News & Opinions

Council Staff Warns on Dire Economy | Montgomery Perspective | Adam Pagnucco | January 22, 2026

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Council President testifies against local involvement in immigration enforcement | Montgomery Community Media | Suzanne Pollak | January 22, 2026

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County Council members aim to unmask ICE, restrict access to county facilities | Bethesda Today | Ceoli Jacoby | January 20, 2026, 6:25 pm, Updated January 20, 2026, 6:48 pm 

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Elrich, County Council members to host community forum on data centers

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Ethiopian population in Montgomery County jumps nearly 150% in 15 years

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Heroditus

Its a Power Grab, Not "Reform"

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THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY

By Bert Black

Einstein is often credited with saying, "Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results." Ben Franklin is also credited with that quote. Regardless of who actually said it first, it is now a universally recognized truism. 

It's true in politics as in other endeavors. And nowhere is it truer than with the political organization that calls itself the "Democrat Party." The Party continually campaigns for votes from the masses of "usefully ignorant" by promising to create a Utopia in which all people are "happy, healthy and prosperous" due to the State's benevolence. That's the same tactic that the Communist Party uses to gain power. So, why is it that, once in control, the Communist Party never delivers those promises? Look at the leading Communist nations in the world, such as the former USSR, Russia, and North Korea. None have been successful in raising the economic condition of the masses. All they have done is make everyone in society (save for the Party elite) equally miserable.

READ THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY HERE

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Sheriffs defend work with ICE under immigration enforcement program | Maryland Matters | William J. Ford | January 20, 2026, 11:08 pm

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Nolte: ‘Melania’ Humiliates Media, Exceeds Expectations with Best Documentary Box Office Opening in Decade

By Joe Gillin

As we enter 2026 and plunge into activity for this year’s midterm elections, we are aware of the world around us with all of its tensions and turmoil. Some of us are old enough to remember the year 1968 with its assassinations, social unrest, international crises, plus the long and bloody Vietnam War that engaged public attention. Yet after that year’s presidential election, as the Christmas season approached, there was not just a quiet interlude from all the disturbing news, but a moment of epic inspiration as America’s Apollo program of pioneering lunar exploration was ramping up. Apollo 8 would be the first journey of humans away from the immediate vicinity of Earth out to circle the Moon. The mission collected valuable scientific and technical data that paved the way for the later landing missions but is remembered most for the awesome views of Earth from the Moon and the stirring reading by the crew of the first verses of Genesis during their Christmas Eve TV broadcast. Those later missions over the next four years ended in 1972.

• Jan 28, MoCo YR Happy Hour and Trivia
  
• Jan 29, PWRC General Meeting & Creative Activity
• February 19-22, Young Republican Leadership Conference 
• Feb 20, MDBRC - Lincoln Douglass Freedom Dinner & Awards
• Feb 21, UMRWC - General Meeting with Candace Parrott
• Feb 26, MCGOP Lunar New Year Celebration
• Feb 28, MCFRW Event - Political Leadership Training

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L to R Fitzgerald Mofor, Ricky Mui, Cheryl Riley, Harold Maldonado, Dennis Melby, Josephine Salazar

L to R John Myrick for Governor and Chairman Dennis Melby

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

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.

Thanks Sully. It saddens me greatly that he isn’t here to guide those poor mislead souls in Minnesota. Clearly, protests even as mislead as this would be peaceful and certainly not enter a house of worship, in anger and mistrust, claiming that they are Christians.

We, even in Montgomery county, need Martin’s blessings.

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JOHN MYRICK FOR GOVERNOR         BRENDA J. THIAM FOR LT. GOVERNOR

Post Office Box 25, Bowie, MD 20719-0025

Politicians talk about problems; We solve problems.

January 22^nd, 2026

     The Montgomery County Council’s efforts to virtue signal through legislation does a huge disservice to the citizens of Montgomery County.  Two bills have been recently introduced that will do nothing but waste the Council’s valuable time and potentially cost the county millions of Dollars in Federal aid.

     The first of these ridiculous bills is named The County Values Act, Bill 3-26, led by Councilmember Kristen Mink (District 5).  This bill aims to prohibit ICE Agents from entering Montgomery County buildings without a judicial warrant, and further attempts to restrict their access to everything from buildings to garages to public spaces.  The introduction of such a worthless piece of legislation shows that Councilmember Mink has absolutely no understanding of immigration or federal law.  U.S. immigration law does not require ICE Agents to have a judicial warrant to apprehend Unlawful Aliens.  Immigration law is considered an Administrative Proceeding and is very different from criminal law.  Administrative Warrants (Form I-200/I-205), issued and signed by immigration officials within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), authorize an officer to arrest an individual for immigration violations.  Judicial Warrants, traditionally, have only been required to enter a private residence to apprehend.  But even this interpretation has recently been changed and will most likely require the Federal Courts to render a decision.  Furthermore, no lesser jurisdiction (such as a State or County) can impede ICE agents from executing these Administrative Warrants, and any effort to do so could be viewed as Obstruction of an Official Proceeding (18 U.S.C. § 1505) – a Felony.  Lastly, the county has no legal authority to prohibit ICE Agents from access to parking garages, county buildings, or other public spaces.  This is just plain silly and has no basis in law.