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- It may have been a long time coming, but President Obama's decision to stand up to the obstructionists in Congress that led to the 16-day government shutdown in October has begun to pay off.
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It may have been a long time coming, but President Obama's decision to stand up to the obstructionists in Congress that led to the 16-day government shutdown in October has begun to pay off. - Nelson Mandela stood apart; his was of an epic struggle on the right side of history. As someone said, "we now know from him that we can make the world a better place" and we can do it as one.
- Rep. Elijah Cummings to attend Mandela services
- Wireless health-care technologies are ripe with potential for minority entrepreneurs
- "Why does everyone always ask if we're related to President Kennedy?"
- Gloom-and-doom economist offers a remarkably inaccurate version of events
- When obstruction reaches historic proportions, Democrats had little choice but to change long-standing rules
- Jules Witcover says the president's insurance policy flip-flop has Americans questioning his political and managerial skills and, yes, his trustworthiness.
- President Obama's sort-of apology for saying, "If you like your heath care plan, you can keep it," is in keeping with the tradition of Oval Office occupants trying to cover their posteriors when they are suddenly exposed.
- Milton Bromberg, a custom tailor and decorated World War II veteran who visited the White House to fit President Bill Clinton in suits, died of respiratory failure Nov. 1 at Season's Hospice at the Northwest Hospital Center. He was 90 and lived in Owings Mills.
- Tuesday's high-profile races show voters have lost their taste for tea party politics and prefer pro-business problem-solvers
- There's a long history of vice presidents being denied a second term, either because the man in the role chose to shed a thankless, end-of-the-road political job or because some strategist imagined that a different nominee might offer a better geographical or other balance to the ticket.
- Obama should be impeached for claiming Americans could keep their health insurance
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- Political consultants say Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler has wounded himself with a series of gaffes and scandals, but perhaps not mortally.
- The Horizon Foundation earlier this week launched a new television ad campaign calling on Coca-Cola to help fight childhood obesity. Starting next week, the $40,000 campaign will hit the air, with 30- and 90-second advertisements playing on broadcasts and cable networks through the Baltimore region during the months of October and November.
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- This Federal government shutdown is the latest antic by the Tea Party Republicans to achieve by sheer force what they did not achieve in the most recent national elections and cannot achieve by attempting to extort concessions
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- President Barack Obama told thousands of students at Prince George's Community College on Thursday that his signature health care law is "here to stay," despite a renewed intense debate over the law taking place over the law in Congress.
- A graduate of Johns Hopkins University's international studies school, eight months pregnant, was among dozens killed in the weekend massacre at a Kenyan shopping mall.
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- With city leaders pushing to impose earlier curfews on Baltimore's youth, civil liberties advocates and researchers say such measures don't deter crime and truancy and lead to police targeting children from poorer areas.
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- The nation has made progress toward the dream of racial equality envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., President Barack Obama told tens of thousands on the National Mall on Wednesday, but creating economic opportunity for millions of Americans remains "our great unfinished business."
- Gov. Martin O'Malley will deliver brief remarks from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Wednesday during the 50th anniversary celebration of the March on Washington, a spokeswoman said.
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- America's Internet service economy is highly competitive and successful and does not need reform.
