Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches' mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digged in the dark'
- From Macbeth by William Shakespeare
On Jan. 20, Gov. Martin O'Malley presented to the General Assembly his budget proposal for the 2011 fiscal year. His proposal is a masterwork of budget sorcery that relies on a witches' brew of accounting gimmicks, raids on savings accounts and wishful thinking.
The governor's proposal does meet the state's rather lax...
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