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Duncan: No chance I'll be secretary of state
Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Wednesday flatly rejected an out-of-nowhere suggestion that he might be moving from the Education Department to the State Department.
Bowles: Chance of debt deal no more than 33%
Erskine Bowles, the Democrat who ran President Obama's Bowles-Simpson deficit commission two years ago and has become a leading voice for striking a deal now, said Wednesday he doesn't think Congress and the White House are going to beat the Jan. 1 deadline.
B-W Corridor Rewind: Nov. 27
Maryland and Virginia Tech collect ACC/Big Ten Challenge triumphs
Terps find second-half success through Alex Len, triumph over Northwestern
Dez Wells scores 23 points as Maryland improves to 5-1
PICKET: Liberal talk radio host calls for beheading of tea partiers
Brian Maloney of the radio equalizer blog, posted an audio excerpt of liberal radio host Mike Malloy whose Tuesday's program included a rant about beheading tea partiers
Reviewing Maryland's 2008 recruiting class
With all the results in, evaluating the careers of the Terps' signees from five years ago
PICKET: Sen. Graham says Obama admin owes families who lost loved ones in Benghazi an apology
Senators Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Repubublican, and John McCain, Arizona Republican, emerged from their Capitol Hill meeting with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice on Tuesday “more disturbed” from what they learned from what they learned on the Obama’s handling of the deadly attacks against the diplomatic mission in Benghazi.
McConnell: Obama needs to end campaign, talk to his party
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that President Obama should spend less time trying to convince Americans of his tax-increase plans and more time meeting with Congress to try to work out an actual agreement.
PICKET:(VIDEO) Jamie Foxx - 'Give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama'
Comedian Jamie Foxx appeared at Sunday night's Soul Train Awards in Las Vegas and remarked to the audience, "It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our lord and savior Barack Obama...Barack Obama."
Terps' Joe Vellano earns second straight first team all-ACC nod
Demetrius Hartsfield earns second-team nod
Maryland's Stefon Diggs shares ACC specialist of the week honor
Freshman returned kickoff 99 yards against North Carolina
House defers to Justice on Grimm probe
The House Ethics Committee is complying with a Department of Justice request to suspend its case against Rep. Michael G. Grimm while the FBI investigates corruption allegations against the New York Republican, the panel said Monday in a release.
Former Rep. Halvorson to seek Jackson seat
Former Democratic Rep. Debbie Halvorson will run to replace former Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. in the upcoming special election for his Illinois seat, the Chicago Tribune reported Monday morning.
Obama to appoint Walter as SEC chairwoman
President Obama said Monday he intends to appoint Securities and Exchange Commissioner Elisse Walter, a Democrat, to replace outgoing SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro, who is stepping down next month.
Billionaire Buffett breaks with Obama over taxes
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has stepped up his call for the government to impose bigger taxes on himself and others like him — but broke with President Obama, calling for everyone who makes under $500,000 to continue to pay the lower tax rates passed under President George W. Bush.
PICKET: Biden '05 on filibuster fight: 'Prayed God' that D's wouldn't make a 'naked power grab' when they eventually took control of Senate
Talk of changing the filibuster rules by Senate Democrats will come to a head in the next Congress as Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, appears determined to ensure that Republican stall tactics will not delay Democratic plans in President Barack Obama's second term.
MILLER: Crimes of gun-grabbing mayors
Mike Bloomberg is on a mission to take away everyone’s guns. New York City’s billionaire mayor has bankrolled a coalition of municipal chiefs from coast to coast who tirelessly lobby for new laws restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners. The irony is that many in his coalition of pedophiles, embezzlers, wife beaters, cheaters and violent thugs are no longer eligible to legally own a gun.
