday in a Democratic effort to court female voters — a crucial demographic in this year's...
Tags: Planned Parenthood, Mitt Romney, Labor Legislation, Quinnipiac University, Discrimination
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Our limitless debt
The U.S. debt clock is rapidly approaching $16 trillion. This year's federal deficit is in excess of $1.3 billion. These are staggering sums, mind-numbing in their sheer size. And for the 99.9 percent of us who were not math majors, almost impossible to...
Tags: Ron Wyden, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Public Finance, Paul Ryan
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