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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.
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. In 2010, 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; underfunded and over-promising Maryland retirement systems; getting Maryland off the worst ten list on the 2010 State Business Tax Climate Index (by doing so, through tax cuts and state and local regulatory reform, Maryland can attract good private sector jobs); 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 concerns for our seacoast state. The Thursday Meeting began its work on November 16, 2000 and is chaired by long-time taxpayer advocate Richard Falknor. |
APPALLING VIDEO -- "Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border 2: Drugs, Guns and 850 Illegal Aliens." Janice Kephart & Bryan Griffith of Center for Immigration Studies. Senator Judd Gregg on the minority's rights in the U S Senate. Blue Ridge Forum: the Senate should obstruct and delay Obama's revolutionary initiatives until the nation has spoken on November 2. Calvin Coolidge's address at the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia, July 5, 1926. Hat tip: Jonah Goldberg. AMPUTATE
OR DIE. New Zeal's TREVOR LOUDON: "An excellent column
from Jack
Wheeler." Will Senate Stop Really Bad Bills? Erick Erickson reveals NRA Issues Gag Order to Its Board Members on Elena Kagan. NRA DISCLOSE deal fallout? Hans Bader: "Obama blocks clean-up of oil spill by Louisiana and our foreign allies, through pointless red tape." CEI: "Center-Right Groups Protest Durbin Interchange Fee Amendment Pushing Through Price Controls and Benefitting Big Retailers." 2009 letter from Maryland's John Kane to senators Leahy and Specter endorsing Tom Perez as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
Obamacare Watch: "The More We Learn, The Worse It Gets." Now: "a $125 million propaganda campaign to sell the recently enacted health-care law to the public." YOUTUBE: "Your next stop, the Nanny Zone." ENCOUNTER BROADSIDES: AMMUNITION FOR INTELLIGENT DEBATE. Mike Hammond/John Gizzi in Human Events: "The Way to Block Kagan." Jack Dunphy in NRO: "Illegal Immigrants and the Arizona Law - Anyone who knows how the police actually work would not be afraid of the Arizona law." Montgomery County: Goons, Cops, Tongue-Tied Pols. Blue Ridge Forum. Richard Baehr in American Thinker: "The Jews of Silence."
YOUTUBES: Latma: What Israelis think of Rahm Emanuel, liberals, etcetera. BLOGS TO VISIT FREQUENTLY: --America's Survival, Inc. Freedom, Independence and Sovereignty. See archive page. --John Fleischman's Flash Report (California). --Center for Immigration Studies blog --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" --Research on philanthropy and nonprofits. Capital Research Blog SEE PHOTO STORIES FROM EARLIER MEETINGS BASIC LINKS 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 Ed Hudgins: Maryland's Regulatory Burden. 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 Steven Malanga - "The Beholden State: How public-sector unions broke California" Maryland Republican Assembly, an organization dedicated to electing CONSERVATIVE Republican candidates. Maryland State Constitution. City Journal's Bradley A. Smith" In Defense of Political Anonymity. The Manhattan Declaration. The Founders' Constitution: George Mason Law School's key readings. Multiculturalism and Cultural Marxism, William S. Lind. Click here. Conservatives and education: Click here. The Birth of the Administrative State. Click here. Overcriminalization. Click here. |
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