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U.N. arms treaty is a threat to America
Maryland's two senators should not vote for ratification of the international arms trade treaty recently adopted by the United Nations ("U.N. approves landmark global arms trade treaty," April 3). This U.N. power grab is not just aimed at gaining...Tags: Freedom of the Press, International Organizations, United Nations
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Obama returns to arms control -- just in time
President Barack Obama's call during the State of the Union address to reduce the threat of nuclear war could not have been more timely. The day before the president spoke, North Korea tested a primitive nuclear device, and the following day reports...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Vladimir Putin, Russia, State of the Union Address, Ronald Reagan
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Bob Dole and the GOP's disability
Much ink has been spilled in recent weeks criticizing the Republican Party and its failed presidential candidate for a lack of compassion and obvious antipathy toward "47 percent" of the electorate (if not a bit more), so it was reassuring to see two of...
Tags: Rick Santorum, Marco Rubio, Human Rights, Fiscal Cliff, United Nations
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Egypt's Morsi is Hamas' new best friend
The chameleon is finally showing his true colors. Since taking office in June, Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's not-so-new president, has been equivocating, trying to balance Egypt's longstanding diplomatic and financial relationship with the West with his true...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Islam, Government, Cairo (Egypt), Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Congressional candidate profiles
MEET THE CANDIDATES When Marylanders head to the polls Nov. 6, they will elect members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in addition to casting their ballots for president. Dozens of people are running for a chance to represent the...Tags: Government, Environmental Pollution, Corruption, Wars and Interventions, Poverty
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Editorial: Celebrating a defeat
Havre de Grace is getting a bit of a late start on planning for marking the 200th anniversary of the city's sacking during the War of 1812. It's already 2012, which means the 200th anniversary of the murky start of the war is this year, and the...Tags: Festive Events, Spanish-American War, Andrew Jackson, Havre de Grace
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A roadblock to rights for the disabled
On July 26, 1990, when President George H. W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on the lawn of the White House, I was too young be in attendance, or even understand the impact that this monumental law would have on the United States by...
Tags: John Kerry, Parties and Movements, Human Rights, Civil Rights, U.S. Senate
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Less than glorious: the War of 1812
No one calls the War of 1812 America's finest hour. But it had its moments. Resentful over treatment by the British and determined to enhance national sovereignty, Henry Clay and a small group of "War Hawks" in the Twelfth Congress pushed an unprepared...
Tags: John Randolph, Fort McHenry, Barbara Lee, Patterson Park, Havre de Grace
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Reducing the threat of Armageddon
President Obama achieved a major foreign policy goal in 2010 when he concluded the New START Treaty committing the U.S. and Russia to reduce the size of their long-range nuclear arsenals by a third within six years, to 1,550 warheads on each side. But...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Russia, Pakistan, Nuclear Policy, Military Equipment
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Obama unleashed
Politicians and presidents of both parties have occasionally suffered from open-mic syndrome, saying something when they thought the microphone was turned off they wished had not been made public. The latest to fall prey to that amplification of the...
Tags: Elections, Vladimir Putin, Government, National Government, Dmitry Medvedev
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Sun fires blanks on gun law
The liberal media, of which The Sun is unapologetically a part, has failed to report on the fact that George Zimmerman was confronted not by a Barack Obama look-alike or 17-year-old cherubic-faced "child," but by a young man well over six feet in height...Tags: Jack Nicholson, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, United Nations, Hillary Clinton
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Torture: Wrong then, still wrong now
The images of the burning towers on Sept. 11 are seared into our collective memory. It seemed unthinkable that we could be attacked on our native soil.
During our nation's founding, we were also attacked on our soil. And though the British who captured...Tags: Human Rights Watch, Human Rights, George Washington, Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan
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