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By Dan Rodricks | September 2, 2009
Do you think maybe we could move on from the Jon Cardin marriage proposal "scandal" now? (I mean, as soon as this column ends?) Please, let's find something else to be outraged about - lies about the proposed health care overhaul, speed cameras, the cost of cable service, unnecessary prostate surgery. By now, the state delegate from Baltimore County has apologized to the entire Patapsco Drainage Basin for getting city cops to stage a fake raid of a boat on the night he popped the question to his fiancee.
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By PETER HERMANN | July 26, 2009
The cops in Baltimore's Southwestern Police District knocked on 28 doors, searching for 28 juveniles they had locked up in the past month. They were serving not warrants to put them back in jail but invitations to a meeting, to teach, to guide, to inform, to keep them from being locked up a second time. Deputy Maj. Charles V. Carter Sr. led off the meeting, held Friday night at the Kedesh House of Prayer Christian Church on West Lombard Street, with a prayer and a reading of grim statistics of juvenile crime - 260 kids under 18 arrested this year in his district alone, 16 of them deemed violent, 27 of them repeat offenders.
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By LEONARD PITTS JR. | January 26, 2009
I hope he fails. -Rush Limbaugh It is, of course, a calculated outrage. Meaning, it was spewed by a clown in the media circus to kick a familiar sequence into motion: angry denunciation by bloggers, pundits and supporters of President Barack Obama (the "he" whose failure is hoped), followed by Rush Limbaugh refusing to retract a word, a courageous truth teller who will not be moved. And, trailing behind, like the folks with brooms trail the elephants in the circus parade, Mr. Limbaugh's devotees, complaining that their hero has been misquoted, misunderstood or otherwise mistreated.
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By KATHLEEN PARKER | July 17, 2008
WASHINGTON - "Damn you and the likes of you to the bowels of hell, you ignorant racist bastard!" So wrote an outraged Muslim to political cartoonist Doug Marlette a few years ago after he drew a cartoon featuring the prophet Muhammad. Tens of thousands of Muslims bellowed, blogged and clogged until servers collapsed with hate mail and death threats. No cartoon - or cartoonist - would go unpunished. Here we go again. Similar passions are being expressed this week in response to another cartoon, this time on the cover of the liberal-leaning New Yorker magazine.
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By LAURA VOZZELLA | April 18, 2008
MSNBC has seen fit to protect the American public from this political shocker: All three presidential candidates agree on something. The network is refusing to air a new TV ad that reminds Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama that they've all spoken in favor of closing a loophole that allows criminals to buy guns at gun shows. Too "controversial," MSNBC told Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the group behind the ad. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and Fox are all airing it. The MSNBC decision is of local interest because, as I wrote the other day, Sheila Dixon is one of four mayors featured in the ad. Not to mention because Baltimore police seized almost 4,000 illegal guns last year.
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By GREGORY KANE | November 7, 2007
Where is Davon David Temple? We know where he was in January of this year: in Baltimore District Court, where charges that he trespassed on the grounds of the Walbrook Uniform Services Academy were dropped. In December of last year, Temple was also in District Court, where the hearing for those charges was postponed. A Baltimore police officer said that in October of last year Temple and at least one other man walked onto the grounds of the Walbrook Uniform Services Academy spoiling for a fight with members of the Crips gang.
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By Kathleen Parker | September 6, 2007
Cartoon lunacy has returned once again with the usual menu of outrage, effigy-burning, hurt feelings and apologies. As artists and literalists duke it out in the United States and in Europe, it no longer seems implausible that the world will go up in a mushroom cloud because some fevered fanatic couldn't take a joke. Or even get it. In Europe, it's the Swedes this time who have offended Muslims with cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, including one that shows the prophet's head on the body of a dog. Outrage was swift.
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By Victor Davis Hanson | August 6, 2007
Radical Islamists love to scream about the "decadent" West. Everything from our operas to our attitudes about women outrage these loud, pious critics. As part of their condemnation, fundamentalist Muslims say they put a higher premium on family values and reverence for the past than crass, modern Americans and Europeans do. But that is hardly true. In Wahhabist Saudi Arabia, unforgiving sharia law administered by stern state clerics dictates cutting off a hand for theft. Is there less stealing, then?
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By Kathleen Parker | May 7, 2007
Veteran political columnist David Broder set off a firestorm recently when he called Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid an "embarrassment" for declaring the Iraq war "lost." From the assault subsequently directed at Mr. Broder - from other journalists, political operatives, left-wing bloggers and even the entire Senate Democratic Caucus - you'd have thought Mr. Broder had had an intimate encounter with an intern. Or, in the spirit of bipartisanship, had broken into Democratic National Committee headquarters.
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April 17, 2007
Media often fail to display diversity Maybe we should hold those rap artists whose success stems from misogyny as accountable for their language as Don Imus ("Remark renews old hip-hop debate," April 13). But I'm disheartened by the way the discussion over Mr. Imus' remarks has so quickly diverted attention from the accountability of media organizations for such language. Mr. Imus' radio and television employers connected their decision to fire him to some commitment to diversity. Without some broader changes in their programming, however, it's much easier to believe they did it only in response to pressure from advertisers.