Francis Bacon, shown here, is considered the father of the scientific method or empiricism at the dawn of the modern era. We draw conclusions from inductive reasoning in which an experiment is conducted and statistical techniques are applied. Alternatively, we can use deductive reasoning. In reality, the facts or data can be difficult to ascertain with certainty. “An Enemy of the People” is the 19th century play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Many ersatz commentators may themselves be an enemy of the people by holding themselves out as experts without being sufficiently educated to properly inform people about the subtleties of major issues. It is condescending for commentators to assert that Pres. Trump is discrediting them. They lost all credibility prior to his coming on the scene. Hopefully, these would-be journalists will scurry to read this play or, even better, see it performed. However, they need to assimilate a vast body of work prior to being legitimate arbiters of the truth. What about “true believer”. To paraphrase the longshoreman turned professor, if you give a worker authority, he just wants you to follow his lead. If you give an intellectual power, he wants you to worship him. One of the smarter things said in all the coverage was said by a Fox guest today. It was that Trump’s critics to him literally but not seriously and his supporters took him seriously but not literally. Clinton and the other democrat oligarchs would like to undermine the first amendment. Social media had a good start democratizing the dissemination of ideas and the "elites" would now like to undermine that, too. They have a right to try to debunk stories they believe are fake. For example, did the Clintons enrich their cronies on the backs of poor Haitians? I have a list of stories they can try to refute. Clinton and the other democrat oligarchs would like to undermine the first amendment. Social media had a good start democratizing the dissemination of ideas and the "elites" would now like to undermine that, too. They have a right to try to debunk stories they believe are fake. For example, did the Clintons enrich their cronies on the backs of poor Haitians? I have a list of stories they can try to refute. Did Bill Clinton repeatedly fly on the private jet of a convicted pedophile. Did the husband of her top aide send photos of his genitalia to women and girls. They have a right to engage first rate investigative reporters to debunk these stories and citizens have a right and responsibility interpret their news with care. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/13/flight-logs-show-bill-clinton-flew-on-sex-offenders-jet-much-more-than-previously-known.html http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/14/bill-clinton-took-more-than-twice-as-many-flights-on-pedophile-island-billionaires-lolita-express-than-previously-reported/ Greg, I was amused by your diatribe against “fake” news and your impassioned plea to allow conventional outlets to retain their hegemony over the fourth estate. Your selflessness would be more credible if you would use the considerable resources of Fox (the only mainstream outlet that has any palatable commentators) to aid those of us from the third estate to interpret the news. Answer the following questions about the two sites above: Do they originate from the site they appear to originate from? Are the sites credible news sources? Are the allegations supported elsewhere? Only if you seriously investigate and answer these questions can you be respected. I am copying a few other pundits to memorialize this challenge. You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in. Colin Powell Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/colin_powell.html The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. Colin Powell Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/colin_powell.html The priority for Americans is to allow Pres. Trump to continue his methodical improvements for all Americans, especially hard-working ones and those who have been shot out from the American dream by the bicoastal leftists. America is strong enough that we can investigate wrongdoing at the same time if the corrupt press does not distort them. Support our content: buy off-roading stuff from our associate page. Priorities for investigation are: · Hillary Clinton’s obstruction of justice · the criminal enterprise called the Clinton foundation · subversion of the principal of equal justice under the law in which the executive branch under former Pres. Obama: o quashed the investigation of fast and furious where deadly weapons were made available to drug lords by the ATF o obstructed the investigation of abuse of power by the IRS o failed to pursue voter intimidation by the new Black Panthers in Philadelphia o obstructed the investigation of the death of our ambassador in Libya o failed to investigate the meeting at an airport tarmac between our Atty. Gen. and the object of a criminal investigation · how Mark Cuban beat wrap for insider trading · does the new Sen. from New Hampshire, Maggie Hassan, have ties to terrorism through her husband and the Phillips Exeter Academy? http://granitegrok.com/blog/2012/10/muslim-brotherhood-what-does-maggie-hassan-think-of-her-husbands-islamic-radical-friends-that-he-brings-to-philips-exeter-academy · Obama crony abuse of power influencing illegal surveillance of their political opponents campaign-the stuff that Watergate was made of The recent attempt by a leftist commentator to disparage someone by saying that she was brought up in a trailer park exposes the disgusting elitism of the coastal Democratic “liberals” who truly looked down on people who are not rich or who don’t share their obsession with material things. Many minorities in the inner cities and millions in the heartland see through the “liberal” “democratic” oppression of the poor and working people and are becoming empowered. The Democrats’ and their lobbyists’ three martini lunch is the modern-day equivalent of the first, second and fourth estates saying about the third estate “let them eat cake”. The modern-day Marie Antoinettes and Louis XVIs, represented by the Democrats, are beginning to realize that the people are angry. They don’t understand that living in a trailer park or under other modest circumstances is perfectly respectable, more respectable in fact, than living above ones’ means. The Trump administration embodies the principles of the Enlightenment. That is why the Schumerites and other elitists are becoming so crazed. They are like wasps at the end of their life cycle. Go off road .Today, March 27, 2017 FOXNews helped expose the deeply flawed mind of Judith Miller. To say it was intentional might be giving the host too much credit. They railed out against false news and gave a deeply perverted and treasonous definition. They defined false news as that promulgated by people who are not bona fide journalists, meaning, in their minds, not credentialed by mainstream outlets. It is obvious that this definition undermines the first amendment by establishing those are allowed to express their opinions. It is incredibly self-serving because, of course, Judith Miller considers herself a legitimate news source. Even the host could not help joining this folie a deux, which is understandable given her membership card in the club. Neither seems to understand that social media has democratized the fourth estate. While it is true that there are many inaccurate stories out there, the alphabet soup of networks, and to a slightly lesser extent FOXNews, has contributed to the dissemination of inaccurate stories. These self-proclaimed “legitimate” networks have very few, if any, reporters or pundits understand epistemology or how we know something. They know little of the scientific method and do not understand inductive or deductive reasoning nor abductive reasoning. How many have even a passing understanding of statistics or systemic bias. If they want to perform a real service to society, they could start by fact checking IP addresses. For instance, if the news source claims to be the New York Times or the New Republic or the Weekly Standard, is it really that news source or is it someone mimicking that news source to be deliberately misleading. The second thing they could do is to investigate in-depth stories they consider problematic. Did Bill Clinton repeatedly fly on the same private aircraft owned by a convicted pedophile? Did Judith Miller really put FBI agents and the American public at risk by notifying terrorists of an impending FBI raid? The alphabet soup networks and FOXNews have the resources to investigate these issues, e.g. by accessing the flight plans of Clinton’s convicted pedophile friend. By doing so, they could partially restore their credibility.

Americans are outraged that, once again, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has once again meddled to make America less safe. We all know its miserable record of being frequently overturned by courts of higher authority, demonstrating the profound incompetence of the ninth circuit judges. In the present case it, appears to be no coincidence that, after the American President has an exceedingly successful session with Congress, the 9th Circuit Court makes a decision which seems specifically designed to merely cause mischief. They know they will be overturned yet make a ruling that threatens the safety of all Americans to merely stir the pot and create complexity. There must be some recourse that American can take against activist judges who abuse their position like the 9th Circuit Court does repeatedly. Buy the most relevant book of 2018, Don’t Tread on America. Buy it here so as not to enrich Bezos and the intellectually bankrupt Washington Post.