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Conservatives are right to fear what President Obama might try to do in a second term without the worry of re-election, Cal Thomas writes. - While bumpy, the menu suits tourists and convention clientele
- Politicians are the ones who create the problems they promise to fix.
- Tuesday afternoon incident in 1936 left school bus overturned and automobile severely damaged.
- Despite reelection campaign rhetoric, the Obama presidency has weakened America at home and abroad
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- The U.S. is reluctant to let Israel strike Iran in an election year
- There's an easy answer to high gas prices — don't buy so much of the stuff
- Only wind and solar power can guarantee America's energy independence
- The U.S. is awash in crude oil; the problem isn't a shortage of crude oil but our limited capacity to refine it into gasoline
- With rising oil prices creating a drag on the economy and his own re-election effort, President Barack Obama mocked Republican critics of his alternative energy plans during an appearance in Maryland.
- Republican Senate candidate Richard Douglas began airing a statewide radio advertisement on Thursday -- the first in the GOP primary -- suggesting that it's "time to wake Congress up."
- A crowd of hundreds at Prince Georges Community College awaits the arrival this morning of President Barack Obama, who is due to deliver the latest in a series of addresses on energy as rising oil costs create a drag on the economic recovery - and his own reelection effort.
- Why sell our best shot at energy independence to other countries?
- With less than a month before the 2012 Maryland General Assembly session adjourns, Harford County's legislators are just beginning to scrape the surface of what they hope to accomplish during this year's session.
- Gov. Martin O'Malley's gas tax plan may be unpopular but the outlook for Maryland commuters is far worse if lawmakers fail to support it
- Constellation Energy Group, Baltimore's last Fortune 500 company, also settled a federal investigation into market manipulation as Chicago-based Exelon Corp. closed its $7.9 billion takeover on Monday.
- President Barack Obama will visit Largo on Thursday to give an address on American energy, White House officials said Monday.
- Senate vote shows Republicans wrong about Keystone pipeline and U.S. energy policy
- Maryland must reduce spending and not raise taxes on the fragile boating industry
- Robert Ehrlich champions the drill here, drill now mantra, but what about finding alternatives?
- Robert Ehrlich says America needs local sources of cheap energy
- Robert Ehrlich says America needs local sources of cheap energy
- Obama's calm is needed to balance the hotheads calling for war with Iran
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- The Obama administration's stated rationale for opposing an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear sites is weak; could domestic politics be the real reason?
- Natural gas: Proposed Cove Point facility would set back the state's efforts to make environmental progress
- Republicans are the ones who have never held Big Oil accountable for prices or profits
- Thomas K. Pettit, a retired Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. civil engineer who later owned a natural food store, died Tuesday from complications after gall bladder surgery at Northwest Hospital Center. He was 86.
- The solution to high gas prices is a nationalistic strategy
- Why weren't Republicans whining about high gas prices during the Bush years?
- Harford County Public Schools on target to stay within its fiscal year budget
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- Outrageously partisan House transportation bill is the latest sign that Washington can't keep the nation's roads, bridges and transit systems running
- Iran is threatening action that could have shattering consequences for our oil supply; where is our plan for dealing with that crisis?
- There is a gap between rank and file Democrats and liberal activists that is holding the party back from establishing a lasting majority.
- The first hike in the state's hunting license fees has caused a stir among the hunting community in terms both the increase itself and the timing of the bill.
- President Obama's failure to allow more domestic and Canadian sources of oil, plus his unwillingness to go after speculators, are to blame for high gas prices.
- Gas tax: Increasing the price of fuel will hurt suffering consumers and business owners, costing jobs
- Important things are happening in the world, but you wouldn't know it from the political right who only want to see events through anti-Obama glasses
- Gasoline prices in Maryland and across the nation are climbing fast, and motorists could see $4 a gallon at the pump in the coming months, fueled by stiff demand in China and India and turmoil in the oil-rich Middle East, experts said.
- Most people filling up the tank in Howard County are already paying more than the $3.60 per gallon state average cost of gasoline, a price that is expected to escalate to $4 per gallon this spring. So naturally the idea of paying a sales tax on gasoline is not sitting well with county residents and businesses.