“Maryland” on The Daily Caller

The Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration has banned more than 4,000 phrases, words, and letter-number combinations from appearing on vanity license plates in the Free State. But the Baltimore Sun reports that the system is fraught with inconsistencies. Messages such as HEROIN and KILLALL appear on the Objectionable Plate List, but others like PHATAZZ and FATPIMP are apparently permissible. (more)

Maryland dog owners, shelters and rescues are still trying to determine just how devastating the recent Court of Appeals of Maryland decision declaring “pit bulls and cross-bred pit bulls are inherently dangerous” will be. In these cash-strapped times, as the General Assembly meets in a special session to raise taxes on all of us, local governments should also consider the high costs of implementing this rule. The new liability rule is simultaneously too broad and too narrow, covering too many dogs who pose no danger to anyone, while failing to address the real problem: irresponsible owners with poorly trained and aggressive dogs who do pose a risk to others. (more)

A Maryland man told law enforcement that three masked robbers entered his home and stole his stash of marijuana and rent money, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. (more)

Maryland became the first state in the U.S. to ban employers from asking their employees and applicants for the passwords to their personal social media accounts. (more)

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Mitt Romney has won the Maryland primary. (more)

Obnoxiously untalented pop star Ke$ha surprisingly reads the news. (more)

The Founders who “drafted and ratified the Second Amendment surely knew that the right they were enshrining carried a risk of misuse,” but risk is an integral aspect of freedom. For example, because we are free to speak our minds, we run the risk of hearing things we don’t want to hear, and of saying things others don’t want to hear. Because we have a God-given right to security in our own things, we run the risk of having people use their possessions in ways of which we don’t approve, and they likewise run the risk that we might use our possessions in a way they find repulsive. However, that’s the price of freedom, and an overreaching government that tries to squash the right in order to remove the risk is a government that has violated the people’s trust. (more)

The anti-gun lobby has been cheering a recent federal court decision written by District Court Judge Susan Myerscough that prevents law-abiding citizens from carrying a firearm for protection outside their homes. (more)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Gov. Bob McDonnell on Wednesday signed into law a controversial bill that requires women to have abdominal ultrasound exams before undergoing abortions. (more)

Maryland’s goal to control the amount of firearms carried by residents is unconstitutional, according to U.S. District Judge Benson Everette. (more)

BELTSVILLE, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s governor signed into law Thursday a bill to legalize gay marriage, although opponents vowed to rally voters to reverse the change this fall in a referendum that’s even anticipated by advocates of the new law. (more)

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gay marriage is all but legalized in Maryland after the legislature gave its final OK Thursday to the law that’s being sent to Gov. Martin O’Malley, who said he expects to sign it sometime this week. (more)

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – The effort to legalize gay marriage has passed a long-standing hurdle in the Maryland House of Delegates. (more)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The next chapter in the Peyton Manning saga could take a decidedly defensive turn. (more)

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and current Maryland state Sen. Anthony Muse is railing against House Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer and Maryland Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley for what he calls “endorsement intimidation.” (more)

The Maryland Democratic Party broke its own rules with a series of tweets favoring the re-election of incumbent Ben Cardin in his Senate primary race against state senator Anthony Muse. And comments from the Republican candidate in that race cast that endorsement, and one from President Barack Obama in November, in racial tones since Cardin is white and Muse is black. (more)

An abortion provider from southern New Jersey was arraigned Friday on five counts of murder, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. (more)

Just because former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino used to protect Barack Obama, it doesn’t mean he can count on a job recommendation from the president. (more)

Dan Bongino, a former U.S. Secret Service agent and a Maryland Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, told The Daily Caller that cars belonging to his pregnant wife and three of his staffers were vandalized — and he’s convinced it was a politically motivated attack. (more)

House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland is leading a group of Democrats in opposition to voter-ID laws that require individuals to present photo identification at the polls. (more)