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- What's with conservative Republican politicians and their Bible-thumping demagoguery? They give religion a bad name the same way they imply Muslims do — and not just the "radical Islamic terrorists" that no sensible person condones.
- Evergreen may owe $22 million to larger insurers under federal risk adjustment program
- Before we politicize the Orlando killings, let's pause and consider the enormity of what just happened.
- With their presumptive presidential nominees now in place, the two major political parties face starkly different, and critical, challenges. The Democrats have already taken impressive steps toward internal unity approaching the Hillary Clinton campaign. The Republicans, meanwhile, are deep in disunity over the fallout of Donald Trump's selection and his divisive behavior.
- Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on Thursday endorsed his party's presumptive nominee for president, Hillary Clinton.
- A day after Hillary Clinton made history by claiming the Democratic presidential nomination in front of a throng of boisterous, flag-waving supporters, the work of unifying her party got underway in a windowless hotel conference room where signs and outbursts were strictly prohibited.
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- Dwight Whitley is better than this.
- First District Congressman Andy Harris sent a letter recently to 12 county school superintendents in his district, including Harford County Public Schools Superintendent Barbara Canavan, claiming President Barack Obama does not have "statutory authority" to require school systems across the country to make accommodations for transgender students in bathrooms, locker rooms and or sports teams.
- When Donald Trump speaks, I hear someone who talks like a bully and who gives white people — mainly men — the courage to let their inner-bullies emerge, training their malevolence on those they perceive as threats. I do not see myself having an easy time in a Trumped-up America.
- Why worry about policy when you can talk Trump University and Clinton emails?
- GOP's presumptive presidential nominee would happily allow domestic gas and oil producers to run wild
- Why worry about policy when you can talk Trump University and Clinton emails?
- Longtime O'Malley backer touts him as next DNC chair
- In an election in which voters are appalled, the choice may boil down to campaigns and competency
- What does it take for a woman to win the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2016? Answer: A lot more than any man, apparently. Even then, the doubters will say that the fix was in, the establishment gave it to her, she stole it, or whatever, to undermine her accomplishment.
- By lifting the 50-year ban on U.S. arms sales to Vietnam the president laid a foundation for better relations between the former adversaries
- Bernie Sanders supporters' antics could hand the presidency to Donald Trump.
- In 1948, I heard a high school baseball coach telling his team, "One bad throw leads to another." It seems that this aphorism applies in politics as well.
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- Carroll County Commissioner Richard Rothschild has made clear his opinions on the recent movements by President Obama and his administration to ensure equal protection for transgender citizens of the United States. Rothschild would have our community believe that transgender men and women pose a threat to women and children in Carroll County if they are allowed to use the bathroom of their gender identity. In reality, people within the transgender community would merely like to use the bathroom
- Hillary Clinton needs Obama to sell his economic record.
- Now, I'm not for a minute going to compare Larry Hogan and Donald Trump. They are completely different in manner and approach. Yet, there is one striking similarity. And it's that the actions of liberal officeholders caused both of them to gain political prominence.
- A longtime inventor and University of Maryland College Park professor with more than 200 patents to his name has won a prestigous National Medal of Technology
- If the candidates want the trust of communities damaged by over-incarceration, they should commit to using a more efficient process to continue and expand President Obama's initiative to free deserving candidates who were over-sentenced for drug offenses.
- Taking its cue from a third-grader in Baltimore, the Obama administration on Thursday opened a dialogue with students to seek ideas on how the government can encourage more young people to engage in science, math and technology.
- Transgender students may soon be accommodated in bathroom and locker room facilities in Harford County Public Schools, in accordance with a federal mandate, but some in the community appear to be uneasy, if not downright hostile, about the change.
- Obama administration's recent advisory to schools on transgender rights has been twisted into something it wasn't by the usual demagogues
- Does Hillary Clinton's inability to put away Bernie Sanders bode ill for the fall?
- Bernie supporters are now faced with two options. In one, they continue their revolution, with or without Mr. Sanders, and over time they may succeed in changing the very narrative of American politics. In the other, the resign themselves to whatever comes their way. The choice is theirs.
- Jules Witcover takes a look at Donald Trump's potential running mates: Messrs. Christie, Kasich and Carson among them.
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- President Barack Obama will visit a memorial to the victims of the U.S. atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima during World War II, the White House said Tuesday.
- The primary season is ending as it begun, with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as the presumptive nominees. Current polls show Clinton with a comfortable lead. But polls this early in the game are notoriously unreliable.
- Hillary Clinton is rich, and morally and ethically corrupt. So is Donald Trump. At least he's entertaining.
- This week: Wilmore calls Obama the N-word at the #WHCD, an anonymous user shines a light on sexual assault at HBCUs and Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur, dies.
- For the second year in a row, Emma and Noah top the annual list of top baby names, according to the Social Security Administration.
- Nationalism and socialism are in full gallop in America today while conservatives are without a horse.
- Select teachers from Baltimore celebrated Teacher Appreciation Week in a presidential way, attending this year's Teacher of the Year Award at the White House.
- Outgoing president's foreign policy has been one disaster after another
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- Nobody asked me, but unless there's a sudden reversal of a trend in the counting of absentee and provisional ballots, the results of the Baltimore mayoral
- Trump's foreign policy is better than nothing
- When I was young, I dreamed of managing the Dodgers. Being a manager, though, demands that you actually know something about baseball. And so it is with managing the most complex organization in the world, the government of the United States. Last week, we came to realize that neither of the two leading Republican candidates has the chops to step into the Oval Office.
- President Obama should release 28 pages of commission findings linking Saudis to 9/11 hijackers
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- Rep. Elijah Cummings called Donald Trump "dangerous" and said during a journalism conference in Baltimore on Saturday that the leading Republican candidate "turns us as Americans against each other."
- Women will decide the winner of the 2016 presidential election.
- Why is Clinton a disaster for Dems? Count the ways
