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May: Death of bin Laden cheered; high tech tax sale conducted
Wayne Dougherty was re-elected to his third term as mayor of Havre de Grace.
Osama bin Laden was killed in a raid by Seal Team Six in Pakistan where he had been secretly living. Many people in Harford County reflected satisfaction at the death of a man...Tags: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Kentucky Derby, Harford County, American Legion, Baltimore County
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Christopher Hitchens dies
Christopher Hitchens, the author and Vanity Fair essayist, has died at age 62. Erik Wemple's blog in the Washington Post strings together some memorable tributes to Hitchens, whose writing talents were equalled by his ability to drink others under the...Tags: The Washington Post, Joan Didion, Cancer, Christopher Hitchens, The New York Times
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Hack this, Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch is in trouble and a whole lot of folks are delighted. They are practically drooling at the mouth that the downfall of Fox News could be around the corner. Members of Congress are calling for an investigation into allegations that the...Tags: News Corp., Mass Media, Journalism, Cell Phones, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Ignoring climate change science isn't smart
Richard Haddad's anti-science screed ("Get past alarmism on global warming," Oct. 26) reminds me uncannily of the previous White House's readiness to disregard well-grounded warnings from their political opponents, as when Bush administration officials...Tags: Saddam Hussein, Science, Global Change, Global Warming, Al-Qaeda
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Liberals must stand with the president
Every week on the lecture trail, I meet progressives who are demoralized and/or infuriated by Barack Obama's performance as president. They insist that they will not work for him again or even vote for him. Many have signed petitions saying as much....Tags: Lobbying, Reinhold Niebuhr, Central Intelligence Agency, White House, Columbia University
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Cutting Pentagon budget weakens our national security
Dan Rodricks proposes to cut defense spending almost by half, but says he also wants our troops to have the technology they need. ("Austerity measures must apply to the Pentagon, too" Aug. 11). Like so many advocates of reckless defense cuts, he...Tags: Elections, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia)
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Stop the presses: China plays all sides
"China respects the choice of the Libyan people and hopes that the situation there will quickly return to stability and that people's lives can return to normal," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said. Really? Opportunist China sees the imminent fall...Tags: Human Rights, Pakistan, China
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Officials confirm 'credible but unconfirmed' 9/11 threat
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials said Thursday evening they have "specific, credible but unconfirmed" information about a threat against the United States coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. "We have received...Tags: FBI, Justice System, Janet Napolitano, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Defense
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Recalling how 9/11 hit home
That September morning air was so crisp, so crystal clear, but we were all choking.
American soil had been hit by terrorists, killing thousands, and our nation's foundation had been rocked, sending up a cloud of grief and disbelief that we couldn't help...Tags: Halloween, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Carroll County (Maryland), Tour Operations Industry, Barack Obama
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Annual flag-waving event recalls 'tragedy that should never have happened'
Every year since 2001, Del. Pat McDonough has brought out dozens of residents from Harford County and around the region to remind everyone of the 9/11 terror attacks by waving American flags on Route 152 over the I-95 bridge.
This year, the 10th...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Mike Bennett, New York City, Dundalk
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September 11: Ten years later, a different world
Maybe it was the graphic-novel clarity of the images, the perfect geometry of the World Trade Center towers against the flat blue sky, the orange fireballs that blossomed from the puncture wounds. Or perhaps it was the cascading of horrors, a plane...Tags: Saddam Hussein, Afghanistan, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Abusive Behavior, Terrorism
Dec 30, 2011
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Aug 24, 2011
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Sep 9, 2011
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Sep 11, 2011
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Sep 10, 2011
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