Barack Obama

Ehrlich column another hack attack

2013-06-14 04:15:00

It was quite entertaining to read Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s recent column alleging President Barack Obama has made numerous foreign policy blunders ("Obama foreign policy follies befuddle both left and right," June 9). Unfortunately, Mr. Ehrlich was only...

Obama names former CRS head ambassador to the Vatican

2013-06-14 17:59:00

President Barack Obama has nominated Ken Hackett, the humanitarian who served as president of Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services for 18 years, as the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. The announcement, made Friday, means Hackett will become the...

Fatherhood programs teach men to be dads

2013-06-14 13:33:00

Malik Carter, 17, shared a slice of pizza with his 20-month-old son Makai, who was perched on his dad's lap during the pre-Father's Day celebration this week at the Bon Secours Community Support Center in Southwest Baltimore. As part of the festivities,...

Foreign affairs

2013-06-15 04:00:00

Ever since President Bill Clinton "did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky," whatever remains of standards seem to have fallen even lower among people who hold offices and positions once thought to require good behavior and strong...

Immigration bill likely to provoke a civil war

2013-06-14 07:30:00

If the current immigration bill proposed by both major parties passes and is signed into law in its present and projected forms, the predictable result will be a split as yet unseen in our history between all blacks and all Latinos of both genders,...

Former Baltimore resident named No. 2 at CIA

2013-06-13 12:28:00

A former Baltimore resident and Fells Point business owner, Avril D. Haines, has been named deputy director of the CIA -- the first woman to hold the second-highest position at the agency. Haines, 43, previously worked as a White House deputy...

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...

Arming Syria's rebels

2013-06-14 13:59:00

Having determined that the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad has used chemical weapons against his opponents in the country's bloody two-year civil war, the Obama administration is now reportedly preparing to send lethal military aid to rebel...

Security vs. privacy

2013-06-14 00:00:00

The latest open debate over security and privacy is a welcome pivot from the irksome father-knows-best attitude that has prevailed too long regarding the government's contention of superior judgment in the realm of national security. As with most...

Health care act will spur competition among insurers

2013-06-10 04:30:00

I work for a mid-size firm Baltimore, and our health insurance costs will rise only modestly in 2013. However, in talking to friends at local companies, their health insurers are raising rates exorbitantly in anticipation of the state health exchanges...

Bad signs on immigration

2013-06-10 03:00:00

Even as the Senate takes up the issue of immigration reform this week, Republicans are increasingly giving indications that the effort isn't likely to go very far. First, it was Sen. Marco Rubio's dance around the issue — repeatedly speaking out...

Baltimore shows off its manufacturing for visiting engineers

2013-06-09 00:00:00

Men and women wearing hairnets, hard hats, safety glasses and bright-orange vests wended their way through Domino Sugars' Baltimore refinery Tuesday — there to look, not work. The manufacturing engineers and engineering students toured Domino as...

U.S. President Barack Obama

2013-06-16 17:37:00

Pro-democracy lawmaker Claudia Mo (L) holds a letter to President Barack Obama during a news conference in Hong Kong in support of Snowden.

2013-06-14 18:36:00

U.S. President Obama holds child at a Father's Day luncheon at the White House in Washington

2013-06-14 00:00:00