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George Michael: Sequester flip-flop
Assigning responsibility for the sequestration “crisis” is a tricky business. The president has been doing a great job blaming the Republicans. But there’s a question about Obama’s role in the whole affair. Watergate star...Tags: Bob Woodward, Harry Reid, White House, Mitt Romney, Politics
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Army judge accepts guilty pleas in WikiLeaks case
Bradley Manning, the Army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history, pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, saying he was trying to expose the American military’s “...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iraq, Arab Spring, The New York Times, Crime, Law and Justice
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Gun-rights supporters testify against assault rifle ban in Md. Senate panel hearing
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.comA Senate committee hearing on Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s bill that seeks to ban assault rifles attracted hundreds of gun-rights supporters to the state capital on Feb. 6, with some of the supporters testifying against the bill. A...Tags: Politics, Christopher B. Shank, Rentals, Executive Branch, Career and Workplace
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Letters to the Editor - Jan. 30
Affordable Care Act could bolster life expectancy To the editor: In Tom Firey’s Jan. 16 opinion piece, he takes a generally dismissive attitude toward the Affordable Care Act. The article asserts that what he does credit the act for addressing,...Tags: Elections, Government Health Care, Politics, Slovenia, Republican Party
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Jon Macht: From Hagerstown to Hollywood
crystal.schelle@herald-mail.comMoxie is defined by Webster's New World dictionary as "courage, pluck, perseverance; guts." And if there's one thing Hagerstown native Jon Macht, 52, has, it's moxie. Moxie was what lead Macht as a teenager to have the nerve to send a note to The...Tags: Lucasfilm Ltd., American Idol (tv program), Bank Robbery, Entertainment, Ghost (movie)
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Letter to the Editor - Jan. 26
The NRA is in denial and our country is not safe To the editor: I had to laugh at a recent editorial cartoon in a local newspaper. It was situated right below a “gun apologist’s” letter that suggested “no compromise, no gun...Tags: Quitting Smoking, Shootings, Suicide, National Rifle Association of America, Respiratory Disease
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Allan Powell: Do we really need a charter school?
On Sunday, Jan. 6, The Herald-Mail reported a request by several citizens to the Board of Education to consider the approval of what would be our first charter school. This, in effect, is a request for a parallel system with a traditional school system...Tags: Washington, DC, Teaching and Learning, Students, Stanford University, Customs and Tradition
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U-Md. band to play in Monday's Inaugural Parade
Capital News ServiceThe trumpets are polished, the tubas are shined and the drumsticks are dusted as part of the last-minute preparation for the Mighty Sound of Maryland’s performance in today’s 57th Inaugural Parade. The century-old University of Maryland band...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Concerts, Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Under Armour Inc.
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Letters to the Editor - Jan. 19
Stein’s views were very thought-provoking To the editor: On CBS television on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, Ben Stein asked a lot of questions. Among them, he asked when we as a country began worshipping celebrities and stopped worshipping God? I know...Tags: Politics, Newspapers, CBS Corp., Parties and Movements, Andrew Williams
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Letters to the Editor - Jan. 14
MLK supper an opportunity for service To the editor: I am a student at Kaplan University who is interning at Volunteer Washington County. I will be hosting an MLK Day Supper at the Boys & Girls Club on Jan. 17. Planning this event has been a great...Tags: FBI, Politics, Sandy Hook Elementary School, CBS Corp., The New York Times
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Retired Gen. Schwarzkopf, U.S. commander in Desert Storm, dies
Associated PressTruth is, retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf didn’t care much for his popular “Stormin’ Norman” nickname. The seemingly no-nonsense Desert Storm commander’s reputed temper with aides and subordinates supposedly earned him...Tags: Science and Technology, Elections, Politics, H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Baghdad (Iraq)
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Allan Powell: Politics the old-fashioned way
Ezra Klein is a very gifted young man who is getting deserved recognition in newspapers and on television. His abilities were on display in a Washington Post column (March 19, 2012) describing how the fabulously rich Koch brothers were hard at work in a...Tags: Think Tanks, Heritage Foundation, Politics, Mitt Romney, Republican Party
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