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History Channel uses pulpit power, Twitter, conservative sites to sell 'The Bible'
The Baltimore SunA few years ago, the History Channel was best known to some as a punch line on HBO’s “The Sopranos.” Remember mobster Tony Soprano sitting alone late at night in his New Jersey McMansion eating ice cream and watching World War II...Tags: NBC (tv network), AOL LLC, Jane Lynch, Television, Rick Warren
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Dr. Gerald D. Klee, psychiatrist
Dr. Gerald D. Klee, a retired psychiatrist who was an LSD expert and participated in its experimentation on volunteer servicemen at several military installations in the 1950s, died Sunday of complications after surgery at the University of Maryland St....Tags: Bay Ridge, Richard Nixon, University of Maryland, College Park, Medical Research, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Greatest generation the most entitled
One thing nearly everybody agrees upon is that the "sequester" is a silly sideshow to the real challenge facing America: unsustainable spending on entitlements. Ironies abound. Democrats, with large support from young people, tend to believe that we...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Government, Social Organizations, Youth Organizations, National Government
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Samuel L. 'Sandy' Frank
Samuel L. "Sandy" Frank, a retired Baltimore clothing manufacturer executive and World War II veteran, died Feb. 28 from cancer at his Roland Park Place home. The former longtime Mount Washington resident was 92. The son of Henry Frank, who headed A....
Tags: Roland Park, Dartmouth College, Germany, Wars and Interventions, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Great Baltimore cocktails, the Belgian Harrier at the Oregon Grille
Erik Brown, the wine and beverage director at the Oregon Grille, wants you to forget any preconceived notions you may have when you set foot into his bar. Forget the Hunt Valley restaurant's fine dining reputation; the scenic, horse country setting; the...
Tags: Restaurants, Hunt Valley, Cucumbers, Dining and Drinking
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Ticketmaster fees are a necessary evil
It's safe to say that Ticketmaster doesn't have many fans. The service, which handles ticket sales for venues large and small across the nation, charges fees on its transactions that seem to bear little relationship to either the cost of the tickets or...Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Carl Stokes, Ticketmaster
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Buildings and people of the past remembered
How often, when we pass the fine municipal building in Aberdeen, do we think of what once stood there? If we can remember before 2000, there was a structure that held so much history within its walls. It was at the turn of the century that the City of...Tags: Marketing, Arts, Painting, Hobbies
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Howard students prove they know their history
More than 260 Howard County middle and high school students participated in the county’s ninth annual History Day Competition on Saturday, March 16, presenting their historical research that related to the theme “Turning Points in History:...Tags: NASA, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Howard County, Manhattan (New York City)
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Virginia B. Machovec, cashier
Virginia B. Machovec, a retired city public school cafeteria cashier and longtime hospital volunteer, died Wednesday of pneumonia at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. She was 92. The daughter of a Cross Street Market worker and a homemaker, Virginia...Tags: Christianity, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center , Roman Catholicism, Pneumonia, Cross Street Market
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Fiscal crisis ahead is self inflicted [Commentary]
Drawing parallels between government spending policy and household finances has its perils. There's an extraordinary difference in scale, for one thing. And there's the matter that people will often argue against government debt on the grounds that debt...Tags: Germany, Finance, U.S. Department of Defense, Government Debt, World War I (1914-1918)
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Immigration reform and entitlement reform go together
I was born in 1946, just when the boomer wave began. Bill Clinton was born that year, too. So was George W. Bush, as was Laura Bush. And then the next year, Hillary Rodham. And soon Newt Gingrich (known as "Newty" as a boy). And, also in 1946, Cher....
Tags: Employment Opportunities, George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Physical Conditions, Social Security
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Ralph K. 'Ken' Barnes, World War II POW
Ralph K. "Ken" Barnes, a retired Koppers Co. manager who was a prisoner of war during the twilight months of World War II, died Saturday from complications of a stroke at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The longtime Cockeysville resident was 89.
The...Tags: Christianity, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Timonium, College Baseball, Wars and Interventions
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