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Maryland: Mr. Foer

August 13, 2009 - 03:44 am
NEWS FEED: Annapolis Capital Punishment

ACLU SUES HACA AND POLICE DEP'T.

By Paul Foer (paul@foerfront.com)

We can only hope some good comes out of this, but I am not so sure. The ACLU had threatened this some time back and now it seems it is happening. I think that in general the ability of police and HACA to ban certain people from public housing is desirable and permissible, but it has to be done in a fair and proper fashion. However, if you become a ward of the state essentially by being a public housing resident, you had better play by those rules. Although a person's home is not exactly their castle, a person's public housing apartment should not be a prison either.

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June 28, 2009 - 07:53 am
NEWS FEED: Annapolis Capital Punishment

Republican Women in Deep Doo-doo, Bowling and Weikel Weigh In, Democrats Should Consider Weikel in Similar Light

By Paul Foer (paul@foerfront.com)

It looks as if Joyce and CHuck Thomann's nasty and irresponsible rhetoric is earning them the reaction it deserves. This made big headlines in the blogosphere and some readers have told me that mega-blogs Huffington Post and Daily Kos picked their stories up from little old me. Huh-wuddya know?

Republican candidate for Ward Three Scott Bowling has taken the high road and distanced himself from this scene. Among other things, he wrote:

In an open letter on the Republican Women of Anne Arundel County Maryland website, Joyce Thomann stated that President “Obama and Hitler have a great deal in common in my view.” I forcefully reject this view enunciated by Ms.

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