News Corner

By Dennis Melby

Tom Homan is a crusty guy. Doesn’t smile a lot and is serious most of the time. When he was with us in Gaithersburg earlier this year he teared up when talking about rescuing kids from the cartel, kids that were his children’s age. He made us all cry when he talked about carrying one dead boy out of a loaded truck the smugglers had abandoned and left locked in the hot sun.

President elect Trump has named him to Vice President Harris’ position as “Border Czar.” Kids, women and most immigrants will be safer because of it. It’s not some ethereal problem about stuff far away. It happened again over Thanksgiving. While I was shopping in Germantown there was a man and two really young children begging for money in the cold on the corner as we all left the shopping center. Immigrants they said, please help.

Last night, while writing this in Gaithersburg, about 30 miles away at the White House in Washington DC President Joe Biden also had a pen in hand and signed a full and complete pardon for all the crimes that his son Hunter Biden had committed since 2014. As part of his explanation he said that the justice department had weaponized the law and used it for political purposes, this time against his family. Sound familiar?

Were you surprised? After all, he had said repeatedly that this was something he would never ever do. I however always thought he would, in fact I thought if he didn’t President Trump would have pardoned Hunter Biden too. Pardons are important for Presidents.   Many years ago when I worked for Gerald Ford he told me that the reason he lost reelection was because he pardoned Richard Nixon, and that if he had to do it over again he’d do the same thing, ‘cause it was the right thing to do for the country. 

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By Lori Jaffe

Over the course of history, we have seen ordinary human beings take on difficult tasks, often facing adversity and then achieve success. We owe our freedom to such people. Having just celebrated Thanksgiving, we are overwhelmed with gratitude for those Americans past and present who have persevered through challenging times. Some of them are our local volunteers who turned an idea into a reality. All have a role to play, whether large or small. All faced challenges of varying degree.

As Calvin Coolidge once said, “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”