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Towson student advocates for segregation at CPAC event
A Towson University student made national news at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday when he suggested segregating black Republicans from the rest of the party. A Black Republican from Alabama, K Carl Smith, hosted a panel...
Tags: Conservative Political Action Conference, Minority Groups, Teaching and Learning, Booker T. Washington, Parties and Movements
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Top Democrats seek votes to raise gas taxes
With three weeks left in the General Assembly session, Gov. Martin O'Malley and legislative leaders have begun the painstaking process of rounding up the votes to raise taxes on gasoline — a move so unpopular it hasn't been done here since 1992....
Tags: Montgomery County (Maryland), Justice System, FBI, Government, Purple Line (Maryland)
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House votes to repeal death penalty
The General Assembly voted to repeal the death penalty Friday, calling for an end to Maryland's 375-year history of capital punishment and joining a growing number of states outlawing the practice. After nearly two hours of impassioned debate, the House...
Tags: William E. Lori, Montgomery County (Maryland), U.S. Supreme Court, Jamin B. Raskin, Justice System
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Taylor Branch distills Pulitzer-winning trilogy for students
The math is daunting: More than 2,300 pages of prose winnowed down to 190, including photographs and the occasional blank sheet that signals chapter breaks. Yet, that's exactly the challenge that author and historian Taylor Branch tackled when he...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Lyndon B. Johnson, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Entertainment Events, Civil Rights
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Sandy aid should be pork-free
Congress has proposed a bill for some $60 billion for relief for people caught up in the destruction from Hurricane Sandy ("Sandy aid bill would include more for Md.," Dec. 20). Interestingly enough, not only The Sun but Washington newspapers reported...Tags: Amtrak, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Elections, Voting, Natural Disasters
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Goodbye, Joe Lieberman
After 24 years in the U.S. Senate, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the first and only Jewish politician nominated to a national major party ticket, in 2000, had some advice to his colleagues in a farewell speech Wednesday on the Senate floor. To break the...
Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Lindsey O. Graham, The New York Times, Ned Lamont, Joe Biden
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Obama plays his high cards
As President Barack Obama nears the end of his first term, has he finally found an inner LBJ to channel? His recent words and actions suggest he has turned a corner from his earlier wishful thinking about playing nice with obstruction-minded Republicans...
Tags: Talk Shows (genre), Jules Witcover, Lyndon B. Johnson, The New York Times, Joe Biden
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A weak Boehner is bad for the GOP, Obama and America
Only a few days into the new year, the Grand Old Party has a huge political hangover from the events that rang in the tidings of 2013. First came the escape from the fiscal cliff that saw its speaker of the House, John Boehner, embarrassed by his flock'...
Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, Harry Reid, U.S. Congress
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Remembering Richard Ben Cramer and his magnum opus
An old reporter often begins his daily routine by turning to the newspaper's obituary page with mild trepidation, fearing another friend has gone to that great newsroom in the sky. So it was this week in reading of the death in Baltimore, at only 62, of...
Tags: Jules Witcover, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Joe Biden, Entertainment Events, White House
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Since when does it take a political campaign to become secretary of state?
There was a time when a president and the opposition party in Congress could agree on certain basics, such as the right of the chief executive to select members of his cabinet with no fuss or bother. The president's most important choice in this...
Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, United Nations, Hillary Clinton, U.S. Department of State
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On taxes, Republicans discover the problem with "Never ever, ever, ever ..."
A few words to ponder as we sail toward the fiscal cliff. Those words would be: "That was then, this is now." Strip away the false piety and legalistic hair splitting offered by Republican lawmakers rationalizing their decision to abandon a pledge...
Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, Elections, The Miami Herald, Parties and Movements, U.S. Congress
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Filibuster reform can't wait
Two months after American voters made it clear they want effective government — and two years before the U.S. Senate's next opportunity to reform its broken rules — that "do nothing" chamber appears poised to fix its filibuster. In its present...
Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, Barbara A. Mikulski, Labor Legislation, DREAM Act, Harry Reid
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