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The Maryland Thursday Meeting does not promulgate any orthodoxy. Rather it is a center-right coalition seeking common ground and actionable items. We begin promptly at 8 AM; doors open at 7:45 AM; the Thursday Meeting serves hot coffee and bagels. In 2011, the Maryland Thursday Meeting will probe a variety of Maryland fiscal and values concerns. These include the profound consequences for prosperity and property rights of policies of the Green Statists, including Plan Maryland (Click here for video of conference on Plan Maryland: At the Crossroads); reforming under-funded and over-promising Maryland retirement systems; getting Maryland off the worst fifteen list on the Small Business Survival Index. By doing so, through tax cuts and state and local regulatory reform, Maryland can attract good private sector jobs; tackle the fiscal, civic, and cultural costs of making Maryland a magnet state for illegals; and address homeland defense concerns for our seacoast state. The Maryland Thursday Meeting began its work on November 16, 2000 and is chaired by long-time taxpayer advocate Richard Falknor.
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District 1 Commissioner Robin Frazier's Rally for America, Thursday, January 27, 2012, 142 Bentley Street, Taneytown, MD. Meet Dan Bongino (running for U.S. Senate) & Catherine Mann Grandy ("Mrs. Fred"). Dee Hodges: "Two of our state’s (and Baltimore’s) great economists opine on lowered property taxes in 3 formerly declining cities and on Baltimore’s refusal to change to the tax policies that worked to turn around these other cities." Hodges points to article in 1-22-2012 Wall Street Journal : "How Sunday's NFL Cities Became Champs; Favorable property taxes were game changers for New York, San Francisco and Boston. Baltimore needs a Hail Mary," by Steve H. Hanke and Stephen J.K. Walters. Petition to allow write-ins on March 6 GOP primary ballot. See text. See press release on D.C. Independent Examiner: Seasoned conservative analyst Jim Simpson gives us some necessary depth and revealing history with his “Maryland county charts a path out of Agenda 21.” Free Congress Foundation releases "The Growth Code," a proposal arguing that "[c]lear and decisive pro-growth policies are the solution to our economic challenges..." YOUTUBE: In 2011, the Independence Institute of Colorado dramatically displayed the "domino effect" of job-killing tax increase Proposition 103. "For the record, Prop 103 was defeated by nearly a 2:1 margin." Pamela Geller: Andrea Lafferty, president of the Traditional Values Coalition, "targeted, detained by State Department security personnel as 'threat'" at OIC conference. YOU TUBE: Robert Bryce presents: The Corn Caucus (Iowa and the corn ethanol fuel subsidy). “FREE MARYLAND” -- A Discussion Paper About Ways to Reach Conservative Goals Over the Next Decade, by Richard Falknor. Catherine Mann Grandy ("Mrs Fred"): “Please listen to this 7-minute interview we did on the Jeff Katz Boston Talk 1200 Radio show [Wednesday morning, November 30). It is about what happened to our friend Manda Ervin over the weekend. And we believe it is a preview of coming attractions."Falknor. Heritage Foundation's Hans von Spakovsky & Charles Stimson: Providing In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens - Is a Violation of Federal Law. Click here for video of PlanMaryland: At the Crossroads. Andrew McCarthy on Civilizational Jihad in America. Watch YouTube. Maryland Association of Counties --PlanMaryland: 1974 Land Use Legislation Fights Still Echo Today. Tax Foundation's Monday Tax Data Maps. Jim Simpson writes on "CASA de Maryland: The Illegals' Acorn" in Accuracy in Media. Stephen Walters: How to Make Baltimore a Superstar City. The Castle Coalition -- Citizens Fighting Eminent Domain Abuse. The Failure of Plan-Control-Subsidize Redevelop "BUILT TO FAIL" - Center for Immigration Studies' report on "deception and disorder in America’s immigration courts." Don Barnett writes on: Refugee Resettlement: A System Badly in Need of Reform. “Obama likes radical Islamic rule”-- Jerry Gordon's wide ranging interview with notable Marylander Kenneth Timmerman. WISCONSIN! Public-Employee Unions: Facts, Figures, Some History. "The Muslim Brotherhood Inside the Conservative Movement:" David Horowitz's speech at CPAC, February 13, 2011. Lanhee Chen of the Heritage Foundation: "How Obamacare Burdens Already Strained State Budgets." Red State: "Like it or Not: Mexico is America’s Next Afghanistan; It's time to 'man up' and face a fact that most politicians know, but few care to admit." YOUTUBES: Heritage Foundation Video: How Much Do We Spend on Defense? BLOGS TO VISIT FREQUENTLY: --America's Survival, Inc. Freedom, Independence and Sovereignty. See archive page. --Ron Lipsman: The Write Stuff --Monoblogue: Delmarva, Maryland politics, and more --NewZeal - Trevor Loudon's invaluable perspective --Discover the Networks: A Guide to the Political Left --Manhattan Institute for Policy Research --John Fleischman's Flash Report (California). --Center for Immigration Studies blog --Election Law Center: Latest developments on suspect contests --Refugee Resettlement Watch: Washington County, MD-based blog, covering abuses in our bigger-than-you-would-think 'refugee' program. --American Dream Coalition: "Protecting freedom, mobility, and affordable home ownership" --Neighborhood Effects: "American state and local economic policy and political economy issues" --Capital Research Blog: Research on philanthropy and nonprofits BASIC LINKS Statistical Abstract of the United States. Everything you wanted to know about life in the U.S. but did not know who to ask. Use FIRE's spotlight to see how colleges in Maryland restrict speech. Republican Study Committee presents handy guide with photos: "Freshman Republican Members of the 112th Congress" Angelo M. Codevilla on "America's Ruling Class--And the Perils of Revolution." The broad rethink that has changed the way the many conservative commentators talk about the danger we face. American Thinker's "Complete Lexicon of Political Speech." Senator Judd Gregg: How the Senate can obstruct and delay Obama's revolutionary initiatives. See Blue Ridge Forum. 2009 letter from Maryland's John Kane to senators Leahy and Specter endorsing Tom Perez as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Letter endorsing Perez from Tony O'Donnell. Heritage Foundation: "Letting Patriot Act Provisions Expire Would Be Irresponsible" John O'Sullivan's First Law, on the staff of large organizations and liberalism. "How Our Laws Are Made." Revised and Updated by John V. Sullivan, Parliamentarian, U.S. House of Representatives. Presented by Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania. July 24, 2007 FAIR's Jack Martin: "The Costs of Illegal Immigration to Marylanders" "The Trillion Dollar Gap: Underfunded State Retirement Systems and the Road to Reform"-- Maryland and Virginia, Pew Foundation. Maryland State Constitution. City Journal's Bradley A. Smith: "In Defense of Political Anonymity. " The Founders' Constitution: key readings. "Multiculturalism and Cultural Marxism," William S. Lind Heritage Foundation: "The Birth of the Administrative State" Heritage Foundation's Paul Rosenzweig: Overcriminalization
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Maryland Center-Right Coalition chair Richard Falknor with Free
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