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  • Apologies to the FCRCC

    I have never been happier to announce to the world that I was wrong. My sources now tell me that the Frederick County Republican Central Committee has not indicated that it was favoring one candidate over another to complete the term of Delegate Weldon who is expected to retire.

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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:33am EST

  • Have We Learned Nothing?

    Recently I have become aware of certain activities of Republicans in Maryland who seem to have been in a coma for the past six months or so and are blissfully ignorant of the events leading up to and the conclusion of recent elections in Virginia, New Jersey and New York.
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:05am EST

  • Who Will We Blame?

    On Sunday, the day after the House passed legislation that will bankrupt the United States of America and lead to the demise of our constitutional form of government, I was discussing the matter with my parents. It was my mother, in response to my need to reduce seemingly incomprehensibly complex [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:10am EST

  • Who Do They Think They Are Fooling?

    I am talking about the 39 Democrats who voted NOE last night, one of whom was our own Frank Kratovil. Do they really expect their constituents to believe that they voted against Speaker Peolsi because they considered the bill to be an affront to our Constitutional form of government and [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 1:56pm EST

  • To Snowe and Maine

    After the Republican Party left Sen. Olympia Snowe (R?-Maine) but before she voted FOR the ObamaCare bill, I wrote to beg her not to allow the Democrats to claim "bipartisan support" for the abomination by voting aye:

    Senator Snowe,
    I write to you as an American citizen whose future [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2009, 6:39am EDT

  • Flash: Dems in Pocket of Big Labor

    Just in case there was any doubt that the Democratic Party was but the political arm of the various labor unions in Maryland and the rest of the republic, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) decided yesterday to remove it. The union of public employees not [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2009, 8:25pm EDT

  • Political Notes: Limbaugh, Gingrich

    Well it has been a rip-snorting week for political geeks, hasn't it? Let's start with Friday's barn-burner: Juan Williams, standing in for Bill O on Fox News last night took the opportunity to fire back at his black critic, a radio talkshow host, who accused him of not being a' [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2009, 1:32pm EDT

  • The Liberal Agenda: Hijackers and Wannabes

    After witnessing the melee of martyrdom seize the sycophants of politically correct Annapolis following the Zina Pierre affair, I find I am able to express a few thoughts on the matter without becoming violently sick to my stomach.

    The irony in this case, (and all cases involving the liberal agenda and [...]

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    Posted: October 11, 2009, 3:08pm EDT

  • MD GOP and Andy Harris

    State Senator Andrew Harris kicked off his 2010 campaign for the District 1 Congressional seat last Thursday night with an interesting, no, intriguing fundraiser at the Rockfish Restaurant in Eastport. In attendance were the usual crowd of Anne Arundel County GOP acolytes; current and former members of the General Assembly [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 5:46pm EDT

  • What's Wrong With This Picture?

    I have been observing over the last month the phenomenon of the American voting public, who, after getting what it wanted (weak GOP candidate, Obama in the White House, etc.) turning out in droves to protest their very success. How dare members of Congress act in a manner to which [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2009, 10:20pm EDT

  • MDGOP Executive Fortitude

    And so another misguided attempt by a cabal of political opportunists to pull off a GOP palace coup crashes into a smoldering and fetid heap on West Street yesterday. The fetid heaps are beginning to pile up, too. The latest episode marks the third attempt over the last two years [...]
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    Posted: July 19, 2009, 6:09pm EDT

  • Red Maryland Politcs Watch?

    It is uncanny how closely the positions that two local blogs, one leftwing and one Rightwing have begun to resemble each other lately, at least when it comes to describing the MD GOP's current leadership. Oh, of course, Red Maryland bloggers will plead that they are only trying to 'save'' [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2009, 12:16pm EDT

  • Liberals and the Blues

    It's so touching when liberals give advice to the Republican Party. But I have to hand it to one of the loons writing for Maryland Politics Watch. He really does sound sincere in presenting the bad financial situation the state GOP finds itself in these days and in pointing' [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2009, 4:39pm EDT

  • The GOP on the Fourth in Anne Arundel!

    I was pleasantly surprised by what I heard while marching with the Andy Harris contingent in Severna Park's Fourth of July Parade. Frankly I didn't know what to expect when I arrived at the staging area behind St Martin's in the Field Church on Benfield Road. After the Thomann affair' [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2009, 7:45pm EDT

  • Non-Partisan Politics in Annapolis

    Forget bi-partisanship, the new politics of Annapolis, it seems, is non-partisanship! The slogan is: "There is no place in municipal government for partisan politics." Chris Fox, whom I'll credit with devising or least first promoting this novel approach to politics, is running as an Independent candidate for Mayor of Annapolis.[...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2009, 6:56am EDT

  • Stiverson Snubbed by Kapital Editorial

    Dear Mr. Stiverson,
    I couldn't help notice that the Kapital's editorial this evening didn't mention the fact that you found Joyce Thomann's opinions so abhorrent that you were compelled to return her generous contribution. It mentioned Messrs Cordle and Bowling, but not a jot about you. Maybe you weren't' [...]
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    Posted: June 29, 2009, 8:37pm EDT

  • The Wheat and The Chaff

    If no other good can come from the Thomann affair let it be that it has opened the eyes of conservatives in and around Annapolis as to who in the Republican Party are most likely to throw you overboard when the going gets a little rough.

    Joyce Thomann has [...]
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    Posted: June 28, 2009, 10:44am EDT

  • RWAAC - Guest Post

    What’s the deal with being a Republican these hot, hazy days of summer? Scandal by a Governor who seemed to have a bright future, using inappropriate analogies to discredit our President and not walking in the Annapolis Fourth of July Parade because, because why?

    I have known Joyce Thomann [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2009, 8:21am EDT

  • RWAAC: Thomann Must Resign

    UGH! I have on some authority that the Board of Directors of the RWAAC will ask Joyce Thomann to resign as president of that august body. The Board is also reportedly pulling out of the Fourth of July parade in Annapolis "out of fear Thomann's comments would bring harm to'" [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2009, 6:35pm EDT

  • GOP: Defend Joyce Thomann!

    Well, just as sure as night follows day, the Republicans of Anne Arundel County can't seem to find the spine to defend one of their own against a predictable smear campaign by the liberal sharks of the blogoshpere.

    For my readers who may not be familiar with the latest' [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2009, 10:29am EDT

  • Newt and the MD GOP

    Next Friday, the MD GOP will host the 19th annual Red, White & Blue Dinner. The keynote speaker is none other than Newt Gingrich. That the MD GOP would so honor a man who supported Wayne Gilchrest in his re-election bid is an indication of how the party has lost [...]
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    Posted: May 30, 2009, 12:16pm EDT

  • How Do You Do Efficiency?

    To the Editor,
    I rarely comment on idiotic letters to the editor published by the Annapolis Kapital paper (because I am too busy writing them?), but the one last night by tree-hugger Holly Gorman was bursting with enough eco-green renewable efficiency to make Al Gore blush. But give Miz Gorman [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2009, 9:31pm EDT

  • Fair Trade, United Methodist Style

    The following was sent to the folks at the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the Methodist church. Am I over-reacting?

    Dear folks,
    I and my family attend the Severna Park United Methodist Church. My wife is quite active and I help out when I can. Over the years I have gradually refrained from [...]

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    Posted: April 26, 2009, 6:30pm EDT

  • Pat Toomey for Senate

    Regarding your 2010 endorsements survey:

    "Here is the list of Senate seats that are up this election cycle. Please email us at info@senateconservatives.com and let us know which incumbents or potential challengers you believe are true conservatives and deserve our support" I am asking you to endorse Pat [...]
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    Posted: April 18, 2009, 10:53am EDT

  • Mo' Money Maxwell

    The following is a letter I sent to the County School Board after reading in today's Kapital that the superintendent wants to raise taxes, again.

    Honorable School Board members,

    I write in response to Superintendent Maxwell's novel approach to funding the ever increasing demands of the Teachers Association of Anne [...]

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    Posted: April 11, 2009, 1:38pm EDT

  • Slots: Give the People What They Want

    A friend of mine this week implored the folks in his considerable address book to contact the Anne Arundel County Council and urge them to vote against a request to allow, in effect, a company to build a slot machine casino near Arundel Mills Mall.
    "If concerned citizens don’t speak" [...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2009, 9:42pm EDT

  • Striking Teachers

    Recent stories about the county education system, I believe, answer the questions and issues raised in each. Last week the story was on why Anne Arundel County public school teachers are not "respected" by the residents and taxpayers in the county who are, after all, the folks that "elect" the [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 3:33pm EDT

  • Striking Teachers and The Bay

    The Annapolis Kapital does not disappoint. Like the rising of the sun and the passing of the seasons we Marylanders especially in Anne Arundel County can count on reading about how the Chesapeake Bay is no more than a landfill after a hard rain and that we are exploiting our [...]
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    Posted: March 20, 2009, 6:43am EDT

  • The Lost Generation - II: Meghan McCain

    *****UPDATE: Michelle Malkin posts her take on Miss McCain.
    I sent the letter below after watching yet another member of the Lost Generation stumble her way essentially to the same conclusions that proudly distinguishes the new Republican that "get's it" a la Margaret Hoover and Robbie Cohen.
    [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2009, 7:24am EDT

  • Nerve of Steele

    As I have been reading this morning, there transpired over the weekend some illustrative and illuminating events involving the continual delight the liberals find in pointing out differences between Republicans and Conservatives (see Monoblogue and Blue Ridge Forum for the news).

    It's amusing to watch the' [...]
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    Posted: March 03, 2009, 6:19am EST

  • Harris for Congress!

    That's right. By now most people know Dr. Harris and what he stands for. And I have it on good authority that he will seek the GOP nomination next February and will defeat the incumbent next November.

    We conservatives in Anne Arundel county see in' [...]

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    Posted: March 01, 2009, 6:08pm EST

  • The History of The Crisis

    Don't take it from me. Take it, if you must, from the NYT. I have removed the link to the Times article because I will not be caught dead patronizing or causing other to patronize that rag. However, I invite you to visit Ann Coulter's site where I found [...]
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    Posted: March 01, 2009, 12:26pm EST

  • The National Review: RIP

    To the soon-to-be-former Editor of the National Review,

    After struggling simultaneously to retain my composure and finish reading Richard Nadler's bad imitation of a typical Wall street Journal editorial on the subject of immigration (At What Cost?), I found I was not able to do both and, since we' [...]
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    Posted: February 22, 2009, 3:06pm EST

  • SLOTS...Ooops!

    The Kapital editorialized last Friday about the disappointing showing to date of the slots amendment. But of course, no one can be blamed. Who knew that we'd be smack-dab in the middle of the "worst economic crisis since the Great Depression" on November 4th? The Kapital wrote:
    "But no one'" [...]
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    Posted: February 14, 2009, 5:20pm EST

  • Political Notes

    Frank Kratovil voted against (that's right, against) the stimulus bill in the House. You may recall that Krtovil is the freshman Democratic congressman from MD-District 1 whose victory over GOP candidate Andy Harris can in large part be attributed to the endorsement by incumbent Republican Wayne Gilchrest, himself endorsed by' [...]
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    Posted: January 31, 2009, 6:23pm EST

  • Israeli Children?

    Letter to the Editor of the Annapolis Kapital (Sunday, 1-25-09):

    I must take issue with Saul Friedman's taking issue with his rabbi's letter in defense of Israel's right to self-defense, a right Mr. Friedman would deny Israel and her brave people. Why? Because "there's no excuse for killing children." [...]
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    Posted: January 25, 2009, 10:19am EST

  • Christmas Miracles

    At some time or another we have all heard of blessings that seem to arrive on or about December 25th. Whether we were personally blessed or word comes to us that others so deserving were touched by an angel doesn't really matter. We are no less filled with happiness.
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    Posted: December 24, 2008, 11:10am EST

  • 'The Naming of Things'

    One last note on the 'Holiday Party' debate. It seems that my posts and comments have brought together Brian Griffiths of Pasadena with Adam Pagnucco of Somewhere in Maryland. Here is Mr. Pagnucco's contribution in Maryland Politics Watch:
    Maryland conservative bloggers are engaged in frenzied combat even as I' [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2008, 4:39pm EST

  • Young 'Republicans' II

    Wow. The YRs are nothing if not networked. I guess I touched a nerve with my last post. YRs from all over the eastern seaboard hit my blog after Brian Griffiths took umbrage with my accusation that the YRs, at least in this county, are politically correct.

    Sam [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2008, 9:31pm EST

  • Young 'Republicans'

    Closer to home, the Lost Generation has made an appearance on the GOP calendar. The Anne Arundel Young Republicans, led by the able Brian Griffiths of Pasadena, are having a "Holiday" Party this month.

    After reading the calendar notices on County GOP Calendar I asked Mr. Griffiths why [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2008, 6:37am EST

  • The Lost Generation

    Margaret Hoover (born 1977) is an American conservative feminist, political commentator, Republican strategist, and blogger...great-granddaughter of President Herbert Hoover... B.A. in Spanish Language Literature with a minor in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College in 2001...worked for Bush-Cheney ‘04, .....Deputy-Press Secretary Mario Diaz-Balart...held a White House appointment in the Bush [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2008, 5:50pm EST

  • Obama On a String

    It occurred to me last night after listening to some commentary on TV and listening to my wife (yes I can do both at the same time). The commentarian said about Obama that he won't be able to raise taxes now, because even he understands that there is little to' [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2008, 6:38am EST

  • 'State Republicans Fired up'? Really?

    'Fired Up for Steele,' is the headline from a recent blog post regarding Michael Steele's potential run at the Republican National Committee chairmanship. Truthfully, it really doesn't matter who chairs that moribund body. Of course we all wish Mr. Steele well. And we real Republicans (those would be the Western [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2008, 6:17am EST

  • The Day After Tomorrow - Part II

    I address this to members of The Public Square, activists and politicians alike. You are invited to join a new blog that I will be creating just for you. It won't be affiliated with me personally (like this one) or other members of the Netherland family. There won't be a [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2008, 6:38am EST

  • Other Stupid Party 'Victories'

    We have a lot of ground to cover here. The stupidity of voters in general and Republicans in particular ranges far and wide and I could make it a full-time job listing the examples. I say this knowing full well that on the other side of the Obama yard signs [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2008, 6:33am EST

  • The Stupid Party Rides Again

    MILLERSVILLE, MD - State Sen. Janet Greenip called me on the way home election night to ask whether I might make a slight diversion and "poll-watch" at Anchor Baptist Church. Of course, I said without hesitation, then asked what does a poll-watcher do? Well you get to the poll before [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2008, 12:49pm EST

  • Question 2

    I know what you are thinking: How is Mike Netherland going to vote on Tuesday? Well I'll tell you.

    1. Slots - Also known as Question 2. I will vote NO, damn it! Why? Not because I am worried about the crime and the addiction or the money that' [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2008, 7:33am EDT

  • Chambers of Commerce: A Day Late and A Dollar Short

    Dear Ms Strassel,
    You got it mostly correct with your last Potomac Watch column: Business Finally Fights Back. I have been taking Maryland's state and local chambers to task over the years for their various short-sighted, next-sale, agenda. However, I think you give the U.S. Chamber too much credit' [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2008, 6:28pm EDT

  • Chamber Support of Liberal Policies

    Dear Ms Snyder,
    I writing to inform you that you and the Chamber (especially you, though) have been featured prominently in the last two or three posts of my blog ([mikenetherland.blogspot.com]). I am hurt, frankly, that you haven't bothered to read and respond in your defense and that of' [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2008, 3:42pm EDT

  • The More Things Change...

    Well I couldn't have written it better myself:

    "Although last year's historic tax increases were meant to lead to the end of the state's deficit problems... ," begins last night's Kapital-paper's third paragraph (above the fold!) on $350 million in budget cuts being contemplated by the Board of Public' [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2008, 6:25am EDT

  • Slots in the Severna Park?

    No, don't worry, says Kathy Snyder, President and CEO of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce last night, the state will put them in carefully selected, out-of-the way places in Maryland. Speaking barely above a whisper some times she addressed Severna Park's political class in [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2008, 6:11am EDT

  • Why It Really Doesn't Matter Who Wins

    I know what you're thinking. Here it comes. Netherland's rationalization for why he thinks McCain's gonna lose. Maybe. I have called every election starting with Nixon's second, even Clinton's reelection. And I am sad to say that the ability of my fellow Republicans to severely disappoint me, it seems, knows' [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2008, 12:56pm EDT

  • Vicenza HS Alumni

    Of those of us lucky enough to be brats of the various branches of our military (Go Army), and toured the world with their families, there is a special group who called Vicenza, Italy home for short time. The people who made us welcome in the [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2008, 12:32pm EDT

  • Primary Campaigns

    Half the comments on my previous post (which is to say, one) raise an interesting point and has caused me to consider my positions regarding the Pipkin and LeDoux candidacies. I have in the past defended, and will continue to strenuously defend wide-open primary campaigns for Republicans. I am in [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2008, 12:24pm EDT

  • Pipkin Goes to Alaska?

    There have been some curious congressional campaigns this season, campaigns that will be crucial especially given the candidates currently vying for the presidency. Conservative Republicans will need every single vote to keep the socialist majority in check and to counter the some of the likely disastrous policies that both candidates [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2008, 11:24pm EDT

  • Visitors and Commenters

    Aside from a few blood relatives (my dad being by biggest fan), and other local bloggers, most people come by Mike's Nether Land by accident.

    One visitor, however, doesn't fall into the above categories. This person was until this morning, just a nuisance commenter, though a peculiar and foul-mouthed [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2008, 7:41pm EDT

  • Eastern Shore Philosophy

    The Annapolis Kapital, in its continuing campaign against Maryland Republicans, last night ran an exhaustive, in-depth study of why it thinks Andy Harris should not win the District 1 Congressional seat this November.

    Now, to call the Kapital-paper reporting one-sided would be redundant. But the Eastern Shore "Republicans" have [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2008, 6:34am EDT

  • Wayne's Mistress

    I am speaking, of course, of the Annapolis Kapital. Not just the editorial pages but the whole operation, ostensibly a newspaper produced by professional journalists. But this weekend's Editor's Notebook tried, as a faithful and proud mistress would for her man, to put the best face on the Gilchrest-as-Democratic-supporter news [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2008, 9:45am EDT

  • Si, Hablo Espaniol?

    I am certain that I butchered the spelling and punctuation of the now-ubiquitous disclaimer found on most government written matter. So it was with the Anne Arundel County Public Schools annual letter from the Superintendent welcoming its little liberal\union indoctrinees back to camp. One side of the letter was written [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2008, 1:25pm EDT

  • The MARC...Train

    As many of you know I am one of the many thousands of workers who commute to Washington DC from all over Maryland. For me this means a short (20 minute) drive to and from the Odenton MARC Station (suffering only the embarrassing butchery of the English language on local [...]
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    Posted: August 16, 2008, 11:15am EDT

  • Drilling for Oil

    OK. I signed Newt Gingrich's "Drill Here ... " petition for three reasons. The main reason is that our beloved Chairman, Dr. James Pelura, has signed, making him as far as I can tell, the only elected official from Maryland to have done so. He provided this statement to the [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2008, 6:11am EDT

  • Peeves - Language

    No, I am not going to go on and on about politically correct speaking and writing, in this Peeve. Instead I will go on and on about the stupid things I hear and read on a daily basis. I recently received as a Father's Day gift an iPod Shuffle to [...]
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    Posted: July 19, 2008, 3:20pm EDT

  • Dependence on Foreign Oil?

    Energy policy seems to be tied to the mantra of Energy Independence. The Harris campaign has picked it up (as have the campaigns of every politician running for every elective office in the land) and has included it in his unique blend of short-and long-term prescriptions for returning to lower [...]
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    Posted: July 05, 2008, 10:18am EDT

  • "Faith in America"

    On this Independence Day, as a light rain falls over Severna Park, please read the essay below, written by our esteemed Republican Chairman, Dr. James Pelura. It expresses many of the sentiments and principles that we all hold as conservative Republicans.

    FAITH IN AMERICA
    by Dr. James Pelura III
    [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2008, 7:08am EDT

  • Saving the Party - Part I

    Ok, this is going to sound really simple. My solution for all the problems we face as a nation and as a Party:

    1. Have all the Republicans vote like Republicans.
    2. Elect more REAL Republicans. If you are not sure what a real Republican is, chances are you [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2008, 9:49pm EDT

  • Is it Enough for What?

    I've been looking all weekend for a way to mention the recent bit of bad news for the teacher unions in the Wall Street Journal. The Weekend Edition's editorial page highlighted a program called Teach for America, the 1990 brainchild of Princeton undergrad Wendy Kopp who thought inner-city [...]
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    Posted: June 15, 2008, 7:31am EDT

  • Saving the Party - Part I

    Ok, this going to sound really simple. My solution for all the problems we face as a nation and as a Party:
    1. Have all the Republicans vote like Republicans.2. Elect more REAL Republicans and defeat all the RINOs and moderates.
    None of the measures you can dream up will [...]
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    Posted: June 14, 2008, 11:38am EDT

  • Getting Under Their Skin

    I think I'm starting to get to them. In response to this post on my Newt.org blog:

    This is rich. The Hill on June 8th featured remarks by our Dear Leader on the House floor following the latest record price per gallon:
    “Boehner touted the GOP’s plan [...]
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    Posted: June 14, 2008, 8:11am EDT

  • Government by Ox-Goring

    Recent fallout from the County budget for the next FY would be funny if it weren't so sad. For me it started when (another) former friend thought to include me in plea to help save funds to keep our public libraries open and fully staffed. She wanted us to write [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2008, 7:37am EDT

  • Panicked-Parents Profile #1

    The first profile in panicked parents of public school children describes a member of the Anne Arundel County Council. Since the profile is based on an e-mail message not expressly meant for the blog I will make it anonymous.

    Panicked Parent No. 1: Anonymous
    Occupation: County Coucilmember
    Comments:
    Mike,
    [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2008, 6:54am EDT

  • The Politics of Panic

    This is mainly for the edification of our political leaders on the County Council. I read recently where $13 million or so was "found" to add to the teacher union budget for the next fiscal year. The report in the Kapital said the Council "scrounged" for the millions in reaction [...]
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    Posted: June 01, 2008, 9:21am EDT

  • GOP Needs More RightWingers

    Many of you may have seen in the Wall Street Journal (5-28-08) a letter from Rep.Barbara Pryce, (R?-OH), lashing out at Pat Toomey and the Club for Growth for funding the campaigns of those Republicans, and even a Democrat, who have proven that they'll support pro-economic growth initiatives; in short [...]
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    Posted: May 31, 2008, 2:29pm EDT

  • Letters to John Leopold

    Dear Mr. Robey,
    Please see that Mr. Leopold gets the following message:
    Thanks.

    Dear Mr. Leopold,
    The following is a rough idea of what my 10-year-old daughter along with most of the 4th-Graders from Oak Hill Elementary School wrote to you recently at the request of her teacher.

    [...]
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    Posted: May 24, 2008, 11:52am EDT

  • More Unmitigated Gall

    The man can't help himself. In my last blog post I described Newt Gingrich's "plea" to the GOP Congressional delegation to help save the party by passing laws that his ol' pal Wayne Gilchrest would vote against. The irony is completely lost on him that he would keep in Congress [...]
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    Posted: May 20, 2008, 11:36am EDT

  • Teaching Unions

    I have written here before about public school teachers and unions and how the mixture of the two is leading inexorably to the decline of public education in this country. One need look only at the recent developments where the State and county unions are advocating the institution of slot [...]
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    Posted: May 17, 2008, 12:03pm EDT

  • Newt's Plea

    For those of you who may not be on Newt's e-mail list, his latest attempt to get Republicans back into power is a plea to pursue nine policy objectives. This comes after losing two long-held GOP seats in Illinois and Louisiana where Newt "you-can't-just-purge-Republicans-you-don't-like" Gringrich finally realizes that the GOP [...]
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    Posted: May 06, 2008, 9:36pm EDT

  • Race and Ethnicity

    I hadn't heard about the "You must tell us your race and ethnicity" scam by the Anne Arundel County Public Schools until reading the letter in Sunday's Kapital. I asked my wife who confirmed that she sent in one of these forms with each of our kids. "It's required," she [...]
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    Posted: April 27, 2008, 9:43pm EDT

  • More Peeves...

    I do have fun observing people even though they really get on my nerves. So many of the items in the Peeves series will be about people. I'll try to break it up with non-people peeves.

    1. People who don't know how to use a cell phone. You've seen [...]
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    Posted: April 13, 2008, 7:01pm EDT

  • To My Obscene Commenters

    It seems I have attracted a few refugees from the legions of braindead HuffPo and MO-DORG blog commenters. You know the type: the anonymous readers whose lack of intelligence, they believe, is compensated for or masked by the use of certain words and phrases that allow thinking people to profile [...]
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    Posted: April 08, 2008, 7:09am EDT

  • What About Pipkin?

    On the way to Home Depot this afternoon I passed a 4-foot by 8-foot Pipkin for Congress sign. Yes, this afternoon. Now it didn't hit me until after inhaling primer paint fumes for about an hour and after opening a Harris-for-Congress fundraising letter, that we still haven't received a satisfactory [...]
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    Posted: March 29, 2008, 4:23pm EDT

  • Jeremiah Wright in Severna Park

    Anyone who has a television or a radio has by now become familiar with the charming Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the now-retired spiritual leader of Presidential hopeful Barack Hussein Obama. The good reverend holds forth on hours of recorded church services about the devil incarnated in every single non-black man and [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2008, 10:17pm EDT

  • Republicans?

    Folks,
    Once in a while BudThe Blogger (not his real name) when he's not obsessing over how fellow blogger Joe Albero (his real name) is getting along in Salisbury, comes up with real interesting information. For instance this snippet from an invitation he received recently:

    Kent and [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2008, 4:58pm EST

  • "GILCHREST FLIRTS WITH DEMS"

    From the CAN YOU BELIEVE IT DEPT.: A blurb in Ron Gunzburger's Politics1 blog indicates among other political developments, that soon-to-be-former Congressman Wayne Gilchrest is at least NOT ruling out stumping for the Democratic nominee for his old seat this Fall.

    Gilchrest's not-so-smug-now chief of staff and campaign [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2008, 11:15am EST

  • HATE FREE MARYLAND

    I am sure that Joyce Thomann, was not shocked by the nature of the recent CASA "Hate-Free Maryland" rally. I am sure that for her and many other conservatives, the rally, it's organizers and backers, it's slogans and timing, were all very predictable. We've seen it before and we'll see [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2008, 7:39am EST

  • "Not My Shower"

    "A resident, Lisa G., wrote to the Council: "From what I'm reading, the person with gender identity confusion is being protected by what she or he FEELS he or she is. So, if I'm in a bathroom all by myself late at night, and a man walks in, I am [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2008, 11:29am EST

  • What To Do

    What a difference a month makes. Last month I was full of hope and a little trepidation (but I hid the trepidation) over the political prospects for the coming primaries. Now, I see that I should have kept my usual cynicism regarding the intelligence of the typical Republican voter. I [...]
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    Posted: February 10, 2008, 4:24pm EST

  • Harris v Pipkin II

    Out here in the provinces of Pennsylvania there is little to do. So I blog. On New Year's Eve I sent this letter to E.J. Pipkin via his campaign e-mail address.

    Dear Sen. Pipkin,
    I hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas and join with you to [...]
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    Posted: January 01, 2008, 9:59am EST

  • Harris v Pipkin

    The folks over at Red Maryland are having a grand ol' time trying to define conservatism, its founders, its leaders past and present and what it has to do with the Republican Party. Some of the comments are just ridiculous and warrant little if any attention. However, in between [...]
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    Posted: December 28, 2007, 4:02pm EST

  • Phyllis Schlafly Endorses Harris

    Arguably one of conservatism's leading lights, Phyllis Schlafly has taken a critical look at the first district's Republican primary and has judged that the sheep need a shepherd! Maybe this will give the other national conservative personalities pause before running to the aid of yet another liberal and duplicitous Republican [...]
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    Posted: December 26, 2007, 5:18pm EST

  • Harris for Congress - Against the National GOP!

    Folks,
    I have just started a new blog, one that I think will be necessary to draw the attention of nationally-known conservatives like Newt Gingrich, who, according to recent information, is planning to endorse Wayne Gilchrest. I need you to visit the site and register your disappointment at this turn [...]
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    Posted: December 24, 2007, 1:52pm EST

  • The 22nd Blog Carnival of Maryland

    I am pleased to host the 22nd Carnival. Below you will find posts that many of MBA's finest bloggers have personally selected from their own blog sites in hopes that exposure on Mike's Nether Land will provide their writings a wider audience than they would otherwise enjoy.

    And YOU, [...]
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    Posted: December 15, 2007, 5:30pm EST

  • The Great Coup

    Well it appears the great coup long predicted on RedMaryland and, yes, by Brian Griffiths was not to be. If we are to believe the reportage by Michael Swartz on the Monoblogue of the events of the Fall Convention, there wasn't a peep from all those Executive Committee [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2007, 5:32pm EST

  • Anatomy of a Smear

    Folks,
    In the last 24 hours, or there abouts, since my last post, I have heard from a half a dozen members of the State and County GOP. It is becoming clear that there is nothing to rumor that some kind of a coup is afoot to seek the installation [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2007, 2:07pm EST

  • First Spouse?

    What should we call the husband of our first woman President? Notice I didn't use the phrase "female President." The ability to make this simple distinction has been lost on members of my generation (who consciously avoid it) and simply doesn't exist for later ones (from whom is has been [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2007, 12:55pm EST

  • Tis The Season, Again

    Christmas used to be my favorite time of the year. It stopped being so when American society stopped having Christmas parties; when grade schools stopped having Christmas Pageants and stores stopped selling Christmas decorations and other things I had associated with this time of the year.

    Now I can't [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2007, 5:27pm EST

  • The Mes..ge...Not Get...ng...Thro...

    I unhappily report today that our message is not getting through. How do I know this? It first occurred to me last month as I trudged back to my truck after another long day at work along with other trudgers whose daily work lives involve the MARC commuter train system.
    [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2007, 4:19pm EST

  • Strange Bedfellows?

    I read this phrase in a Washington Times editorial last week: "...the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO and the ACLU..." Then I spewed bad coffee all over the rest of the editorial page and used it to clean up my desk. Before the coffee spew, though, I remember [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2007, 10:35am EDT

  • AA County GOP - Hope It's Not Contagious

    ***************Update
    Shortly after the below was posted, I received a phone call from John Flynn, one of my heroes in Maryland State GOP politics and Executive Director of the State GOP.

    He took the time to assure me that the rumor I described in the original post, and message [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2007, 2:31pm EDT

  • Peeves - Karaoke

    Karaoke Singers
    "Singers" is, of course, a polite reference. I became intimately familiar with them after a co-worker, who was an extrovert par excellence, invited my wife and I to the club in Alexandria, I believe, where she worked part-time as a KJ. That's right, a Karaoke Jockey. It was [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2007, 1:44pm EDT

  • Peeves - Church

    I can't go to church anymore. I tried, Lord knows. I promised the priest who baptized our children that I would try. But then it started. The people. After a year or so of trying I decided it was best for the rest of the congregation if I just stopped [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2007, 12:37pm EDT
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