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Rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies are the established rules of politics, says Jonah Goldberg.

Agnes "Connie" Godwin, a former newspaper editor who was later press secretary for Alaska's Sen. Ted Stevens, died Nov. 15 from complications of dementia at Shore Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Chestertown. She was 90.

WASHINGTON — The indictment of New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez on corruption charges Wednesday could have significant implications for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — and it could also provide an unexpected opportunity for Maryland.

If this country were experiencing a cholera or typhus epidemic, various communities would band together immediately to staunch the havoc it was wreaking. In comparison, the epidemic of gun deaths has been met with a lot of hand-wringing and public condemnation by political leaders but not much else. That's not leadership, that's capitulation.

Despite how inextricably linked science and technology are to the American standard of living (half of all economic growth in the last 50 years occurred in S&T fields), many elected leaders are dangerously unaware of scientific reality.

Former NSA employee Thomas Drake Thursday accepted a plea deal that cleared him of espionage charges stemming from an alleged leak of classified information to a Baltimore Sun reporter who wrote about waste and mismanagement at the Fort Meade-based agency.