Maryland Politics News

November 7, 2009 - 12:34 am
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Reporter

PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail

JCT Confirms Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail
Friday, November 06, 2009

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance [...]

November 7, 2009 - 12:33 am
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Reporter

Just How Bad is Obama’s Foreign Policy?

by Powerline

Below John refers to Israel’s seizure of weapons from Iran bound for Syria and Hezbollah on board the Francop. The weapons seized on the ship included some 3,000 rockets of various types, as well as 60-millimeter mortars, 7.62-rifle Kalashnikov-ammunition, F-1 grenades and 122-millimeter Katyusha rockets. The ship’s cache was reportedly ten times the size [...]

November 7, 2009 - 12:30 am
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Reporter

Just so you Know:

Unemployment has reached a 26-year high of 10.2 percent. So When will the Stimulus bill be considered a failure?

November 6, 2009 - 11:53 pm
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Reporter

Our Brain Dead Country

by by David Horowitz

A Muslim fanatic with an Internet site praising Islamic suicide bombers as defenders of their comrades is a Major in the U.S. Army with access to military intelligence and lethal weaponry. And it’s not as though the army didn’t know that he was a Muslim fanatic and supporter of the Islamic jihad [...]

November 6, 2009 - 11:52 pm
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Reporter

Still Not a Terroist Attack to the MSM

by Instapundit
Ft. Hood suspect reportedly shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’. On NPR I heard — I can’t find the story on their website yet — that he had given a presentation on the Koran at a professional conference where he claimed that unbelievers should be beheaded, burned, etc. to the discomfiture of the attendees.
UPDATE: Here’s [...]

November 6, 2009 - 11:47 pm
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Reporter

Classy: White House Thugs Now Threatening Democrat Strategists Who Appear on Fox

by Laryn
The Obama Thug Machine is officially out of control.
At least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, an outlet that presidential aides have depicted as not so much a news-gathering operation as a political opponent bent on [...]

November 6, 2009 - 11:45 pm
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Reporter

PBS Ombudsman: ‘Sesame Street’ Fox News Slam Crossed Line

by John Nolte
Earlier this week, Big Hollywood’s Stage Right broke the story of a ”Sesame Street” episode which referred to Fox News as “Pox News” and “trashy.” In response to the episode, PBS also received a number of complaint letters from viewers which prompted a reply from PBS Ombudsmen Michael Getler:
I don’t know what [...]

November 6, 2009 - 11:29 am
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Sun

Kratovil a "No" on health care

Frank Kratovil made it official today: he'll vote against the Democratic health care plan in the House this weekend. The freshman Democrat from the Eastern Shore, facing one of the toughest re-election fights in the country next year, released a...

November 6, 2009 - 11:21 am
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Sun

Kratovil a "No" on health care

Frank Kratovil made it official today: he'll vote against the Democratic health care plan in the House this weekend. The freshman Democrat from the Eastern Shore, facing one of the toughest re-election fights in the country next year, released a...

November 6, 2009 - 10:40 am
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Sun

Long wait about over for Baltimore judge

It's been nine years since federal Judge Andre Davis of Baltimore was first nominated to fill the "Maryland seat" on the federal Court of Appeals. It's been seven months since President Barack Obama re-nominated Davis for the same position--which has...