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Of the prospective GOP presidential nominees, none has yet developed the credentials to claim rightfully to be next in line.

A Q&A with the longtime Howard County resident and former U.S. ambassador

The beat goes on in 2014, at least when it comes to capital jazz in Annapolis provided by a program nurtured by the late Joe Byrd and, before that, by his brother Charlie Byrd. A tradition set by those two will again draw major talent to Annapolis this year for a series of jazz concerts at 49 West Café and at O'Callaghan's Hotel.

George Frank Thompson, who made and served lunch to Pope John Paul II on his visit to Baltimore and who had earlier mixed drinks for five presidents as a Capitol Hill barman, died Dec. 14 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 98 and lived in the Otterbein section of the Inner Harbor.

A group of kibitzers that includes mostly partisan political operatives of past campaigns sprinkled with some new purveyors of the broad and unfiltered social media led by an academic at the University of Pennsylvania, is unnecessarily messing with the presidential debate system.

When obstruction reaches historic proportions, Democrats had little choice but to change long-standing rules

Significant events in summer's final month even with Congress in recess

Death of Pennsylvania's Bill Scranton, who challenged Barry Goldwater in 1964, heralds the end of an era for Republicans

Joseph S. Eubanks, a noted bass-baritone and Morgan State University music professor who was a member of the first American company of "Porgy and Bess" to tour the world, died May 16.

Jonah Goldberg says Margaret Thatcher's embrace of free markets forced change on both her friends and her enemies

Brady Daniels Kautsch, 17 of Bel Air, earned Eagle Scout Award,

Why are we paying millions in pensions and expenses for our ex-presidents?

Jules Witcover says the political evolution of Mitt Romney is evidence of the GOP's perilous path.

The Syran civil war should prompt the U.S. to recognize Israeli control of the Golan Heights.

When presidents became targets, vice presidents like Biden became more important

In a new lawsuit, the sons of Frank Olson seek to pry open the secrecy surrounding the government's Cold War-era research into mind-control drugs, sensory deprivation, abuse and torture to learn what happened during the predawn hours of Nov. 28, 1953, in Room 1018a of the Statler Hotel.

The sons of a Cold War scientist who plunged to his death in 1953 several days after unwittingly taking LSD in a CIA mind-control experiment sued the government Wednesday. They claimed the CIA murdered their father, Frank Olson, by pushing him from a 13th-story window of a hotel — not, as the CIA says, that he jumped to his death.

History, not an imagined rejection of capitalism, explains the president's re-election victory

Mitt Romney's chameleon-like nature makes him distrusted by the full spectrum of the party that nominated him for president.

Mary Sanchez says affirmative action, and the high aspirations that inspired it, may be on the way out

History shows that Romney's success this week could translate into real results at the polls

Both parties' conventions were disasters -- unless the rules of American politics have changed.

The president's stay-the-course speech suggests an incumbent who expects to win.

Jules Witcover says Todd Akin's defiance of GOP leaders a sign of new times

Republicans are against critical thinking? That explains a lot

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.

Liberals love to wax nostalgic about how the Republicans of yesteryear were so much less extreme -- and they always have.

Obama's claim as "offensive" notion of White House security leak is one for the books

The tea party declares war on common sense and takes out Dick Lugar.

Celebrated mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves prepares to join Peabody Conservatory voice faculty

Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.: Everyone misspeaks in the heat of a campaign; issues are more important than gaffes

Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.: Everyone misspeaks in the heat of a campaign; issues are more important than gaffes

Sitting at a table in a school cafeteria in Severna Park, Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold didn't look like a politician under siege as he spoke to residents for hours on a recent evening.

Mitt Romney seems destined for the Republican nomination so why aren't more in his party willing to acknowledge it?

Llewellyn Washington Woolford Sr., a retired Social Security Administration attorney who was a past Howard County Human Relations Commission chairman, died of stroke complications Feb. 22 at his Columbia home. He was 81.

Albert A. Mrozek, a retired U.S. Department of Defense civilian executive, died Jan. 12 from complications of diabetes at Genesis Severna Park Nursing Home. He was 81.

Six members of Boy Scout Troop 1908, all seniors at Hereford High School, all friends make Eagle Scout rank Jan. 7.

Margaret Ann Ulle, an advocate for the developmentally disabled, died of an infection Saturday at Roland Park Place. She was 91.

Midshipmen might have to resort to trickery – in their case passing –to beat SMU on Saturday in Dallas

Jules Witcover notes that unlike beleaguered incumbents in the past, the president faces no challenger from within his own party

Former congressional pages from Maryland — including some who have gone on to long careers in politics — lament the decision to end the nearly 200-year-old program this month.

A Maryland federal grand jury indicted two New York men Thursday on charges they conspired to steal historic documents worth millions of dollars from museums in both states over a seven-month period.

Two New York City men have been charged with stealing documents from the Maryland Historical Society. One of the men arrested Saturday is Barry Landau, 63, a renowned collector of presidential artifacts.

Betty Ford dies: Widow of President Gerald Ford was 93.