"WOW! A pro-ICE ad just ran during the Super Bowl"

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By Dennis Brent Melby

The major cutbacks at The Washington Post caught everyone by surprise with a wide range of emotions. If you’re a subscriber like me, you checked out yesterday’s paper with curiosity and courage, no major changes yet. As a local Washingtonian, it was the only hometown paper left, but as a Republican, virtually every word, every page reeked of bias and hatred. Is this any way to run a major news outlet?

Some folks responded with glee, some folks responded with doom, and others with hatred toward Amazon founder Jeff Bezos – many of those haters were The Washington Post's own employees! They felt they were owed a job. Even if people didn’t buy the paper they wanted the owners to continue paying them high wages with heavy staffing because their philosophy was more important than the fact that the outlet hemorrhaged cash year after year.

As Republicans all we wanted was a news outlet with straight reporting. No comments to the side, no I Hate Trump All The Time. Heck, even middle of the road – some criticism, some praise and mostly just common sense reporting is what we wanted. Rarely seen…and never admitted. Folks tell me that a moderate newspaper was not what folks wanted (it’s what I wanted) and that they have a few, a very few conservative voices (Marc Thiessen yes, George Will no…)

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Yep, your street may not be cleared yet but MoCo is paying to have the never used bike lanes cleared...just in case a biker wants to use one. How 'bout them apples? Watch our bike lane video HERE.

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February 4, 2026

Joseline Peña-Melnyk, Esq., House Speaker Maryland State House

100 State Circle

Annapolis, MD 21401

Madame Speaker,

I write today to share with you that while I do not take personal offense at your mistreatment of me on the floor yesterday, I do take offense on behalf of the more than 43,000 residents of Maryland whose voices I speak for.

As I was speaking on third reader about ICE Detention Centers on a bill about ICE and immigration, you repeatedly cut me off claiming I was not “on the bill.” ICE Detention is absolutely germane to the debate on HB444, albeit clearly embarrassing for Democrat House members, as they are solely responsible for those conditions due to 2021’s Dignity Not Detention bill.

The Republican Party through its elected board, the Montgomery County Republican Central Committee (MCGOP) is currently recruiting qualified applicants to fill  Committee vacancies for Legislative District (LD) 14 (Burtonsville), LD 15 (Potomac), LD 18 (Kensington), LD 19 (Gaithersburg), and LD 20 (Silver Spring). Eligible individuals must be registered Republican voters who reside in the appropriate area. You may check to confirm your LD by Clicking Here.

If interested in applying, please submit your letter of interest and political/professional resume to the MCGOP’s Party Secretary Lori Jaffe ([email protected]) NO LATER than 5 PM February 9, 2026.  Interviews will be scheduled at a later date.

Following interviews, if nominated to fill this vacancy the full MCGOP Central Committee will vote to consider the nomination at a date to be determined. If elected to serve, member volunteers are to be active participants in all MCGOP efforts: attend regular meetings, promote the election of Republican candidates, organize, and operate effective political organizations in your Legislative District, engage in fund-raising activities and build grass-roots political support within Montgomery County. You would fill the remainder of this term ending in November 2026. It is fun, challenging, yet rewarding work.

MCGOP reserves the right to not interview applicants as well as to keep vacancies unfilled.

Thanks to those who sent feedback! Here are some comments that we received last week: 

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