americans for prosperity
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- Republican gubernatorial candidate Charles Lollar, an ordained preacher and former tea party activist, spreads a spirited message about rising above partisanship. He contends that he is the candidate best able to beat a Democrat in November.
- Although modest in scope and punitive to federal workers and the jobless, Congress should approve Murray-Ryan bipartisan budget plan
- The new IRS rules are needed to respond to an avalanche of secret money that threatens to corrupt our political system
- Attorney General Douglas Gansler fills out the 2014 gubernatorial field and injects a welcome focus on issues into the contest to replace Martin O'Malley.
- Republican businessman Charles Lollar kicked off his campaign for governor Tuesday with a four-day, 17-stop bus tour of Maryland.
- Maryland House Republicans elected a new minority leader, but they aren't going to make much progress if their strategy is to find a new messenger for the same message.
- House GOP deposes O'Donnell, chooses Kipke as leader
- The construction sector, which has been in the tank for the better part of five years, is on the verge of receiving a sizable infusion of money from recent decisions in Annapolis.
- With gasoline prices hovering at the $4 a gallon level, Maryland motorists can ill afford to pony up even more. According to Americans for Prosperity Maryland, Maryland motorists are facing a gas tax increase of more than 60 percent if O'Malley's transportation funding proposal becomes law.
- Cal Thomas writes that the Florida governor's embrace of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion is a big disappointment.
- A consortium of Northeastern states including Maryland has agreed to reset a power plant emissions cap to current levels and to tighten it annually starting in 2015, an action officials said would increase investment in energy efficiency and slightly raise electricity prices, besides cutting pollution.
- The GOP's right wing refuses to acknowledge the reality of the fiscal cliff, and that may preclude any deal on the budget and taxes before Jan. 1.
- Doyle McManus sorts through the good, bad and ugly of swing-state campaign commercials
- The Maryland chapter of Americans for Prosperity is hosting a two-hour promotion Thursday in Towson where drivers can pay just $1.84 for a gallon of gas.
- A Koch-funded scientist has reversed himself on global warming; will the liberals' favorite villains follow?
- Doyle McManus assesses the good, bad and ugly of political advertising so far this year
- The Super PACs are going after Obamacare like Romney can't; it's easy when you lie.
- More than two dozen people stood on the corners of the intersection of Baltimore National Pike and Winters Lane to rally against Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposal to apply sales tax to gasoline.
- Gov. Martin O'Malley insists that his political activities and decisions of governance are kept separate, but the sudden interest in a national political group he heads by businesses who stand to gain millions from his administration's decisions certainly looks bad.
- Increasing state taxes will hurt businesses and job creation in Maryland
- Recent increase in the sales tax on alcohol is bound to hurt struggling businesses and won't help Maryland balance its budget
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