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Governor Martin O’Malley has really done it this time. Not only has he used Obama’s stimulus slush fund as an excuse to raid the state’s transportation fund resulting in massive budget deficits. Not only has he chased businesses and hundreds of jobs out of the state with his abhorrent tax policies. Not only is he making gasoline and alcohol more expensive. Not only has he hamstrung rural Maryland economies with his United Nations approved, junk-science “sustainable development” PlanFairyland.

This time he has gone too far. His power and money grabbing policies have now placed Maryland at risk of losing a distinguished resident of the (not so) Free State. I’m speaking of the independent journalist and blogger Robert Stacy McCain, who may leave Maryland thanks to Marty’s recent plan to tax internet sales (on which McCain relies for a substantial piece of his income).

Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley Is a Stupid, Dishonest and Corrupt Swine

My friend Jeff Quinton at QuintonReport.com alerted me to this outrage and got an Instalanche out of it. And this could be the last staw for me.

I’ve lived in Maryland more than 14 years, ever since I moved up here to work at The Washington Times in November 1997. My friends have often asked, “Why Maryland? Their taxes are so high. You should move to Virginia.” And there was always a reason, or at least a plausible excuse.

For years, the commute to the Times office on New York Avenue, and the availability of a more direct bus/rail connection than could be found in Virginia, was the best argument to stay in Maryland. Then our daughter enrolled at Highland View Academy here in Hagerstown, and we moved into faculty housing on campus, where my wife subsequently became the food service director or, as she prefers to call herself, The Cafeteria Lady.

Frankly, however, the best argument for staying in Maryland now is inertia. We’ve lived in this house for seven years, and the mere thought of having to pack everything into a moving truck — my office library alone would take days to pack — is enough to give me a headache.

Nevertheless, O’Malley’s lamebrain Internet tax might make me do it. Because in all likelihood, as we witnessed in California last year, if the state tries to tax online sales, Amazon will pull out, and I need that Amazon money.

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O’Malley has been doing to Maryland what O’bama has been doing to the whole country for the last three years.

I don’t want Stacy McCain to leave Maryland. Maryland needs people like him. We’re organizing in Maryland and we will defeat the Democrat machine in Annapolis. It won’t be tomorrow or next week, but it will happen. The Maryland Conservative Action Network, The Maryland Society of Patriots, Constitutional Conservatives for Maryland, Conservative Victory Maryland, Election Integrity Maryland…the list goes on.

We’re getting our act together. We’ve got great candidates like Dan Bongino and Kathy Afzali running for seats in Washington and activists and PACs preparing for battle.

Now is when Maryland really needs Robert Stacy McCain.

Another jaw-dropping “imagine-the-excrement-storm-if-the-Tea-Party-had-done-it” moment on the part of Occupy San Diego via Verum Serum:

Occupy San Diego Has A Moment of Solidarity for the White House Shooter…Wait, What?

I might understand if this was a religious group as it’s not uncommon to offer prayers for both victim and perpetrator because of that pesky old “love thy enemies” thing, but solidarity?

Sol-i-dar-i-ty: noun; Unity or agreement of feeling or action, esp. among individuals with a common interest; mutual support within a group.

Cases like the one involving Jerry Sandusky at Penn State, or the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church deservedly attract a lot of attention and criticism toward people in positions to have stopped the abuse. I don’t make excuses for anyone who knew what was going on and didn’t work to stop it, but I don’t think that not stopping it automatically makes anyone a monster.

I say this for two reasons. The first is the recognition that knowing what the right thing to do is and actually choosing to do the right thing are two different things, the latter being far more difficult at times. The second is that at times people cannot react rationally to the unthinkable. The mind rebels.

Imagine finding out one of your loved ones is guilty of a horrific crime. The outsider might calmly state that you should immediately turn that person in to the authorities. I don’t believe people in the midst of the terrible situation always have the luxury of such clarity of purpose.  The mind rebels. A wall of denial lies between knowing the right thing to do and doing it. Human beings often choose the path of least resistance for a long time before confronting horror.

Similar cases happen all the time without any news coverage. Wives protect abusive husbands, parents protect abusive children. It’s because when presented with the unthinkable, the mind rebels.