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Maryland lawmakers press BP to pay more for Gulf leak - Cardin, Mikulski back $20 billion escrow fund June 14, 2010 Fresh from visits to the oil-smeared Louisiana coast, Maryland's two Democratic senators and one of its House members called today for new measures to ensure that BP pays for the damage caused by the largest petroleum spill in U.S. history. Sens. Barbara A. Mikulski and Benjamin L. Cardin backed the Obama administration's move to get BP to set up an escrow account for paying damage claims, saying the company ought to stock the fund with $20 billion. Mikulski said...
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What are we paying for our beer today? The price per-case just keeps rising it seems like everything else. Is there a "price of beer" site like the on for gasoline? Any info on this topic would be great, and save me some money down the road.
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Posted on Fri, Sep. 10, 2004 Anti-Kerry Veterans' group now political machine with big budget By Tom Infield and Meg LaughlinKnight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the Vietnam veterans group that set out this spring to make an issue of Democrat John Kerry's 1971 anti-war stance, has grown into a well-organized political machine with a multimillion-dollar budget and a network of Republican-affiliated paid consultants. Organization leaders are adamant that they remain in control of the group's strategy. But interviews with founders and others familiar with the group's formation make it clear that the GOP-allied pros...
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Conservative Radio Dominates Seattle David Boze is a young talk show host that leads a new generation of Conservatives By Matthew McCleary Seattle Sentinel Exclusive Conservative radio thrives in Seattle. The ‘Rain City’ is known around America for being extremely liberal; yet, when it comes to the medium of radio, we are not. People in Seattle are flocking to conservative radio for their news. Seattle has two conservative talk radio stations: KVI and KTTH. Each has a full lineup of unique radio show hosts. On KVI, the most popular host is, hands down, Kirby Wilbur. Wilbur is a Seattle...
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<p>The following are excerpts from a sermon given recently by the Rev. Steven R. Randall at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Catonsville, Md.</p>
<p>Our country was shocked and shaken down to our very core [on September 11, 2001] as terrorists who had no regard for the lives of thousands of people but served a false god of violence and blind destruction attacked our country.</p>
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<p>John H. McWhorter, writing on "How Hip-Hop Holds Blacks Back"</p>
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<p>Chris Webber has matured into a convicted liar, as opposed to a serial fibber, following a memory lapse before a grand jury in 2000.</p>
<p>His plea agreement with federal prosecutors in Detroit this week is expected to hurt the championship hopes of the prison basketball team.</p>
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To anyone in the group: Hello, I need help with some 'non-ASCII' characters that I've seen appear lately on a few web pages. They are not being decoded by my Win95 machine with MS IE5.0 browser. Here is the most pronounced example: The following characters are show on my screen as ’ This is supposed to display an apostorphe (') ...I think.... Example from a web page.... Barnes told The Hill: "He has a good military record, he’s from a great area of the state -- the middle of the state -- and he's successfully been elected to Congress." There...
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HometownAnnapolis.comOpinion - Our say: Our prayers are with our troops SO, THE FIGHTING HAS finally begun. As with most Americans, our feelings are painfully mixed: apprehension for our troops, hope that this war will be short and successful, and belief in the essential rightness of America's cause. This country does more agonizing over war, and resorts to it more reluctantly, than any major power in world history. Some even go to the opposite extreme and argue that "war never solves anything." That's an incredibly silly remark to be made by anyone with even slight familiarity with history - but the...
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We're not going into this war lightly, or frivolously, or with a feeling of vainglorious invulnerability. And that's for the best. All we can do now is put aside partisan differences, stay alert here at home, and pray for our young men and women who, almost certainly, will soon be in harm's way.
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Who's music is used in the Chevrolet TV ad where the guy is trying to drink his coffee and his buddy is stomping on the brakes repeatedly? Any help?
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Thursday, December 6, 2001News | Restaurants | Shopping | Movies | Nightlife | Arts | Best of NY Search Search Magazine Archives Contents · Best Bets Daily · Sales & Bargains · Restaurant Review · Restaurant Openings · Bites & Buzz · Columnists· Intelligencer · Archives · More This Week This Media LifeSaint GeorgeRallying around a wartime president is one thing. But why does Dubya remain entirely untouchable even as we question his lieutenants -- and his increasingly disturbing policies?BY MICHAEL WOLFF To get the willies from George W. Bush, to distrust the man, to have your stomach roll a bit when you hear him speak, is to feel like the most churlish and sullen of adolescents. He's the unappealing ...
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President wants Misuari on US list of int’l terrorists Posted:11:38 PM (Manila Time) | December 05, 2001By Dona PazzibuganInquirer News Service PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is determined to have Nur Misuari known to the world as a “terrorist.” The President said Tuesday her administration would ask the United States to include Misuari in its list of international terrorists because of his links to the Abu Sayyaf Group. “We will be officially notifying the US that we have information that Nur Misuari has links (with the Abu Sayyaf),” the President told reporters. The Abu Sayyaf, which has been linked to Osama bin ...
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In Dec '72 I was at Utapao Royal Thai AFB for Linebacker II, where we had 54 B-52D's. Andersen AB on Guam had 99 B-52G's and 53 B-52D's, for a grand total of 206 "Buffs". Wrenches cranked overtime here as we built the bombs that B-52s flying Linebacker II missions dropped on Hanoi. Building bombs was our business, and in those days, business was good. We ammo airmen say the most satisfying feeling comes when we see a Buff that departs fully loaded, then returns with nothing aboard but a smiling pilot. Here's some stuff I have researched and ...
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Carroll County Times Republicans hold second gun raffle Thursday, July 5, 2001 By Dawn Keller, Times Staff Writer URL: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?brd=1289 Two Westminster men have won guns because their names were pulled during a Carroll County Republican Central Committee raffle drawing. The committee raffled a semi-automatic shotgun and a 9 mm pistol Wednesday morning, without any protests from those opposing the second annual raffle. The names of James Reter and Jose Pineda Jr. were drawn. Because Reter was at the early morning event and Pineda was not, Reter got to choose which gun he wanted. Reter selected the Beretta 9000S ...
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Answers put state among progressives More would spend or save surplus than take a tax cut; Worries: Traffic, growth By Thomas W. Waldron and Howard LibitSun Staff As the General Assembly convenes today, a new statewide poll shows Marylanders backing a staunchly liberal agenda - with the majority of voters supporting gay rights, insuring the uninsured, more aid for Baltimore's schools, additional mass transit funding and banning the sale of handguns. Moreover, the state's registered voters are strikingly generous: Less than a third of those polled want Maryland to use its nearly $400 million budget surplus to cut their ...
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President-elect Bush hard title for press to say Friday, December 29, 2000 By Jennifer Harper THE WASHINGTON TIMES ON MEDIA Both print and broadcast media gyrated at the confluence of politics and American culture this year — and emerged chastened but still feisty from the experience. A media war most likely looms for the new Bush administration as liberal-leaning journalists strike back. It should make for a lively marketplace in 2001. Meanwhile, a few sterling media moments from the last 12 months: • The big bust. On Election Night, cable and broadcast networks prematurely announced Al Gore had won ...
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A "GOOD" CHRISTMAS Cerebrating the Holy in the Holiday Rush by Deacon "Mr. Bill" DeAngelis It was 32 years ago this year that the world experienced a Christmas Eve like no other. The year was 1968 -- a horrible year of war, division and assassinations. Christmas Eve night, millions of people around the world, through television, traveled with the Apollo 8 spacecraft as it went into orbit around the moon. Six months later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would walk on the lunar surface -- but it was still hard to believe what we were seeing that Christmas Eve. ...
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SunSpot.net - State excess funds likely www.sunspot.net > News > Maryland | Back to story State excess funds likely $375 million surplus likely at end of fiscal 2001, governor says; Economy remains strong; Despite projections, Glendening won't seek tax reduction By Michael DresserSun Staff Gov. Parris N. Glendening and the General Assembly will have a $375 million surplus to work with as they put together next year's budget - less than half last year's windfall, but a substantial sum by historical standards. The new surplus figure came as the Board of Revenue Estimates approved projections yesterday showing the state ...
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SunSpot.net - State of enlightenment www.sunspot.net > News > Election 2000 | Back to story State of enlightenment What have we learned from these 35 historic days? More, and less than you'd think. Remember those long ago, innocent days when Americans could march to the polls, have our votes counted and determine who was going to be president? When it didn't take armies of lawyers and judges to decide what it was we just did? Imagine what the Greatest Generation must think of us now after the most torturous American election in history. Forget for a minute that it ...
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