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Md. won't try to collect unpaid taxes on Cyber Monday sales
Capital News ServiceAs Marylanders join millions of others nationwide in the computer shopping blitz that’s become known as Cyber Monday, they might want to think about this: If they paid the sales tax they owe to the state for such purchases, Maryland would be $200...Tags: Cyber Monday, E-Commerce Industry, Computing and Information Technology Industry, U.S. Supreme Court, Consumers
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Supreme Court's 5-4 decision on health care law hands Obama a victory, GOP 'a cause'
Associated PressThe Supreme Court on Thursday upheld virtually all of President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul, including the hotly debated core requirement that nearly every American have health insurance. The 5-4 decision meant the huge overhaul,...Tags: John Boehner, Labor Legislation, Elena Kagan, Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor
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Allan Powell: Citizens United decision is a two-year-old monster
The Citizens United Supreme Court decision is now two years old. The majority opinion of five ultra-conservative justices shows their determination to advance the power and wealth of corporations. They gave this awesome gift by affirming that corporations...Tags: Elections, Companies and Corporations, Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, Crime, Law and Justice
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Allan Powell: A close look at the corporation
Many will be puzzled at the suggestion that corporations — the source of so many products and services — should be reined in seriously to regain control of an unruly critter. Indeed, there are those who think that some corporations, such as...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Elections, Companies and Corporations, Politics, Federal Election Commission
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Tags: Small Businesses, Health Insurance Cost, Washington, DC, Labor Legislation, Healthcare Laws
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Bartlett says he is running for 11th term
andrews@herald-mail.comSpeculation that U.S. Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett is about to give up his 6th District seat in Congress is groundless, the 10-term congressman said in an interview about his re-election campaign. "The job is not done," Bartlett, R-Md., said Tuesday. "We...Tags: Montgomery County (Maryland), Elections, Political Fundraising, Democratic Party, Justice System
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King's Easter epistle on civil disobedience
This year is the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s decision to violate an injunction forbidding him to pray, sing or march in public in Birmingham, Ala. On Good Friday 1963 (which fell on April 12 that year), King led a march from...
Tags: Easter, Religious Festivals, Justice and Rights, Activism, Laws
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States' rights bills surge in GOP states
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — One bill would make it a felony to enforce the new federal health care law, punishable by up to five years in prison. Another prohibits a physician from asking a patient about firearms. Yet another is designed to curb the...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Healthcare Laws, Personal Weapon Control, Laws, Environmental Politics
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Lifting a burden from special ed parents
The welcome lifting of the federal consent decree on Baltimore City Public Schools does not mean all is well for students with disabilities in Baltimore and Maryland — far from it. Yet, the General Assembly rarely pays any attention to the fact that...Tags: Separation of Church and State, Montgomery County (Maryland), Laws, Students, Conservation
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Pope shows lifetime jobs aren't always for life
The world seems surprised that an 85-year-old globe-trotting pope who just started tweeting wants to resign, but should it be? Maybe what should be surprising is that more leaders his age do not, considering the toll aging takes on bodies and minds amid a...
Tags: Physical Conditions, Diseases and Illnesses, Angela Merkel, Heads of State, Cuba
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Here's one prediction you can take to the bank: In 2016, Focus on the Family will still be spewing paranoid nonsense
Change of SubjectIn advance of the 2008 election, Focus on the Family released "Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America," warning their followers what life would be like in the fall of 2012 were Barack Obama to be elected. It's both frightening and...... -
Vote no on gerrymandering
Whenever proponents of Maryland's new congressional districts make their pitch, there is something missing: the map itself. The gerrymandered map of Maryland's congressional districts produced by Gov. Martin O'Malley and a majority of the General Assembly...
Tags: Executive Branch, Annapolis, Voting, Baltimore County, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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