Bill Clinton

GOP may waste its opportunity

2013-05-23 07:00:00

Regarding the recent Obama administration scandals, The Sun editorial makes a correct analysis that Republican "overreaching," "hyperbolic comparison to Watergate," "calls for a special prosecutor," and "talk about impeachment" of President Barack Obama...

Evelyn O. Kampmeyer, educator

2013-05-24 09:32:00

Evelyn O. Kampmeyer, a retired educator who was active in Republican politics, died May 14 from complications of diabetes at Abington Hospice in Warminster, Pa. The former Severna Park resident was 81. The daughter of a comptroller and a homemaker,...

Forest Hill resident third in family to earn Eagle Scout

2013-05-20 11:37:38

Forest Hill resident Thomas Franklin Keller earned the rank of Eagle Scout on Nov. 6, 2012. A ceremony was held on May 4 in recognition of his accomplishment. "I'm honored to be an Eagle Scout," said Keller, who spent 201 hours collecting more than 2,000...

GOP can't help overreaching on Obama scandals

2013-05-20 08:54:00

Well, that didn't take long. Just as several genuine scandals cast the Obama administration in an unfavorable light, Republicans in Congress are already overreaching — with hyperbolic comparisons to Watergate, calls for special prosecutors,...

Katherine L. Vaughns

2013-05-15 13:17:00

Katherine L. Vaughns, a University of Maryland School of Law professor and secretary of the Center Stage board who immersed herself in the arts community, died of pancreatic cancer May 4 at a Sinai Hospital hospice unit. The Bolton Hill resident was 68....

The most famous umbrella since Neville Chamberlain went to Munich

2013-05-18 09:01:00

The public appetite for trivial distraction has always extended to our chief executives. I remember the minor uproar when Lyndon Johnson lifted a beagle by the ears. There was extensive commentary on Richard Nixon's taste for cottage cheese and ketchup....

Same speculation, different styles for O'Malley, Cuomo

2013-05-18 11:52:11

By the time Gov. Martin O'Malley left the Democratic convention last fall, he had schmoozed with party leaders from Iowa, spoken to potential donors and hosted swanky parties that kept delegates entertained into the next morning — efforts that...

Should we continue to be the indispensable nation?

2013-05-10 00:00:00

In Hillary Clinton's farewell remarks in February on stepping down as President Barack Obama's secretary of state, she echoed one of her predecessors, Madeleine Albright, declaring America to be "the indispensable nation." "We are the force for...

Taxing Internet sales

2013-05-11 04:00:00

In 1998, when President Bill Clinton signed the bipartisan Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibited state and local taxation of Internet access and Internet-only services, the purpose was to promote the commercial potential of the Internet, especially...

What's so terrible about 'portable' classrooms? [Commentary]

2013-04-22 07:07:00

There seems to be a consensus that school trailers are horrible, and there is a constant push to build bigger schools so we can get rid of the need for "portable classrooms." At a recent community meeting, Harford school board member Bob Frisch said...

The Bush library and the willing suspension of disbelief

2013-04-29 06:58:00

To nobody's surprise, all four living former presidents were on their best behavior last week at the dedication of the library and museum named for the latest of them, George W. Bush, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. The honoree's father,...

How Republicans raided the welfare state and left it flat broke

2013-04-11 11:15:00

I would like to add some points to former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich's column "How the welfare state has grown" (April 7). Mr. Ehrlich fails to mention the fact that every president since Lyndon Johnson, beginning in 1964, has raided the Social Security...

The former president sent two of his books and a pen set in January 2012 and added a Clinton Foundation ornament around Christmas.

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Former president Bill Clinton receives on honory doctorate degree from University of Central Florida president Dr. John Hitt during the commencement ceremony for the College of Health and Public Affairs and the College of Medicine's Burnett School of Biomedical Science, at UCF in Orlando, Fla.

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Former president Bill Clinton receives on honorary doctorate degree from University of Central Florida president Dr. John Hitt during the commencement ceremony for the College of Health and Public Affairs and the College of Medicine's Burnett School of Biomedical Science, at UCF in Orlando, Fla.

2013-05-02 00:00:00