George H.W. Bush

What Santorum wants, what Romney needs

2012-04-12 10:37:00

In the spring of 1980, the race for the Republican presidential nomination got nasty. The front-runner, Ronald Reagan, said his main challenger,George H.W. Bush, wasn't a real conservative. Mr. Bush went on the attack, accusing Mr. Reagan of peddling...

Wanted: The second best man or woman for the job

2012-04-23 03:00:00

With his nomination as the Republican candidate for president all but wrapped up, Mitt Romney now faces the challenging task of selecting a running mate. What was once a fairly ho-hum matter (the running gag in the 1931 Gershwin musical lampooning...

Carjacking murder of Pam Basu subject of former county cop's book

2012-04-25 13:16:00

No one who lived in Howard County 20 years ago is likely to have forgotten the horrendous carjacking and murder of Pam Basu. On Sept. 8, 1992, the Savage mother was taking her 2-year-old daughter to her first day of nursery school when two men pulled...

Lawyers say gun ruling likely to withstand appeal

2012-03-06 19:12:00

Constitutional lawyers said Tuesday that a recent federal court decision overturning a portion of Maryland's gun-control law will likely be upheld on appeal and called the ruling groundbreaking given the liberalism of the state from which it came. The...

The case for Romney

2012-02-06 03:00:00

Years ago, a friend told me a story from her days living in South America. The movie "Wayne's World" had come out, and she went to see it. She spoke English, but it was interesting to read the Spanish subtitles. For instance, early in the film, Wayne...

Countdown to Iowa

2011-12-30 00:00:00

Although the first voting for presidential delegates is still four days off in Iowa, the political crystal-ball gazers are already speculating which Republican candidates will survive and which will fall off the cliff into oblivion. It's being said...

The Ron Smith legacy: How to write, how to live, how to die

2011-12-22 11:17:00

For virtually all the time I spent in politics, my main function was to craft words for someone else. And, for a long time, I was pretty good at it. In fact, I got so good at it that, when I finally decided I wanted to start opining under my own name...

Drop the 'two-war' plan

2011-12-15 10:16:00

As defense strategists at the Pentagon carry out their review of how to make roughly $400 billion in cuts over 10 years, and Congress considers the possibility of reductions twice as large as required by the supercommittee's failure to reach agreement,...

Influential Harford Community College leader O'Connell dies

2011-12-23 10:14:02

Considering the influence he had on Harford County's only institution of higher learning, Alfred C. O'Connell's death last month drew little notice in a community where he lived for many years and left a huge imprint, according to a longtime colleague and...

Is the GOP handing the election to Obama?

2012-01-26 06:26:00

The last time a Republican candidate for president defeated an incumbent Democrat running for reelection, the primary returns were a lopsided affair. Ronald Reagan won convincingly in New Hampshire and South Carolina (after George H.W. Bush took Iowa) and...

Lessons learned in Iraq, Rwanda

2012-01-09 06:00:00

Letter writer Paul R. Schlitz Jr. can't seem to grasp the fact that an acknowledgment of Iraq's potential to harbor weapons of mass destruction doesn't necessarily indicate current agreement with the decision to invade, nor does it require someone to...

Anne Arundel officers seek handicapped parking violators

2011-11-24 06:31:09

It was just after noon on a recent weekday, the parking lots at the Annapolis Westfield Mall were already full, and a woman in a dark sedan weaved through the swelling traffic, looking for a place to park. Jessica Lawrence, a Glen Burnie resident, saw...

Mitt Romney meets with President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush at Bush's office on in Houston, Texas.

2012-03-29 00:00:00

President Censu Tabone as he lies in state at the Presidential Palace in Valletta. Former President Tabone, who hosted the 1989 superpower summit between U.S.

2012-03-15 00:00:00

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, second from right, and her family meet with former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, in College Station, Texas.

2012-02-20 18:03:25