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Gov't downsizes amid GOP demands for more cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and other fiscal conservatives keep insisting on more federal austerity and a smaller government. Without much fanfare or acknowledgement, they've already gotten much of both. Spending by federal, state and local...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Public Finance, Local Government, Government Health Care, Budgets and Budgeting
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Republicans can't escape blame for sequester
If aliens came to earth from outer space in search of intelligent life, Congress is the last place they would look for it. The Republican-led 112th Congress -- in a good week, in session no more than two and a half days -- let the Standard & Poor's credit...
Tags: Parties and Movements, John Boehner, Paul Ryan, White House, Eric Cantor
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Little action to stop defense cuts, despite warnings
Defense officials and their allies in Congress have done their best to create a sense of crisis about impending budget cuts, but their warnings have failed to produce any visible result. Instead, partisan divisions have hardened over how to avoid the...Tags: Jay Carney, Al-Qaeda, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Forces, Georgetown
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Conflict in Syria causing discord
Last August, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-CIA Director David H. Petraeus proposed that the United States change its policy and send weapons and other aid to the rebels fighting the Syrian government. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta...Tags: Bashar Assad, Rebellions, Joint Chiefs of Staff, White House, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Pentagon furloughs coming soon in U.S. government budget fight?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Congress on Wednesday that if automatic government spending cuts kick in on March 1 he may have to shorten the workweek for the "vast majority" of the Defense Department's 800,000 civilian...
Tags: NATO, Layoffs and Downsizing, John Boehner, Public Finance, White House
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War's lingering phantoms
Robert Koehler"War's lingering phantoms haunt every society." As two hellish, costly and needless wars struggle toward collapse, this is the time -- now, right this minute, before the next false alarm goes off -- for us to look honestly at the cost and quality of...Tags: Culture, Sociology, Ethics, Ghosts (supernatural entities), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Big pay cut contemplated for civilian defense workers
The vast majority of civilian defense employees face a 20 percent pay cut from April through September if looming federal budget reductions aren't averted, a move that will hit Maryland harder than almost every other state, the Pentagon warned Wednesday....
Tags: University of Baltimore, Health and Safety at Work, Layoffs and Downsizing, Public Finance, John Boehner
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Newly cleared, Gen. Allen to command NATO
WASHINGTON — The White House will go ahead with nominating Marine Gen. John Allen to be top U.S. commander in Europe, following an investigation by the Pentagon inspector general that found his emails with a Florida woman were not improper....
Tags: FBI, NATO, Jay Carney, Jill Kelley, Paula Broadwell
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Jessica Chastain's signature 'Zero Dark Thirty' line follows her [Video]
Daniel Day-Lewis may have been "clothed in immense power" in "Lincoln," but when it comes to memorable movie lines from the past year, it would be hard to top Jessica Chastain's forceful explanation of why she happens to be attending a particular CIA...Tags: Movies, Daniel Day-Lewis, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Entertainment, Gold Standard Incorporated
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Hagel and defense
Biography isn't policy. President Barack Obama's choice for secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, former Nebraska Republican senator, has a resume most politicians can envy: a clean senatorial record, no ethical lapses and two Purple Hearts from a war many...
Tags: The Boston Globe, Judaism, Lobbying, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief
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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Friday
WEATHER: Flurries, highs in the upper 30s. Tonight is expected to be mostly clear, temperatures in the mid-20s. TRAFFIC: Check our traffic updates for this morning's issues. TOP NEWS NRA, gun-control groups begin work in Annapolis: As the General...Tags: Interior Policy, Corey Graham, National Rifle Association of America, Sports, Baltimore Ravens
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Carmike Cinema:Discover the secrets of 'Broken City'
OPENING FRIDAY Broken City It should come as no surprise that every character in a movie with a title like this is either rotten to the core, or a liar, or a schemer, or the bearer of seriously damaging secrets. What is surprising is that these...
Tags: Peter Stormare, Chris Tucker, Music, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Johnny Knoxville
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