A little bit of everything
First of all, the language of the Second Amendment clearly indicates that the entire purpose of protecting the right to bear arms was to assure that we have a “well-regulated Militia.” That statement I just made is not interpretive. It’s just plain English. That’s what the words mean, both now and, in this case, way back when the Constitution was written.
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Of course, but the question is, why didn’t the Board of Elections computer pick it up and require that either the Scott or Shea-Scott Slate committee amend its filing? From where, exactly, did the $200,000 come from? If it did come from the People for Brandon M. Scott committee, where did the Scott committee get the money to fund that transfer?
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It’s better to struggle every day to afford some things because they’re too pricy than to be unemployed and unable to afford anything!!
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I don’t like money in politics, but contributions made according to the laws controlling campaign financing are, by definition, perfectly legal. I’m just going to give you information to stimulate discussion about campaign financing and let you draw your own conclusions.
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The text in the featured image above is not an official FCC notice. I wrote it. Perhaps it should be
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Like so many good and sincerely concerned Baltimore activists, the BUILD organization means well. Certainly, Baltimore has long suffered from a shortage of affordable housing and a vacant housing crisis, the resolution of which is an essential component of any plan to save the city.
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It’s high time that we all take responsibility for saving the city of Baltimore. And, to that end, I’m suggesting that the legislature declare a state of public emergency and, yes folks, take over management of the city’s public education, public safety, economic development and infrastructure management. The city government can and should participate in the takeover, but cannot be in charge of it.
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Newly elected Congressman George Santos is clearly a pathological liar and yet he remains in office. Not only has he not been sanctioned and tossed out of Congress as he should be, but he’s getting support, in a manner of speaking, from Speaker McCarthy who has his own issues with the consistency of positions he has taken.
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Surviving COVID has awakened and emboldened us. There’s a palpable sense, a natural consensus forming that we can do better – with the confidence to motivate us to take risks that, before COVID, were beyond what our naturally conservative nature would have tolerated. Change is in the wind, a reality that has not gone unnoticed by our representatives in Annapolis.
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I’m just on the tail end of recovering from COVID. Yes, I finally got it. The good news is that I managed – through luck, thoughtful masking and crowd avoidance – to put off getting it until science gave me the vaccine and boosters to keep me out of the hospital, off the ventilator and, thank goodness, on the right side of the grass.
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