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Lower taxes, less spending is best formula for recovery
President Barack Obama, largely due to his upbringing and background, sincerely thinks he is leading this country in the right direction. However, hard facts powerfully indicate that he is leading us in the wrong direction. The Obama administration...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Government, National Government
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Buyers revel in bargains at Washington County Museum of Fine Arts Treasure Sale
alnotarianni@aol.comIn a scene reminiscent of a more-civilized Black Friday, shoppers packed the front hall of the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, got on their marks and watched the clock. With a minute and 30 seconds left to go before the 1 p.m. half-price sale,...Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), SOJA (music group), Arts and Culture, Arts, Museums
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The United States is more than a country
The United States of America is the embodiment of the struggle of humanity to rise from the tyranny of feudalistic oppression. It is a laboratory where great experiments to discover the limits of human potential are performed. To quote from Thomas Paine&...Tags: American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Paine
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Eboo Patel explores religious pluralism
Eboo Patel is an idealist. A hopeless romantic. A dreamer. The Chicago-based founder of the Interfaith Youth Core and one of President Barack Obama's faith advisers doesn't believe people of different faiths should just all get along. They should work...
Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Judaism, Barack Obama, Discrimination, Christianity
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Protein Sciences Will Make Vaccine In NY, Still Talking To Malloy
The Hartford CourantProtein Sciences Corp., the Meriden-based drug research and development firm with a long and colorful history in Connecticut, is investing millions of dollars in a new manufacturing facility for its flu vaccine — in Rockland County, N.Y. The...Tags: Wyeth, Disease Prevention, Preventative Medicine, Andrew Cuomo, Drugs and Medicines
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Why Jeff Zucker matters to more than just the future of CNN
The Baltimore SunLast week, on the eve of Jeff Zucker's appointment as president worldwide for CNN, I wrote about his potential to be a wise and winning choice for a very tough and important job. I had the chance Sunday to further discuss Zucker and what he means to...Tags: Jeff Zucker, CNN (tv network), Entertainment, Television, NBC (tv network)
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Art Callaham: Some gave all; some just want it all
Several folks have told me they liked some of the columns where I blended retrospective events with a current topic. I wrote three columns about the topic of leadership and used historical stories and events from the Civil War era to emphasis specific...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Battle of Yorktown (1781), Unrest, Conflicts and War, France, Human Interest
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Thief of historic documents sentenced to prison
Disgraced collector Barry H. Landau was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in federal prison for stealing thousands of historic documents worth as much as $2.5 million from archives along the East Coast, including one in Baltimore, where the scheme...
Tags: Punishment, Connecticut Historical Society, Human Interest, Arts and Culture, Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Open house to celebrate Claymont restoration
richardb@herald-mail.comAn open house celebration commemorating completion of a $300,000 restoration project plus the movement of 264 acres into permanent farmland protection status will be held Sunday at the Claymont Society’s main mansion from noon to 2 p.m. The 34-...Tags: Sociology, Arts and Culture, Culture
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Accused WikiLeaker Manning says he was punished before trial
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is due back at Fort Meade this week, where lawyers for the alleged WikiLeaker plan to argue that he was punished at a military brig before his case had been heard — grounds, they say, to dismiss all charges against him. By...
Tags: Barack Obama, Punishment, Suicide, The Pentagon, U.S. Army
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President Obama Pardons Thanksgiving Turkey (VIDEO)
Los Angeles TimesWASHINGTON -- President Obama continued the White House tradition of pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey, but for the first time, the public decided which bird would get the honor by voting on the White House Facebook page. The winner? Cobbler, of the blue...Tags: Barack Obama, Turkey (animal), Rockingham County (Virginia), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Thanksgiving
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Symbol of PA gas drilling opposition succumbs to offer of money
You have to give Denise Dennis some credit. She did not come cheap. The price tag she put on her virtue is about the same as the amount Gov. Tom Corbett took to sell his soul — or Pennsylvania's soul, that is — to the gas drilling robber...Tags: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Slavery, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Petroleum Industry
Dec 10, 2012
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Jun 28, 2012
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Dec 7, 2012
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Dec 3, 2012
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Jun 27, 2012
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Nov 24, 2012
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
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