Happiest states (7 blue, 3 red)
New research suggests U.S. states with wealthier, better educated and more tolerant residents are also happier on average.
The reasoning is that wealthy states can provide infrastructure and so it’s easier for residents to get their needs met. In addition, states with a greater proportion of artists and gays would also [...]
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Maryland Is One Of Ten Happiest States
November 10th, 2009
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Watching Bobby Haircut
November 4th, 2009
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Oh boy, Bob Ehrlich is taking some inspiration from GOP wins in New Jersey and Virginia and thinking about taking another run for governor here in Maryland. I relish the thought. Maryland isn’t Virginia or Jersey. The election of Ehrlich in 2002 was an anomaly, quickly corrected by the citizens in resounding fashion 3 years [...]
Dan Snyder Accomplishes The Impossible
October 26th, 2009
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Redskins fans abandoning the team. For many of you not familiar with this region and the Skins, this is unprecedented.
There are other signs that as some Washingtonians stand by their floundering team, which is 2-4 in regular-season play, others are standing a little farther downwind. Nielsen ratings show that the average TV viewership of game [...]
Maryland: We’re #1
September 22nd, 2009
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Despite a decrease in home values in Maryland in 2008, the state remains the richest state in the nation, according to U.S. census data released Tuesday.
The state’s median household income for 2008 was $70,545, an increase of about $1,500 from the state’s median income in 2007 and slightly higher than New Jersey’s figure ($70,378). Maryland [...]
Maryland Delegate Jon Cardin Is Fail
August 19th, 2009
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He should lose his job over this, and why the heck did the cops go along with it?
A Maryland lawmaker has apologized for using a police boat and helicopter to create a diversion so he could surprise his girlfriend with a marriage proposal.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld told reporters Tuesday that Delegate Jon Cardin also [...]
Mob Makes Sen. Ben Cardin More Resolved To Make Reform
August 15th, 2009
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Ben Cardin, Maryland’s junior Senator.
Cardin said the meetings have changed lawmakers, but probably not in the way most of those who shouted the loudest would like.
‘I’m more resolved than ever,’ Cardin, 65, said Thursday after his whirlwind week. ‘I love debating. I’m sorry more of that couldn’t happen this week because of so much of [...]
Teabaggers: “Death To Obama”
August 12th, 2009
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These people do not represent Maryland, but they represent the right.
How You Know The Teabaggers Are Fake
August 11th, 2009
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President Obama has something like a 73% approval rating in Maryland. We are among the bluest states in the nation. Our legislature enacted health care legislation targeting big business long before it was a national cause.
And yet the teabaggers were loud at Sen. Ben Cardin’s recent town hall meeting. Look, its one thing for [...]
Maryland Third Bluest
August 3rd, 2009
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Fear the crab.
Maryland is the nation’s third-bluest state, behind Massachusetts and Hawaii, according to the survey, which tracks how residents identify their own political leanings.
By Gallup’s analysis, 58 percent of Marylanders identify themselves as Democrats or leaning Democratic; 31 percent are Republican or leaning Republican.
Lets get those numbers up to 60, Maryland. Slackers.
Even funnier is [...]
Move It Van Lines Of Silver Spring Maryland (MD) – Do Not Use
July 28th, 2009
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Move It Van Lines Of Silver Spring Maryland (301) 438-3035 is a terrible moving company, and you shouldn’t use them. Move It Van Lines quoted our family a rate of $646.80 over the phone. We gave Move It Van Lines of Silver Spring MD our credit card for a deposit on the move. They called [...]
Robert Broadus Is Whats Wrong With America
July 22nd, 2009
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Robert Broadus & Joe The Plumber
On Neal Cavuto’s show today he had this man, Robert Broadus on as a guest. The setup for Broadus’ appearance was healthcare, specifically a question he had asked in a recent meeting with Sen. Ben Cardin.
“I decided not to get the health insurance. That’s working out for me because I’m [...]
No Donna Edwards, I Don’t Care
July 13th, 2009
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Donna Edwards, who happens to be my member of congress here in Maryland, just sent out the following to her email list.
Yay, Politico named you to a perfectly arbitrary list! Look, I don’t have any serious problems with Rep. Edwards and she has so far demonstrated the kind of values I want to see in [...]
The Metro Accident
June 23rd, 2009
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I gotta tell you, it is beyond surreal to see that about 9 people have now died in the DC subway accident. Not only is it just down the street from my house, but this is my train. The accident happened between the Takoma Park and Fort Totten stations, and I get on at Takoma [...]
Bob Ehrlich Looking To Get His Butt Handed To Him Again?
April 21st, 2009
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More noise that Bob Ehrlich plans another futile run to be governor of Maryland. Just not going to work.
MD State Sen. Andrew Harris Wants To Block University Funding Over A Porn Movie Showing
April 6th, 2009
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Look. I don’t think watching a porno film is a good use of college time, and I’m prudish enough to think you shouldn’t be doing it in a campus activity, but not to the point where you should pull the funding for the University Of Maryland. That’s nutty.
With a planned showing of a controversial pornographic [...]
Westboro Baptist Cult Coming To Maryland For Crazytime
March 26th, 2009
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Just great.
A church based in Topeka, Kansas is scheduled to demonstrate next month outside Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda because the school, which opened in 1962, is named for a man who may have been homosexual.
Westboro Baptist Church has been drawing national attention for staging anti-homosexuality demonstrations at military funerals, on the theory that [...]
Sen. Ben Cardin Wastes Time On Newspaper Industry
March 24th, 2009
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Ben Cardin. My senator, Ben Cardin. Good guy. Bad move.
Struggling newspapers should be allowed to operate as nonprofits similar to public broadcasting stations, Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., proposed Tuesday.
Cardin introduced a bill that would allow newspapers to choose tax-exempt status. They would no longer be able to make political endorsements, but could report on all [...]
MLS In Maryland = Failure
February 19th, 2009
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Hey look, the DC United, a “professional” soccer franchise that nobody in this area cares about, is moving to Maryland to suck our money out! Ick.
