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[UPDATED] ‘Death to Obama’ Sign Pops Up at Cardin Town Hall

By | 08.12.09 | 3:18 pm

There have been some pretty nasty banners waved around by the town hall crowds protesting the Democrats’ health overhaul plans in recent days, but none reaches the level of that held up today in Hagerstown, Md., where Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) sought to sell the reform strategy for More…

Miners, Environmentalists Battle Over Coal in Tennessee

By | 08.07.09 | 6:20 pm

Whatever else there is to be said about mountaintop mining (and there’s plenty), no one can deny that it makes a place ugly. How could it not? The technique involves the blasting away of mountain peaks to get at the coal inside, leaving oceans More…

Feinstein, Cardin Take On Aerial Hunting

By | 07.29.09 | 5:52 pm

Big day for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on the gun-control front. First she introduced a bill to prohibit foreign felons from buying firearms; now she’s pushing a proposal to end the practice of hunting from airplanes. Co-sponsored by Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the bill aims to close a More…

Accuracy in Journalism

By | 07.21.09 | 11:57 am

A conservative friend passes on this article about Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) taking heat at a town hall meeting from “Robert Broadus of Clinton, Maryland,” reprinting Broadus’s statement.

I decided not to get the health insurance. That’s working out for me because I’m able to save that extra money

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CLINTON CONFIRMATION: Refugees, Iraqi and Otherwise

By | 01.13.09 | 12:24 pm

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) asks about the Iraqi refugee crisis. Now that there won’t be a Bush administration to treat dealing with Iraqi refugees as an admission of failure, what should the policy be?

Clinton says she’ll staff the State Department’s resident refugee office with “creative individuals.” Pledges to help More…