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- Conservatives who say Obama's victory is the death of freedom should think about what freedom really means.
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November's election made it clear that Americans no longer value liberty, so why not cut to the chase and become a dictatorship? - When it comes to giving thanks, there's nothing to be said that hasn't been said before — and better — so we opt for tradition instead.
- History, not an imagined rejection of capitalism, explains the president's re-election victory
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- Jonah Goldberg says that on Election Day, Americans voted to become more like Europeans
- Doyle McManus warns that lame-duck presidents often have trouble accomplishing big things
- As difficult as Hurricane Sandy is making our lives, Americans can't afford to lose sight of their obligation to vote
- Vice President Joe Biden's Roosevelt-era ideas got us in hock to China; Paul Ryan's ideas about individual responsibility can get us out.
- The Bush tax cuts did not cause the economic crisis, despite what President Obama says
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- The president's stay-the-course speech suggests an incumbent who expects to win.
- You know your are entering a different world when you see the heavy cordless iron that requires a fire to heat it sitting atop a wood ironing board covered with a bed sheet used as an ironing pad at the Howard County Center of African American Culture. For those who can remember manual eggbeaters and other handheld tools hanging from the wall, this is a step back in time
- Arguing that he needs more time to fix the nation's sluggish economy, President Barack Obama formally accepted his party's nomination for a second term Thursday while stressing that voters will face a stark choice in November that could affect their lives for decades to come.
- Here are excerpts of President Barack Obama's remarks as prepared for delivery to the Democratic National Convention.
- The president claims the Republicans are champions of old ideas, but he's pushing the same New Deal solutions to 21st century problems.
- Even as Democrats build their case for an Obama second term, they struggle with the 'better off' question that actually plays to their strengths
- A tour of the Shrine of St. Anthony gives visitors to the Ellicott City property a taste of history and a sense of peace.
- Can a 21st century nation survive on the policies of William Howard Taft?
- Baltimore's towering figures come from all walks of life
- In "The First American Political Conventions: Transforming Presidential Nominations, 1832-1872," Stan M. Haynes writes that the modern presidential nominating convention evolved during the campaign of 1832.
- Mitt Romney could serve the interests of democracy and his candidacy by allowing an open convention vote to select his running mate.
- The vice president must have the qualifications to take over on Day One
- Disgraced collector Barry H. Landau was sentenced to seven years in federal prison Wednesday for stealing thousands of historic documents worth as much as $2.5 million from archives along the East Coast, including Baltimore, where the scheme unraveled last summer.
- Barry H. Landau, the once-esteemed collector of presidential memorabilia, was sentenced seven years in federal prison Wednesday for stealing thousands of historic documents from archives and libraries in Baltimore and up the East Coast.
- The head of Maryland's Commission on Civil Rights explains the crucial legal distinction between discrimination and prejudice.
- The only thing wrong with President Obama's view of the U.S. economy is that it isn't optimistic enough
- Through history, America's leaders have formed a tight fraternity based on respect and service
- Students in Loch Raven High School's English Honor Society wrote biographies for Pickersgill Retirement Community residents, and shared their stories with each other on Thursday.
- Not long after the sun comes up on Memorial Day, and hours before Westminster's 145th Memorial Day parade kicks off at 9:30 a.m., Arnold "Skip" Amass will be on site, helping set up the television cameras and tying up last-minute loose ends.
- Government can spur a slumping economy by rebuilding the nation's infrastructure
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine doesn't want to see picture of Obama eating bad food
- Whether class warfare is the rich taking advantage of the poor, as the Democrats paint the issue, or the poor enviously blaming the hard-working rich, as the Republicans like to define it, the stage is set for another rerun of the debate that has fueled both parties at least since the days of FDR's New Deal.
- Rich guys can have the common touch -- Nelson Rockafeller did -- but Mitt Romney doesn't.
- In a role reversal, the right-wing goes spasmodic over President Obama's 'attack' of Supreme Court authority
- Just what did Ruth Bader Ginsburg mean by 'conservative'?
- A lifelong Ellicott City resident is taking the lead on jump-starting a private effort to restore the oil-on-canvas paintings installed in 1942 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.
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