Special Web Documents 2009-2010

  • Maryland Taxpayers Bill of Rights amendmentproposed for 2010: see fiscal note.

  • Michael Hammond Analyzes the New Obama Health Care Draft 2/22/2010

  • Steve Hanke: "In his formal paper, 'Monetary Policy and the Housing Bubble,' Chairman Bernanke argues that the Fed’s monetary policy was not responsible for the U.S. housing bubble. He claims that faulty regulation was the primary culprit. Chairman Bernanke’s claim is a great canard. The Fed is a serial bubble blower."

  • The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) presents: "Spotlight on Speech Codes 2010: The State of Free Speech on Our Nation's Campuses. This report examines policies at 375 of the largest and most prestigious American colleges and universities. FIRE found that while the percentage of public campuses that unconstitutionally restrict student speech dropped from 77 percent to 71 percent, the percentage of private campuses that similarly restrict freedom of speech has risen by 3 points from 67 to 70 percent." (Underlining added)

  • The Republican Alternative: Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, Hails CBO Report on Republican Health Care Bill.

  • GOP Alternative Health Reform Bill: GOP Summary | GOP TEXT | GOP section-by-section analysis.

  • Jim Pelura's remarks to the MDGOP Fall Convention, November 14, 2009

  • Man in God's Image - covers human trafficking (modern day slavery) and genocide from a Christian perspective

  • Heritage Foundation's Bob Moffit on why cutting Medicare means less Medicare.

  • Demos Chrissos' multi-media presentation on 9/12 DC Rally. And, Demos Chrissos captures snapshots from rally.

    Massachusetts senatorial candidate Scott Brown to CNN's David Gergen: "It's Not the Kennedys' Seat..." Read more:
  • Heritage's Brian W. Walsh and Hans A. von Spakovsky: "Criminalizing Health-Care Freedom - Obamacare supporters would use would use brute force of criminal law for social engineering."
  • Ron Lipsman's "George Gilder's Israel Test: Who Passes? Who Fails?"
  • C-SPAN video: Marylander and national-security expert Kenneth Timmerman "goes over the latest anti-government protests in Iran, the Iranian government's crackdown against the demonstrators, and what it portends for the on-going standoff with that country over its nuclear program." "Some things are priceless. For everything else, there's MasterLard."

  • Americans for Prosperity Unveils "Commonsense" Virginia Budget for 2010-2011.

  • RedState's Erick Erickson: "The Ungovernability of the American Republic."

  • Virginia Anti-Sharia Task Force asks House of Delegates "to withdraw the invitation to Imam Johari Abdul-Malik of the Dar A Hijrah mosque in Falls Church...to open the Thursday, March 11 session with a prayer." More.
  • Stopping ObamaCare: Only the House Vote Matters, by Rich Lowry. 3-4-2010

  • Stephen Collins Coughlin, 'To Our Great Detriment': Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad. Thesis for National Defense Intelligence College in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Science of Strategic Intelligence, July 2007.

  • Divest Terror News Conference, Annapolis, MD, March 20, 2007.

  • Tony O'Donnell Endorsing Tom Perez.
  • CLICK HERE for new C-SPAN video: Cliff Kincaid and blogger Trevor Loudon speak at the 40th Anniversary Accuracy in Media Conference. Topics include the White House War with Fox News, Obama's Communist Mentor, Van Jones, Media Bias and more!!
  • Andrew McCarthy: "The birth-certificate controversy is about Obama’s honesty, not where he was born."
  • Eminent Domain -- Timothy Carney in the Washington Examiner: "Pfizer deserts its monument to corporate welfare"
  • Bullet points from Peter Huessy's Talk on the New Strategic Environment to the Maryland Center-Right Coalition, August 13, 2009.
  • Defining the Enemy: Key Words in Current U.S. Documents, Stephen Coughlin chart, CPAC, 2/20/2010. (Narrow or 90 percent.)

  • CPAC10 blogger logo - full and half-size.

  • Mark Sell for LCRC Chair 2010
  • Obama and the Titans
  • Maryland Republican Assembly meeting Saturday, January 23, 2010-FLYER.
  • Maryland Republican Assembly-REGISTRATION.
  • MARCH ON ANNAPOLIS, January 13, 2010, 7:00 pm. ALSO that day - - -
    --WCBM's Sean and Frank Morning Show and the Tom Morr Show, live from Annapolis on Wed.
    --WBAL's C4 Show, live from Lawyers Mall 12-3PM.
  • Maryland Constitutional Amendment to Prohibit "Economic Development" Takings - Frederick County Proposed 2010 Legislative Package.
  • Erick Erickson on "The McConnell Obstruction Record on Big Ticket Items" ... "A pattern of doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result."

2009
Documents Posted 2008

  • FACTS & INFORMED OPINION on
    INTENTIONAL and SOLAR EMP THREATS

    Is Iran Planning a ‘Catastrophic’ EMP Strike on the US?

    New Report Projects $34 - $770 Billion Blow to the Baltimore-Washington, DC – Richmond Economy from EMP Attack; Local Governments Could Protect Critical Infrastructure & EMP Survivable Networks. (Instant Access Networks)

    "DIY 'e-bombs' a threat to airliners" (Mark Rutherford in Military Tech)

    History & Current Threat (Emprimus)

    Empact America Inc.

    EMP Commission Report: Critical National Infrastructures & EMP Commission Background and Authorities

  • Clarice Feldman in American Thinker: Is the Holder DOJ imploding?

  • Gun Owners of America Alert: Anti-gun ObamaCare at a Crossroads: Passage or defeat will depend on whether Senate Republicans pursue a smart or stupid strategy.

  • World Magazine: Targeting Pro-Lifers. ABORTION: A law regulating Baltimore crisis pregnancy centers awaits the mayor’s signature. (Hat tip to Mark Sell.)

  • Iowahawk-Geographic Special: "The Secret Life of Climate Researchers."

  • Michael Hammond: November 22 Update on Reid-Care in the Senate. Hammond is a former general counsel to the Senate Republican Steering Committee.

  • John Hopkins University's Steve Hanke: 2009 in Charts.

  • NR's Stephen Spruiell: "Unholy Union -- Why is the SEIU boss the White House’s most frequent visitor?"

  • Kenneth Timmerman in "French President Confronts Radical Islam Head-On": "Sarkozy warned that many of his fellow citizens have lost touch with the values that gave rise to the republic through a blind embrace of secular culture. No one should confuse the separation of church and state as the denial of religion or religiosity, Sarkozy insisted. ''There is not a single free thinker, Freemason, or atheist who doesn’t feel the tug of a Christian heritage that has left so many deep furrows in the French mind-set,' he said. At the heart of the identity crisis plaguing today’s France is a significant immigrant population that refuses to become French, and a multicultural left that has allowed them to live isolated in ghettoes for decades, where many have fallen prey to Muslim preachers of hate." (H/T Ann Corcoran - -Underscoring supplied.) Timmerman spoke at the October 8th Thursday Meeting.

  • Korea.Thanksgiving1950. Chowline. Chowline photo CROPPED.

  • Michael Hammond:" The Reid Bill: The Mandates, Public Option,
    Regulation, Rationing, and Taxes," 11/19/09. Hammond is a former general counsel to the Senate Republican Steering Committee.

  • Erik Erickson: "If a senator votes for cloture she is voting for the health care bill."

  • Erick Erickson, RedState: What a Real Leader Looks Like.

  • "Retired Flag Officers, National Security Experts Advise Against Closure of Gitmo, Transfer of Detainees to the US"

  • Obama cuts off funding for Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC).

  • Ad from Sixty Plus: "Don't pay for health care reform on the backs of our seniors."

  • PelosiCare: C-SPAN video -- Washington, D.C. "House Call" Thursday, November 5.

  • It's deja vu all over again. Consumer Choice in Healthcare, Maryland, 2000. Click here.

  • AARP Meeting in Dallas Taken Over by 'Mob' of Seniors --NRO

  • "A Dose of Reality: Fix Health Care Policy"
    9 videos from the Heritage Foundation.

  • Heritage Foundation: "The Senate Health Bill: The True Costs Are Unknown."

  • ParentalRights announces"November 20 has been designated 'Children’s Day' by the internationalists. But what greater way to support children than to protect their families? So, we’re celebrating Children’s Day with a Parental Rights Rally in Washington, D.C."

  • "A physician grassroots movement to re-establish honor, dignity and worth to the medical profession." State-by-state.

  • Veteran Senate Rules Expert and GOA advisor Mike Hammond - "Where We Are" - Stopping ObamaCare in the Senate - November 9, 2009.

  • True Blue Poodle - 2 inches

  • More from Maryland GOP's Favorite Son. NRO's Kathryn Jean Lopez: "I revise and extend my previous comment: I know Republicans of all colors who are scared of what Michael Steele might say next."

  • Mike Hammond - Where We Are-Stop ObamaCare in the Senate - November 9, 2009

  • Rule for HR 3962 PelosiCare bill now on the floor (11/7/09).
  • "House OKs Vote on Stupak Amendment to Cut Abortion Funding From Health Care... The vote on the Stupak amendment could decide the fate of the health care reform bill -- because as many as 40 pro-life Democrats could vote against the bill if the Stupak amendment is not adopted and the abortion funding remains." (H/T Ed Whelan on The Corner)
  • Latest version of PelosiCare bill on the House floor this weekend - Republican Study Committee critique.
  • Illegal immigrants receive health care under Democrats' bill.

  • FIX HEALTH CARE - Resources from the Heritage Foundation

    Lew Uhler: "A vigilant grass roots movement is mandatory to quash Obamacare."

    Barbara Hollingsworth: Maryland Becoming the East Coast California.

  • TOP RESOURCES ON PelosiCare from the House Republican Conference.
    Summary
    Reading Guide
    By the Numbers
    Believe It or Not
  • "The Government Takeover of Health Care – Don’t Be Fooled."
  • “PELOSI PLAN EXPOSED: 12 TRUTHS ABOUT PELOSICARE AND REPUBLICAN ALTERNATIVES. ”Joint Republican National Committee and House Republican Conference, 12-HOUR ONLINE TOWN HALL Meeting Thursday, November, 1:00 pm to 1:00 am
  • DNC pulls ad featuring Dole - Live Pulse - POLITICO.com
  • C. Edmund Wright :Government Care and the Dole Family
  • Morning Bell: Obamacare Invades Your Wallet >The Foundry, Heritage Foundation
  • Timothy P. Carney: Dole, a health-sector lobbyist, gets the statesman treatment
  • Gregory Kane: Unlikely Duo to Reform Public Education.

  • Chicago Tribune: Obama "labors to weave coalition" for public option in national health-insurance plan.

  • Andrew Breitbart's Big Government: theTyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. a UK think tank, says Britian's climate change agenda demands “reducing the size of the economy through a "planned recession."

  • The Tax Foundation's "2010 State Business Tax Climate Index" here.

    • "The ten worst states are:
    41. Vermont 46. Iowa
    42. Wisconsin 47. Ohio
    43. Minnesota 48. California
    44. Rhode Island 49. New York
    45. Maryland 50. New Jersey"

  • Republican Study Committee's "Empowering Patients First Act," section-by-section analysis.
  • Governor Bobby Jindal: The Conservative Case for Health Care Reform.
  • The "Pro-Business Ploy - Stephen Spruiell in The Corner: "Obama's administration just never believed Republicans would stand up for their limited government principles if that meant opposing business interests. They were apparently assuming that Republicans and conservatives could be won over by winning over 'business interests,' as if free market and anti-government positions were just rhetorical cover for policy making at the behest of business."
  • Ken Timmerman: "Teen Christian Convert Bary Fears Mosque with Terror Ties"
  • Frank Gaffney speaks on the Islamic Saudi Academy in Fairfax County.
  • Experience the 2012 Pelosi GTxi SS/RT Sports Edition. (Thanks to Iowahawk.)
  • Heritage's "Fact Checking the White House."
  • Iowahawk:" Know Your Town Hall Mob Agitators!

  • Refuting False Claims by Libertarian opponents to setting security standards for drivers' licenses.

  • Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century: Getting It Right. "U.S. nuclear weapons continue to play a vital role in today’s strategic environment. They serve as a deterrent to attacks on the United States from countries armed with nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, such as biological and chemical weapons." For the just-released white paper by the New Deterrence Working Group, click here.

  • The world is warming, but CO2 didn't do it! Australian science educator Joanne Nova releases The Skeptic's Handbook--blockbuster tool for skeptics in the global warming debate. Click here.

  • Regulatory State 2009 - CEI Estimates.
  • UPCOMING TAX AND SPEND FIGHT | What Maryland Conservatives Should Consider Doing (And Not Doing) -- August 19, 2007
  • Tell your Congressman to support Joe Wilson.
  • Ed Gillespie, exerpt from "Ramos, Compean, Libby: the Bush Sorrow-and-Pity Legacy," Blue Ridge Forum, February 17, 2009.

  • YOU TUBE: "You don't understand--I am fighting for my life." Frank Gaffney asks: Will Florida's Charlie Christ act to protect from extradition teenager Rifqa Bary--a convert to Christianity, from possible violent punishment as a Muslim "apostate?"

  • Local Atlanta NBC affiliate via The Hill. "Dem rep. accuses constituents of 'hijacking' town hall meeting."

  • Mark Steyn on NRO: "Call 1-800-CHEST-PAIN"

  • Frank Gaffney: "Pete Hoekstra: No 'Gitmo North.'"

  • Power Line: "Hari Sevugan speaks"

  • Real Clear Politics:" Health Care Supporters and Protestors clash at Nanci Pelosi visit in Denver."

  • Power Line: "The Chicago Way 2009."

  • Health Care Tea Party at Michigan mall, July 30.

  • Michelle Malkin: "Better Astroturfing through Craigslist; Update: Soros pours another $5 million into fake grass-roots"

  • RedState's Caleb Howe says "Let's Talk Astroturf"

  • The Beacon Hill Institute peer reviews Maryland's Commission on Climate Change Climate Action Plan, faulting its methodology and conclusions. Click here.

  • CEI advises EPA: Don't adopt the EPA Endangerment Proposal--regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act--as a final rule. Click here.

  • Marlow Lewis of CEI: "But the cap-and-tax gang miscalculates, because pro-growth lawmakers are not stuck between a rock and a hard place. They have a third option: Just say no to cap-and-tax..." Click here.

  • U.S. Commission on Civil Rights urges the Senate leadership to oppose Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Bill.

  • Demos Chrissos: Obama's "Amnesty 2009" is coming. Can we do anything to stop it?

  • Citizens' coalition sends letter asking Representative Kratovil to oppose cap-and-trade tax hike.
  • Obama's carbon Cap & Trade proposal--is the largest tax increase in history. (See Inhofe chart-1.)
  • Climate proposals - is the largest bailout of all. (See Inhofe chart-2.)

  • -Letter to Blue Dog representativies. Click here.

  • Annapoplis property tax referrendum.

  • Weekly Standard on Miranda rights for terrorists. Click here.

  • Flashback: Obama said terrorists shouldn't get Miranda rights. Click here

  • Cliff Kincaid: New scandals haunt Sotomayor. Click here.

  • Oppose Waxman-Markey ("cap-and-trade" energy regulation bill). Sign letter now being widely circulated by Americans for Tax Reform.

  • John Berlau explains why mortgage servicer “Safe Harbor” plan is:
    * Anti-Contract,
    * Anti-Property Rights,
    * Anti-Middle Class,
    * Anti-Conservative.

  • SEE GRASSROOTS COALITION LETTER OPPOSING 'STIMULUS' BILL. Click here.

  • David Keene-Fed Ex statement. Click here.

  • David Keene - Fed Ex Statement. Click here.
  • Letter to Blue Dog representativies. Click here.
  • Steve Berryman, April 2009.
  • Photos: July 4 TEA Party in Northern Virginia.
  • David and Goliath-Bible illustration.

  • "Why Obama Wants Control of the Census," John Fund, Wall Street Journal, February 11, 2009. Click here.

  • Richard Falknor's Modest Propsals for Maryland Republicans. Click here.

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

  • Four U.S. Civil Rights Commissioners see civil liberties threat in so-called hate-crimes-prevention legislation. Click here.
  • Transnationalist and Obama nominee Harold Koh should have nothing to do with American security policy. See April 22 coalition letter. Click here.
  • "Don't turn College Park into Porn U," Gregory Kane, 4-5-09. Click here.
  • Watch "SCARE," "a two-minute video highlighting the scare tactics of global-warming alarmists," from the Heartland Institute.
  • Non-Economic Concerns of the Democrat "Stimulus" Bill, House Republican Conference, January 27, 2009. Click here.

  • Questions and Answers: Government Rationed Health Care, House Republican Conference, February 10, 2009. Click here.

  • Marylander Michael Hough criticizes "spending adventures" in the "stimulus to nowhere" bill in the D.C. Examiner. Click here.

  • Robert O.C. Worcester warns in an Examiner editorial: Maryland's unfunded retiree health care liabilities mean budget pain is on the way. Click here.

  • Maryland Republican Legislators' Letter, March 7, 2009. Click here.

  • Statement of Brian Zimmer, President, Coalition for a Secure Driver’s License, Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, Legislative Bill Hearing In Support of Senate Bill 369 Vehicle Laws - Proof of Lawful Presence Act of 2009--March 18, 2009. Click here.

  • VA Republican Initial Response to Charges here.
  • VA Republican Central Committee Meeting Call April 4, 2009--Notice of Intent to Remove State Chairman here.
  • The Coalition for a Secure Driver’s License (CSDL) urges the Commonwealth of Virginia to continue its commitment to comply with the federal REAL ID Act. Click here.
  • Coalition for a Secure Driver's License's defends Real ID, opposes HB1587. Click here.
  • NTU Letter protesting Ehrlich fees. Click here.
  • Washington Times editorial feature "Nobles and Knaves" recognizes "Brad Botwin of Help Save Maryland, for his Herculean efforts to force local officials in Montgomery County, Md. to take a more serious approach to dealing with criminal behavior by illegal aliens - efforts which have begun to bear fruit." Here. For information on the group's work, see at www.HelpSaveMaryland.com
  • Return the Surplus Tax Amendment (RSTA), a Fact Sheet by Kenneth R. Timmerman, 2000. Click here.
  • Richard Falknor TABOR testimony, 2005. Click here.
  • Maryland Tax Hikes, 2004 = $2.4 million. Click here.
  • Who Can You Trust in Annapolis? Dee Hodges and Richard Falknor, 9-21-2004. Click here.
  • Examiner Editorial: Blowing Smoke on Climate Action Plans. Click here.
  • David N. Bass: Meet the New Climate Change Kid on the Block. Click here.
  • Cooler heads: Nonprofit groups urge EPA not to make an endangerment finding with respect to greenhouse gas emissions under §202 of the Clean Air Act. Click here.
  • The High Cost of Maryland’s Dropout Rate, by Justin P. Hauke, Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. Click here.
  • Wendell Cox & Ron Utt, "Transportation Policy: Getting the Facts Straight." Click here.
  • "Eyes Wide Open" is a brief list of recommendations for the Maryland Center-Right Coalition in the difficult days ahead. Click here.
  • 111 organizations urge the U.S. Senate oppose big land grab bill.
  • "Climate change" schemes. Click here and here and here. Also click here for Clough summary from May 8 meeting.
  • ALEC: "Rich States Poor States." Click here.
  • -Morton Blackwell's Questionnaire for RNC Chair Candidates.
  • U.S. v Blagojevich -- full text of the complaint. Click here.
  • "First Steps to Transforming How Anapolis, the Counties, and the Cities Do Business in Maryland," Richard Falknor, Maryland Taxpayers Association Press Conference, November 8, 2002.
  • Charles Lollar photo.
  • Charles Lollar photo-new.
  • Blue Pup Democrat Graphic.
  • Testimony of Dee Hodges and Richard Falknor-Maryland Budget-10-7-03.

Documents Posted 2008