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Climate change activists have drawn a thin blue line across Main Street in Annapolis. The [...]
Annapolis: Baton Rouge calling.
Banished smokers taking nicotine [...]
It’s an increasingly common argument these days: if you question the new green tinted politics of fear - which marshals visions of apocalypse in order to shape people’s behaviour and lower their expectations as surely as Torquemada ever did [...]
An event like the Heartland conference, that by its very nature disparages media irresponsibility on climate matters, shouldn’t [...]
The O’Malley Administration is once again using State employees as a lobbying tool. Today there is a rally planned for global warming, and whether you agree with many on the Conservative side that there isn’t actual evidence showing that humans are causing global [...]
Jack Spencer and Nicolas Loris make a convincing argument for nuclear power as part of a solution to assuage a Maryland's future energy crisis.
Unfortunately, instead of loosening regulations to encourage building or expanding power plants, state and federal governments are moving toward rationing electricity.
Gov. Martin O'Malley [...]
Critics point out that ExxonMobil gave nearly $800,000 to Heartland between 1998 and 2005 and that the group's board of [...]
Isaac Smith is touting the possibilities of a green economy and green collar jobs as a means for alarmists to frame the debate over the Global Warming Solutions Act, and minimize the higher energy costs and reduced economic growth sure to come should this [...]
There [...]
Not surprisingly, the same crowd that bemoans the loss of public radio favors restoring the "fairness doctrine." They [...]
After WYPR sacked Marc Steiner from his public radio show recently, I noticed something interesting on the Baltimore Sun's comment board following the paper's story about the whole [...]
The whole point of last year's General Assembly special session was to address Maryland's budget problems by fixing the "structural deficit" - so that's something [...]
O'Malley, who has said he wants to be a leader on dealing with sea-level rise,planned a Tuesday announcement to back a bill that would set the nation's toughest limits [...]
Despite having hundreds of sonar contacts over the years, the trail has since gone cold and Rines believes that Nessie may be dead, a victim of global warming.
The Republican party is a mess, absolutely. Conservatives are sorting out what they believe, what heresies they can tolerate and on which principles [...]
But yeah, seeing conservatives jeer at the climate change rally in the snow made me want to shoot someone in the face.
As I've argued before, [...]
The City Wide Coalition urges its supporters to support the demonstrations taking place this week to protest the firing of WYPR talk show host Marc Steiner. For information, there are two articles in the Baltimore Sun over the last two days as well as a [...]
But after three weeks of chronic failures —after regularly irregular vexations with lifeless computers, stove tops and stoplights — public forbearance has given way to outrage. This nation, long a reliable repository of cheap, [...]
In order to fulfill the requirements for a major in history at Northwestern University, my daughter took a course called "The Cold War At Home." As one [...]
I'm about half-way through Jonah Golberg's first book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. Goldberg is an editor at National Review and a syndicated columnist.
I am working on a review of the [...]
Key to this is something the Sun article only gets into halfway through: the fund will be paid for with revenue from the auctioning of carbon credits under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative -- i.e. a cap-and-trade sytem [...]
Creating a "strategic energy investment fund" paid for by electricity companies that would invest in energy-efficient technologies and promote nonpolluting power alternatives. [...]
No wonder Sen. President Mike Miller couldn't reach Sen. Jim Brochin to
give [...]
The January 10 Baltimore Sun, reporting on an escalating personnel struggle in Annapolis, dutifully [...]
Philip Agee, a former undercover officer with the Central Intelligence Agency whose disillusionment with U.S. policy in support of dictatorial regimes prompted him to name names and reveal CIA secrets, died Monday in Cuba. He [...]
Governor O'Malley, Speaker Busch, and Senate President Miller are continuing their calls on Nancy Grasmick to resign for her allegiance to the Bush administration's flawed education [...]
Obama's finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don't even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped flowing passively by, and, just for an instant, contracted around you, made you aware [...]
Construction is to begin this spring on a major redevelopment of the
landmark Rotunda shopping center in North Baltimore - including a new [...]
Wow. I must have hit a real sore point with you. You tired me out so much by the second paragraph, so I gave up and skipped to the end. Seriously. Who cares about your rants? Like I said, rearranging deck chairs on The Titanic. [...]
But schadenfreude doesn’t really do justice to Hillary’s potential downfall. Her career is indisputably a product of her marriage. But for most of her life, Hillary had an independent ideological identity that now seems to have gone down the memory hole. In her [...]
Despite the tax increases and spending cuts approved in last month's special legislative session, legislative analysts see another possible budget shortfall looming [...]
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