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Bans on journalists giving money to candidates don't fool anyone about media bias.

Political pundits like to label gratuitous political gaffes as "unforced errors" — mistakes that come out of right field without warning or reason. Many conservatives misinterpret the president's — and his surrogates' — consistent, predictable actions as examples of such unforced errors.

There is more media than ever covering American political life. And with each major election, the coverage seems to get worse ¿ or, at least, more confused and misguided.

If the White House would falsify records and lie to the public about a Cartegena hooker, is it really so hard to imagine that it would deceive the public -- and Congress -- about larger issues?

In Mr. Obama's 2009 speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, he made a defense of the concept of the just war, which he can reasonably argue he has decided to enter on the grounds of long-range self-defense against this newly sprouting terrorist offshoot of al-Qaida. It now looms as the greatest challenge of his presidency, and to a positive legacy.

After endlessly trying to repeal and replace "Obamacare," the GOP has come up empty-handed. The health-care law appears to be gaining more public acceptance. So congressional Republicans are doing what they can to revive another old hobby horse — Benghazi.

The Sun is cheerleading for the Benghazi coverup.

Despite the sneers of MSNBC hosts and the disdainful manner of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, Benghazi matters. And it matters in ways we don't yet even understand -- deep, fractious ways that reveal a major front in the culture war almost no one seems to understand or want to even talk about.

Olympic figure skating gold medalist Brian Boitano, who the White House named to the United States' 2014 Sochi delegation, announced he is gay Thursday.

The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to jump into a growing legal dispute between businesses run by conservative Christians and the Obama administration over whether a company must pay for birth control drugs that conflict with its owner's religious beliefs.

As Maryland Health Connection exchange undergoes fixes, consumers and groups use other means to find care.

The president has effectively admitted to doing what he can to make the government shutdown as damaging as possible.

Republicans in the House of Representatives were set to approve a government funding bill Saturday that would delay the nation's health care law for one year — inching federal agencies closer to a shutdown analysts predict would have a significant economic impact in Maryland.

While Washington is preoccupied with other things, Iranian President Hasan Rowhani may be opening the door to genuine progress.

A high-level U.S.-Russian meeting just for the sake of meeting would serve no purpose

In a broad-ranging interview on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama addressed Russia's recently passed anti-gay laws by saying he has "no patience for countries that try to treat gays or lesbians or transgender persons in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them."

Jonah Goldberg writes that journalists should embrace the entire First Amendment, including the part about free exercise of religion

Jules Witcover writes that President Obama's hopes for a second-term fresh start are imperiled.

WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee vote on Labor Secretary nominee Tom Perez was postponed hours before it was set to take place Wednesday, highlighting what appears to be a growing partisan fight over the confirmation of the former Maryland official.

Sen. Ben Cardin is scheduled to meet Thursday with the family of a Russian lawyer whose death sparked an international outcry over human rights in that country, renewing focus on a controversy that has complicated U.S.-Russian relations at a sensitive time.

New York federal district judge overturned Obama administration's ban preventing girls younger than 17 from purchasing emergency contraceptive pills over the counter.

Sequestration was Obama's idea;

Jonah Goldberg writes that both sides are pretending that looming budget cuts will be a disaster for the country.

Defense officials and their allies in Congress have done their best to create a sense of crisis about steep impending budget cuts, but their warnings have failed to produce any visible result.

Immigration reform advocates, including a leading voice from Maryland, pressed President Obama on Tuesday for a pathway to citizenship for the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants, calling a bipartisan proposal under consideration in the U.S. Senate "unfair and not acceptable."

President Barack Obama will arrive in Annapolis on Wednesday to speak to U.S. Senate Democrats who are gathering at the Westin hotel next week.