Bill Clinton

Mids describe smooth transition from 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

2012-05-21 06:35:00

When his roommate at the Naval Academy said jokingly last year that Andrew Atwill was a homosexual, the midshipman told him to cut it out. His friend didn't know it, Atwill says, but he really was gay — and under the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy,...

Bush's pithy endorsement of Romney

2012-05-18 00:00:00

Former President George W. Bush uttered his endorsement for president the other day as an elevator door was closing on him. To a question shouted by a reporter, he was said to have answered, simply, "I'm for Mitt Romney," and that was it. It was sort...

Sports columnist: A moment that wrote itself

2012-05-10 09:13:00

The date — Sept. 6, 1995 — had been circled on calendars, not just in Baltimore, but throughout the country. The countdown for the Orioles' Cal Ripken Jr. to break Lou Gehrig's consecutive-games record had gone on for months. And yet, if I...

Dick Lugar's warning for America

2012-05-09 12:12:00

The hit men of the tea party can carve another notch in their collective gun belts this week with the ouster of Indiana Sen. Richard G. Lugar, a 35-year veteran of the U.S. Senate. Whatever mojo the conservative firebrands had in the 2010 GOP primaries,...

Obama must turn his embrace of gay marriage into action

2012-05-09 13:53:00

President Barack Obama's announcement that he supports gay marriage is a heartening development in the campaign for equality, and it is commendable that he made his view public before the November election rather than afterward. But he needs to do more....

Reporter: The best story I would ever write

2012-05-10 07:35:00

"How much presidential political trivia do you know?" a Sun reporter asked me shortly after I joined The Evening Sun in 1989. "Not much," I admitted cheerfully. I was a second-generation hire at The Baltimore Sun, a fact I had managed to conceal until...

John Edwards: Here's a man who could have used a Super PAC

2012-05-02 08:11:00

The more I read about John Edwards' shenanigans during the 2008 presidential campaign, the more I'm convinced he is a mirror-gazing, fork-tongued, tramp-chasing weasel. But the more I read about the federal case against him, the more sure I am that he...

'Take Five' with Eric Mintel Quartet and Columbia Pro Cantare

2012-05-02 14:14:00

Jazz and classical music come together on the same stage when the Eric Mintel Quartet and the Columbia Pro Cantare join forces for a program of choral works composed by jazz pianist Dave Brubeck on Saturday, May 5 at 8 p.m. in the Jim Rouse Theatre at...

Secrets of the Service

2012-04-23 11:23:00

We have learned a secret of the Secret Service: At least a few of those tight-lipped tough guys are not quite as straight-laced and serious as they appear to be. In fact, they apparently love to party like frat boys. Three Secret Service agents have...

A fight in the 6th

2012-04-09 06:18:00

Things haven't gone quite according to plan in the newly redrawn 6th Congressional District. Maryland's leading Democrats figured they had drawn new boundaries that would allow a rising star in the state Senate to move up to Congress. Republicans...

Romney veepstakes: Forget Rubio and Ryan

2012-04-10 03:00:00

With Mitt Romney now confident enough of the Republican nomination that he can turn his focus against President Barack Obama, the guessing game on selection of a running mate is already in full swing. It's a matter that warrants more serious consideration...

Marriottsville/Sykesville/Woodstock: Conservancy to host Art of Stewardship exhibit beginning April 19

2012-04-09 00:00:00

For the past three years, the Howard County Conservancy has served as host for a juried "Art of Stewardship" exhibit that commences in January with a call to artists and concludes in April with an awards reception and auction. This year, the show's theme,...

Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of Facebook, at the Common Sense Media Awards honoring Bill Clinton at Gotham Hall on April 28 in New York City.

2012-05-17 00:00:00

WDBJ7's Robin Reed shakes President Clinton's hand. WDBJ7 is celebrating Robin's 30th anniversary at Your Hometown News Leader.

2012-05-07 11:44:00

Bill Clinton

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