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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: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Rick Perry, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Tea Party Movement
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Bin Laden's lasting victory
The hoopla of commemorations, ceremonies and speeches about 9/11 have come and gone, but each time an air traveler submits to an invasive body search that violates the Muslim custom of modesty, the soul of Osama bin Laden laughs; even though dead, he...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Risking the Almighty's wrath?
Thanks for Steven Grossman's wise commentary on how Michelle Bachmann, Pat Robertson, John Hagee and Rush Limbaugh have all attributed the natural disasters we've recently experienced to an unhappy God bent on punishing us for even thinking about...Tags: Abortion, Hurricane Irene (2011), Pikesville, Minority Groups, Disasters
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Hurricane Irene: an almighty wind?
Michele Bachmann says that the earthquake and hurricane that have recently hit the East Coast of the United States were sent as some sort of divine warning message to politicians in Washington to curb government spending. I must respectfully disagree. I...Tags: Abortion, Hurricane Irene (2011), Dominican Republic, Minority Groups, Disasters
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Political comedy bits: The five best of July
About the blogger:Â Amy Bree Becker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mass Communication & Communication Studies at Towson University. Her research considers the impact of political comedy and political entertainment on everyday life. She also...Tags: Stephen Colbert, Pies and Tarts, Minority Groups, Twitter, Inc., CNN (tv network)
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After induction, three Howard brothers share Navy bond
For the past 18 months, Sanjay Stone has served as a navigator aboard the USS Gonzalez, a guided missile destroyer whose home port is Norfolk, Va.
But the former Columbia resident happened to be in training at Navy Information Operations Command in San...Tags: Al-Qaeda, High School Sports, Armed Forces, World War II (1939-1945), United States Naval Academy
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Arnold teenager explores the world — and her own backyard
One of Lauren Morrell's earliest memories involves a family hike and a candy wrapper, which explains why the 16-year-old from Arnold is now the student representative to the Severn Riverkeeper group and why, the day she turned 15, she applied to become...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Everglades, Swiss Confederation, Trips and Vacations, Government
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Why limit drone strikes against Americans to other countries?
I wasn't surprised to see that the peanut gallery on the far right has no objection to the Obama administration's use of extra-judicial murder against people it deems sufficiently anti-American (whether or not they have actually committed a crime). ("...Tags: Terrorism, Timothy McVeigh, Coup d'Etat, Murder
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Killing al-Awlaki was a political stunt unworthy of a great nation
Some in our government are claiming that U.S.-born anti-American Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in self defense by a C.I.A.-operated drone; they expect us to buy the nonsense that America, a huge and powerful nation was so terrified of this...Tags: Al-Qaeda, Civil Unrest, Religious Conflicts, Constitutional Issues, Barack Obama
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Ex-soldier from Laurel charged with trying to join terrorist group in Somalia
Craig Benedict Baxam was surfing the Internet from his Army base in South Korea last summer when he came across an Islamic religious website.
The soldier from Laurel had never been particularly religious. But with his deployment and his time in the...Tags: Punishment, Somalia, Nairobi (Kenya), Al-Qaeda, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport
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Path out of nation's financial morass: Cut spending while closing tax loopholes for the wealthy
The federal government's contortions in reaching an agreement to curb spiraling national debt are a reflection of the deep political divide within the electorate, not just among politicians ("House raises debt ceiling," Aug 2). But one thing is clear to...Tags: Finance, Government, Afghanistan, National Government, Elections
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U.S. war on terror focuses on new battlefield: the Internet
A Woodlawn man watches online videos of Osama bin Laden, posts about jihad on his Facebook page, and — according to federal prosecutors — agrees to a plot to detonate a bomb at a military recruiting center in Catonsville. An Ellicott City...Tags: Somalia, Bombings, Catonsville, Government, Schools
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