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The 134th Maryland Thursday Meeting will be held on June 13, 2013.

Featured presentations--

  • A boots-on-the-ground report from James Lafferty, chairman of the Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force, on this week's Manchester, Tennessee, Free Speech Rally when thousands of small-town Americans stood up to U.S. Department of Justice and FBI representatives: also click here and here.
  • Stella Morabito Green and Doug Mainwearing: "How to Push Back Against PC." The greatest threat to free speech is our reticence to use it in daily life. How to engage others effectively and comfortably.
  • Jason Laird, Executive Vice-President, Education Freedom Committee on resisting "Common Core."

And much more.

To make a presentation or an announcement at a future Maryland Thursday Meeting, CLICK HERE to email us.

FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL, May, & June 2013
Photos from the 130th, 131st, and 132nd, 133th, and 134th Maryland Thursday Meetings
Jim Lafferty James Lafferty, chairman of the Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force, at the June 13 meeting. Lafferty gives a boots-on-the-ground report on the strong Islamist presence in Northern Virginia and on this week's Manchester, TN Free Speech Rally: also click here and here.
Doug Mainwearing & Stella Green
Stella Morabito Green and Doug Mainwaring unveil their new multi-media presentation at the June 13 meeting: "How to Push Back Against PC."  The greatest threat to free speech is our reticence to use it in daily life. They explore the "who, what, where, when, and especially how" of engaging others effectively and comfortably.
Marilyn Flax&StellaGreen
Marilyn Flax discusses communications survival skills with Stella at the June 13 meeting.
Bob Moffit
Heritage senior fellow, Marylander Bob Moffit on "How to Oppose Washington's Intrusions" See his latest analysis: "Confronting Washington's Administrative State: A Renewed Role for the States."May 9, 2013.
Peter Samuel
Transportation expert Peter Samuel TollRoadsNews.com) talks on "Toll roads and toll lanes in Maryland"and Beltway congestion hotspots. May 9, 2013.
After Meeting: Sharon Davidson, Dianne Guthridge, John Coon
After meeting: Sharon Davidson, Dianne Guthridge, and John Coon put their heads together. May 9, 2013.
Ed Hunter
Ed Hunter reports on "The Uninvited," 2013 --as a model for an alternative annual national meet for presenters that CPAC won't invite, and for conservatives disappointed in CPAC. Chris Fiora looks on. April 11, 2013.
Stephen Coughlin
Stephen Coughlin of the Center for Security Policy details the Sharia menace as it touches out national-security system, and the military in particular. March 21, 2013.

Amnesty Now? Beltway GOP Pushes A Bill To Deconstruct America

UPDATES JUNE 11 AFTER PRESS TIME!
  • “The Chuck Schumer Republicans Roll Amnesty Train Down the Cliff” declares Daniel Horowitz reporting that “the Senate just voted 82-15 to proceed with debate on the amnesty/immigration deform bill.  Every Democrat voted yes, laying waste to the notion that there are still moderate red state Democrats.  15 Republicans voted to stand with We the People against the La Raza foreign lobby/K Street juke box.” Click here for entire post.
  • Senate Anti-Gang-of-Eight Memo (via NRO). Click here for memo text.
  • “Boehner: House Republicans to Focus on Immigration as Senate Moves Ahead” Newsmax reports. “House Republican leaders are seeking to speed up efforts to craft U.S. immigration-law proposals as the Senate nears the first test votes on its own plan.” No room for conservatives in the Gang of Boehner.

Amnesty Now? Beltway GOP Pushes A Bill To Deconstruct America

“Sadly, it is very difficult to foresee a scenario in which a bill fails to pass the Senate before the July 4th weekend"

--Read "Amnesty Now, Beltway GOP pushes Bill..." on BlueRidgeForum.com.


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TURKISH HEFT COMES TO MARYLAND -- BIG TIME

UPDATES–
  • MAY 26! Conservative activist Ed Hunter snaps photo (click here) yesterday of Turkish center under construction in Lanham.
  • MAY 25! Steve Emerson reports (Breitbart) in his Erdogan’s Maryland Mosque “…Turkish culture and values under Erdogan have skewed away from Western alliances and toward Islamists

The MuslimLink last week announced

“’A Symbol of Friendship’ : Turkish PM Lays Stone for $100M Masjid Complex In Maryland” (click here).

--Read the Lanham Mosque story on BlueRidgeForum.com.

Diana West's MDCAN talk - http://tinyurl.com/a7uy3dj   is as significant as George Kennan's 1947 "Sources of Soviet Conduct" http://tinyurl.com/3np66ud<
 

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 sixty such center-right coalitions in forty-seven states 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 have not attended a Thursday Meeting before, and wish to participate in the next one,

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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.

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.

Richard Falknor
Long-time Thursday Meeting chair Richard Falknor.

NEW-ONLINE--Heritage Guide to the Constitution.

Maryland State Constitution.

Maryland General Assembly website.

Maryland Register

Statistical Abstract of the United States. Everything you wanted to know about life in the U.S. but did not know whom to ask.

How baseline budgeting works: Is this year's automatic starting point last year's spending -- times inflation and population growth?

YOUTUBE: Latma TV: "The Boston Marathon bombing -- The FBI investigates" (video)

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Raymond Ibrahim for Gatestone Institute updates Muslim Persecution of Christians: February, 2013. "Half of the Victims Were under the Age of Six."

Frank Gaffney: "Samantha Power: The Quintessential 'Blame America First'-er." The President's pick for UN ambassador.

BLIND TO TERROR: THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S DISASTROUS MUSLIM OUTREACH EFFORTS AND THE IMPACT ON U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY, by Patrick S. Poole, June 4, 2013. Our "schizophrenic" Muslim outreach policies have rendered U.S. security institutions blind to the jihadist terror threat.

Senator Jeff Sessions: Gang Of Eight Legislation Dictated By Special Interests - YouTube

HILL MEMO: "Twelve Reasons the 'Gang of 8' Immigration Bill Should Be Opposed."

Andrew C. McCarthy: Rand Paul’s ‘Here’s to Crime’ Act His interpretation of the Fourth Amendment would be a boon for lawbreakers.

NEW HERITAGE REPORT! "The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer," by Robert Rector and Jason Richwine, Ph.D. May 6, 2013

House Select Committee on Benghazi Sponsors.

A MUST-READ ANALYSIS OF THE CONSEQUENCERS OF THE U.S. REFUGEE PROGRAM! Maryland businessman Ed Hunter's testimony for the May 15 public hearing on the DEPARTMENT OF STATE [Public Notice 8241, Public Meeting on FY 2014 U.S. Refugee Admissions Program]

The Madison Projects Releases Updated Index Scores For 112th Congress (May 8th, 2013 ). Created in 2012, the MPI measures how closely each Republican House Member is performing against the expected conservative score for his or her district.

"INHOFE: DHS AMMO GRAB TO ‘DRY UP’ SUPPLY. Claims Obama administration intentionally undermining 2nd Amendment," from Klein Online.

Daniel Horowitz "Chain Migration Will Bury the Republic and Republican Party" (Madison Project)

Context for last fall's Sharpsburg SWAT incident. This three- year picture of deployment of SWAT teams in Maryland (2010-2012 -- from the Governor’s Office of Crime Control & Prevention -- GOCCP) is pertinent to delegate Neil Parrott's HB 1520 "SWAT Team Reports - Required Information and Extension of Sunset" click here. See all three GOCCP reports. See three-year summary.

Faces of Conservatives in Maryland: Photos from the Mary land Conservative Action Network's 'Turning the Tides conference, January 12, 2013.

New timetable of taxes from ObamaCare. $836.3 billion from now until 2022.

Info Map: 'Federal Aid to State Budgets' (Tax Foundation) Maryland 34.35% #32; Virginia 26.82% #47 .

Josh Barro: How Congress Can Help State Pension Reform.

Mark J. Fink: Islamists Select a New Target, and a "See No Evil" House Bill May Facilitate the Effort: "The bill was the culmination of a curious multi-year effort by Turkey to ingratiate itself with Native American tribes: tribal students now study in Turkey with full scholarships; Turkish high officials regularly appear at Native American economic summits; and dozens of tribal leaders have gone to Turkey on lavish all-expense paid trips."

Stephen A. Camorata, Center for Immigration Studies: ""A central question for immigration policy is: Should we continue to allow in so many people with little education — increasing potential job competition for the poorest American workers and the population in need of government assistance?"

The Crime Scene Is Local, Ned Ryun on government spending in the American Spectator. "Make no mistake, our communities—not Washington, D.C.—are the real battlegrounds of our fiscal crisis, and the trenches where America’s future will be decided."

Daniel Horowitz on Congressional Republican 'capitulations:' "The answer is that they won’t hold the line. They will denude the bill of all the drilling provisions and cuts to pensions, while Democrats will agree to remove the tax increases form the Senate bill. As always, we will be left with more deficit spending, and enshrine the highway trust fund, along with the postal service, as the new bailout enterprise of the federal government. That is the inscrutable destination of any and all Republican capitulations." Daniel Horowitz on "A Senate Full of Squishes"

Find out how the coming defense cutbacks will set back the prosperity of your Maryland county or city.

"YOUTUBES & VIDEOS

Stephen Coughlin: Counterterror Training, Education, and Analysis. (A highly informative series.)

Click here for video of conference: PlanMaryland: At the Crossroads.

Andrew McCarthy on Civilizational Jihad in America. Watch YouTube.

TO NOTE:

Paul Larkin. the Overcriminalization Project of Heritage Foundation: "Defanging the Lacey Act: The Freedom from Over-Criminalization and Unjust Seizures Act of 2012"

"FREE MARYLAND” -- A Discussion Paper About Ways to Reach Conservative Goals Over the Next Decade, by Richard Falknor.

Hans Bader: Millionaire collects Food Stamps; Food Stamps Cover Far More than the Price of Food.

--America's Survival, Inc. Freedom, Independence and Sovereignty. See archive page.

BLOGS TO VISIT FREQUENTLY:
Gatestone: Reports on threats to democracy, the rule of law, Muslim persecution of Christians, and other topics the mainstream media neglects.

Debbie Schlussel

Mass Resistance

--Ron Lipsman: The Write Stuff

--Monoblogue: Delmarva, Maryland politics, and more

--Potomac Tea Party Report

--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: The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)'s 2012 edition of Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State.

Use FIRE's spotlight to see how colleges in Maryland restrict speech.

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.

City Journal's Bradley A. Smith: "In Defense of Political Anonymity"

"Multiculturalism and Cultural Marxism," William S. Lind

Heritage Foundation: "The Birth of the Administrative State"

Heritage Foundation's Paul Rosenzweig: Overcriminalization.