Perspective on the MDGOP

November 19, 2009 | 02:10 PM | 0 Comments

As most of my faithful readers know, last weekend marked the occurrence of our most recent state convention. During that convention, the state party adopted a "compromise" voting system... read more »

A state budget smackdown

November 18, 2009 | 08:46 PM | 0 Comments

For the third time this fiscal year (which only started July 1st, so we're 4 1/2 months in), the state of Maryland has been forced to make budget cuts. This $360 million in budget actions brings the... read more »

Open season on Bush appointees

November 13, 2009 | 12:48 PM | 0 Comments

In a policy reversal reminiscent of a tinhorn regime, the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) distributed a memorandum last week subjecting certain political appointees to retroactive... read more »

Is Frank being frank?

November 10, 2009 | 05:16 PM | 0 Comments

I came across an interesting article in yesterday's Washington Post regarding some of the media buys which have occurred over the last couple days. The piece by Aaron C. Davis and Ben Pershing... read more »

A tale of three meetings

November 09, 2009 | 01:26 PM | 2 Comments

Sometimes one can go through a number of days having time to tend to personal affairs because the opportunity to engage officials isn't particularly urgent - at least not in a public venue, anyway.... read more »

Pappas drops out of Governor race, endorses Hogan

November 04, 2009 | 07:50 PM | 0 Comments

Late this afternoon Mike Pappas dropped his nearly yearlong bid to become Maryland's next Governor and threw his support behind fellow Republican Larry Hogan. In his announcement, Pappas noted,... read more »

One-on-One: Rep. Glenn 'GT' Thompson (PA-5)

November 04, 2009 | 06:21 PM | 1 Comment

This morning I had the pleasure of speaking to the Pennsylvania Congressman, who was one of just 17 Republicans in the 111th Congressional freshman class. Obviously the initial conversation turned... read more »

Al-Qaeda Beats the System

November 02, 2009 | 11:09 AM | 4 Comments

In case you missed it, last Thursday a federal judge reduced the sentence of an al-Qaeda sleeper agent and enabled him to be freed-- in just five years. Disdaining a maximum fifteen-year... read more »

DeMint makes his case

October 28, 2009 | 12:50 AM | 2 Comments

He's not a Senator from my state (sucks to be us), but Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) came back on my radar screen last week when he promised to introduce a Constitutional amendment to establish... read more »

Cavey drops out of MDGOP Chair race

October 27, 2009 | 09:21 PM | 0 Comments

This evening Maryland First Vice-Chair Chris Cavey announced he was dropping out of the race to succeed Dr. Jim Pelura as state party chairman: Over the past month I have traveled across Maryland... read more »