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Trusting Big Brother in the prolonged war on terror
Every time I drive between Baltimore and Washington and come upon those big, spooky National Security Agency buildings in Fort Meade, I have cinematic thoughts about what goes on inside. I imagine the best and brightest of surveillance nerds spying on...Tags: Judges, Barack Obama, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Lobbying, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
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Refresher: Highlights of the federal court's concealed-carry decision
Change of SubjectHanging over deliberations over concealed-carry legislation this week in Springfield is the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, decision in Moore v. Madigan, released Dec. 11, 2012 Here, to refresh your memory, are some highlights from the 2-1... -
What was all the fuss about?
So what was all this about a voter referendum or two? Opponents of a pair of controversial measures backed by Gov. Martin O'Malley and approved this year by the Maryland General Assembly — a repeal of the death penalty and landmark gun control...Tags: Pocomoke City, Baltimore County, Punishment, Martin O'Malley, Politics
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Maryland petition to repeal gun control law fails; NRA lawsuit looms
Maryland's new gun control law will not head to voters now that organizers of a petition drive to halt the law failed to turn in any signatures before Friday night's deadline. "This means there were no successful petitions this year," Stephen Ackerman...
Tags: Judges, Entertainment, Politics, Justice System, Radio
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Unsolved $500 million art heist may have mob connection
It was a shore dinner in Maine a decade ago that transformed Robert Gentile, an aging, unremarkable wise guy from Hartford, into the best lead in years in one of the world's most baffling crime mysteries, the unsolved robbery of half a billion dollars...
Tags: Judges, Portland (Middlesex, Connecticut), Criminals, Back Pain, Trials
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Deadline could backfire on gun-control advocates
Change of SubjectWednesday's print column Talk about the Wild West. Imagine officials of more than 200 local home-rule units of government in Illinois — trustees, aldermen, councilors, commissioners, most of them part-timers — suddenly and urgently... -
Carroll County's fantasy fortress
I was very pleased to read your recent editorial on gun control opponents in Carroll County ("Carroll Co.'s nullification fantasy," May 24). Carroll Country is an integral part of the Baltimore metropolitan area, and despite the current state of...
Tags: Interior Policy, Politics, Personal Weapon Control
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Mikaela Krim: Learn from shootings and adopt gun control
Over the past few months, the steadily intensifying discussion regarding gun control has reached a point of terminal velocity. I greatly admire political leaders like Sen. Pat Toomey who aren't afraid to transcend the limits of bipartisan politics in...Tags: Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Weaponry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Interior Policy, Civil Rights
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Senate Democrat defends background check vote in first ad
WASHINGTON -- As some Democrats argue that the politics of the gun issue have changed, the first ad run by one of the party's senators highlights his vote against expanded background checks for gun purchases. The message from Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor...
Tags: Kelly Ayotte, Barack Obama, Politics, Mark Pryor, Republican Party
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Ricin sent to Mayor Bloomberg over gun control, NYPD says
Letters threatening New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg over gun control laws have tested positive for the poison ricin, police said Wednesday. An unspecified number of New York Police Department personnel reported minor symptoms from the poison that...
Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Local Government, Barack Obama, Politics, Ricin Mail Attacks (2013, New York)
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Voice of the People, May. 29
Internet taxes It appears more and more likely Congress will eventually cave in and pass a bill allowing Internet sales to be taxed. I believe this could be done simply, rather than making it complicated and requiring online businesses to keep track of...Tags: Politics, McCormick Place, Business, Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emanuel
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Guns would reduce murder rate
I just read that in Baltimore, the city that bleeds, there were 12 shootings over a period of four days ("12 shot in four days in city," May 28). Let me see now, at the rate of three per day, over the period of 365 days, that would add up to 1,095! But...
Tags: Criminals, Interior Policy, Science and Technology, Martin O'Malley, Government
Jun 8, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
May 28, 2013
| Chicago Tribune
Jun 3, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jun 1, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 30, 2013
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
May 28, 2013
| Chicago Tribune
May 31, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 30, 2013
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
May 31, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 29, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 29, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
May 29, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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