~Coming Maryland Tea Parties~ The next Maryland Thursday Meeting will convene on August 13 in Sykesville. This will be the 94th** gathering of this group. "Ambassador Ellen Sauerbrey, Chairman of Maryland Business for Responsive Government (MBRG) announced today [June 23] that Former Governor Marvin Mandel, will join her as Co-Chairman of Maryland Business for Responsive Government Organization." Read more...
From the June 11, 2009 Maryland Thursday Meeting... Stand 4 Marriage D.C. chief, Bishop Harry Jackson, compares notes with Thursday Meeting chair Richard Falknor at the 93rd Maryland Thursday Meeting, June 11, 2009. Click here for more photos from the meeting.
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.)
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. 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 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 2009, 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 the recommendations of the Maryland Commission on Climate Change; the Maryland tax burden - - - from the state death tax to the just repealed computer-services tax to the proposed slots tax, and how the tax burden drives our entrepreneurs and tax-producers to other states; the attack of the Maryland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.

More photos from the June 11 meeting. Click here.

Photos from earlier meetings. Click here.

YOUTUBES:

Barbara Boxer meets "Dr. Evil" -- Michelle Malkin's YouTube says it all.

Experience the 2012 Pelosi GTxi SS/RT Sports Edition. (Thanks to Iowahawk.)

OTHER LINKS:

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.

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.

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.

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

Citizens' coalition sends letter asking Representative Kratovil to oppose cap-and-trade tax hike.

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.

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

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.

---Multiculturalism and Cultural Marxism, William S. Lind. Click here.

--Conservatives and education: Click here.

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

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

The Birth of the Administrative State. Click here.

--Overcriminalization. Click here.

--SEE ALL SPECIAL WEB DOCUMENTS.

--See recent AGENDAS.