We have gotten to know New York Attorney General Letitia James very well, watching her sit in the courtroom of the Donald Trump trial. That was not a good thing for her or us. Listening to her prepared comments to the press and seeing her smug look as she looked on with glee was not a pleasant view into the depths of Letitia James. She had been obsessed with bringing down Donald Trump since before she began her campaign for AG. Now that she has his scalp in her bag, she must turn her attention to the rest of the state, which may not fare well for the good people of New York.

James can not be more Progressive, which does not match the more Conservative New Yorkers outside of New York City. New York is like many of our states where the Progressives gather in the metropolitan urban areas, leaving the burbs for the more Conservative. Letitia’s decisions for Manhattan will not be received with the same zeal in the Finger Lakes region. This week, she is inserting herself in another hot-button situation.

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) on Friday demanded that a Nassau County official immediately repeal an executive order restricting the ability of transgender women and girls to participate in athletic events at county-run facilities, arguing it is “”in clear violation”” of state law.

The news has been filled of late with young female athletes injured by transgender women (men) who are much taller, bigger, and definitely stronger than their female opponents. Last week in Massachusetts, a trans woman injured three females on the opposing team in just the first half of a high school basketball game. After the third injury, the coach of the all-female team pulled his team and forfeited the game. He did the right thing to keep his players safe from injury.

In the New York scenario, the Nassau County official made the correct decision based on protecting the vulnerable young women of the county. That decision does not align with the Progressive, Woke Attorney General, and she is insisting on rolling back any decision that interferes with the wishes of Transgender athletes.

“The law is perfectly clear: you cannot discriminate against a person because of their gender identity or expression. We have no room for hate or bigotry in New York,” James said in a statement , referring to an executive order issued last week by Nassau County executive Bruce Blakeman. Blakeman’s order, which prohibits athletic events that allow transgender girls to participate in accordance with their gender identity from being held at county-run facilities, is “”transphobic and blatantly illegal,”” James said.

The Trump case was targeted and politically motivated. She has hurt Trump and the Trump Brand, but she has damaged New York even more. Companies were already hindered to set up operations in New York with its high tax rates and mounting regulations. Seeing how the NY government has been weaponized at will against someone with opposing views will have entrepreneurs and investors alike looking to Tennessee, Texas, or Florida.

Her edict on Transgender rights will set back Title 9 decades. People on the Left, like Letitia James, are seizing the opportunity to implement their evil and dangerous policies before the pendulum swings back to the Right.

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Mitt Romney showed us all this week why he cannot be considered a true Conservative or even a Republican and why it is a good thing for the GOP that he will be retiring from the Senate when his term expires. Romney appeared on CNN and gave a mixed message on his view of Donald Trump. Let’s try to break it down.

There was a cursory chat about Republican policies, but then the conversation got around to Trump. It was interesting that Romney had some praise for Trump’s domestic platform but had nothing good to say about his foreign policy. This is where I believe Romney went off the rails and began to contradict himself and confuse the Biden and Trump records.

For example, Romney thinks we are safer and more of a leader internationally under Biden and that we will be an island unto our own under Trump. I completely disagree with this statement. First, Trump was the only president in the last 50 years not to involve the US in a conflict on another shore. Trump kept Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran in check for four years. Trump put pressure on NATO to anti-up on their fair share of costs. He used tariffs when necessary and made it understood that we would defend ourselves. As Reagan said, strength is the best defense. Nobody will push you if they know you will put them on their backsides. Biden and his minions have no understanding of that approach. Appeasement has us dumping billions into Ukraine, our best ally in the Middle East, being attacked on two fronts, and Iran weeks away from a nuclear missile. Biden has also destroyed our sovereignty by opening up our southern border.

Romney says it is all about character for him, and in his opinion, Trump has none. I will stipulate that no one is without sins, but to say that Biden is a man of character makes me question Romney’s acuity. Joe Biden has been using his position in Washington to enhance the Biden coffers, not to enhance the lives of Americans. Fifty years of sucking from the government dole with little to show for accomplishments. He has had two previous runs for president but had to withdraw when claims of plagiarism surfaced. He won in 2020 because of Jim Clyburn and the Democrat voting machine.

I agree with most that Trump is his own worst enemy with his mouth, but someone like Romney should recognize you measure someone by what they do, not by what they say. While Biden is showing his character, 10 million illegals have stormed our border, 300,000 have died from Fentanyl poisoning, our country is as divided as ever, and our education system is leaving every child behind. If that is what character gets us, the Mitt, stay home on Election Day and stop doing interviews. Comments like yours are music to Democrat’s ears and a sour note for every Republican.

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Is there such a thing as one single source of truth? Is it the government, social media platforms, TV, radio, a book, or a political party? Probably not. All of these things come from people, and we all make mistakes. Nobody is right all of the time about everything.

Our government and the social media platforms say they want to protect us from misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation. Do you believe them? Is that what they’re doing? Or are they just censoring viewpoints they don’t like for the power and control they can acquire? Let’s think about it.

They censored evidence the covid virus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China. We now know that’s true. Even China doesn’t dispute it. They censored claims the vaccines didn’t prevent infection and that masking didn’t stop transmission. We know they got it wrong there too. They censored ideas about natural immunity. They censored opinions about election irregularities. They censored reports about a laptop belonging to a presidential candidate’s son. They censored evidence questioning the extent of global warming and its consequences. The list goes on and on.

The point is we need to take what we see, hear, and read with a grain of salt. We should probably look at the qualifications of the author. We should probably pay attention to their record of being right or wrong, as the case may be. The quality of our judgment depends on our sources and our ability to get a sufficient variety of sources to be able to hear dissenting positions.

A pretty good way to sift through a variety of positions and information we acquire is to discriminate. That is, to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of the information we have accumulated. We should distinguish by discerning or exposing differences. Only then can we recognize or identify as separate and distinct, the positions of the various sources. Discrimination, you see, is a good and necessary thing… but I digress.

A censored opinion may often be called “misinformation” yet turned out to be true. We know our government and its Big Tech allies even suppressed information they knew was true. They colluded in their efforts to do so. Things such as the adverse effects of the Covid vaccines. That censorship blinded some Americans to the risk of the vaccines, which led to lethal outcomes. Doubt it? Look up the case of Ernest Ramirez and his 16-year-old son, Facebook, and the White House.

When the government and the social media platforms anoint themselves the arbiters of truth, they suppress “misinformation.” But if anything can be learned from the Covid debacle, it is that no one; not a prime minister, a president, not Anthony Fauci, not the White House… No one has a monopoly on that essential commodity… truth.

The government and the dominant media platforms were wrong about the vaccines, medications, masks, ventilators, business lockdowns, school lockdowns, the virus’s origins, and the Hunter Biden laptop. Yet they say we should rely on them to identify “misinformation,” really?

We shouldn’t. There is only one way to arrive at the truth. The way we do so is through open, uncensored discussion and debate. Nothing is more deadly to the truth than centralized censorship. Centralized censorship is precisely what the government and the media platforms are imposing on us. It is absolute tyranny. The government should never have the power to determine what is true, what is false, and what is an error, misinformation, disinformation, or malinformation.

That role cannot be left to the social media platforms. They are as centralized and maybe more centralized than the federal government. We have to grasp that, being dependent on the government means you can be made to do its bidding. This was made clear by the Twitter files released by Elon Musk. Look it up if you don’t understand the reference.

Censorship is mind control. That’s why governments want it… for the control and the power it brings. That is exactly why they shouldn’t have it. Think about how this plays out in the political sphere. Speech is how individuals learn about political candidates. It is how political opinions are formed. Without free speech, there can be no free elections.

When the government controls election speech, it controls elections. When the government controls elections, you no longer live in a democracy or a representative republic. Too many Americans think free speech is something only for them, not their political opponents. Their view is that censorship is desirable, and the First Amendment is just a quaint 18th-century artifact.

Well, no. The point of freedom of speech is that all of us should be free to explore all sorts of ideas. That is the only way we can test claims of truth for error. The ability to do those tests for ourselves is critical. None of us is infallible. None of us has all of the truth. We depend on others to correct our mistakes and teach us what we don’t know.

Perhaps the most important thing we can do is to speak up for freedom of speech. We must stand, not just for ourselves, but for everyone else, most especially those with whom we disagree. No one has a monopoly on truth, and equally as important, we all have a right to be wrong and be heard. That’s how we learn and get better. That’s why we need open, uncensored discussion and debate.

The forces arrayed against free speech are formidable. Their censorship or attempts at censorship will be their everlasting shame. Your defense of freedom of speech will be to your everlasting credit. It may be the most important thing you ever do.

The risk of one-party rule, if free speech is captured, is severe. Success in the implementation of government censorship will irreparably damage our country and the possibility of freedom for people everywhere.

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