554 days ago - What if prancing Prussians skipped and sang through Europe in 1939 instead of goose-stepping? Could have been, had Nazis not blocked composer Carl Orff’s innovative music education program, “Schulwerk,” in Berlin.
588 days ago - We cannot even begin to count the ways we poison ourselves, much less name them. But Examiner reporters recently identified two of the worst.
613 days ago - Try this sometime, fellow private-sector worker drones: When your boss orders you to cut expenses, snap back petulantly: If you’re so smart, show me where to cut! Your boss will start by cutting you.
693 days ago - Let politicians quibble about whether Gov. Martin O’Malley’s budget increase is one of 4.1 percent or 5.9 percent. Suffice it to say, it is too much.
784 days ago - Our Founders never had self-proclaimed pastor Fred Phelps in mind when they put faith first among amendments protecting us from our government. So it’s hard to stomach someone so repulsive sharing that glorious shield.
805 days ago - Nobody needs to muzzle Baltimore County Council members barking inanely about a pit bull ban because somebody’s already neutered and lobotomized them.
815 days ago - Person for person, vote for vote, the most influential group in Maryland is the fewer than 1 percent of state residents who elected Baltimore’s mayor.