On Thursday, October 16, the Thursday Meeting will feature two distinguished presenters. John Berlau (right) director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, will talk about the financial "bailout" and ensuing developments. Loyola College's professor Stephen Walters (left) will bring us up to date on his work deconstructing Baltimore City's taxes here and here - - and will gives us some useful ways to think about making Maryland more enterprise friendly.

On Thursday, October 16, 2008, the Maryland Thursday Meeting will host its eighty-fifth** gathering in Annapolis.

In 2008, the Maryland Thursday Meeting is probing a variety of Maryland fiscal and values concerns. These include the profound consequences for prosperity and property rights of the recommendations of the Maryland Commission on Climate Change; the Maryland tax burden - - - from the state death tax to the just repealed computer-services tax to the proposed slots tax, and how the tax burden drives our entrepreneurs and tax-producers to other states; the attack of the Maryland Education Cartel on public charter schools; the Montgomery County Transgender Law and similar assaults on traditional values; the fiscal, civic, and cultural costs of making Maryland a magnet state for illegals; and homeland defense.

The Maryland Thursday Meeting is an invitational and off-the-record gathering of center-right activists and organizations across Maryland. Ours is one of around fifty such state center-right coalitions across the U.S.

Guests and newcomers can get a better understanding of what the Maryland Thursday Meeting aims to accomplish and our Rules of the Road by clicking here.

• If you wish to make a presentation or an announcement on Thursday October 16, first CLICK HERE and email us.

The 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.xxxx

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** The Thursday Meeting began its work on November 16, 2000 and is chaired by long-time taxpayer advocate Richard Falknor.

Collins Bailey (right) here, running against Democrat House majority leader Steny Hoyer, signs the national no-tax-hike-pledge at the 9/11 center-right coalition meting n Annapolis. Long-time MTA Board member and independent business expert Spear Lancaster (left) witnesses the signing.

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See PHOTOS from September 11 meeting.

See PHOTOS from the July 10 meeting.

--SEE PHOTOS from EARLIER MEETINGS.

--See recent AGENDAS.

KEY DOCUMENTS for the Center-Right:

--RSC: The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, 9-28-02.

--Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, Senate Bill, Final Text, 10/1/08 (substitute for H.R. 1424).

-- Financial Markets: An Alternative Economic Rescue Plan H.R. 7223, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, September 30, 2008

--RSC Alternative to Bailout Bill, 9/29/08.

--Bailout Bill -- William M. Isaac's Alternative, 9/28/08.

--Bailout Bill -- "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008," Discussion Draft, 9/28/08.

--Bailout Bill--Section-by-Section Analysis, 9/28/08.

--The Paulson Bailout Plan: Hensarling Statement, Alternatives, & Financial Markets, September 23, 2008.

--October 1--Celebrate American Energy Freedom Day, when most prohibitions on oil and gas leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf, as well as oil shale leasing on Federal Lands, expire.

--Fiscal policy. See letter from Congressmen Mike Pence and Eric Cantor to President Bush and Treasury Secretary Paulson asking them to implement capital gains indexing administratively in 2008.

--Energy policy. August 19, 2008 group letter to the "Gang of 10:" "... redraft the bipartisan Senate energy plan to prevent further harm to the U.S. economy and its citizens." Click here.

--Votes on state spending. Operating budget click here and here; capital budget click here and here.

--Health-care reform. Click here.

--Housing crisis. Click here.

--Gun rights: Click here.

--Slots tax amendment. Click here.

--"Climate change" schemes. Click here and here and here. Also click here for Clough summary from May 8 meeting.

--Deconstructing mega-county taxes and spending. Click here.

--Conservatives and education: Click here.

ALEC: "Rich States Poor States." Click here.

--Multiculturalism and Cultural Marxism, William S. Lind. Click here.

--All special web documents.