5 months are left within the time period of Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), a interval that appears more and more like a countdown to the top of the Republican Get together’s electoral viability within the Free State. Regardless of the GOP’s proud historical past there, it has these days marginalized itself to such an extent that success on this fall’s elections appears far-fetched.
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Opinion | The once-proud Maryland GOP marginalizes itself by parroting Trump’s lies
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Mr. Hogan, a conventional conservative, has managed to take care of his credibility, together with excessive ranges of in style assist, by governing largely as a pragmatist and avoiding tradition battle politics in his two phrases in workplace. He didn’t patent that method for achievement for a Republican in one of many nation’s most closely Democratic states. A lot of GOP officeholders who got here earlier than him — Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Rep. Connie Morella and Sen. Charles “Mac” Mathias, amongst others — labored from the same blueprint. However judging from the intense rightward tilt in Maryland’s GOP at present, Mr. Hogan could also be, within the close to time period, the final of an admirable lineage.
In actual fact, probably the most outstanding of the present Republican candidates, having positioned themselves on the perimeter of American politics, don’t hew to any conventional definition of conservatism.
One, gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox, has flirted with QAnon, the crackpot conspiracy concept that conjures a demonic plot of Democratic pedophiles. One other, Michael Peroutka, the social gathering’s nominee for lawyer common, has stated that the assaults of Sept. 11, 2001, have been brought on by “managed demolitions” triggered by pre-planted explosives, not by airplanes hijacked by terrorists. He additionally means that covid-19, which he calls a “plandemic,” was in some way intentional; and he’s a uncommon present-day champion of the Civil Conflict South, calling himself a “true Accomplice.” A GOP incumbent, Rep. Andy Harris, helped former president Donald Trump formulate a plan to overturn the outcomes of a democratic in style election.
Up and down the poll, Republican candidates subscribe to the parable that election fraud is rife, and that President Biden in some way stole the 2020 election. For top-of-the-ticket Republicans, the frequent denominator is blind loyalty to Mr. Trump, and a willingness to parrot his lies.
In contrast, the springboard for achievement amongst Maryland’s earlier high-profile GOP public servants was an insistent unbiased streak that freed them from social gathering orthodoxy.
For Mr. Ehrlich, that meant enacting a brand new levy on Maryland residents, the so-called flush tax, which generated tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} yearly to improve getting old sewage therapy crops, a serious initiative to revive the Chesapeake Bay. For Ms. Morella, it meant favoring abortion rights, gun management measures and steps to guard the atmosphere. For Mr. Mathias, it meant an abiding assist for civil rights, and fearless criticism of the Watergate scandal and his social gathering’s president, Richard M. Nixon. For Mr. Hogan, it has meant open contempt for Mr. Trump.
Mr. Cox, who tops the Republican ticket in November’s election, clinched his social gathering’s nomination as an acolyte of Mr. Trump, who endorsed him. That assist will very seemingly be an albatross within the common election on condition that Mr. Trump misplaced Maryland by a 2-to-1 margin in 2020.
A defeat for Mr. Cox and Mr. Peroutka would go away Mr. Harris because the lone outstanding GOP officeholder in Maryland, the place twice as many citizens are registered Democrats as Republicans. That might mark a drastic diminishment for the social gathering, one it has introduced on itself.
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Michigan State football opens as sizable underdog vs Maryland
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Who’s ready for Big Ten play to begin? In all honesty, I am not. I really wish Michigan State football had more tune-up games after seeing them struggle against Florida Atlantic and only win 16-10. But unfortunately, that is not how the schedule unfolds for Michigan State this season.
The Spartans will hit the road for an early Big Ten game as they face Maryland on Saturday at 3:30 pm. Going into the season I thought Michigan State and the Terps were on a pretty level playing field, but after seeing both teams play week one that doesn’t appear to be the case.
And Vegas agrees.
Michigan State opens as a 7.5-point underdog next week at Maryland. My guess is that grows to 8, 8.5.
— Graham Couch (@Graham_Couch) September 1, 2024
As you all know, Michigan State only beat Florida Atlantic by six and did not look very impressive, especially on the offensive side of the ball. So it’s no surprise that MSU will be the underdog next week. But 7.5 points feels like a lot, and according to the Lansing State Journal’s Graham Couch, it likely will only go up from there.
So does Vegas have it right or are they underrating Michigan State?
Looking at Maryland’s week one game against UConn it appears Vegas has this line right. The Terps were up 23-0 at halftime and never looked back and went on to win in dominant fashion 50-7. UConn and FAU are very similar in terms of what level they’re at in college football, so that drastic of a difference in the final score is very scary.
So Vegas probably could’ve gotten away with Maryland being even bigger favorites in this one.
But maybe Vegas saw what I did and thinks a lot of Michigan State’s mistakes on Friday are easy to fix. Maybe they think Aidan Chiles will be much better next week. The Spartan’s defense was also fairly dominant so there isn’t much of a chance Maryland scores 50 points next week either.
I tend to not bet on Michigan State games, but even if I did this would be a line that I would avoid because who knows how much Jonathan Smith’s squad will improve by next week, and who knows how much Maryland might struggle against a Power Four opponent.
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University of Maryland reverses decision to allow anti-Israel protest on October 7
The University of Maryland on Sunday reversed its decision to allow an anti-Israel protest on the first anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, following backlash from local Jewish groups.
UMD Students for Justice in Palestine and UMD Jewish Voice for Peace had been set to hold their October 7 vigil for Gazans killed in the Israel-Hamas War at the campus’s Mckeldin Mall, but the University System of Maryland (USM) said in a statement that on the day of the Hamas-led pogrom it would limit campus events requiring permits or approval to those supporting “a university-sponsored Day of Dialogue.”
“From the beginning of the war, we have come together as a University System to urge that we use this moment to encourage conversation, compassion, and civility; to engage with one another across our differences and draw on our shared humanity and our shared values to bridge what divides us,” said USM. “These dialogues aren’t new. Many of our universities have been hosting this kind of programming for several months. Reserving Oct. 7 gives us a chance to continue these urgent conversations and to mark this solemn anniversary in a way that gives students—all students—the time and space to share and to be heard.”
USM said that its intent was not to infringe of the free expression and speech of students, but to be sensitive to the needs of students as October 7 was a “day of enormous suffering and grief for many in our campus communities.”
UMD Jewish Student Union, Maryland Hillel, Terps for Israel, and Israeli American Council Mishelanu at Maryland welcomed the USM decision and thanked UMD leadership in a joint social media statement on Sunday.
“October 7, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is a day of mourning for the Jewish and Israeli community,” said the UMD JSU. “We are relieved that SJP will no longer to be able to appropriate the suffering of our family and friends to fit their false and dangerous narrative.”
The Jewish groups said that it was distraught that the decision to only hold university-sponsored event had to be made at all, and wished to used the campus space to “grieve together as a community” to promote unity at the university. The unideal situation was necessary, according to the Jewish groups, to ensure the physical and psychological safety of students on the day of mourning.
UMD JVP and SJP attacked the decision to cancel the event, claiming that the vigil for Palestinians killed since the October 7 Massacre was attacked without familiarity of the content. The anti-Israel groups said that the discourse was “the continuation inherently racist, Islamophobic, and dehumanizing rhetoric surrounding Palestinians.” JVP and SJP said that the actions against their event were an attempt to paint “Muslim, Arab, and anti-Zionist Jewish students as barbaric.”
The anti-Israel groups asserted that their vigil for Palestinians who died in the war was no threat to the campus’s Jewish community, but conflation of Zionism and Judaism did threaten UMD and the Jewish community.
“To claim that Palestinians cannot hold a day of remembrance in mourning one year of genocide, or lay claim to that date is an insult to every life lost in the Zionist entity’s genocidal campaign,” UMD SJP and JVP said on Instagram on Sunday. “The disproportionate scale of suffering experienced by the Palestinians over the past year necessitates their remembrance and our solidarity on this day. The suffering of all innocents killed must not be monopolized and necessitates a fair and just representation.”
SJP and JVP demanded the right to organize and exercise their right to free speech, accusing Zionists of attempting to stifle Palestinian voices.
The organizations indicated on their Sunday Instagram post that they still planned to hold their all-day event at Mckeldin Mall, and on Monday a link to register still active and listing the campus building as the rally location.
UMD Jewish groups said that they would be holding their own event to memorialize the victims of the October 7 pogrom at the Maryland Hillel.
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