“Maryland, United States” on The Daily Caller

The mayor of a small town in the Washington, D.C. suburbs is settling a lawsuit he filed against a Maryland county after his dogs were shot to death during a SWAT team raid at his house. (more)

Perhaps Prince George’s County residents should consider moving to Afghanistan. (more)

Multiple federal agencies are now doing a joint assessment to see if accused Arizona killer Jared Lee Loughner has any possible link to the several fiery packages that were sent to the head of the Homeland Security Department and Maryland state officials last week, The Post has learned. (more)

Elephant tails, dried hedgehogs and chicken blood probably weren’t on the top of your packing list the last time you traveled. (more)

LANDOVER, Md. – As a morality play, Monday night’s football game between the Eagles and the Washington Redskins might have come up a moral or two short, but as theater, there couldn’t be many complaints. (more)

A star high school athlete is the chief suspect in a recent burglary at the United States Naval Academy that netted the thief gloves, bats, and spikes used by midshipmen, equipment that began appearing for sale on eBay shortly after it was stolen. (more)

A younger generation of Democrats is chafing at being asked to stand aside and let a triumvirate of elders keep their leadership positions in the wake of a catastrophic midterm election result. (more)

New documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the office of Martin O’Malley, Governor of Maryland, was involved in conspiring to cover up an inconvenient state jobs report. The documents contain e-mails between officials in the governor’s office and the Maryland Department of Labor and Licensing Regulations (DLLR). (more)

For the fourth straight month, the rematch in Maryland between Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley and Republican challenger Bob Ehrlich remains close. O’Malley defeated Ehrlich, who was the state’s first GOP governor since the 1960s, in 2006. (more)

LANDOVER, Md. – Sometimes 60 minutes of football comes down to one terrible decision by the offensive coordinator. Sometimes one chorus of “Hail to the Redskins” after a touchdown is all that it takes. (more)

When it comes to federal spending, it easy to become numb to numbers: $180,000,000,000 to AIG; $150,000,000,000 to Fannie and Freddie; and now $26,100,000,000 to bailout the states (on top of an earlier $53,600,000,000 state education bailout described an “historic,” “temporary” and “one-time appropriation” way back . . . in 2009).  All those zeros start to run together pretty quickly.  And when the federal government is running a year-to-date deficit of $1.2 trillion, isn’t another $26.1 billion practically a rounding error?  Horrifyingly, yes.  But the latest state bailout is a particularly flagitious swindle that deserves your attention. (more)

Should an Islamic community center and mosque be built a few blocks from the site of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York? The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) doesn’t think so. In a lawsuit brought against the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission last week, that the Commission did not adhere to proper procedure when it refused to designate the property on which the facility would be built an historic landmark. The basis for requesting historic landmark status was that some of the debris from the World Trade Center fell on it. The Commission’s unanimous ruling preserves the right of the owners of the private property to permit Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife, Daisy Khan, who Time magazine characterize as “modernists and moderates who openly condemn the death cult of al-Qaeda and its adherents” to proceed with their intention to build the Cordoba House Islamic Cultural Center there. Score one for private property. (more)

By Kenneth Blackwell and Robert Morrison (more)

The United States is the wealthiest country on earth and its citizens are among the wealthiest per capita because it produces more than any other and because its citizens each produce more on average. My ten-year-old grandson would have no trouble understanding this at all. The food on the table and the iPad in his hand did not fall out of the sky. My five year old granddaughter might still believe in the tooth fairy, but she will learn the truth soon enough. (more)

Brian Murphy, a little-known Republican candidate for Maryland governor, unexpectedly won an endorsement Wednesday from one of the biggest names in national politics: Sarah Palin. (more)

“But not a drop to drink”, completes the verse from the” Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Unlike the storied sailor whose thirst could not be quenched by the bountiful surrounding waters due to the ocean’s salinity, much of our nation faces decline in available potable water due to faulty and antiquated infrastructure and regulatory regimes. (more)

Almost anyone who has faced a test or a deadline probably wished there was a smart pill to pop. (more)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Convicted DC snipers Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad were supposed to have had help carrying out their deadly attacks, and they may have been involved in more shootings than authorities suspected, according to an interview with actor William Shatner that airs Thursday. (more)

Kamie Crawford, a 17-year-old from Potomac was crowned Miss Teen USA Saturday night in the Bahamas, making her the first contestant from the state of Maryland to win the distinction. (more)

Remember the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba? (more)