The 120th Maryland Thursday Meeting will be held
February 16, 2012 (to avoid any conflict with CPAC). If you wish to give a presentation or make an announcement, CLICK HERE to email us.
  • Find out how the coming defense cutbacks will set back the prosperity of your Maryland county or city.
  • Wondering about Super PACs?  Pro Publica's Al Shaw and Kim Barker have some revealing charts  "PAC Track What and Where are the Super PACs Spending?" Kim Barker, Al Shaw, and Ariel Wittenberg post their helpful background piece "With Spotlight on Super PAC Dollars, Nonprofits Escape Scrutiny". See as well OpenSecrets.org's "2012 Outside Spending, by Super PACs" here.
Scenes from from the 119th Maryland Thursday
Meeting, January 12, 2012...

Kenneth Timmerman

 Dan Bongino
Ken Timmerman, candidate for U.S. Representative Maryland 8 District, talked about dangers and priorities for Maryland and the U.S. (see campaign website.) Dan Bongino gave an update on his campaign for United States Senator.
Manda Zand Ervin Christopher Farrell
Manda Zand Ervin discussed the world-wide danger of Sharia. Hear her interview on Talk 1200 in Boston about stealth Shariah in Maryland; read her article "Iran's Islamist Regime and the American Helping It," Stonegate Institute. Christopher Farrell, Investigations & Research Chief at Judicial Watch. See Farrell on Fox Business News, 12-30-2011 (YouTube).
 

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,

    OR
  • If you wish to make a presentation or an announcement in our Thursday Meeting, first CLICK HERE and email us.

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.

In 2012, 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 with Jim Gilmore, July 2011Maryland Center-Right Coalition chair Richard Falknor with Free Congress Foundation CEO and former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore at the July 14, 2011 meeting.

“YOUTUBES:

Fred Grandy on Boston Talk 1200 on "galloping sharia."

YOUTUBE: "Your next stop, the Nanny Zone."

Click here for video of PlanMaryland: At the Crossroads.

Andrew McCarthy on Civilizational Jihad in America. Watch YouTube.

Heritage Foundation Video: How Much Do We Spend on Defense?

TO NOTE:

"Runaway Slave - The Documentary Movie"-- see trailer. "While [C.L.] Bryant’s compelling story launches the film, the plot is revealed as he travels the country interviewing people from every economic and social background. Dr. Alveda King, Economist Thomas Sowell, Florida Congressman Allen West, Presidential Candidate Herman Cain and Star Parker are a few of the people Bryant encounters on his trek through the new Underground Railroad in America."

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

Wall Street Journal : "How Sunday's NFL Cities Became Champs; Favorable property taxes were game changers for New York, San Francisco and Boston. Baltimore needs a Hail Mary," by Steve H. Hanke and Stephen J.K. Walters.

BLOGS TO VISIT FREQUENTLY:

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

--Debbie Schlussel

--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

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

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

Republican Study Committee presents handy guide with photos: "Freshman Republican Members of the 112th Congress"

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.

Maryland State Constitution.

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

The Founders' Constitution: key readings.

"Multiculturalism and Cultural Marxism," William S. Lind

Heritage Foundation: "The Birth of the Administrative State"

Heritage Foundation's Paul Rosenzweig: Overcriminalization