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YOU TUBE: Robert Bryce presents: The Corn Caucus (Iowa and the corn ethanol fuel subsidy).

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."

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..."

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."
Pamela Geller: Andrea Lafferty, president of the Traditional Values Coalition, "targeted, detained by State Department security personnel as 'threat'" at OIC conference.

Jim Simpson writes on "CASA de Maryland: The Illegals' Acorn" in Accuracy in Media.

Heritage Foundation's Hans von Spakovsky & Charles Stimson: Providing In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens - Is a Violation of Federal Law.

Maryland Association of Counties --PlanMaryland: 1974 Land Use Legislation Fights Still Echo Today.

Tax Foundation's Tax Data Maps.

Stephen Walters: How to Make Baltimore a Superstar City.

The Castle Coalition -- Citizens Fighting Eminent Domain Abuse. The Failure of Plan-Control-Subsidize Redevelop
ment. “Often, areas that were well-functioning (if unappealing in planners’ eyes) became emptied-out slums only after they were designated as part of a renewal area or were unlucky enough to sit in the path of a planner transit artery thought necessary to revitalize downtown....”

"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."
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."
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").
Petition to allow write-ins on March 6 GOP primary ballot. See text.
Picture Story from 119th Thursday Meeting, January 12, 2012
--Bill Peck further explores "Cottage Coalitions" in Maryland.
Gingrich Interrogatories, to Republican Party of Virginia, January 3, 2012
Marshall Objects to 'Loyalty Oath' in G.O.P. Presidential Primary, press release, December 29, 2011.
Bartlett poll by BWD Global, MD-6 Congressional District Survey. December 14, 2011.

"Small Business Survival Index 2011"
--Calculated by the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council

"At the federal, state and local levels, the biggest obstacle to entrepreneurship and investment usually is public policy gone awry. And while most politicians talk a good game about entrepreneurship and small businesses, public policy too frequently raises costs, creates uncertainty and diminishes incentives for starting up, investing in and building a business. And it’s not just elected officials at the federal level that cause problems. It certainly occurs at the state and local levels as well. That’s where the 'Small Business Survival Index' comes into play." Selected state rankings for 2011:

--Virginia ranks 10th
--Pennsylvania ranks 35th
--Maryland ranks 38th
FROM THE BLUE RIDGE FORUM

Hillary: Watering Down Freedom of Speech About Islam?

UPDATE DECEMBER 13! Read all of Nina Shea’s NRO report on what we view as the outrageous conduct of the Department of State in hosting a gathering including the enemies of our freedom yet excluding unapproved American observers and forbidding those allowed to attend from detailing the proceedings discussing our basic liberties. Where are the Congressional investigation panels which should make sure public sunlight shines on these shameful State Department actors and actions?

Read entire Blue Ridge Forum article...

Also see Pamela Geller's article, cited at the top right column.
"We can still be inspired by stories from America's past... stories in American courage.

... What we conservatives can do ourselves and do now is teach ourselves, our families, our children, about the victories, hardships, misadventures, and traditions of our fighting men and women since the colonial wars in New England and the beginnings of the Republic.

We can talk with our friends and colleagues about about the complexities of the Barbary Wars (with their implications for today) and the “Shores of Tripoli.”

We can try to understand how Abraham Lincoln managed his generals – at least that Republican didn’t promise to “talk to his generals” before he could figure out his war aims.

We can try to learn some lessons from the many-front struggle with Germany, Italy, and the Empire of Japan in World War II.

We can remember the fearful price we paid in Korea from post-World-War-II neglect (scroll down) of our forces.

Most of all, we can appreciate the skill and endurance of our forces from Roger’s Rangers in the French and Indian War, to Washington’s crossing to Trenton, to Joshua Chamberlain at Gettysburg, to Torpedo Eight at Midway, and to the epic Marine breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in Korea.

All this military history and much more should be part of our national conversation – not topics relegated to the archives of academics and locked away from school children." Read the entire post...
Conservatives Oppose a “Weak” Balanced Budget Amendment: Leaders of Nation’s Top Conservative Organizations Send Strong Message to House Republican Leadership.
Maryland Society of Patriots meets November 14, 7:00, at Adams Rib in Fruitland.
Stephen Moore: "Look Inside the Super Committee; The GOP opposes raising tax rates, but one idea being considered is limiting deductions as a percentage of income."
FROM THE BLUE RIDGE FORUM

Experts Take Down PlanMaryland’s Bad Numbers, Premises

Carroll County Commissioner Richard Rothschild [October 31] assembled a team of world-class experts to put the Martin O’Malley Administration’s PlanMaryland under the microscope.

The kick-off analyst, Lord Christopher Monckton, the sometime special adviser to Lady Margaret Thatcher, summarized the weaknesses of PlanMaryland in the following chart. Read more... See video...
Getting America Back on the Tracks, Marylander Ron Lipsman sums it all up in Intellectual Conservative.
COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE: WORKPLACECHOICE.ORG

Union power and privileges vary across the states. Therefore, policy makers, members of the media, the business community, and the public need a clear picture of that landscape. The Big Labor versus Taxpayer Index provides that clear picture. It comprehensively ranks each state on 23 individual aspects to determine the degree to which states favor organized labor and which favor taxpayers.

Analyzing 1,150 labor laws and regulations throughout the country, the index allows state-level policy makers to learn from the successes and mistakes of their neighbors, and therefore adopt labor policies that are in the best interest of their citizens.
Joseph Henchman: Maryland Governor Hints at Tax Increases. Analysis of Maryland state spending.
William McBride: Millionaire Tax is Still a Tax on Small Business
Annie Linskey: O'Malley Still Considering Jobs Bill in Special Session.
Hans Bader: "There’s no federal law against bullying or homophobia. So the Department of Education recently decided to invent one.
Register to attend the Turning the Tides Conference, Saturday, October 29, 2011 at the Annapolis DoubleTree Hotel.
--Is Sharia Law Coming to Maryland?
--The Threat to Private Propery Rights: U.N. Agenda 21
--Election Integrity
And much more!
Wrap-up for Maryland Legislature's Special Session. October 17-20, 2011
O’Malley supports higher transportation taxes to create jobs in Maryland.
Plan Maryland Report Card, Lord Christoplher Moncton---October 31, 2011.
Virginia governor O'Donnell to hold fundraiser for David Ramadan, 2011.
Letter from Judicial Watch's Fitton to Representative Peter King.
he Future of the Bill of Rights: Can this top-ten list be saved? "Frank Miniter says the Left is out to destroy the Bill of Rights and America. Exaggerate much? Or is his Saving the Bill of Rights: Exposing the Left’s Campaign to Destroy American Exceptionalism a timely wake-up call? He makes his case — and talks about his rescue plan — with National Review Online’s Kathryn Jean Lopez."
Maryland General Assembly: Redistricting and Reapportionment.
Urgent RSC report: Everything you wanted to know about the debt limit but were afraid to ask.
Heritage Foundation: The House and Senate Balanced Budget Amendments: Not all balanced budget amendments are created equal.
Peter Huessy: The Good News and the Bad News in the Debt Bill.
Fred and Catherine Mann-Grandy will speak in Bethesda on the threat of Islamic extremism in America Saturday September 24, 2011, 5:00-7:30. Scroll down on flyer to RSVP.
TUITION BREAK FOR ILLEGALS? JW TO FILE APPEAL FOR MARYLAND TAXPAYERS

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton today weighed in on --

“the August 16, 2011, decision by the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland, dismissing Judicial Watch’s taxpayer lawsuit against Montgomery College for providing discounted tuition to illegal aliens.”

Fitton, chief of this public-interest group “that investigates and prosecutes government corruption,” explained --

“This decision seems to ignore nearly 150 years of binding precedent in the State of Maryland allowing citizens to challenge the illegal expenditure of taxpayer funds. Maryland taxpayers should not have to bear the burden of paying for the cost of educating illegal aliens. Especially in this time of extreme financial hardship, Montgomery College’s illegal alien tuition policy, besides being contrary to law, is a waste of precious taxpayer resources. Importantly, the court decision did not find that the college’s policy was legal. Judicial Watch will most certainly appeal the Circuit Court’s ruling. Our taxpayer clients deserve to have their day in court to uphold the rule of law in Maryland.”

Readers are encouraged to consider the entire text of the Judicial Watch release.
ONE FROM RENEW AMERICA: Wes Vernon: The REAL story of Glenn Beck's exit from Fox.... "Some clue as to what might have happened (again, we don't actually know) lies in the TV star's interest in the Federal Reserve Board."
ONE FROM THE BLUERIDGE FORUM: "Radical University Empires vs. Clueless State Lawmakers" ... "This post is about what is happening to colleges and universities in the United States and about the incapacity of Republican state legislators in Maryland and, apparently, also Virginia, to cope with the dangerous direction our own taxpayer-supported universities have taken. ...read more...
State Board of Elections Unofficial Petition Signatures, May 30 and June 30, 2011 filings, for Petition SB 167, to put the new law allowing in-state tuition for illegal immigrants to a referrendum for repeal.
2011 Statewide Referendum Petition Filing: "An act of the General Assembly can be placed on the 2012 General Election ballot by the submission of petitions containing at least 55,736 signatures of Maryland registered voters." (Maryland State Board of Elections)
Picture story for Maryland Thursday Meeting August 11, 2011.
James Lafferty's Meese Release on David Ramadan.
The Problem with Scott York's Thinking: Crony Capitalism, by Sally Mann, July 22, 2011. Chairman of the Board of Loudoun Supervisors Scott York supports the current Washington Metropolitan Airports Authority (MWAA) agreement to bring rail to Dulles Airport and beyond, under which Loudoun will pay a fixed percentage of the final cost. The problem is that cost estimates keep going up -- the project is already more than a billion dollars over budget!We need to rethink the Metrorail-to-Loudoun project.
Wes Vernon: The REAL story of Glenn Beck's exit from Fox.
ONE FROM THE BLUERIDGE FORUM:

"Robocalls Case–What Would Allen West Say?" Many readers know by now that “Ehrlich aides [have been] indicted in Election Day robocalls case” as Annie Linskey and Julie Bykowicz wrote ... in an extensive piece in the Baltimore Sun.

'Two longtime political operatives who worked last year on Republican former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.’s gubernatorial return campaign were indicted today for ordering what the state prosecutor called deceptive robocalls intended to suppress votes on the night of the election.'...read more...
Maryland State Board of Elections June 30, 2011. Second filing. To stop Maryland in-state tuition benefits for illegal aliens (SB 167).
Above: Free Congress Foundation chief Jim Gilmore documents a devastating reduction in U.S. economic growth: "We don’t need reading glasses to see the sheer historic magnitude of a sustained reduction in economic growth that has been large, dramatic and personally devastating to millions of Americans. In sad fact, this is the worst economic slump in modern post-war economic history and we need historic action and solutions now if we are to reverse course."
Initial filing of referendum petition signatures received and validated by Maryland State Board of Elections, SB167, May 31, 2011.
Referendum petition signatures received by General Assembly Dates of Interest, 2011 Interim.
Link to RWCF Press Inquiry: SB167 Signers of Petition 2011. State Board of Elections.
Leon and Amy Kass explain the history of Flag Day (June 14) and its place in the American soul.
Mark Steyn: Happy Flag Day! A Flag Has to be Worth Burning. "That’s the point: a flag has to be worth torching. When a flag gets burned, that’s not a sign of weakness but of its strength. If you can’t stand the heat of your burning flag, get out of the superpower business. It’s the left that believes the state can regulate everyone into thought-compliance. The right should understand that the battle of ideas is won out in the open."
Heritage Foundation Action Briefing for Recess Town Halls: "Everything you need to hold Congress accountable.
"Hugh DeLacy described in John Gunther's Inside U.S.A. -- p. 98 and p. 99.
Aaron Gardner - Happy 236th Birthday to the U.S. Army.
Hiding In Plain Sight: Collectivization by Planners, Schools....Posted Tom De Weese –

“I was with [Carroll County] Commissioner Richard Rothschild just a few days ago. We appeared on a television program together as part of a panel to tell the truth about Agenda 21. That program will be put on DVD and sent to elected officials and activists around the nation as a teaching tool to build more opposition to Sustainable Development. Let me tell you some of the things I learned about Commissioner Rothschild while I was there in Carroll County, with him, in his office, in the TV studio, and sitting at the table over lunch. He told me that he doesn’t care if he is re-elected or not – that he made a determination to do the right thing while he was there. He is the one who organized the rest of the Commissioners in this fight. He is the spark plug.” ...read more...
Blueridge Forum. Wisconsin’s Uproar Makes Us Face Vital Pension Fixes Here. "Via Yuval Levin at NRO yesterday, Josh Barro’s 'Dodging the Pension Disaster'(National Affairs) lays out some tough paths that governors and state legislators must follow if our state politicians can plausibly claim to have put their public-pension systems on a sound path.
Congressional Research Service: Appropriations and Fund Transfers in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
TUESDAY, MAY 10: U.S. Representative Steve King speaks at the Washington County Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner, 6:30, Courtland Mansion, Hagerstown.
Peter Heussy: "US Security policy should help our friends and hurt our enemies."
MONDAY MAY 2, 2011: Allen West speaks at the Carroll County Lincoln/Reagan Day Dinner.
RSC Budget for FY 2012: Honest Solutions.
Latest research from Trevor Loudon: Is George Soros a Communist Agent?
Frank Gaffney's update on President Obama and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez: "Protecting Chavez, endangering America?"
The Dead Voters of Ohio: Secretary of State Jon Husted checks death records in an exercise any U.S. county can tackle. See county-by-county state hart.Cincinnati.com writes: "Hamilton County Leads State -- in Dead Voters."
What is a government shutdown? See Republican Study Committee's April 5, 2011 policy brief.
Wes Vernon: Exclusive: Will Congress (at last, officially) solve the mystery of 'the third terrorist' in Oklahoma City?
Maryland General Assembly -- 2011 Session Dates
Hugh Hewett: Jennifer Rubin interviews bond wizard Bill Gross.
Key lessons from the Ohio TEA party's February counter-demonstrations against union protests to Governor Kasich's financial reforms. Tom Zawistowski, Executive Director, Portage County TEA Party.
SAVING TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE: 4 crucial articles by scholar Stanley Kurtz on the "post marriage" society

#1. Lessons of same-sex marriage in the Netherlands

#2. Realities of a post-marriage society-I

#3. Realities of a post-marriage society-II

#4. Stanley Kurtz in The Weekly Standard: Polygamy versus democracy, you can't have both
Maryland CAN protests the AFSCME-MD rally on March 14 in Annapolis. See Baltimore Sun story and picture.
Maryland CAN's counter-protest to the AFSCME-MD "Enough Is Enough" rally: MARCH 14, 6 PM, in ANNAPOLIS. See MD Gazette story.WMAL BANISHES MORNING TALK SHOW HOST FRED GRANDY. SEE FLYER.
Richard and Susan Falknor with Bishop Bena, November 8, 2010
"DEFUND OUR PENSIONS" - Union? advertisement
Maryland "No New Taxes" Pledge State Signers, 2010 -- Just Released from Americans forTax Reform
ALEC: "The State Legislator's Guide to Repealing Obamacare"
Blueridge Forum: "'Citizens United:' a Case Crucial for Grass Roots & Tea Partiers"
Picture story for February 17, 2011.
December 21, 2010. Maryland Pension Commission:
- Recommendations of the Public Employees’ and Retirees’ Benefit Sustainability Commission
- Basic Information on the Commission.
See also --
- Washington Post analysis: "For Maryland taxpayers and state workers, pension tension"
- Public Sector, Inc., declares: "Maryland's Underfunded Pension System Needs Attention"
- Manhattan Institute: "Unmasking Hidden Costs: Best Practices for Public Pension Transparency"
Christian News Wire: "Christian Leaders Urge US Senate to Take Actions to Prevent Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program"
Robert Moffit of the Heritage Foundation: "Doctors, Patients, and the New Medicare Provisions"
Peter Huessy sums it up: "Ronald Reagan, Peace Through Strength, Lessons for the Here and Now.
"Maryland Society of Patriots & Wicomico Society of Patriots
Will meet Tuesday, February 22, 7:00 PM, Adam's Ribs, Salisbury, 219 North Fruitland Boulevard Salisbury, MD 21801. Featuring Robert Broadus and Protect Marriage Maryland.
RSVP on Facebook, or via email.
PublicSectorInc.org: "Experts Rate the Governors" (including Maryland and Virginia)
Multi-organizational letter to amend repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" (Hunter bill, H.R.337)
Representative Wesley Goodman's report on the Republican Study Committee Amendment Roll Call Vote, on the 2011 Continuing Resolution--February 19, 20ll
Charles Lollar becomes Maryland State Director of Americans for Prosperity
Virginia Delegate and conservative leader Bob Marshall explained several ways that state legislatures can push back against harmful federal measures.
Long-time investigator and former GOP primary lieutenant-governor candidate Michael Ryman discusses building citizen corruption community-based investigations.
New Renaissance in Education (NRIE)'s founder Ed Amatetti talks about grass-roots organizing to improve taxpayer-supported curricula. Maryland will be the NRIE's kick-off state.
Derek McCoy (center) president of the Association for Maryland Families; Kathy Fuller (left) and Cindy Sharretts (right) all track the presentations.
Ron Lipsman comments at the January 6, 2011 Maryland Thursday Meeting.

Author of Liberal Hearts and Conservative Brains, Ron Lipsman (ronlipsman@comcast.net) is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and former Senior Associate Dean in the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Maryland, and is author or co-author of twelve books dealing with mathematics and computing. He is a contributor to American Thinker. See quote below.

Ron Lipsman: "Today's university students are a product of a government school system, which teaches them that modern society (including its political, economic and even its cultural components) is too complex to be understood by the average citizen and its direction must be entrusted to professionals and experts. They are taught according to an increasingly uniform national curriculum that belittles non-conformity and drums into their heads the primacy of multiculturalism, global climate change, egalitarianism, central planning, secularism and the illegitimacy of any exceptionalism -- American or otherwise. Finally, they are imbued with the idea that their highest objective should be to get credentialed and connected so that they can enter the Ruling Class so aptly described by Angelo Codevilla in the American Spectator last summer."
Republican Liberty Caucus
National Convention
Sat., February 12, 2011 in Arlington, Virginia. Click below for details:
Convention Agenda
Full Convention Details
Convention Flyer
Conservatives and education: Click here.
First Steps to Transforming How Annapolis, the Counties, and the Cities Do Business in Maryland - Richard Falknor, 2002
Maryland Republican Assembly, an organization dedicated to electing CONSERVATIVE Republican candidates.
"What’s the Plan? Republicans and State Pension Burdens."
"Today’s Washington Post declares in an editorial 'Martin O’Malley and Robert Ehrlich stay mum on massive pension bill' - - 'That makes it all the more disturbing that Maryland’s most prominent candidates are saying so little about them. Of the candidates for statewide office, the only one talking about the coming fiscal tsunami is the Republican nominee for state comptroller, William H. Campbell, a political neophyte with little name recognition or campaign money. Mr. Ehrlich is perfectly aware of the problem, but he rarely discusses it publicly — possibly because he was just as guilty of overseeing the ballooning pension deficit, when he was governor, as Mr. O’Malley has been. Mr. O’Malley, too, understands the scale of the dilemma and is just as quiet, perhaps because addressing it head-on might alarm public employee unions, a pillar of the Democratic base.' ” General Assembly of Maryland 2011 Session Dates
Blue Ridge Forum: "Obama To Dumb Down 'Real ID' Regulations"
MD CAN: Maryland Conservative Action Network
Virginia delegate Bob Marshall on HB 506 --foreclosure, title insurance, and MERS.
Republican Policy Committee: Senate Democrats Threaten Unprecedented Power Grab

Maryland Society of Patriots. Thursday, January 27 at 7:30 PM, Marilyn J. Praisner Library at 14910 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville, MD 20866. To feature Robert Broadus, leader of Protect Marriage Maryland.

Peter Samuel's Bio-2011
Maryland General Assemby chart - JT

2010 BELOW this mark

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.
Marco Rubio, candidate for U.S. Senate: Why we need to be a great generation - now.
JT's chart of 2011 Maryland General Assembly
YouTube - Disarmed & Dangerous: Stop the New START Treaty
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)

"DIRTY '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
Morton Blackwell

--On RedState:
"A Better Definition of Who Is a Conservative"

--In the Washington Examiner:

"What elements of leadership must conservatives employ in the next two years if they're to move the country forward?

I think certainly the most important thing is principled leadership, as opposed to content-free leadership, which we've had quite enough of in past years. And we need to expand the leadership -- we need more principled people to become active in the conservative movement with the view of becoming leaders.

I believe this election showed that more people are waking up to this idea of principled leadership, and to advancing ideas whether or not it is currently the most popular thing to do. Grass-roots conservatives are fed up with leaders who are no better than they think they absolutely have to be.'

At your core, what is one of your defining beliefs?

I believe that we should pray as if it all depends on God, and work as if it all depends on us.'" --November 5, 2010
“‘When it’s all going to be said and done, Harry Reid has eaten our lunch,’ [Senator] Graham said on Fox News radio. ‘This has been a capitulation in two weeks of dramatic proportions of policies that wouldn’t have passed in the new Congress.’” —Senator Lindsey Graham
MORE...see Blue Ridge Forum: "Can We Salvage Any Lame Duck Wreckage?"
Tax Foundation: Effect of Expiration of Bush-Era Tax Cuts on Average Middle-Income Family, by State and Congressional District.
Tax Deal TEXT
Tax Deal NUMBERS
Tax Deal: READ THE BILL BUT TIGHTEN OBAMA'S APPROPRIATIONS SPENDING LEASH
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."
Alex Mooney wins Maryland GOP state chair and Carroll County conservative stalwart Larry Helminiak wins second vice chair. ...see perspective and all new MD State GOP officers.
TEXT: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2011
NUMBERS: CBO 1-Page Summary FY 2010
Senator Jim DeMint to the "Tea Party-backed candidates" in the 2011 freshman class --"Welcome, Senate Conservatives: Remember what the voters back home want—less government and more freedom." Read more...
Erick Erickson of Red State: An Open Letter to the Freshman Republican Victors. "Many members of Congress will begin whispering sweet nothings in your ear wooing you to vote for them and their rules for the House and Senate. Remember that these same men are the exact same people that the voters rejected in 2006 and again in 2008." Read more...
Richard Falknor of the Maryland Center-Right Coalition joins in letter to U.S. Senators: "We urge you and other elected leaders to use your standing as members of the Senate to prevent the rush to repeal Section 654, Title 10, U.S.C. (1993), which is usually mislabeled by the subsequent Executive policy known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT),1 contained in the Defense Authorization bill."
Carroll County stalwart Larry Helminiak is running for Second Vice Chair Position of the Maryland Republican Party. "The party needs to reach out to the business community to get more involved." ...more...
Frederick Classical Charter School Blocked. "NO FIGHTING CHANCE. You'd think that 1,600 pages of meticulously crafted curriculum, staffing, school philosophy and financial planning would at least give a prospective charter school a fighting chance. Not in Frederick County, MD. Being well prepared — not to mention a more than worthy option for local parents — just means that the education establishment will sharpen their swords even more to see that you are not approved to enter "their space." Last night, the Frederick County School Board unanimously voted to block the creation of the Frederick Classical Charter School, a school that would have offered kids there a real alternative and a classically based education.... Maryland's charter law is so weak (it has earned a 'D' in CER's latest rankings — stay tuned) that only an overhaul will level the playing field for future options in areas outside Baltimore and more enlightened districts such as Prince George's County. Laws matter..." From Education Reform Newswire, Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Center for Education Reform <newswire@edreform.com> For background, click here...
MDCAN-Registration Form-2, Sat. January 8, 2011
Hill to Perez: In October 15, 2010 letter, three members of Congress -- Howard P. Buck" McKeon, Kekvin McCarthy, and Lamar Smith --demand that Marylander, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Thomas Perez supply the delayed military ballots "as quickly as possible."

"Congress has worked hard over the last several years to ensure that the men and women overseas on behalf of our country do not lose their ability to vote as a result of their service. Congress relies on the Department of Justice to ensure thre laws are followed."
The Manhattan Declaration.
City Journal's Steven Malanga - "The Beholden State: How public-sector unions broke California"
Ed Hudgins: Maryland's Regulatory Burden.
APPALLING VIDEO -- "Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border 2: Drugs, Guns and 850 Illegal Aliens." Janice Kephart & Bryan Griffith of Center for Immigration Studies. See also earlier video.
Richard Baehr in American Thinker: "The Jews of Silence."
YOUTUBE: Allen West for Congress - endorsement from one of the men he commanded in Iraq.
MTA letter on Andy Harris vs. David Brinkley, December 4, 2006.
"Virginia Tea Partier Ideas for their Maryland Brethren?The Richmond Times-Dispatch’s Tyler Whitley this morning [October 9] in his “Scrap taxes, tea partiers say as convention opens” details some of the gathering’s legislative recommendations --
“Virginia tea-party groups proposed a constitutional amendment to scrap both corporate income tax and individual income tax.

Conservative activist John Taylor [link added by Forum] said elimination of the two taxes would do far more to attract businesses to Virginia than the incentives that the General Assembly passed this year at the behest of Gov. Bob McDonnell.” ....“In addition to the tax repeals, the tea party will sponsor a proposed constitutional amendment to make it harder for governments to use eminent domain to seize private property." .... "Legislative proposals that the tea party will get behind include a bill to encourage education tax credits that would make it easier for parents to send their children to a private school, a bill that would bar localities from establishing sanctuaries for illegal immigrants, and a bill that would free Virginia products from federal regulation if the products are produced and sold solely within the state.” (Underscoring Forum’s.)

From October 10 Blue Ridge Forum: Tea Party Meet: Co-option Concerns — But Tough Proposals
Barack Obama shares his underwater fantasy with the Tribal Update. On this week's Tribal Update, the television-on-internet show produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire site....we feature President Barack Obama sharing his underwater fantasy with our viewers. We also feature the Israeli media waxing sophisticated on the 10 year anniversary of the jihad against Israel." 10-8-2010
Email from Ken Timmerman, 10-31-2010:

"Dear friends,

"Here is a link to the story I did on the University of Maryland Iran conference this weekend,where Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, pressed President Obama to put human rights at the forefront of the U.S. Agenda with Iran. [underscoring Forum's]

"The back story: there was not a single advocate of regime change invited to this conference, which was funded by George Soros, apparently as a means of resuscitating what I have called the “dead parrot” of reform. This notion still remains a favorite of the State Department and Voice of America’s Persian service.

"However, there was a terrific panel on Sunday morning of Iranian artists, including Parastou Forouhar, daughter of Dariush and Parvaneh Forouhar, who were brutally murdered in 1998, and the Iranian-American singler Haale Gafari, who was terrific even with a cold.

"Here is my “dead parrot” story from several years back. (The title, of course, is from the Monty Python skit). It’s a keeper.

"Best,
Ken
Www.kentimmerman.com
Www.iran.org"
What Will Speech-Suppressing Maryland Politicians Do Next? From the Blue Ridge Forum.
DIVEST TERROR NEWS CONFERENCE. March 20, 2007, Annapolis. Gaffney, Huessy, Timmerman.
Richard Falknor and Dee Hodges, Maryland State Senate Budget, Tax Testimony, 10-7-2003.
Capital Hill to Perez
Flyer for hearing on ISA, October 19, 2010.
Latma: What Israelis think of Rahm Emanuel, liberals, etcetera.
The Maryland Republican Assembly (MDRA) makes wide range of 2010 candidate endorsements. The MDRA's State Convention, held on August 14 in Sykesville, endorsed 32 candidates, including incumbent Republicans, as well as a number of challengers to moderate Republican incumbents. "Over all," according to MDRA, "we have endorsed those candidates that we believe will provide a loyal opposition to the chokehold that the Democrats have on our state."
Latma: What Israelis think of Rahm Emanuel, liberals, etcetera.
OBAMACARE: Marylander, and Heritage Senior Fellow Bob Moffit Warns--"Following their setback in the Virginia case, the big Missouri vote, the continuing high poll numbers backing repeal, no doubt about it, the Other Team is in deep political trouble. But put the corks back in the champagne bottles.
Truth is that the battle ground still favors the Left. The government already controls 60 percent of health care spending(with existing tax expenditures) and the structural dynamics of the existing system- the Medicare explosion right around the corner, plus the progressive expansion of Medicaid and longstanding federal and state restrictions on the market--means that time and the status quo is on their side.

The American people want health care reform. If, God willing, we get a second chance, we cannot have a repeat of the 1990s after the collapse of the Clinton Plan, when the Left won battle after incremental battle with hapless Congressional Republicans playing a pathetic defense.

Real reform on our terms means big,not little, things: Major tax code changes, eliminating barriers to insurance competition, entitlement reform (as proposed by Ryan and others), turning control of dollars and decisions over to individuals. If we don't play offense, defining the meaning of reform and aggressively pursuing it, we will be back on defense, back to losing the health care debate.Then what the New America Foundation says will come true. We won't get a third chance. We will all be Three Time Losers.

First things first, of course. We need to--must--slay this Dragon."
What’s the Plan? Republicans and State Pension Burdens. Let’s take a quick citizen visit to the growing — if not soon crushing - - burden of state public pensions and related retiree health benefits to see what kinds of — if any– remedies our Maryland and Virginia GOP politicians are suggesting. Read more at Blue Ridge Forum.
ENCOUNTER BROADSIDES: AMMUNITION FOR INTELLIGENT DEBATE.
It's Not Your Seat, Lisa, new ad by Let Freedom Ring challenges Lisa Murkowski's write-in campaign.
Andy McCarthy: Contra Buckley:The Buckley Rule has a time and place; this isn’t it.
"This is where the chattering Sunday-morning know-it-alls lead the GOP establishment over the cliff. To hear the pundits tell it, the highest Republican interest is control of the government. The holy grail is winning enough seats to take over the House, the Senate, and the constituent committees of both chambers. Ideological purity is secondary to wielding the levers of power.

"This, however, conflates the highest interest — i.e., the national interest — with the parochial interest of establishment politicos. The 'establishment' exists precisely because there is a professional political class. GOP leadership has come to accept — to revel in — the same basic conceit that animated Woodrow Wilson and FDR, and that guides Obama: Modern society is too big, too complex, and too judicialized to be hamstrung by so obsolete a notion as federalism, or to be managed by so quaint a figure as the citizen-legislator. From this perspective, government is a profession. It is a life’s calling in which wonkish mastery of how it works counts for more than what one would have it do." Read more.
Mary Miltenberger Calls Local GOP Allegany County Committee to Account: Read more at Potomac Tea Party Report.
Democrat or GOP Tax Hikes: Pledge Signers Must Vote “No.” Before Tuesday’s Maryland Primary: Revisiting the No-New-Taxes Pledge. Many Maryland incumbents and challengers are signers of the Americans For Tax Reform (ATR) no-new-taxes pledges for state lawmakers.... The pledge is not just a no-commitment way for a candidate to say, “I sure like lower taxes, don’t you? ” Read more.
Can Conservatism Survive Mass Immigration? Join MARK KRIKORIAN, moderator, of the Center for Immigration Studies, Wednesday, September 1, at 9:30 a.m. at the National Press Club. Forum speakers incude JIM GIMPEL, ROY TEIXEIRA, AND RAMESH PONNURU.
Mark Krikorian: "Why are the state think tanks generally so bad on immigration, when they address it at all?
ATR Letter to Ehrlich on Fees.
Allegany County complaint, 8-25-2010: "ARTICLE 9 SECTION 1 PRIMARIES. THE COMMITTEE SHALL NOT PARTICIPATE NOR GIVE THE IMPRESSION OF PARTICIPATING IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS, WHETHER THEY BE PARTISAN OR NON-PARTISAN,..."
RWCF statement at MTA press conference, November 2, 2002.
GA Harrison, of Delmarva Dealings.
Rep.Kratovil.milk.carton.AFPMaryland
ATR-Patrick Gleason-David Ramadan letter to Republicans on the Ground Zero mosque.
Poster from DAWN PATROL.
Maryland Legislature SLOTS POODLES from 2007.
Virginia delegate Bob Marshall letter to governor Robert McDonnell on refusing federal state bailout funds.
AMPUTATE OR DIE. New Zeal's TREVOR LOUDON: "An excellent column from Jack Wheeler."
Thursday Meeting: The question Wheeler raises is whether the Tea Partiers have "the courage and the capacity" to force Republican to do what must be done. Wheeler says the Tea Partiers are "America's only hope now."
For more Jack Wheeler, click here.
Mike Miller's TAX POODLES-2007.
Gubernatorial candidate Brian Murphy's signing the no-new-taxes pledge is a major step forward for highlighting taxpayer protection in Maryland. Businessman Murphy is among the few heavy-duty statewide GOP contenders to sign the pledge in a decade. Former governor Bob Ehrlich did not do so in 2002 nor in 2006, and discouraged new GOP legislators from signing it. Senate candidate Michael Steele took pains not to do so in his 2006 campaign.
Frank Gaffney video: Elena Kagan: Will she tolerate Shariah?
Frank Gaffney YouTube: No mosque at ground zero.
Calvin Coolidge's address at the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia, July 5, 1926. Hat tip: Jonah Goldberg.
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."
Ed Hudgins: Maryland's Regulatory Burden.
Links to 2008 NRA board members.
Picture Story: 103rd Maryland Thursday Meeting, June10, 2010.
Hans Bader: "Obama Uses Oil Spill to Push Corporate-Welfare Laden Global Warming Bill that BP Once Lobbied For."
Hans Bader: "Media Gives Disgraced Politician Eliot Spitzer a Soapbox to Lecture the Public"...on CNN.
Paul Chesser: "That's my Congressman, Democrat Rep. Bob Etheridge of North Carolina, who likes to know who's asking him questions.... While he got a little rough for these young questioners, I am told he did not utilize his ultimate weapon ...."
Freedom Action: Oppose the DISCLOSE Act, which "will place burdensome restrictions on the ability of nonprofit groups to engage in free speech and advocate for conservative, free market policies and candidates in Congressional elections." House of Representatives vote set for Thursday June 17.
"This Roy Blunt Ad Would Have Worked With a Horse, Too" National Review, the campaign spot.
Who Can You Trust in Annapolis these Days? Falknor & Hodges 9-21-2004.
NTU 2006: "Maryland's Fiscal Folly"
Ehrlich 2004 "Fees" -- NTU letter.
Enacted 2004 Maryland TAX HIKES special session PDF (First posted on MTA).
Enacted 2004 Maryland TAX HIKES HTML version
Dorothy Rabinowitz discusses how the media shied away from describing the Fort Hood massacre as a terrorist act perpetrated by a Muslim jihadist.
New documentary film challenges the education establishment, including teachers' union, in New Jersey, the state that tops the country in per pupil spending.
Barbara Boxer meets "Dr. Evil" -- Michelle Malkin's YouTube says it all.
Brian M. Johnson of ATR: "Renewal of $50 Billion Bailout Fund Not Enough to Fix Dodd Bill."
CIS's James Edwards--American Common Sense and Illegal Immigration: "Kuhn crafts a plausible-sounding argument about illegal aliens possessing fewer skills and less education than legal immigrants. However, though legal immigrants aren't quite as bad off socioeconomically as are illegal aliens, they lag behind native-born Americans. That goes for poverty, health coverage, welfare usage, and similar indicators. This fact shows up in Kuhn's own examples of poverty level and high school graduation rates; illegal aliens are the worst off, legal immigrants are next, and the native-born are the best off. The American public gets that most legal immigrants aren't doctors, corporate executives, and job-creating brainiacs."Arizona Governer Jan Brewer fights back against the attacks on her state from the US president. "In Arizona, no one is laughing." See video.
Byron York notes "The Ten Dumbest Things Said About the ArizonaImmigration Law".
Arizona Immigration Law UPDATE! RSC has released a document highlighting very recent changes made to the Arizona immigration law. The bill was signed into law on April 23, 2010, the highlighted changes on April 30, 2010.
BlueRidge Forum: "Our Common Defense: Chilling Warnings about Iran"
ENCOUNTER BROADSIDES: AMMUNITION FOR INTELLIGENT DEBATE. "Encounter presents a new series of critical pamphlets from Encounter Books. Uniting an 18th-century sense of political urgency and rhetorical wit (think The Federalist Papers, Common Sense) with 21st-century technology and channels of distribution, Encounter Broadsides offer indispensable ammunition for intelligent debate on the critical issues of our time. Written with passion by some of our most authoritative authors, Encounter Broadsides make the case for liberty and the institutions of democratic capitalism at a time when they are under siege from the resurgence of collectivist sentiment."
"A Stiff Upper Lip Confronted Bullies" - Peter Samuel's letter in the May 14, 2010 Wall Street Journal reads in part: "[My mother] always got angry at that question, responding: 'Frightened, never. I'm British, you understand. We don't frighten. With bullies like Hitler, you never get frightened. You make jokes about them, how ridiculous they are.'" --Peter Samuel,editor of Toll Roads Newsletter, spoke at the May 13, 2010 Maryland Thursday Meeting.
View photos from May 13, 2010, 102nd Maryland Thursday Meeting.
"For Some People, Earth Day Is Pay Day." Freedom Action links to IRS Form 990s of 8 prominent environmental organizations, showing annual income and presidents' compensation.
Carolyn Glick: VIDEO explanation of Israel's strategic importance to the US. See also Glick's "The Strategic Foundations of the US-Israel Alliance."
John Berlau in Open Market: "Obama-Dodd financial bill would further enrich Goldman Sachs"
"Gaffney: Iran Could Have Nuke 'Any Day' Now," reports Jim Myers in NewsMax.
Kaja Whitehouse in New York Post: "Wall Street Suspects Goldman charges' not coincidental' to financial reform efforts."
Cliff Kincaid: Glenn Beck Takes a Sharp Turn to the Left.
"RSC Info Alert: Tax Documents

--In light of Tax Day this month and the growing tax burdens that Americans face, the two linked documents could be useful.

Tax Facts: The information might be useful in conveying the growing burden of complying with the federal tax code.
Impending Tax Increases: Unless Congress takes action, the following tax increases will automatically occur for the following years."
John Goodman's Health Policy Blog: "Medical Underwriting: It's Better than the Alternative."
John Goodman's Health Policy Blog: "Obamacare By the Numbers" -- Goodman lists claims by advocates before passage, versus actual provisions of the health care law.
Implementation Timeline for the Government Takeover of Healthcare: H.R. 3590 and the Reconciliation Package. Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) and Paul Teller: Republican Study Committee.
Extended Summary of the Democrats' Government Takeover of Health Care (H.R. 3590) and Reconciliation (H.R. 4872). Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) and Paul Teller: Republican Study Committee Policy Brief.
Here is CEI's James Edward's useful list of immigration-related provisions in the Senate version (the one enacted) of Obamacare. Note Edwards' discovery that - -"The Senate bill exempts illegal aliens from the mandate that everyone have health insurance or else face a tax penalty. This perverse exemption unfairly treats illegal aliens better than the bill treats American citizens."
Center for Immigration Studies spells out the multiple dangers of the recently introduced "Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act of 2009 (CIR ASAP) (HR 4321)."
Tax Freedom Day Was April 19th in Maryland. Maryland's State/Local Tax Burden is Fourth-highest in Nation, reports the Tax Foundation. "Estimated at 10.8% of income, Maryland's state/local tax burden percentage ranks 4th highest nationally, well above the national average of 9.7%. Maryland taxpayers pay $5,669 per capita in state and local taxes. "
Peter Samuel: Fresh thinking on $s for transportation. April 23, 1003.
John Berlau: Health Care- Fix middle-class “medicine cabinet tax” in reconciliation. Health care law's new txes on OTC meds.House Republican Study Committee: "Government Takeover of Health Care - WHAT CONSERVATIVES NEED TO KNOW"- in 1 page.
John Berlau on "Dodd's Main Street Punishment Bill" on biggovernment.com. "With the focus this week on health care’s 'home stretch'and concerns about government limiting the ability of ordinary Americans to make choices about medical treatment, another threat to freedom is accelerating that could harm Americans’ abilities to start a business, invest for retirement, and get affordable home and auto insurance policies. On Monday, after abruptly shutting down earnest negotiations between Senate Republicans, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd announced a partisan so-called financial regulatory reform bill that he will try to ram through his committee within a week." See earlier group letter on "proxy access."
Info from NumbersUSA: Tea Parties Against Amnesty and Illegal Immigration April 15-17 (Round 2). Last Few Days to Sign Up to Create/Attend Rallies
Pew Report on Pension Crisis in the States - pdf of image.
NumbersUSA Tea Parties Announcement - Against Amnesty and Illegal Immigration, April 15-17
Picture Story, Maryland Thursday Meeting, April 8, 2010.
Raging Elephants Boot Camp, Wednesday, April 7th, 6:00pm-9:00pm, Eldersburg Senior Center, 5928 Mineral Hill Road, Eldersburg. See flyer. RSVP with Kathy at carrollrepublicanwomen@yahoo.com
Mark Scribner on OpenMarket.org: "Property Rights Under Siege." More.
Family Security Matters: "Exclusive: Texas Textbook Wars Would Affect All of Our Nation’s Students." More.
TESTIMONY ON GOVERNOR MARTIN O'MALLEY'S TAX CREDIT BILL. Hayley Paterson in the Washington Examiner writes on 2/8/2010: "But [Susan]Payne said data from the Maryland Vehicle Administration shows illegal aliens can skirt the system. 'We know that illegal aliens have served on our juries. We suspect highly that they have registered to vote, and we know they can get worker's compensation,' she said. A packed hearing room gave Payne a standing ovation for her testimony." Read more.
LANDMARK Supreme Court decision reverses major parts of Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 , ruling on appeal on Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, January 21, 2010.
Fresh thinking on $'s for transportation, by Peter Samuel, April 23, 2003

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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)

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

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

Picture story for 3-11-2010.
NRCC's Deal Watch:" Deal-a-palooza" on health care bill.
Michael Hammond Analyzes Procedural and Substantive Wrongs in House ObamaCare Struggle
Hammond 3-18-2010: "Violations of rules (Constitutional and Otherwise)" "If the House can create rules to ignore the Constitution's requirement that the House vote on an issue before it becomes law, then it can create rules to 'deem' a veto override."
Hammond 3-17-2010: "Three ObamaCare lies -- and the Rebuttal to Them"
Lie #1: Pelosi: "Republicans used [self-executing rules], perhaps hundreds of times..."
Lie #2: "Reconciliation has been used extensively in contexts analogous to ObamaCare -- most often by Republicans."
Lie #3: "Any number of people: 'This bill does not provide for taxpayer funding of abortion.'"

From Michael Hammond: "You and Your Neighbors Will Determine the Fate of ObamaCare -- And the Future of America."

See Mike's action letter -- with a pre-written letter to send to representatives.

Michael W. McConnell, Wall Street Journal, March 15, 2010.The House Health-Care Vote and the Constitution: No bill can become law unless the exact same text is approved by a majority of both houses of Congress.
Michael W. McConnell, Wall Street Journal, March 20, 2010. The Health Vote and the Constitution—II
The House can't approve the Senate bill in the same legislation by which it approves changes to the Senate bill.
Mr. McConnell, a former federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, is a law professor at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center.
PROXY ACCESS -- Major threat to America's companies: "It's like Sarbanes-Oxley, McCain-Finegold, and the Fairness Doctrine all rolled into one," says John Berlau of CEI. See groupRead Berlau's article "Obama-Dodd-Alinksy shareholder jujitsu." See also more recent Berlau article: "The Corker-Dodd-Alinski Bill?" Center Right Coalition Letter Warns About 'Proxy Access'"
'The Rules Committee Can Do Just About Anything' , Daniel Foster, National Review Online
3/10/2010 - UPDATED: 5:47 P.M.
Americans for Tax Reform Report: "Obama Proposes Over $220 Billion in New Energy Taxes." Read more.
Baron Bodissey on Gates of Vienna: "The Pilot Shark for British Sharia."
TEA PARTIES AND IMMIGRATION:
--Greg Kline, The Conservative Refuge: "Are We Forgetting Something?"
--Ann Corcoran, Potomac Tea Party Report: Truth in Tea-Party Advertising"
"Brit Hume and Public Profession of Faith," posted by hogan on RedState.
Virginia Anti-Sharia Task Force asks House of Delegates "to withdraw the invitation to Imam Johari Abdul-Malik of the Dar Al Hijrah mosque in Falls Church ... to open the Thursday, March 11 session with a prayer." More.
Delegate Bob Marshall asks Attorney General Cuccinelli for legal opinion on agreement to include $76 million in new fees in the Budget law of Virginia.
Committee for Justice Blog: Activists sign on to letter concerning legal issues in health care reform.
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.

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