Maryland: Red Maryland

An interesting post by the blog Maryland-Politics (Adam Pagnucco) looks at trends in Maryland political blogging and notes how Capital Punishment is becoming more and more popular. At the same time, conservative blogs are declining. CP is profiled as follows:

"From our dataset on 38 statistics-releasing Maryland blogs, here are three that are on the way up as well as a category of them that is stalled....Not so long ago, Paul Foer was known as 'PMF' on the liberal blog Free State Politics, where he was a frequent target of Red Maryland’s conservatives. Well, Foer is getting the last laugh. His Annapolis Capital Punishment blog, which follows Annapolis city politics in minute detail, beat the statewide Red Maryland in site visits for the first time in May.

From Red Maryland
There has been an interesting convergence of what appeared to be separate arguments and issues involving the Sun editorial page and Second Opinion blog.
Sunday, in the Second Opinion blog, editorial page editor Michael Cross-Barnett invoked Godwins Law on Anne Arundel County Republican Women’s President Joyce E. Thomann for her crude “blitzkrieg” comparison of [...]

From Red Maryland
I usually leave the larger issues of media criticism to Professor Vatz, as his mustache can slay a rabid grizzly bear, or at least a Baltimore Sun editorial page editor. However I felt the need to jump in on one issue in particular.
My friend Ron Smith is an admirer of Salon blogger Glenn [...]

From Red Maryland
….but apparently, you can get fooled again:
Gov. Martin O’Malley plans to introduce emergency legislation Wednesday that would give the state authority to acquire Maryland’s bankrupt horse racing tracks and the Preakness through eminent domain, officials confirmed.

However, legal experts say the bankruptcy filing by the tracks’ [...]