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  • Gates’ Defense cuts include F-22, CSAR-X

    Defense Secretary Robert Gates laid out a sweeping proposal Monday that calls for stopping or delaying several high-dollar Air Force programs so the money can be used to transform the U.S. military into a force more able to deal with irregular warfare threats. Included in the $534 billion defense budget that [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2009, 3:38am EDT

  • Navy to keep carrier fleet, other programs

    The Navy will maintain its current fleet of 11 aircraft carriers until 2040, when it will drop to a fleet of 10, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday. Despite apprehension from some defense analysts that the Navy could lose at least one carrier, the Zumwalt-class destroyer program or other major weapons [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2009, 3:34am EDT

  • Military used pigs in blasts to test armor

    WASHINGTON — Military researchers have dressed live pigs in body armor and strapped them into Humvee simulators that were then blown up with explosives to study the link between roadside bomb blasts and brain injury. For an 11-month period that ended in December, researchers subjected pigs and rats to about 200 [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2009, 3:31am EDT

  • Defense cuts deepen old wounds

    The plan comes at a time when the U.S. is fighting two wars and facing the worst economic crisis in generations. Photo: AP It took a while for the magnitude of the cuts to sink in, but once it did, the ritualistic wailing from congressional leaders and defense contractors that always accompanies [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2009, 3:24am EDT

  • Contracting Boom Could Fizzle Out

    The recent surge in the Washington area’s defense-contracting workforce would begin to ebb under Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’s latest budget proposal as the Pentagon moves to replace legions of private workers with full-time civil servants. [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2009, 3:17am EDT

  • Inside the new military working dog…

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    Posted: April 06, 2009, 3:43am EDT

  • Doleful Arrivals Open to Public

    18-Year Media Ban on War Casualties’ Homecomings Lifted at Dover Air Force Base A Coffin, a Flag, a Photograph [NYT] Return of fallen airman to be covered by media [AF Times] [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2009, 3:40am EDT

  • War demands put crimp in Navy’s air, sea time

    Extra demands caused by the missions in Iraq and Afghanistan have strained the branch’s finances. To stay within its budget, the service will rely more on simulators, and ‘synthetic training’ to cut expenses. [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2009, 3:33am EDT

  • CNO wants faster decommissioning for Enterprise

    The aircraft carrier Enterprise, aging and one of a kind, may be out of the fleet sooner than expected. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead said he intends to get the required congressional dispensation to decommission the ship in 2012 or 2013, taking the flattop fleet down to 10 ships [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2009, 3:30am EDT

  • 57% Want Military Response to North Korea Missile Launch

    Fifty-seven percent (57%) of U.S. voters nationwide favor a military response to eliminate North Korea’s missile launching capability. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 15% of voters oppose a military response while 28% are not sure. [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2009, 3:27am EDT

  • USNS Comfort docks in Miami amid humanitarian mission

    The ship is in port in Miami until Monday, then off to the Caribbean and Latin America. [...] Though its primary mission is to aid injured military, the ship served as command and control in New York City during 9/11 and outside Louisiana during hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The current humanitarian mission will [...]
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    Posted: April 05, 2009, 5:39am EDT

  • USNS Comfort docks in Miami amid humanitarian mission

    The ship is in port in Miami until Monday, then off to the Caribbean and Latin America. [...] Though its primary mission is to aid injured military, the ship served as command and control in New York City during 9/11 and outside Louisiana during hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The current humanitarian mission will [...]
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    Posted: April 05, 2009, 5:39am EDT

  • VA Secretary Expects Big Impact From Post-9/11 GI Bill

    WASHINGTON, April 3, 2009 – All systems are on track for this summer’s rollout of the new Post-9/11 GI Bill, which Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki said he expects to have as monumental an impact as the original World War II-era GI Bill of Rights. Shinseki, who served as Army [...]
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    Posted: April 05, 2009, 5:38am EDT

  • SERE school moving to Portsmouth shipyard

    The Navy is finalizing plans to move the school that prepares sailors to be trapped behind enemy lines from Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine, to New Hampshire’s Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. [...]
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    Posted: April 05, 2009, 5:23am EDT

  • Commander defends Miss USA Gitmo visit

    GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, April 4 (UPI)—The commander of the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, says Miss Universe and Miss USA visited the camp for the benefit of troops stationed there. “They were on tour to say `hello and thank you’ to the guard force,” Navy Rear Adm. David M. [...]
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    Posted: April 05, 2009, 5:05am EDT

  • Defiant N. Korea Launches Missile

    Neighbors Express Dismay; U.S. Decries ‘Provocative Act’ TOKYO, April 5—North Korea launched a long-range missile Sunday morning, defying repeated international warnings, worrying its neighbors and setting up the prospect of increased sanctions. [...]
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    Posted: April 05, 2009, 4:55am EDT

  • No sign of North Korean launch amid high winds

    EOUL, South Korea – North Korea said it would launch its controversial rocket “soon,” but the window for a launch Saturday passed without word of a liftoff, possibly because of strong winds. Regional powers deployed warships and trained satellites on the communist country to monitor what they suspect will be a [...]
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    Posted: April 04, 2009, 5:34am EDT

  • N.C. Sen. Burr delays vote on Iraq war veteran for VA post

    WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina is delaying the nomination vote and swearing-in of injured Iraq veteran Tammy Duckworth for a top post in the Veterans Affairs administration. His actions angered some veterans groups Friday. “Senator Burr has had plenty of time to ask questions of her,” Jon Soltz, [...]
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    Posted: April 04, 2009, 5:21am EDT

  • Navy bases get federal stimulus cash bonanza

    Two U.S. Navy bases in Southern Maryland are set to receive millions of dollars in stimulus funding to modernize an aircraft hangar and finance energy efficiency and conservation upgrades on the installations. [...]
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    Posted: April 04, 2009, 5:15am EDT

  • House and Senate call for pay parity

    The House and Senate both included language in their fiscal 2010 budget resolutions supporting the same pay raise for military members and federal civilian employees. The pay parity language does not set the actual amount of the 2010 pay raise for military and civilian employees. Those figures will be decided during [...]
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    Posted: April 04, 2009, 2:04am EDT

  • Ex-Blackwater Workers May Return to Iraq Jobs

    BAGHDAD — Late last month Blackwater Worldwide lost its billion-dollar contract to protect American diplomats here, but by next month many if not most of its private security guards will be back on the job in Iraq. The same individuals will just be wearing new uniforms, working for Triple Canopy, the [...]
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    Posted: April 04, 2009, 1:44am EDT

  • NWU rules set for D.C.-area sailors

    Uniform can’t be worn while riding public transit Naval District Washington has released its long-awaited wear rules for the blue-and-gray camouflage Navy Working Uniform. Bottom line — you won’t be wearing them in the Pentagon, although you will in other parts of the region. In addition, NDW sailors and officers will have [...]
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    Posted: April 04, 2009, 1:34am EDT

  • Gates Planning Major Changes In Programs, Defense Budget

    Proposal Said to Move Focus To Counterinsurgency Efforts Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is expected to announce on Monday the restructuring of several dozen major defense programs as part of the Obama administration’s bid to shift military spending from preparations for large-scale war against traditional rivals to the counterinsurgency programs that [...]
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    Posted: April 04, 2009, 1:17am EDT

  • Senate threat kills UM plan for porn film

    XXX movie withdrawn after lawmakers debate cutting off funds Maryland lawmakers know pornography when they see it, and they know how to stop it: by threatening to halt funding to the state’s flagship public university. Civil liberties groups criticized Thursday a decision by the University of Maryland to cancel a campus screening [...]
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    Posted: April 03, 2009, 7:11am EDT

  • Obamas meet the Queen

    Barack Obama’s gift for the Queen: an iPod, your Majesty [...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2009, 3:40am EDT

  • Justice Department moves to void Stevens’ conviction

    WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has moved to dismiss former Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens’ indictment, effectively voiding his conviction Oct. 27 on seven counts of filing false statements on his Senate financial-disclosure forms. “After careful review, I have concluded that certain information should have been provided to the defense for [...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2009, 3:31am EDT

  • Md. bill would broaden power of workers’ comp agency

    The Maryland Senate has passed legislation that would expand the state’s authority to investigate employers who may not be paying for workers’ comp insurance, including giving investigators the power to enter businesses unannounced. The legislation would authorize hiring more investigators for the Workers’ Compensation Commission and allow them to enter any [...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2009, 3:29am EDT

  • The Pay Dirt

    Jock Friedly’s LegiStorm Makes Hill Salaries Easy To Search—and Debate Go ahead. Hate him. Jock Friedly couldn’t care less. This is a man who counts being burned in effigy among his career highlights. So he’s hardly going to be bothered by all these congressional staffers who think he’s pretty much the Devil [...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2009, 3:24am EDT

  • Test Post

    Just checking something out. [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 3:26am EDT

  • Republicans Disinvite Palin to Major Fundraiser

    Congressional Republicans Tuesday decided to ditch Sarah Palin in favor of Newt Gingrich for the critical House-Senate fundraising dinner in Washington June 8 [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 3:24am EDT

  • Air Force One landing at Stansted Airport UK

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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 3:18am EDT

  • Yucca Mountain Plan for Nuclear Waste Dies

    othing makes the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, madder than folks pushing for the storage of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Mr. Reid’s home state. When former President George W. Bush changed his position and voiced support for opening the storage repository, Mr. Reid called the president [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 3:13am EDT

  • Bill to repeal Cuba travel ban gains support

    A bipartisan group of senators is calling for the United States to end its almost five-decade ban on travel to Cuba, and they say they have the votes in Congress - after years of failed attempts - to pull it off. Increased travel to Cuba will further the cause of democracy, [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 3:00am EDT

  • Senate rejects mandated stormwater control fee

    he Maryland Senate rejected an effort Tuesday to require counties and municipalities to charge commercial and residential property owners fees to help keep stormwater runoff from polluting area waters. Senators voted 29-18 against forcing all local jurisdictions to establish a stormwater management fee. The legislation would have allowed each county and [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 2:43am EDT

  • Sebelius admits errors, pays $7,000 in back taxes

    WASHINGTON—Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius recently corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding “unintentional errors” _ the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration nominee. The Kansas governor explained the changes to senators in a letter dated Tuesday that [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 2:38am EDT

  • ‘New York Times’ Spiked Obama Donor Story

    Congressional Testimony: ‘Game-Changer’ Article Would Have Connected Campaign With ACORN A lawyer involved with legal action against Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) told a House Judiciary subcommittee on March 19 The New York Times had killed a story in October that would have shown a close link between [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2009, 3:42am EDT

  • Steele Discusses Hard-Partying Past, Getting Kicked Out Of College

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    Posted: March 31, 2009, 3:30am EDT

  • Old Barns

    Route 6. La Plata [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2009, 3:20am EDT

  • After Initial Successes, Electoral College Foes Set Sights on Higher Peaks

    DENVER—A national initiative to neuter the Electoral College is making slow but steady progress across the country, inflaming passions in state after state as lawmakers debate the best way to elect a president. [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2009, 3:06am EDT

  • House Democrats Plan to Introduce Greenhouse-Gas Bill

    Key House Democrats will unveil legislation Tuesday that aims to cut the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, according to sources familiar with the bill who asked not to be identified. The measure, co-sponsored by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2009, 3:02am EDT

  • Coal is winner even in ‘green’ Congress

    After two years of campaign rhetoric and months of hearings, Congress is set this week to begin testing whether it can turn the push for renewable energy sought by President Obama into reality. But the result is likely to fall short of Mr. Obama’s goals and, ironically, preserve the primacy of [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2009, 2:45am EDT

  • Md. House approves smart growth measure

    The House of Delegates has voted for a bill to create incentives for local planning boards to set development goals to prevent sprawl. It would take effect in 2012. Guv’s growth bill grows a tooth, gets House prize [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2009, 2:37am EDT

  • Lawmakers divided on driver’s license issue

    Senate votes to deny licenses to illegal immigrants; House backs two-tiered system The House of Delegates voted Friday to allow undocumented immigrants who have a Maryland license to continue driving, while the Senate approved a proposal late Monday to end the practice. The debate comes amid the state’s attempt to comply with [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2009, 2:33am EDT

  • Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly boycotting Sean Penn films

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – You can’t deny Bill O’Reilly’s success. On Tuesday, the fiery host of Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor” will mark his 100th consecutive month as the No. 1-rated cable news show. A former schoolteacher who first gained national prominence as the host of “Inside Edition,” O’Reilly [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 4:26pm EDT

  • Freezer mom charged in deaths of 2 girls

    Montgomery police have obtained a warrant charging Renee Bowman with murder in the slayings of two adopted children whose bodies were found in her Southern Maryland freezer last year, the county’s state’s attorney and police said yesterday. [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 4:01am EDT

  • BREITBART: Rules for conservative radicals

    A digital war has broken out, and the conservative movement is losing. Read the comment sections of right-leaning blogs, news sites and social forums, and the evidence is there in ugly abundance. Internet hooligans are spewing their talking points to thwart the dissent of the newly-out-of-power. We must not let that [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 3:05am EDT

  • Fox News’s Mad, Apocalyptic, Tearful Rising Star

    “You are not alone,” Glenn Beck likes to say. For the disaffected and aggrieved Americans of the Obama era, he could not have picked a better rallying cry. [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 2:56am EDT

  • Winds of Change Evident in U.S. Environmental Policy

    Daniel Reifsnyder, a 25-year State Department veteran, knew even before President Obama was elected that U.S. environmental policy was going to change. So in early November, he called a couple of his Environmental Protection Agency counterparts about drafting documents to lay the groundwork for endorsing a treaty to curb global [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 2:52am EDT

  • ShamWow Guy Beats Up Cannibal Hooker

    Vince Shlomi, best known as television’s ShamWow! guy, was arrested in Miami last month. For beating up a prostitute. Who allegedly tried to bite his tongue out. Did you know that? Now you do. [...]
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    Posted: March 29, 2009, 4:39pm EDT

  • Steele: “I’m Done” Reaching Out To Obama

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    Posted: March 29, 2009, 4:18pm EDT

  • Gates: No change soon on `don’t ask, don’t tell’

    WASHINGTON – Don’t expect any change soon to the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy about gays in the military. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says both he and President Barack Obama have “a lot on our plates right now.” As Gates puts it, “let’s push that one down the road a little [...]
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    Posted: March 29, 2009, 11:07am EDT

  • Delay in Immigration Raids May Signal Policy Change

    Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has delayed a series of proposed immigration raids and other enforcement actions at U.S. workplaces in recent weeks, asking agents in her department to apply more scrutiny to the selection and investigation of targets as well as the timing of raids, federal officials said. [...]
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    Posted: March 29, 2009, 9:18am EDT

  • Arundel May Set Fate of Md. Slots

    After years of debate, thousands of hours of public testimony, a statewide referendum and campaigns by two governors, this is where the effort to bring slot machines to Maryland now finds itself: stuck in the Anne Arundel County Council chambers. [...]
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    Posted: March 29, 2009, 9:16am EDT

  • House votes help for lower-income patients

    ower-income patients who lack insurance would be guaranteed free care at Maryland hospitals, which also would have to follow consumer-friendly debt-collection policies, under legislation adopted by the House of Delegates on Saturday. The bill would require that hospitals develop a financial assistance policy for uninsured and underinsured patients that includes free [...]
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    Posted: March 29, 2009, 7:08am EDT

  • MoDo: Blue Eyed Greed?

    As international lunacy goes, it was hard to beat the pope saying that condoms spread AIDS. But Brazil’s president, known simply as Lula, gave it his best shot. At a press conference Thursday in Brasilia with Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain — who has a talent for getting himself into dicey [...]
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    Posted: March 29, 2009, 7:00am EDT

  • Cherry Blossoms

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    Posted: March 29, 2009, 6:50am EDT

  • Valerie Bertinelli

    Valerie Bertinelli turns 49! [...]
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    Posted: March 29, 2009, 6:29am EDT

  • Child advocates await action on Md. porn bill

    Long called by some a “legal safe haven” for child pornography, Maryland may finally be poised to bring its penalties for possession of such material closer to those of other states. The Senate is expected to pass a bill this week that would make possession of child pornography a felony as [...]
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    Posted: March 29, 2009, 6:02am EDT

  • Confederate holiday provokes a war between the Souths

    Confederate defenders seek to honor their history. Many who cherish the modern New South decry the campaign as reminder of slavery’s legacy. ‘This is a new day,’ a Georgia legislator says. [...]
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    Posted: March 29, 2009, 5:53am EDT

  • Turbine ordinance rebutted

    CUMBERLAND — In a recent letter to the editor, local U.S. Wind Force attorney Jamie Walsh insisted that proposed amendments to the Allegany County zoning code would restrict industrial wind energy facilities too much. “The ordinance would prevent any wind projects in Allegany County,” Walsh wrote. Zoning for wind energy deadline extended Spiggle: [...]
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    Posted: March 29, 2009, 5:32am EDT

  • House Approves Early-Voting Bill, Ban on Chemical in Baby Bottles

    he Maryland House of Delegates advanced bills yesterday to overhaul the state’s voting machinery and procedures, ban a potentially dangerous chemical from plastic baby bottles and increase slot machine proceeds going to racing purses as delegates rushed to meet a key deadline tomorrow for sending legislation to the Senate. [...]
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    Posted: March 29, 2009, 5:15am EDT

  • 2009 Cherry Blossom Festival Mar. 28 - Apr. 12, 2009

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    Posted: March 28, 2009, 6:29pm EDT

  • Lawmakers consider taxes on healthcare benefits

    The idea, once nearly taboo, is on the table as both parties look at a costly overhaul of healthcare. But many fear that new taxes could jeopardize the employer-based system most Americans rely on. [...]
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    Posted: March 28, 2009, 11:03am EDT

  • Sunday talk show tip sheet

    Barack Obama makes his first Sunday talk show appearance as president on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” [more…] [...]
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    Posted: March 28, 2009, 8:47am EDT

  • Obama stresses call to service in weekly radio address

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    Posted: March 28, 2009, 7:58am EDT

  • Jobless rate keeps rising

    State unemployment is highest since April 1992 Maryland’s jobless rate rose to a nearly 17-year high of 6.7 percent last month, reflecting continuing economic woes in a deepening recession, the Labor Department said Friday. The state’s unemployment rate was the worst since April 1992, when it hit 6.9 percent. [...]
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    Posted: March 28, 2009, 7:54am EDT

  • Whoa… almost missed this one

    Top Dems call for Tomahawk strike against N. Korea! From Thursday’s WaPo Op-Ed page: If Necessary, Strike and Destroy [...]
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    Posted: March 28, 2009, 7:34am EDT

  • The Republican National Committee…

    ...wants you to take an online survey. [...]
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    Posted: March 28, 2009, 6:14am EDT

  • Editorial: When green has shades of gray

    GREEN-ENERGY advocates and land preservationists in California are on opposite sides of a proposal to place solar-mirror fields in the Mojave Desert. The dispute is reminiscent of the battle over wind power in Nantucket Sound - a clash of competing “goods” where all the players wear green hats. But as [...]
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    Posted: March 28, 2009, 6:02am EDT

  • Obama picks Mississippi’s Ray Mabus…

    ...as SECNAV. [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 10:24pm EDT

  • Senators Get Nasty: “You’re Good” ... “Your Wife Said The Same Thing”

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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 6:24pm EDT

  • Md. House, Senate approve police surveillance bills

    Maryland lawmakers voted Friday for a bill designed to safeguard residents from covert police surveillance after state police infiltrated activists’ meetings and wrongly described them as terrorists in a police database. [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 5:40pm EDT

  • Senate kills measure to limit teen car passengers

    A conservative Republican from Carroll and Howard counties may have preserved Maryland teenagers’ right to double-date. An amendment offered Thursday by Sen. Allan H. Kittleman effectively gutted a bill designed to restrict the driving privileges of teenagers in the name of safety. Before Kittleman’s change, which was approved in a 28 to [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 8:48am EDT

  • Senate Approves National Service Bill

    The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill to broadly expand national community service programs, increasing the number of positions to 250,000 from 75,000 and creating new cadres of volunteers focused on education, clean energy, health care, and veterans. The vote was 78 to 20, and the Senate renamed the bill [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 3:58am EDT

  • Climate bill nears passage, other green bills inch forward

    The House of Delegates gave preliminary approval tonight to the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act, turning aside a “killer” amendment offered by the chamber’s Republican leader. The bill, which would commit the state to reduce its climate-warming emissions of carbon dioxide 25 percent by 2020, is now poised for a final [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 3:56am EDT

  • Showdown Coming on Immigrant Driver’s Licenses

    One of the sleeper issues of the legislative session, whether Maryland should continue to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, is headed for a showdown in Annapolis in coming days. Judicial committees in the Senate and House have passed opposing bills that are now headed for floor debates.The Senate version would [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 3:54am EDT

  • Political Parties See Dramatic Decline in Fundraising

    In the wake of a recession, months of falling stock markets and a marathon campaign that endlessly taxed donors, political party committees find themselves racked by declining revenue and mounting debt. Democrats have seen a dropoff in contributions from the frenetic small-dollar online donors who fueled President Obama’s campaign, while Republicans [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 3:51am EDT

  • Obama raised cash after leaving Senate

    President Obama continued collecting money for his 2010 Senate re-election campaign even after he resigned his seat from Illinois, including a maximum $2,300 donation the day after Christmas from a top executive of a Wall Street firm that had received a government bailout. Four contributions - $4,800 in all - were [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 3:44am EDT

  • 400 residents sue Dominion, developer over fly-ash site

    Attorneys representing nearly 400 people, part of a “community trust” made up of residents who live near Battlefield Golf Club at Centerville, say they will file a lawsuit today in Chesapeake Circuit Court seeking damages in excess of $1 billion. [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 3:41am EDT

  • Steele on Limbaugh gaffe: ‘There is a logic behind it,’ ‘it’s all strategic.’

    We haven’t heard much from RNC Chairman Michael Steele in the last couple of weeks (that’s probably a good thing) but today wqe learn that the whole thing with Rush was simply all part of his master plan. [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 4:04pm EDT

  • Pot-related questions deluge W.H.

    From PoliticoWhen the White House put out a call for town hall questions, it might not have been expecting this. The more than 92,000 people who responded either have Cheech and Chong senses of humor or there is a deep concern in America — undetected by the media — about the [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 3:59pm EDT

  • Senate panel backs delaying purchase of new medevac helicopters

    In a 9-2 vote late Wednesday, the Senate Finance Committee endorsed delaying the procurement of new medevac helicopters for at least a year, until the Maryland Health Commission studies the matter. Sponsored by Sen. Robert Garagiola, a Montgomery County Democrat, the measure is a potential setback for the state police department, [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 1:19pm EDT

  • Farmers Want Obama to Make Carbon a Cash Crop Under Climate Law

    March 26 (Bloomberg)—Rex Woollen grows corn and soybeans. In 2007, the Wilcox, Nebraska, farmer started cultivating a new commodity: carbon. By not tilling his 800 acres, Woollen by some estimates keeps 470 tons of carbon per year in the ground and out of the atmosphere. Because of that, Woollen gets [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 11:01am EDT

  • Indy Editorial: The answer is blowing in the wind

    I don’t know how much power the Robinson/Elliott turBINE is generating, but I do know its generating a lot of press, the latest being this editorial in yesterday’ Indy. [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 10:51am EDT

  • Street Racer Defendant Alleges Fabrication by Charles County Sheriff’s Deputy

    Claims he was told that charges against him would be drpped if he signed statement. [WP] [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 10:26am EDT

  • Md. House gives preliminary OK to $13.9B budget

    The Maryland House of Delegates gave preliminary approval Wednesday night to a $13.9 billion operating budget that preserves education and health care funding with federal stimulus money while cutting local aid and other programs. The General Assembly’s task of approving a balanced annual budget has been complicated by plummeting tax revenues. [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 10:07am EDT

  • Obama No. 2 EPA Pick Withdraws Name

    President Obama’s pick for the No. 2 spot at the Environmental Protection Agency withdrew his name from consideration today, citing scrutiny of his one-time affiliation with a now-defunct nonprofit that in 2007 was found by the EPA Inspector General’s Office to have mismanaged more than $25 million in EPA grants. [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 3:32am EDT

  • Senate President Scolds Pastor

    Calvert County’s Ron Miller will have a ball with this. Some prayer controversy occurred today in the Maryland Senate. Senate president Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) chastised the pastor of a Bowie church this morning for including too much Jesus in a prayer that opened the day’s proceedings. That pastor is [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 3:27am EDT

  • Plan for public financing for campaigns appears dead

    A proposal for public financing of General Assembly campaigns appears dead this year after a fiery debate in the Maryland Senate over the idea of using taxpayer dollars to pay for political activities. Senators made several changes to the bill, argued over its necessity and complained that the full implications were [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 7:38pm EDT

  • PETA takes anti-circus effort to schools

    Look both ways before crossing the street, never accept candy from a stranger ... and when the circus comes to town, stay home. As the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus rolls through the area, activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are urging that last message [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 3:21am EDT

  • Md. Senate committee approves energy regulation bill

    A Maryland Senate committee voted Tuesday night to give state regulators more authority to direct utilities to build new power plants, a measure aimed at increasing energy supply in a state where residents have been hit by rising energy bills. [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 3:12am EDT

  • Gore to publish new book

    Former Vice President Al Gore said Tuesday he plans to have a new book out by November, building on his movie and traveling slideshow about global warming. Mr. Gore said his book, “Our Choice,” will rally supporters to act on climate change and support renewable energy projects as way to combat [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2009, 6:51pm EDT

  • Greenhouse action on move in MD, DC

    t’s spring, and with the slowly warming temperatures, key moves are under way in Annapolis and Washington to combat climate change by regulating greenhouse gases. In Annapolis, the House Economic Matters Committee gave its blessing yesterday to the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act, which would commit Maryland to reducing climate-warming emissions [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2009, 6:35pm EDT

  • County Leaders Brace for Hit Ahead of Md. Budget Debate

    The Maryland House of Delegates begins debate tomorrow on a state budget proposal that would allow for a tuition freeze at state universities and avoid layoffs of state workers but hit hard at already strained local government budgets. The $14 billion spending plan for fiscal 2010 represents a cut of $825 [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2009, 6:24pm EDT

  • EPA Halts Hundreds of Mountaintop Mining Permits

    WASHINGTON—The Environmental Protection Agency is putting on hold hundreds of mountaintop coal-mining permits until it can evaluate the projects’ impacts on streams and wetlands. The decision was announced Tuesday by EPA administrator Lisa Jackson. It targets a controversial practice by coal mining companies that dump waste from mountaintop mining into [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2009, 2:31pm EDT

  • Md. Speaker Seeks Rules On Lobbyist Receptions

    Maryland House Speaker Michael E. Busch moved yesterday to ban lobbyist-sponsored receptions on legislative property after a St. Patrick’s Day party was thrown last week by two horse-racing interests in the office suite of the House committee that writes slot-machine legislation. [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2009, 10:07am EDT

  • Rep. Murtha Dogged By Questions About Earmark Use

    Not since the FBI caught him on videotape in the Abscam corruption probe nearly three decades ago has Rep. John Murtha faced so many questions about his ethics. [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2009, 6:09am EDT

  • Senate Dems: Keep bonuses, for now

    Rank-and-file Senate Democrats on Monday helped put the brakes on their own congressional leaders’ frenzied dash to enact new taxes to take back executive bonuses at bailed-out Wall Street firms. Democratic defectors echoed President Obama’s and business leaders’ concerns about the tax bill’s legality and chilling effect on struggling financial [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2009, 6:07am EDT

  • Obama touts renewable energy

    Says spending on research key to economic turnaround President Obama on Monday vowed that his plans to spend billions of dollars on renewable energy will return Americans to work and curb the economic and national security threats posed by the country’s dependence on foreign oil. [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2009, 3:53am EDT

  • MD toxic releases rise, for a change

    Bucking a national trend downward, Maryland businesses, factories and power plants released more toxic pollutants into the environment in 2007 than they did the year before, new data show. According to the Toxics Release Inventory maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency, all disposals and releases of hazardous pollutants in 2007 were [...]
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    Posted: March 23, 2009, 9:21pm EDT
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