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			<title><![CDATA[Maryland enrollment soars in federal phone program]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-07 14:36:19</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Enrollment in a controversial program that provides free cell phone service to low-income families has increased faster in Maryland than any other state in the nation, jumping nearly 90-fold since 2008 &#8212; renewing scrutiny on Capitol Hill over its...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Oakland Mills principal inspires students by example]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-14 09:15:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The class at Oakland Mills High School was English for Speakers of Other Languages, which meant the students were accustomed to hearty doses of vocabulary. 

Even so, they appeared taken aback when Principal Frank Eastham laced his motivational speech...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[We're a nation of dependents, all right &#8212; dependent on rich corporations for jobs that pay a living wage]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-12 04:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. writes about "How the welfare state has grown" (April 7). But if the programs of the New Deal and the Great Society have been less than successful, it should be noted that the lack of funding from "big government" has...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Understanding the deep roots of entitlement woes]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-09 08:15:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s Sunday columns are usually thought-provoking, but not always in the way he intended. His latest opinion piece laments the vastly expanded entitlement economy &mdash; what he calls "a European-style welfare state" ("...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[How the welfare state has grown &#8212; and sapped America's economy and culture]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-07 05:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA["I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." &mdash; Thomas Jefferson 

My recent column on the challenges associated with the Social...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Is disability the new welfare?]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-03 03:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The government in Britain recently did something interesting. 

It asked everyone receiving an "incapacity benefit" -- a disability program slowly being phased out under new reforms -- to submit to a medical test to confirm they were too disabled to work....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[On student loans, Hugo Chavez and Joe Flacco's taxes]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-31 05:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Remember when President Barack Obama stuck a federal takeover of the student loan program into the "Affordable Care Act," AKA "Obamacare"? 

The dirty deed was accompanied by a promise that federal control would save taxpayer money and cut off all the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Save thousands of animals and millions of dollars]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/bs-ed-spay-neuter-20130319,0,7538780.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-03-19 11:26:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[When 45,000 dogs and cats are tragically killed yearly in Maryland, costing taxpayers over $8 million, a remedy is long overdue. That's why Sen. Joanne Benson and I sponsored House Bill 767 and Senate Bill 820 in the 2013 General Assembly. It will...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Corporate welfare for Lockheed Martin]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-13 09:04:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[At this time of severe cutbacks in government funding for food stamps, early childhood education and Meals on Wheels, some Maryland legislators are hard at work looking out for the welfare of one of the world's wealthiest corporations. Under a bill...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ehrlich trades in mendacity]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-08 08:15:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I may be influenced by a recent performance of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," but the first word that came to mind after reading Robert Ehrlich's recent column was "mendacity" ("Disability insurance entitlement explodes under Obama," March 3). His depiction...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Disability insurance entitlement explodes under Obama]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-03 05:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Those of you paying attention have noticed that the Obama administration is actually doing what it promised: transforming America into a gigantic welfare state. And there are plenty of takers willing to cash in on it and "get mine." Numbers don't lie....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The vast left-wing conspiracy]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-02-03 05:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I'm not big into conspiracy theories. I never bought into the grassy knoll in Dallas or the anti-Obama birther movement. And it will take a lot of convincing for me to believe Oakland Raiders coach Bill Callahan took a dive in Super Bowl XXXVII to...]]></description>
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