Yesterday's Judiciary Committee Hearing In A Nutshell

From talk show host Mark Levin:

House Judiciary Committee Democrats ... I’ve never seen a bigger bunch of assholes. There’s no other way to put it more accurately.

Trump Issues Executive Order Against Social Media Abuses

It was a long time in coming. It has support by both parties.

President Trump issued an executive order on social media, especially the giants like Facebook and Twitter, who practice censorship, shadow banning, "fact checking" and other acts on a selective basis.

According to Fox News:

Flanked by Attorney General Bill Barr, President Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office on Thursday that calls for new regulations under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) to remove statutory liability protections and cut federal funding for tech companies that engage in censorship and political conduct.

The president's order came just two days after Twitter took the unprecedented step of slapping a "misleading" warning label on two of Trump's tweets concerning the fraud risks of nationwide mail-in balloting. The move immediately backfired: Experts disputed that Trump's tweet was actually misleading, given that mail-in balloting has been linked to ongoing fraud, and Twitter failed to apply the fact-check standard to others. 

At Thursday's signing ceremony, Trump called the fact-check "egregious," and held up a photo of Twitter executive Yoel Roth, who heads up the site's fact-checking operation. Fox News reported on Wednesday that Roth has mocked Trump supporters, called Trump's team "ACTUAL NAZIS," slammed "scary trannies," and called GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a "bag of farts." 

"My executive order calls for new regulations under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to make it so that social media companies that engage in censoring any political conduct will not be able to keep their liability shield," the president said.

He added: "My executive order further instructs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to prohibit social media companies from engaging in any deceptive acts or practices affecting commerce. This commerce resides in Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. ... Additionally, I'm directing the attorney general to work cooperatively with the states ... to enforce their own laws against such deceptive business practices. The states have broad and powerful authority to regulate in this arena." 

Under the CDA, platforms are ordinarily not liable for users' defamatory or otherwise problematic posts under the CDA, while publishers that actively shape content do face liability. Trump's order would empower the federal government to interpret and apply that legislation.

To read more, go here. 

NM GOP Chairman Sends Letter to Attorney General Barr

Republican Party of New Mexico Chairman Steve Pearce has sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr asking for an examination of the lockdown orders of Gov. "Malevolent Michelle" Lujan Grisham and the resulting constitutional rights violations.

A little while ago, I received the following email from the NM Republican Party:

Dear Friends, Chairman Pearce was interviewed this morning on Fox & Friends. He explained on national television how Gov. Lujan Grisham's public health order is unfair and unjust. The Chairman pointed out that the shutdown of small businesses, while national chains remain open, raises legal questions and is discriminatory. 

Here's the Chairman's interview on Fox & Friends. 

Later today Chairman Pearce will also send a letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr. The letter exhorts the Attorney General to examine Gov. Lujan Grisham's public health order as it pertains to civil rights violations. It asks Mr. Barr to look into the unjust, unfair policies and practices involving small business shutdowns in our state.  

Our economy is now collapsing, and small businesses are suffering and even being fined and threatened. Questions are being raised about our constitutional rights and free commerce. 

There is no reason why small establishments cannot practice safe social distancing. It's a matter of fairness and equity, and small businesses are going under. 

Here's the Chairman's letter to the U.S. Attorney General 

Let's get New Mexico reopened, and get our state moving again!

The Storm of Grants Is Getting Worse

Above, the New Mexico State Police's image that is growing in peoples' eyes.

Chasing people away from churches, beaches, hiking trails, and parks, and arresting those who do not meekly comply, is not enforcing the “law,” it is enforcing the whimsical edicts of people unqualified to craft and issue them. When all of this is over, can the damage be undone? - Jack Dunphy, PJ Media, 4/24/20.


The "small western New Mexico town" of Grants is really garnering attention from the media from the determined defiant mayor versus the out-of-control governor.

The skirmish between the two is dragging the New Mexico State Police into the thick of things, severely tarnishing their image in the eyes of New Mexico citizens.

They aren't total innocents in this, they could've told the governor that they will enforce the law, but not act on the unconstitutional whims (executive orders) of a crazed politician. They have been acting as the "governor's personal Gestapo" in people's eyes.

Before today's reopening of businesses in Grants, an agreement was made between the Sheriff of Cibola County Tony Mace and the State Police. It was agreed that the State Police will stay out of the battle over the opening of businesses in Grants. That agreement didn't last long.

Unfortunately, it appears that the New Mexico State Police reneged on that agreement as they showed up at the municipal golf course and issued a violation notice. It was probably done under orders from Gov. "Malevolent Michelle" Lujan Grisham. (Reminds me of the Nuremberg defense, "Vee were only following orders!") This is blatant intimidation. Small wonder more and more people are referring the New Mexico State Police as a "Gestapo".

The events in Grants caught the attention of CNSNews, who wrote:

The mayor of Grants, New Mexico reopened the small western New Mexico town Monday, despite fellow Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s statewide lockdown order amid the coronavirus pandemic that has been devastating the town’s businesses. 

Local police will intervene if “Lujan Grisham and her Gestapo” try to shut down businesses that have reopened, Mayor Martin “Modey” Hicks has warned, The Associated Press reported on Thursday: 

“’I’ve told businesses to call 911 if State Police show up to their place. We are going to stop Lujan Grisham and her Gestapo,’ Hicks said, referring to the secret police of Nazi Germany.  

“Hicks said he is working with Cibola County Sheriff Tony Mace — a Lujan Grisham critic — and will use city resources to fight the state against enforcement of any closure order."

Somebody needs to back off and take a deep breath before things escalate and cause irreparable damage. Attorney General William Barr and the Justice Department will likely have to step in.

To read more, go here.

Just So You Know...

From the New York Post:

Millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died in an apparent suicide while in federal custody in Manhattan early Saturday, a stunning end that both infuriated and baffled his victims, and the federal officials responsible for his safety. 

For reasons still unclear, the jet-setting 66-year-old financier, who had faced up to 45 years in prison on charges of sex-trafficking dozens of teenage girls — accusers who have also implicated many in his circle of powerful, wealthy pals — had recently been taken off suicide watch, officials said. 

He was found unresponsive in his single-inmate cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center at about 6:30 a.m. and was dead on arrival at nearby NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, sources told The Post. 

The disgraced money manager was found hanging by his neck, a source told The Post.
US Attorney General William Barr said he was “appalled” by the apparent suicide at the ultra-secure lockup, which has held some of the world’s worst terrorists and drug lords. Suicides there are nearly unheard of.

To read more, go here.