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Why is O'Malley silent on NSA spying?

2013-06-18 11:24:00

As it turns out, we are "one" Maryland, as Gov. Martin O'Malley likes to say — one Maryland under surveillance by thousands of people who live and work in this state. The fact that Maryland is the spy capital of the United States is the story...

Bits & Pieces: Davis is excellent choice for new athletics coordinator

2013-06-18 15:25:00

We just said goodbye to Mike Williams as the county athletics coordinator, but his replacement is a familiar face. John Davis, the current athletics and activities manager at Glenelg, has been named to replace Mike, who was also an athletic director at...

Another needless death in America's long, failed war on drugs

2013-06-17 13:48:07

Thirteen years ago, Cpl. Ed Toatley was working undercover for the Maryland State Police when he was murdered during a botched drug deal in Washington, D.C. Ed was a close friend of mine, and his tragic death Oct. 30, 2000, began my quest to end America's...

Jared Nickens commits to Maryland, giving Terps another shooter

2013-06-16 14:27:00

Maryland men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon believes that you can never have enough shooters. That philosophy was proven again Sunday, when rising senior swingman Jared Nickens orally committed to the Terps after taking a visit to College Park over...

Little impact seen from suspension of clearance investigations

2013-06-14 20:22:29

The Pentagon decision to suspend security clearance vetting for some defense contractors is likely to have little impact on either the Defense Department or private industry, officials from both said. On Friday, the Defense Security Service stopped...

Digest: Duke extends John Danowski's contract through 2018

2013-06-14 23:34:00

Et cetera Duke extends John Danowski's contract through 2018 The contract of Duke men's lacrosse coach John Danowski has been extended through the 2018 season. Last month, Danowski guided the Blue Devils to the 2013 NCAA championship with a 16-10...

Warren and Cruz: principled or polarizing?

2013-06-13 06:26:55

Who is the face of American liberalism? Who is the face of American conservatism? In Washington politics and on social media these days, the king and queen of "base" politics are two freshman U.S senators — Texas' Ted Cruz for conservatives and...

Surveillance leaks show Obama's hypocrisy

2013-06-10 08:13:00

The revelation that the federal government has spied on millions of supposedly private phone and Internet communications makes President Barack Obama's headache over the IRS targeting of conservative groups seeking tax exemptions seem like a passing...

Digest: UMBC's Brown wins Under Armour AD of the Year Award

2013-06-11 00:00:00

Administration UMBC's Brown wins Under Armour AD of the Year Award UMBC athletic director Charles Brown has been named a Division I-AAA Under Armour Athletics Director of the Year Award recipient by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of...

Digest: Towson adds Jim McCarthy as men's basketball assistant

2013-06-13 00:00:00

Colleges Towson adds Jim McCarthy as men's basketball assistant Former Northeastern men's basketball assistant coach Jim McCarthy will join the Towson coaching staff, Tigers head coach Pat Skerry announced Wednesday. McCarthy, who helped guide the...

Snooping, past and present

2013-06-12 11:47:00

For us aging Vietnam War protesters, the secret domestic surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden, a young former CIA contractor, is like a bad flashback. In 1968, Lyndon Johnson demanded that something be done to curb the demonstrations that were...

Ex-CIA worker from Maryland revealed as source of NSA leaks

2013-06-10 12:57:00

A British newspaper has identified a 29-year-old former Marylander as the source of the top secret documents that revealed details of two National Security Agency surveillance programs and revived debate of the agency's reach into the private lives of...

Why: Michael Hastings, a contributor to Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed, died on Tuesday morning in a car crash in Los Angeles at the age of 33. He is best known, rightly, for his 2010 Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who as commander of the U.S.

2013-06-19 00:00:00

Justin Sayfie is a Founding Shareholder, attorney and government relations consultant at Sayfie Law Firm. Prior to founding Sayfie Law Firm in 2001, Justin served as a top advisor to former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.

2013-06-13 15:54:00

The results of a Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll released Monday show that 56% of Americans find the NSA's telephone monitoring techniques "acceptable." Forty-five percent find it way beyond "acceptable."

2013-06-12 00:00:00