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Maryland is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to act on a petition requiring power plants in five upwind states to reduce pollution, the state’s attorney general and an official in Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration said Wednesday. The Hogan administration says 70 percent of Maryland’s ozone problem originates in upwind states. Maryland petitioned the EPA in November for a finding that 36 power plant units in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia are emitting air pollution affecting Maryland in violation of the Clean Air Act’s “good neighbor provision.” In January, the EPA issued a six-month extension to...

(CNN)A federal judge in Maryland Thursday morning temporarily blocked the 90-day ban on immigration for citizens of six countries in President Donald Trump's...

Obama’s plan to raise and train an army of Syrian rebels to take on ISIS has become yet another strategic foreign policy embarrassment, this one costing American taxpayers $500 million. Only 60 Syrian fighters volunteered to receive training from the US Army, far short of an effective force to fight ISIS. The initial plan was to train 5,400 troops. Most likely the Syrian rebels are well aware of Obama’s previous actions in the Middle East, but since Iran has sided with the Assad regime, who is going to protect them and their families once the Iranians get the bomb? Secretary...

GOP frosh: Where's my health care?By GLENN THRUSH Updated: 11/16/10 6:19 AM EST A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation session by demanding to know why his government-subsidized health care plan takes a month to kick in. Republican Andy Harris, an anesthesiologist who defeated freshman Democrat Frank Kratovil on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, reacted incredulously when informed that federal law mandated that his government-subsidized health care policy would take effect on Feb. 1 – 28 days after his Jan. 3rd swearing-in. “He stood up and asked the two ladies who...

First, some relevant facts:1. Mr. Alzona submitted this controversial flier, solely as testimony on behalf of the Maryland Tyranny Response Team, directly to members of both the Maryland Senate and House Judiciary Committees during last week's hearings. This flier was submitted in OPPOSITION to a NAZI-like gun control bill that called for the photographing, fingerprinting, numbering and registration of all Maryland gun owners.2. Montgomery Democrat leaders, Senators Frosh and Van Hollen, plus Delegate Mark Kennedy Shriver, were the lead sponsors of their proposed final solution to the problem of "gun violence" allegedly afflicting Maryland's children.3. The multi-million dollar Kennedy Shriver...