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Doug Mainwairing, cofounder of the National Capital Tea Party Patriots has a piece in the December 18 issue of the Baltimore Sun under the headline Still brewing: The tea party hasn't gone away. In the piece, Mr. Mainwairing gives a nice plug for MD CAN's activities:

At the Carroll County "At the Crossroads" Summit, Lord Christopher Monkcton does an excellent job explaining why Governor O'Malley's "Plan Fairyland" is about ideology and political power, not science.

Also check out the videos of Lord Monckton speaking at MD CAN's Turning the Tides conference back in October.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

"You're all wasting your time here today."

That is what the Governor told PlanMaryland rally attendee Michelle Jefferson as he hurriedly departed the Governor's mansion this morning with two members of his security detail in tow.   He dashed out of his gate onto Lawyer's Mall at around 9:15 a.m. apparently on his way to a briefing on his recent India adventure just as the first of about 130 Tea Party and other conservative demonstrators arrived to protest his supposedly soon-to-be-approved PlanMaryland.