Earlier this year the South Carolina General Assembly enacted a law that will make it even more difficult for red light camera and speed camera vendors to attempt to do business in the state. Under a provision that took effect on April 9, police are authorized to replace traditional handwritten [...]
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Charlie Weis arrived at Notre Dame flashing Super Bowls rings and talking about outscheming opponents. He leaves one of college football's most prestigious programs without even matching the record of the two men who were fired before him.
[...]SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Charlie Weis arrived at Notre Dame flashing Super Bowls rings and talking about outscheming opponents. He leaves one of college football's most prestigious programs without even matching the record of the two men who were fired before him.
[...]The U.S. Preventive Task Force caused quite a stir recently when they revised their recommendations on the frequency and age for women to get mammograms. Many have speculated on the timing for this government-funded report, with the Senate vote on health care looming, and cost estimates being watched closely. Just [...]
DETROIT, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A 24-year-old aspiring businessman says he's teaching Michigan residents how to grow medical marijuana at his new "Med Grow Cannabis College."
Nick Tennant founded his school this year after an auto-detailing business he started after high school failed, The New York Times reported Sunday.
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The wheels were already coming off the cart of the global-warming crisis before Climategate hit. But the recently released cache of e-mails and other documents showing that data were manipulated to hide a lack of warming, that other data were suppressed, and that contradictory research from "skeptics" [...]
WASHINGTON -- The United States has the best health care in the world -- but because of its inefficiencies, also the most expensive. The fundamental problem with the 2,074-page Senate health-care bill (as with its 2,014-page House counterpart) is that it wildly compounds the complexity by adding hundreds of new [...]
Two weeks ago Sarah Palin began a tour to promote her book Going Rogue, selecting Grand Rapids, Michigan as the first venue. Her book tour winds through much of America's heartland, traveling along the byways to such places as Noblesville, Indiana, Washington, Pennsylvania, and Springfield, Missouri â there's even a [...]
Lord Monckton of Brenchley is queried on a report filed jointly with Professor Fred Singer in the UK, against the scientists connected to the ongoing climategate scandal. In the video, Lord Monckton discuss' the basis of the report, what is likely to happen from this point, a time-frame for the' [...]
The East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) revelations come as no real surprise to anyone who has closely followed the global-warming saga. The Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) thesis, to give it its semi-official name, is no stranger to fraud. It is no real exaggeration to [...]
The historic Tour d'Argent restaurant in central Paris has one of the best and biggest wine cellars in the world. Next month it is selling off 18,000 bottles, from a collection of 450,000, in a rare auction that will include a champagne from 1788.
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The intoxicated driver of a GMC 1500 pickup truck lost control of his vehicle on Folly Quarter Road near Buckskin Lake Drive at about 3AM Sunday morning in Howard County, killing a passenger and sending a second passenger to shock trauma in critical condition. The driver sustained only minor injuries. [...]
Suspected drugs, a fire pit and a bit of gasoline turn out to be a bad mix for three people injured Friday night when a flash fire erupted in Keymar, Md. The Middlebury Road back-yard fire erupted when one individual used gasoline to 'enhance' a burning recreational fire pit as [...]
The 'inventor' is getting creative in these desperate times for a disparate man.
With the increasingly discredited notion of man-made global warming crashing and burning on a daily basis, climate alarmists are being forced to accelerate their fearmongering to unprecedented levels. With the evidence failing to match up to the doomsday [...]
Dozens of patients died needlessly as a result of filthy conditions in an NHS hospital, a shocking report said last night.
Appalling nursing care in Basildon University Hospital contributed to a mortality rate that was more than a third higher than the national average.
[...]Has evidence-based planning fallen from grace in favour of catchy slogans and untested assumptions? In the case of urban planning, arguably that is just whatâs happened. The evidence, in Australia at least, is worrying.
âWe must get people out of cars and onto public transport.â âWe must stop urban sprawl and [...]
Experience and the Obama administration is a contradiction in terms. The collective experience of Obama and his cabinet members comes from reading and following the teachings of Lenin, Mao and a plethora of other social engineers they have come to admire and emulate. The Journal of the American Enterprise Institute [...]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Department of the Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke today announced agreement to delay for six months, until June 1, 2010, required compliance with the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA). The move blocks regulations to implement [...]
In order to win narrowly with a five point margin over his challenger, Bloomberg coughed up $5M for each vote within that margin.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg's narrower-than-expected reelection campaign cost the billionaire some $102 million, or about $183 per vote, The New York Times reported on Friday [...]
A bungling armed thug shrouded in dark clothing and a mask, chased and fired on 10 employees fleeing a Jiffy Lube in Elkridge during the dinner hour Wednesday. No one was injured in the cowardly attempted robbery and the thief scurried off without his intended misbegotten stimulus funds.
Police were called [...]
Police in Howard County have released a sketch of a male deviant suspected of fondling a teenage girl and exposing himself in a Kohls department store in Ellicott City.
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Winds of change, I think they are blowing in South Carroll. The reason; everybody is beginning to wake up to the shafting every homeowner is receiving from Carroll County government. The same government that is running the water and sewer system in South Carroll.
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In anticipation of Senate Democrats' introduction of an $849 billion dollar plan to overhaul the nation's health care system, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn last week announced his intention to press for a full reading of the 2,074 page bill on the floor of the Senate, a process' [...]
We here at the Carroll Standard would like to take a moment and wish you and yours a very Happy Thanksgiving.
We would also like to extend Thanksgiving wishes to all those that defend our freedoms here and abroad, defending our shores and serving this great nation in [...]
Baltimore County Police have arrested Jeffrey Alan Mewbourn, 46, of the 1000-block of Halstead Road, Parkville for the attempted murder of his girlfriend Joyce Daniels, 44. They lived together in their apartment with her two children.
[...]Police in Carroll County are investigating a reported theft of pin and account numbers of about 100 debit cards that were compromised using a skimmer device placed onto an ATM in Eldersburg on several dates in October and November.
[...]Pajamas Media has the full story. Could someone also serve Al Gore a gag order and sue to have him give back his Noble Prize and the millions he has profited using the fabricated material and phony data he cites, ad nauseum. Now that's income redistribution we can believe [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports:
New York's highest court ruled Tuesday that it's lawful for a state economic development agency to seize private land to build an arena for a professional basketball team. [...]Investor's Business Daily Editorial Staff
Junk Science: The Senate expects to take up global warming legislation by spring, but nothing more should happen in Congress on this issue until there's been a thorough probe of the ClimateGate scandal.
The scientists who have rung over and again the global warming alarm appear [...]
Jeff Birnbaum discusses the current political difficulties for the Democrats and President Obama and how they are entering a period of "make or break" for their agenda.
[...]BALTIMORE, Nov. 23 /Standard Newswire/ -- A protein known to stimulate blood vessel growth has now been found to be responsible for the cell overgrowth in the development of polyps that characterize one of the most severe forms of sinusitis, a study by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests. The finding [...]
Will ACORN receive federal funds under "cap-and-trade" legislation?
The House and Senate versions of "cap and trade" have earmarked several hundred million dollars to be used by "community development organizations" for the purpose of educating business and low-income neighborhoods in energy efficiency. Presumably ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for [...]
Is Congress, behind on Barack Obama's deadlines on health care and cap-and-trade legislation, and flummoxed by the failure of the stimulus package to hold unemployment below 10.2 percent, prepared to address the immigration issue next year?
[...]Washington, D.C. - U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle sentenced Robert E. Coughlin II, age 36, former Deputy Director of the Office of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), today to 30 days in a halfway house, for a conflict of interest in connection with [...]
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"A military trial will do the same thing--give them justice, give them a chance to talk--but not out, you know, in the public." [...] Police in Baltimore County have apprehended Jeffrey Alan Mewbourn, 46, of the 1000-block of Halstead Road, Towson for an attempted murder of his 44-year-old live-in girlfriend. The suspect was arrested in Prince Georges County late this afternoon.
[...]Police in Baltimore County have apprehended Jeffrey Alan Mewbourn, 46, of the 1000-block of Halstead Road, Parkville for an attempted murder of his 44-year-old live-in girlfriend. The suspect was arrested in Prince Georges County late this afternoon.
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Maryland's comptroller has issued a missing persons bulletin on the state's millionaires, who may be moving out in response to the new "millionaires tax" that was enacted in 2008. Laura Smitherman at The Sun reports on the story, too, but Jay Hancock thinks the culprit [...]
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has long been plagued by scandals, mismanagement, and policy failures. Most recently, HUD's subsidies and failed oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac helped to inflate the housing bubble, which ultimately burst and cascaded into a major financial crisis.
[...]Rasmussen reports:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15. This is the lowest [...]
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[...](Pikesville, MD) â While the YouTube video of a turkey actually driving a car has yet to be found, the practice of calling discourteous or unsafe drivers âturkeysâ is often employed by frustrated drivers traveling for the holidays, especially if the kids and/or grandmother are in the car. Maryland State [...]
Howard County Police are mourning the loss of an 8-year veteran who died while off-duty over the weekend. Police Officer First Class Jennifer Cree, 31, was found deceased by a family member in her Columbia home Sunday. The cause of death is unknown at this time, but detectives do not [...]
Built in one of the remotest sections of South Carroll, bordering Baltimore County, the New South Carroll Senior and Community Center located at 5928 Mineral Hill Road, engineered with poor sight lines, hairpin curves, steep grades and narrow meandering lanes in Eldersburg -- a road even the most seasoned and [...]
Michelle Courtney Johnson, age 31, of Baltimore, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. to 18 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for stealing patient information to fraudulently obtain credit used to purchase merchandise and obtain cash.  Judge Quarles also entered [...]
Police in Baltimore County are asking for the publicâs help in identifying a suspect responsible for the attempted armed robbery of the Dunkin Donuts in the 8000-block of Liberty Road, Pikesville just after midnight on November 5.
[...]Martin O'Malley's "Salary Reduction Plan" prompts closures for State Parks and other public lands for the 2009 Thanksgiving and Christmas season. Coined as the 'Stateâs Furlough and Temporary Salary Reduction Plan,' public access to parking lots, buildings and other public owned facilities will be denied. However, state parks will remain' [...]
Police in Howard County are searching for a driver of a Honda involved in a hit and run of a pedestrian on Farewell Road in Columbia, just past noon on Sunday. The victim, a 16-year-old, suffered non-life threatening injuries after being hit from behind by the driver of the Honda.
[...]As I predicted, when I saw that Doug Howard had opened an office on Liberty Road, he was going to be a commissioner candidate in the upcoming commissioner election in 2010.
For the District 5 South Carroll commissioner seat, I now see Howard and a number of unannounced candidates. Michael Zimmer [...]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Ethical questions about U.S. lawmakers' stock holdings are becoming more acute as Congress intervenes in the private sector, watchdogs say.
' [...]During the first ten days of October 2008, the Dow Jones dropped 2,399.47 points, losing trillions of investor equity. The Federal Government pushed TARP, a $700 billion bail-out, through Congress to rescue the beleaguered financial institutions. The collapse of the financial system was likened to an earthquake. In reality, what [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, made the following statement after 60 Democrat senators voted in favor of advancing the Reid-Obama health care takeover bill:
[...]DANVERS, Mass. - Theodora Michaels, a New York City attorney, sent an impulsive one-word email to Danvers High School officials recently: "Meep."
The reply was swift and a bit more wordy: "Your email has been forwarded to the Danvers Police Department."
[...]The Senate will soon begin a historic debate on healthcare reform after a 60-39 vote during a rare Saturday session.
The outcome was clear hours before the vote after two centrists announced they would vote with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on his motion to proceed. Republicans unanimously opposed the [...]
Today is Sunday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2009. There are 39 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot to death while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Texas Gov. John B. Connally was seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey [...]
Two Maryland state troopers, along with a motorist were hospitalized and a suspect is in custody facing criminal charges after an extended pursuit this afternoon from Prince Georgeâs County to Baltimore County along Interstate 95/495.
The suspect is a 30-year-old man believed to be from Pennsylvania. He is in State Police [...]
Updated: Suspect in I-95 pursuit that injured a motorist and two state troopers has been identified and charged with attempted murder and numerous other charges.
The driver who led police from several departments on a pursuit this morning from Prince Georgeâs County to Baltimore and deliberately rammed and attempted to ram [...]
WASHINGTON - (UPI) -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of Salomon USA ski bindings due to a fall hazard.
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Affordability, accessibility, qualityâthe hallowed trifecta at the center of the debate over health care reform. Proponents of reform argue that these three goals must be achieved for all Americans before any reform effort can be called a success. As a means to this end, supporters of market-based [...]
FOREST HILL, Maryland â Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim Rutledge today called for a comprehensive independent audit of the trillion-dollar âstimulusâ program created and passed earlier this year by Congressional Democrats and demanded heightened accountability for taxpayer dollars spent to date on the government-run program.
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[...]Audrey Scott, the new Chairman of the MDGOP, is in the saddle and wasting no time in making her first "call to action" for all conservatives and free thinking liberals to call, fax, and e-mail legislators to vote against Harry Reid's dishonest attempt to force a vote on a motion [...]
In Obama's Congress, orchestrated mendacity is a right of passage, a tool to be used with finesse and stealth. The Congress is a place where politicians can foment a lie while dancing a political two-step and hiding in vacillating, evolving shades of gray and suffer no moral consequence. If the [...]
Joppatown, MD - Detectives working a serial robbery case nabbed the assailant seconds after he struck a pharmacy on the Pulaski Highway corridor in Harford County Thursday night.
Anthony Pierre Willis, 45, of the 4000 block of Hawksbury Road, Pikesville, Maryland, was taken into custody as he left the Rite Aid [...]
While our indecisive Commander-in-Chief dithers about a troop surge in Afghanistan, Lawmakers are dawdling on funding the federal government. Congress didn't finish the nation's spending bills on time, yet Members of Congress are racing to establish government-run health care and (supposedly) combat non-existent global warming. Before the' [...]
While our indecisive Commander-in-Chief dithers about a troop surge in Afghanistan, Lawmakers are dawdling on funding the federal government. Congress didn't finish the nation's spending bills on time, yet Members of Congress are racing to establish government-run health care and (supposedly) combat non-existent global warming. Before the' [...]
(Manassas, VA) â Richard A. Viguerie, a Catholic layman in a parish in the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, has sent two letters to Catholics throughout the nation to encourage them not to contribute to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) this weekend because of the pro-abortion and homosexual organizations [...]
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
The liberal writ was that a strutting âbring âem onâ George W. Bush for eight years did what he pleased on the international scene. His âunilateralâ America supposedly did not consult with either allies or international organizations, as he rammed through democracy in Iraq and [...]
Steven Groves, Heritage Foundation
The upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, is supposed to produce a successor agreement to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a treaty signed by the Clinton Administration but never sent to the U.S. Senate for advice and consent.[1] The proposed "Kyoto II" successor agreement, [...]
OneNetNews-AP--Merriam-Webster's annual Words of the Year dating to 2003, when the publisher started making the selection:
2009: Admonish _ "to express warning or disapproval to especially in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous manner."
[...]A new book documents the elite media's preoccupation with denigrating former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
[...]Washington, DC - U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, issued the following statement today urging opposition to H.R. 3961, the Pelosi "doc fix" bill that will add more than $200 billion to the deficit:
[...]Ed Pound, the director of communications for the Obama Administrationâs âstimulusâ website (recovery.gov), dropped a bombshell in interview with the New Orleans Times Picayune, stating that the Obama Administration has no idea how phantom congressional districts - such as Ohioâs 00th or Louisianaâs 26th - received âstimulusâ [...]
On his 10-day trip to Asia and in his 10th month in office, Barack Obama is beginning to encounter limits on his ambition to change the world. Even as he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia last April and to the emperor of Japan last week, the world refuses [...]
While the military still is reeling and recovering from the massacre at Fort Hood, my wife, Gena, and I decided to boost the morale of military personnel by visiting the cadets at West Point and the wounded warriors at Brooke Army Medical Center, at Fort Sam Houston. Little did I [...]
Well, we're shocked...
WASHINGTON â President Barack Obama's choice for a top job with the Treasury Department is having tax problems.
' [...]WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 /Standard Newswire/ --Â Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding President Obama's "Diversity Czar" Mark Lloyd's official mission and responsibilities.
[...]A regulatory expert says the effort by General Motors to spin its massive third-quarter loss is just like "putting lipstick on an Edsel."
[...]Police in Howard County closed US Route 29 just south of I70 for about three hours Wednesday evening due to a serous accident involving a tractor trailer, sending a Hampstead man to shock-trauma.
[...]U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, made the following statement today addressing the government takeover of your health care:
[...]A Catonsville store owner is in shock-trauma today and a customer is dead after gunshots were fired by a lone gunman in a robbery of the Yours Convenience Store on Frederick Road yesterday.
[...]A virtually empty prison in Thomson, Illinois could be the next possible location to house foreign terrorism suspects moved from the Guantanamo Bay prison. What a stupid idea. They should be tried as enemy combatants by a military court and summarily dismissed, in Cuba. The federal government spends millions for [...]
The president of the Metropolitan Money Store, Joy Jackson, age 41, of Fort Washington, Maryland, was sentenced Monday to 151 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme that falsely promised to help [...]
Annapolis, Maryland -- Maryland deer hunters took advantage of mostly cool temperatures and a healthy deer population by harvesting an estimated 24,384 deer during September and October. This is a slight decline from last year’s harvest of 25,655 deer for the same period.
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The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced the two-week deer firearm season opens statewide on Saturday, November 28. This popular season is a Maryland tradition for deer hunters with nearly half of the annual deer harvest taken during this period.
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A lot has been made of the non-existent congressional district in Arizona that the White House claimed received âstimulusâ money. So today, we went to Recovery.gov to find out how the state of Ohio - a state with 18 congressional districts - fared. Guess what we found: TEN [...]
A federal grand jury has indicted former Prince Georgeâs County Police officer Eddie Lee Smith, Jr., age 41, of Fort Washington, Maryland, and Earl Blake, age 53, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, for conspiracy to commit bank larceny and attempted bank larceny.
[...]Criminal complaints have been filed charging Daniel Chase, age 64, of Brownsville, New Jersey; Nikolaos Mamalis, age 53 of Edgewood, Maryland; and Antwone Bell, age 25, of Rosedale, Maryland, of conspiring to commit a series of armed commercial robberies, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. [...]
Police in Howard County have charged two men for an armed bank robbery in Jessup, last week Friday, that led to a vehicle pursuit and foot chase.
[...]On Sunday, the day after the House passed legislation that will bankrupt the United States of America and lead to the demise of our constitutional form of government, I was discussing the matter with my parents. It was my mother, in response to my need to reduce seemingly incomprehensibly complex [...]
I hope this finds everyone well, and is meant for our mutual edification!
If you believe some form of zoning is Constitutional, I would like for someone to show me where in the federal and State of Maryland Constitutions it is authorized. I have been studying those Constitutions now for 16 [...]
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[...]During 2007, more than 14,000 people in passenger vehicles died in crashes while unbelted. About half of these lives could have been saved if they had been wearing seat belts at the time of the crash. As sad as this statistic is, the numbers are even worse at night than [...]
Jose Fidel De Paz-Lopez, age 34, of Ellicott City, Maryland was sentenced last week to 114 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to interfere with commerce by robbery and the use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
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