Culture
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A Tale of Two MoCo Minks – While Councilmember’s Comments on Muslim Parents Go Viral, Husband’s Twitter Stays Ravens Football Focused
Read more: A Tale of Two MoCo Minks – While Councilmember’s Comments on Muslim Parents Go Viral, Husband’s Twitter Stays Ravens Football FocusedInteresting times afoot in Montgomery County, Maryland – which now finds itself back in the national news as controversy rages over parental rights, religious freedom and the ability of families to opt-out of certain MCPS (public school system) curriculums and readings to children as young as five. The tension mirrors what went on across the…
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The Opt-Out Rally and the No-Choice Illusion
Read more: The Opt-Out Rally and the No-Choice IllusionThere are a three commonplace events that make me pause and feel how fortunate I am to be an American. One of them is when buying paper towels and toilet paper from Costco. It’s difficult to find a more effective combination of mass production, mass consumption, voluntary exchange, impeccable quality control, and a large corporation…
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Is Evan Glass Sponsoring a Creepy White Van?
Read more: Is Evan Glass Sponsoring a Creepy White Van?In March 2023, the Mayor of College Park, Patrick Wojahn, was arrested and charged with 40 counts of possession of child pornography & 40 counts of possession with the intent to distribute. He subsequently resigned from his position. Patrick was well known and supported in the ever tight circle of MD Democrats and the MD…
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City of Rockville Mixing Church and State….only for self-described liberal religions
Read more: City of Rockville Mixing Church and State….only for self-described liberal religionsThe City of Rockville’s official public information office sent out an e-mail recently highlighting “Volunteer Rockville” and posting talking points about the upcoming city-wide election that has ballot questions, one of which, if passed, may give non-citizens the ability to vote in city elections in the future. You can see a screen shot here of…
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Politicians Bending Their Morality
Read more: Politicians Bending Their MoralityDuring the 2022 election season it was not popular to be associated with a church that ascribed to beliefs that were counter mainstream MoCo culture. In fact, if you belonged to a church that did not support, for instance, gay marriage or transgender ideology you were labeled “hateful”. This was especially evident in the school…
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CM Laurie-Anne Sayles Appears to Attend Will Jawando’s Mega Church (Its Non-Profit Corp Has Received Thousands in Taxpayer Funding)
Read more: CM Laurie-Anne Sayles Appears to Attend Will Jawando’s Mega Church (Its Non-Profit Corp Has Received Thousands in Taxpayer Funding)Revisiting an earlier topic / investigation today, first published here at CleanSlateMoCo.com. It is regarding the non-profit arm of an AME mega-church in the Maryland – DC area that is attended by Montgomery County CM Will Jawando and his wife Michelle, and appears to use this connection to a local politician (and his wife, who…
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Progressives use your words, but not your dictionary…
Read more: Progressives use your words, but not your dictionary…I’ve been studying the “woke” (critical social justice) movement since the Evergreen State riots in 2017. I have always identified as a classic liberal, and I still do. I am self-employed, and one could easily argue that I work in the progress business; I earn more when my clients do well, less and sometimes none…
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MoCo Sets Aside its Values with “Sister City” Partnership with Xi’an, China
Read more: MoCo Sets Aside its Values with “Sister City” Partnership with Xi’an, ChinaDid you know Montgomery County has five “Sister Cities”? Three are in Asia, one in Africa and one in, yep, Marc Elrich’s favorite country, El Salvador (more on this in another investigative post). Per the ‘about’ page on the County’s Sister City website, the mission here is: People have come to Montgomery County, Maryland from…