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Street Racing Kills -- Help Me Stop It

Steve Parker | Posted 07.22.2008 | Living

Read More: LA Times, Green Beret, San Diego, Nitrous Oxide, Bloods, Santa Monica, Gas/Electric Hybrid, Rodney King, Lapd, Otis Chandler, Mayor Tom Bradley, Phoenix, Long Beach Grand Prix, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Hulk Hogan, LA County Sheriff, Nbc, Maryland, National Hot Rod Association, Christmas Trees, Illegal Street Racing, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Crenshaw Boulevard, Orange County, Environment, Big Willie Robinson, Vietnam, Crips, Brotherhood Raceway, Mustang, Ventura, Whipnotic, Nhra, Living News

San Diego counts so many bodies and seriously injured people from street racing they say it is at "epidemic" levels and is a public health problem.

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COINTELPRO Comes to My Town: My First-Hand Experience With Government Spies

Dave Zirin | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Death Penalty, Maryland, Spying on Citizens, Cointelpro, Ehrlich, Politics News

Our seditious crimes, as "Lucy" reported, involved planning to set up a table at the local farmer's market and writing a petition. We can only assume that this surveillance was to garner Homeland Security grant money.

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Where Have All The Lost Guns Gone?

Diane Dimond | Posted 06.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Gas Prices, Tacoma, Sanford Abrams, Firearms and Explosives, 60 Thousand Gun Shops in America, Valley Gun Shop, Terrorism, Washington, Maryland, Unregistered Guns, Gun Control, Missing Guns, Bull's Eye Shooter Supply, John Muhammad, ATF Inspections, 30 Thousand Missing Guns in America Every Year, DC Snipers, Guns, Nra, Gun Shop Owners, Bureau of Alcohol, Lost Guns, National Rifle Association, Tobacco, Right to Bear Arms, NRA Spokesman Andrew Arulanandam, 30 Thousand Missing Guns, 82 Missing Guns Every Day, Parkville, Home News

Earlier this month the ATF quietly revealed that the owners admitted a substantial part of their inventory was either "missing, lost or stolen." After adding it all up the ATF concluded that, collectively, those registered gun dealers "lost" 82 firearms every single day!

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Perks Of Prison

Diane Dimond | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Eastern Correctional Institutiion in Westover, Maryland, Smuggling Drugs, Ralph Logan, Dan Hanks, Bloods, Drugs, Crips, Prison Gangs, Rob Perry New Mexico Secretary of Corrections, Politics News

Overall, prisons are pretty darned efficient in keeping the convicted IN. Where they loose the battle is over keeping OUT what doesn't belong.

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Maryland's Highest Court Refuses to Recognize Pakistani (Islamic Law) Divorce:

Eugene Volokh | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Maryland Courts, Pakistani Law, Decision, Talaq, Property, Marriage, Maryland, Pakistan, Divorce, Islamic Law, Politics News

The court reasoned that, while foreign divorces are generally recognized, the sex-discriminatory nature of Islamic divorce law does violate Maryland public policy.

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Feds Object To Energy Smart Local Governance

A. Siegel | Posted 05.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Energy, Energy Efficiency, Housing, Montgomery County, Energy Star, Maryland, Living News

Implementing Energy Star construction as a minimum standard will reduce energy consumption by at least 15 percent. But it's being opposed by the Bush administration.

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Bush's "Bread Man"

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Climate, Maryland, Agriculture, Campaign Finance, George W. Bush, Paterakis, Conservation Reserve Program, Ducks, Biofuels, Environment, Baking, McDonald's, H & S Bakery, Industrial Agriculture, Global Warming, Baltimore, Wildlife, Politics News

Last week, The New York Times's David Streitfeld told the story of one JR Paterakis, a Baltimore "baker" who opposes the Conservation Reserve Program ...

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A Warning to Our Superdelegates

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mark Udall, Corruption, Al Gore, House of Representatives, Ben Cardin, Martin O'Malley, Emanuel Cleaver II, Tammy Baldwin, Maria Cantwell, John Lewis, Barney Frank, Oregon, Colorado, Missouri, Gregory Meeks, Eliot Spitzer, Niki Tsongas, Lois Capps, Pete Stark, New Mexico, New Jersey, Dennis Kucinich, Doris Matsui, Nancy Pelosi, John Edwards, Carl Levin, Barbara Mikulski, North Carolina, Daniel Inouye, African-American Issues, Alcee Hastings, Ed Towns, Daniel Akaka, Edward Markey, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, Massachusetts, Congress, Joe Biden, Kendrick Meek, Democratic National Committee, Frank Lautenberg, Ted Kulongoski, John Baldacci, Geraldine Ferraro, Maxine Waters, Jim McDermott, Sheila Jackson Lee, Susan Davis, Hilda Solis, Davide Paterson, Michigan, Jimmy Carter, Brad Sherman, Hillary Clinton, Mazie Hirono, Dnc, Jim Clyburn, Senate, Hawaii, Barbara Boxer, Sam Farr, Sherrod Brown, Jesse Helms, New York State, Maryland, Washington, Tom Harkin, Mel Watt, Tom Allen, Howard Berman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Laura Richardson, Yvette Clarke, California, Democratic Primary, Maurice Hinchey, Nydia Velazquez, Maine, Superdelegates, Lynn Woolsey, Norm Dicks, Mike Honda, Rhode Island, New York Governor, Diane DeGette, Ron Wyden, John Tierney, Florida, Donald Payne, Patty Murray, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Jose Serrano, Corrine Brown, Loretta Sanchez, Texas, Henry Waxman, 2008 Election, Bill Richardson, New York City, Bob Filner, Carolyn Maloney, Iraq War, Jon Corzine, Tom Udall, Sheldon Whitehouse, Governors, Wisconsin, Jerry Nadler, Iowa, Georgia, Diane Watson, Louise Slaughter, Politics News

It is increasingly unseemly for superdelegates to stand by as the Clinton campaign resorts to techniques that would have made Jesse Helms blush 20 years ago.

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Michigan And Florida Need A Mulligan

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nebraska, Maryland, Washington, Mccain, Democratic, Primary Schedule, Campaign, Revote, Dc, Virginia, 2008, Virgin Islands, Huckabee, Maine, John Edwards, 2008 Campaign, Do-Over, Kansas, Florida, Louisiana, Democrat, Washington DC, 2008 Elections, 08, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Election, 08 Election, Elections, 08 Campaign, Mulligan, Michigan, 2008 Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

Mulligan -- (noun) A golf shot not tallied against the score, granted in informal play after a poor shot especially from the tee. This is ...

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Beyond the Presidentials: Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) Earned My Support This Morning and With Iraq War Vote

Steve Clemons | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Trita Parsi, Iran, Washington College, Maryland, Israel, Kent Island, Foreign Policy, Wayne Gilchrest, Chestertown, Politics News

This morning, in 15 degree weather, I met Congressman Gilchrest and a bunch of his supporters waving campaign signs and the American flag at the Kent Island, Maryland park-and-ride stop.

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What Corruption Looks Like

Matt Stoller | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al Wynn, Donna Edwards, Md-04, Primary, Maryland, Net Neutrality, Wynn Primary, Donna Edwards Wynn, Politics News

What I love about corruption in DC is that it's just so damned tacky. Who knew Verizon had a good government committee?

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The Ten Best Public Policies of 2007

Andrea Batista Schlesinger | Posted 12.27.2007 | Politics

From DMI's Year In Review 2007 1. Arbitrary Dispute Resolution The Seventh Amendment hasn't been repealed. So how did Americans lose the right to tr...

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The Top 10 State Tech Leaders

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 12.08.2007 | Business

Read More: Mit, Washington, Greater Boston, Innovation, Hudson River, Beltway, Silicon Alley, Eliot Spitzer, California, Virginia, David Hochman, Technology, Detroit, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York City, New York, Michigan, Route 128, Stanford, Silicon Valley, Maryland, Colorado, Herman Hollerith, Nist, Albany, Army, Ohio, Noaa, Alfred Beach, Alexander Graham Bell, Microsoft, Karl Compton, Commerce Department, Thomas Edison, Texas, Poughkeepsie, Air Force, Fred Terman, Itac, Nasa, Sbir, Buffalo, Rochester, Navy, Doe, Guglielmo Marconi, Business News