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Rand Paul has lotsa 'splaining to do
Within hours after Sen. Rand Paul's news-making speech at historically black Howard University, someone posted this new definition on the user-driven Urban Dictionary website of an awkward-sounding but quite timely verb: "whitesplain": "The act of a...
Tags: Michael Steele, Richard Nixon, Rachel Maddow, Rand Paul, NAACP
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Judge Robert Bell: Timeline
July 6, 1943 Robert Mack Bell born in Rocky Mount, N.C.; family moves to Baltimore about 11/2 years later. June 17, 1960 Bell and 11 students try to get seated at Hooper's Restaurant at Charles and Fayette streets in Baltimore. A hostess says the...Tags: Regional Authority, Judges, William Donald Schaefer, Government, Politics
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How Republicans raided the welfare state and left it flat broke
I would like to add some points to former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich's column "How the welfare state has grown" (April 7). Mr. Ehrlich fails to mention the fact that every president since Lyndon Johnson, beginning in 1964, has raided the Social Security...
Tags: North American Free Trade Agreement, Trade Dispute, U.S. Congress, Economic Organization, Elections
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How the welfare state has grown — and sapped America's economy and culture
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." — Thomas Jefferson My recent column on the challenges associated with the Social...
Tags: Health Insurance, State of the Union Address, Arts and Culture, Elections, Medicaid
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Who's to blame for our politics? Don't ask
There is a classic "Doonesbury" cartoon, published soon after the Vietnam War ended, in which the antiwar activist Mark Slackmeyer is arguing with his pro-war father. They go back and forth, each blaming the other's politics for everything that's wrong in...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Bashar Assad, Personal Weapon Control, John Kerry
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William H. Ginsburg dies at 70; Monica Lewinsky's attorney
William H. Ginsburg, a seasoned medical malpractice attorney who bolted to national prominence in the brutal arena of Washington politics as Monica Lewinsky's lawyer, died Monday at his home in Sherman Oaks. He was 70. The cause was cancer, said his...
Tags: Military Justice, U.S. Army, Laws, General Practitioners, Medical Procedures and Tests
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A Dyngus Day for the history books
Forty-five years ago, Bobby Kennedy came to South Bend for the wildest of all Dyngus Days. Kennedy would have been president if he had lived long enough. I was far from sure on that Dyngus Day, as Kennedy campaigned here in a "must win" 1968 Democratic...
Tags: 2012 Democratic National Convention, Regional Authority, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Richard Nixon, Parties and Movements
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Obama's limited war on guns
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- As a consensus has slowly built that Congress will at best settle for half a loaf on tough new gun-control legislation, President Obama continues to do a version of a Muhammad Ali rope-a-dope dance on the issue. At the White House on...Tags: Joe Biden, National Rifle Association of America, Assault, Muhammad Ali, Harry Reid
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5 questions … for outgoing Broadmead CEO Rich Compton
Broadmead, a continuing-care retirement community in Hunt Valley, has "been so much than just a place to work," said retiring CEO Rich Compton. He has served as the company's leader for almost three decades. During that time, his parents came to live...
Tags: Architecture, Environmental Issues, Conservation, Hunt Valley, University of Maryland, College Park
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InsideMDSports: DE Jeremiah Clarke enjoys Terps spring practice
Special to The Baltimore SunEditor's note: Each week, InsideMdSports.com provides this blog with a Maryland recruiting feature that previously appeared as premium content on its site. Class of 2014 defensive end Jeremiah Clarke (T.C. Williams) took in a spring practice at Maryland...Tags: Randy Edsall, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland)
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For GOP substance, deregulate
WASHINGTON -- Because of the grotesquely swollen place the presidency now occupies in the nation's governance and consciousness, we are never not preoccupied with presidential campaigning. The Constitution's Framers would be appalled. The nation reveres...
Tags: Political Fundraising, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Politics, U.S. Electoral College
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Shifting party fortunes is nothing new
Is the Republican Party toast? You would think so, listening to the political analysts and strategists, including those who prepared a harshly critical self-appraisal for the Republican National Committee. The contention that the GOP should be changed to...
Tags: Democratic Party, Richard Nixon, Democratic Convention (1968), U.S. Congress, Elections
Apr 13, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Apr 13, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Apr 11, 2013
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Apr 7, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Apr 5, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Apr 2, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 31, 2013
|Column| South Bend Tribune
Mar 31, 2013
|Column| Tribune Media Services
Mar 31, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 28, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 25, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 25, 2013
|Column| South Bend Tribune
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