By Ken Dalecki

As the grandfather to two adopted grandchildren from China, I am delighted that the Supreme Court has finally nixed racial profiling in college admissions.  My granddaughter is a math whiz and can qualify at any elite school based on her grades.  But she has been afraid to include a photo with college applications because she is Asian!  Hopefully that has changed, although I fear woke schools will do as much as they can get away with to perpetuate affirmative action.

My opposition to affirmative action started long before having Asian grandchildren.  In 1979, I was a National Endowment for the Humanities Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. One of our seminar topics was the 1978 Bakke decision in which the Supreme Court's oxymoronic ruling declared that affirmative action was constitutional but racial quotas were not.  I was the only one of a dozen journalism fellows to argue Bakke's position against quotas.  (One fellow said he agreed with my arguments but was too liberal to endorse my stand.)  At the end of the discussion, our professor weighed in in opposition to quotas.  "You know why he opposes quotas," one fellow asked me?  "He's Jewish, and Jews were once excluded to many schools."  I guess that made his position illegitimate in the eyes of my liberal colleague.

ONE THOUSAND PEOPLE GATHER AT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION

Ignored by the seven Democrat women who run the Montgomery County Board of Education, a huge crowd of parents, guardians and children gathered at the MCPS headquarters in Rockville last Tuesday to demonstrate their opposition to removing their rights to "opt out" of classes and instruction on sexuality and gender transitioning taught in the public schools to pre-K to 5th graders. They demanded that their religious rights should be respected. They demanded the right to instruct their kids by themselves on family values, sexuality and love. 

“One Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”

There’s more on our minds this Fourth of July than fireworks and cookouts. While areas around our great County may light up the night skies in remembrance of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, we must also acknowledge that we are living in complicated times that require deeply thought-out solutions. 

Whereas we may have come from diverse backgrounds, via different pathways, purporting different occupations, and speak different languages, we must be united by belief in a simple truth: that we are all created equal, that we are all endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, and that among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 

By Lori Jaffe

Over 100 people enjoyed the “Defending Freedom” themed MCGOP 2023 Summer Soiree held at Martha and Gene Schaerr’s home in Derwood. Vice Chair Dennis Melby as MC kept the audience in stitches, the food from Mission BBQ was awesome, and the straw poll conducted by Laura Benson was enlightening.

Dennis Melby and Laura Benson conduct the Soiree straw poll

Gene Schaerr, Esq, who clerked for US Supreme Court Justices Warren E. Burger and Antonin Scalia and for Federal Judge and US Solicitor General Ken Starr, described how he has been working with both sides of the aisle on legislation to stop partisan abuses by the FBI and the intelligence community. His successes provide valuable lessons to all of us on how people on opposite sides can work together to achieve a common goal.

Nancy Schulze, Founder of the Congressional Wives Speakers and co-­founder of the American Prayer Initiative, gave an impassioned speech on the importance of providing encouragement to our local community members. She described how simply having a meal with a soldier during a USO tour changed his mind and thus prevented his suicide. What a memory. 

Because of your feedback, and that of the greater community-

• Democrats are thinking twice about their bad policy of closing streets for bike lanes

• Democrats are thinking twice about their bad policy of high tax increases

• Democrats are thinking twice about their bad policy of yearly Gas Tax Increases

• Democrats are thinking twice about their bad policy of hating, name-calling and labeling everyone who wants Opt-out in schools.

Keep speaking up - folks who aren't Democrats vote too!

By Dennis Melby

With an important ruling, the US Supreme Court struck down the use of affirmative action to limit the number of Asians in education. The court, which has 2 Members who are Montgomery County residents and whose families face constant protest in front of their homes, said in essence the way to end discrimination is to end discrimination.

So many of our previous guests and supporters were involved in this case. Mike Zhao, Xi Van Fleet and Kenny Xu either spoke at our Lunar New Year festivities, appeared on Monday's with MoCo, or spoke at our County Conventions. We congratulate them all, along with citizens of all colors who will be recognized as Martin Luther King said, for the content of their character, and not the color of their skin.

Kenny Xu at the Supreme Court

Xi Van Fleet at the Supreme Court

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Dennis Melby is the Vice Chair of the Republican Party in Montgomery County Maryland and can be reached at [email protected]

Tuesday was an amazing day.  Christians, Muslims, Jews, Atheists, Democrats and Republicans showed up in force.  It is estimated that at one point, before the thunderstorm, we had between 800-1000 people rallying for the reinstatement of the “Opt-out.” Many speakers talked to the crowd about why they wanted the “Opt-out” reinstated, many children spoke as to why they felt uncomfortable in class when this material was presented, and everyone chanted “Shame on you,” which has come to be our rally call.  The opposition had around 25 people.

The next rally is scheduled for July 20, times to be announced at a later date.  A great big thank you to all the participants and future participants.

By Elizabeth Ohmen

On the evening of Saturday, April 8^th of this year, the night before Easter, 5 of us piled into my well-worn minivan, voted least likely vehicle to be car jacked. My very tall and not slight husband was designated Security for the 4 of us, older women, physically fit and yet unsure of what we were getting ourselves into. We represented many Patriot women who had expressed interest in going but had been told that it might be too dangerous of a mission. Somehow, we had overcome the voices in our heads and were fueled by the passion in our hearts to show up for prisoners who had been unfairly accused and incarcerated.