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Les Knoll

I saw a study recently by Media Research Center where 89% of the news on TV networks was negative toward our President Donald Trump. Liberal media raises its ugly head trashing Trump non-stop. When Obama became president, the percentages were in reverse proof there is bias and those percentages on both sides are totally unrealistic.

Dont expect me to apologize for again criticizing liberals as with my previous letters. For every one writing critical of the left like mine, there are 10 critical of the right. There is no shortage of Trump haters, even in local media.

Rush Limbaugh has been claiming recently its not media that is an arm of the Democrat Party. No, it is the Democrat Party that is an arm of liberal media. Media, in other words, puts out the narrative that the Dems need to run with. Liberal media controls the Dem Party apparently.

Liberals dont live in the real world. Their master is like the Pied Piper and chooses what they are to believe. Most is fake news. Most is not reality, lacking in facts, logic and even common sense at times. Those Obama lovers and never Trumpers live in a bubble.

Take Trumps collusion with Russia to win the election for example. There is no evidence to support that claim, but it is impossible to debate most liberals on this issue. There are no facts to back up collusion but that makes no difference.

Try telling a liberal Obamas eight years of failed agendas led to Democrats losing some 1,200 elections nationally and in states. Obama was a failure, but to a liberal, he was one of the best presidents ever in spite of increased poverty, racial animus, people out of work, international disaster, etc. And, lets not forget the top 1% got richer during his presidency. No intellectually nonpartisan historian can possibly give the man positive marks.

Obamas marquee legislation called Obamacare is imploding, yet liberals claim it is as popular as ever. Facts dont matter to those on the left.

Hands up, dont shoot of Black Lives Matter did not happen. Period. However, law enforcement throughout the country was given a black eye on just another liberal false narrative. Pun intended.

How in the world can anybody justify harboring illegals in what are called sanctuary cities. Defying federal law by these cities is insanity. At the expense of endangering their constituents, the powers to be, prefer harboring illegals (criminals included) as do most liberals. Common sense takes a hike.

How do open borders make us better as a country? The negatives (drugs, crime, jobs, dependency, etc.) far outweigh positives. Liberals claim we need to have compassion but in reality its to transform America having little or nothing to do with compassion. Just another example of losing touch with reality.

Try telling a liberal the massive migration of Muslim refugees is not good for this country. Muslims dont assimilate and prefer Sharia law to our Constitution. Invasion within is their goal politically, culturally and religiously.

What about the disastrous Iranian nuclear treaty? Socialism versus capitalism? An overreaching government versus a less invasive one? Handouts versus a hand up? More versus fewer taxes? Man causes climate change. Please!

Who in their right mind believes liberals when they consistently call Republicans racists, bigots, homophobes, islamophobes and misogynists?

The height of liberal delusion was a recent column in which Leonard Pitts says: The 12 weeks since Jan. 20 have seen more scandal, international incidents, incompetence, instability, lies and jaw-dropping embarrassments than the previous 12 years combined. Pitts needs to see a shrink. Hes lost it and proves the whole point of my letter to the editor.

The list of pie in the sky and off the wall liberal untruths is endless and the differences between the left and grassroots Americans (especially rural Americans) are as big as it can possibly get. Never, since the Civil War, have we been this divided.

Personally, I maintain we cant possibly make America great again with make-believe liberalism back in control of our government, and its clear why.

Les Knoll lives in Victoria and Gilbert, Ariz.

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KNOLL: Do liberals live in a make-believe world? - hays Post

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Days after The New York Times newest columnist wrote apiececautioning against shutting down reasonable debate on climate change,liberals in the media and elsewhere are still railing against the paper for publishing a dissenting view from its typical climate alarmism.

Bret Stephens column on Friday quoted former NYT environmental reporter Andrew Revkin who wrote last year,I saw a widening gap between what scientists had been learning about global warming and what advocates were claiming as they pushed ever harder to pass climate legislation.

Claiming total certainty about the science traduces the spirit of science and creates openings for doubt whenever a climate claim proves wrong, Stephens, a Never Trump conservative hired away from the Wall Street Journal, argued. (RELATED: The New York Times Affirms Elitist Bent With Latest Hire)

Stephens column prompted furious left-wingers to threaten to cancel their subscriptions. Days later, liberals are still bitterly complaining aboutthe NYTs decision to publish Stephens column.

Liberal website Slate ran an article Sunday calling Stephens column classic climate change denialism. The column declared it not actually true that reasonable people can be skeptical about the dangers of climate change. The author, Susan Matthews, appeared to suggest that the liberal paper can no longer be trusted on account of the article, concluding: Stephens may be wrong about most things but he was right about onesome institutions no longer deserve to be trusted.

Theres nothing conservative (or liberal) about the Stephens column, data journalist Nate Silver complainedon Sunday. The issue is about evidence vs. bullshit. He doesnt know his subject.

Washington Post blogger Erik Wemple called Stephens column a dreadfully argued piece in his second piece complaining about it. Wemple claimed that speaking of climate change as a future problem shortchanges the entire issue.

Penn State professor Michael Mann said the NYT can win him and other readers back by owning [the] debacle and convincing us theyre not adopting editorial stance of false balance on climate.

Some of my more intemperate critics are doing an awfully good job of proving the point about the column, Stephens noted in a statement on Sunday.

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Days Later Liberals Are Still Melting Down Over Bret Stephens' First NYT Column - The Daily Caller

Veteran South Australian MP Duncan McFetridge will quit the Liberal Party after losing pre-selection in his seat for the 2018 state election.

Dr McFetridge has confirmed the move and says he will make a statement to parliament next week.

He has held the suburban seat of Morphett since 2002, but recently lost pre-selection to former Collingwood footballer and local mayor Stephen Patterson.

Dr McFetridge says he is now taking a few days break ahead of parliament's return on Tuesday.

He previously held a range of opposition front bench positions, but was dumped as a shadow minister by leader Steven Marshall in January.

He retained Morphett in 2014 with a near 13 per cent margin, but that was reduced to an estimated 7.7 per cent in the 2016 redistribution of electoral boundaries.

It remains unclear if Dr McFetridge will contest the next election in March as an independent.

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Our friends on The Left, especially The Professional Left, use emotional arguments to win hearts and minds. We conservatives are typically not very good at storytelling, which puts us at a disadvantage when trying to win debates over public policy. This disadvantage becomes more pronounced when we fail to counter the false premises of The Left. When we let an underlying premise go unchallenged, we have already lost the argument.

Too many Republicans, and even too many conservatives (not necessarily the same thing), fall into the trap of The Professional Left every single time. They'll meet the Democrats on their turf, leaving their false premises unchallenged in an attempt not to look like a typically mean Republican. When we use the language of The Left to try to beat them, the referee might as well declare a TKO before we even enter the ring. If we conservatives permanently want to change the arguments over taxes, budgets, health care, immigration, abortion, and any number of a host of public policies, we must first learn to recognize the false premises of The Left and call them out for what they are. As Napoleon learned at Waterloo, it never works out when you fight your enemy on their home turf. Reclaim the battlefield, and you claim the battle.

Here are Eight False Premises of The Left. Learn to recognize and counter them, and the argument will flow your way every time (at least until you're called Hitler, invoking Godwin's Law). Which false premise of The Left drives you craziest?

1. Mass shootings are on the rise! If we could just get rid of all the guns, people wouldn't be so violent!

This argument bears all the hallmarks of a False Premise of The Left. Take a crisis, blow it out of proportion, and demand emergency action. Voila! Rights revoked, and everybody feels better! This is the classic argument of the advocates of gun control. This argument presupposes that humans aren't naturally predisposed toward violence to assert their dominance in a dispute.

In order to defeat this argument, one must know the freely available stats on the rates of violent crime. Every outlet you can find, left-leaning, right-leaning, government stats, whatever is out there -- they all show a dramatic drop in violent crime since its peak in the early '90s. This article from National Review gives a good overview. The upshot is that as funding for police increases, violent crime decreases. About those mass shootings? According to John Lott, France had more deaths from mass shootings in 2015 than the U.S. had in all eight years of the Obama administration. This is not a uniquely American problem, and the frequency of attacks is a mere 0.078 per million people. Statistically, the chance of dying in a mass shooting event is roughly equivalent to dying in a severe weather event. Is it awful? Of course. Should we do more? Absolutely. Should we trample the rights of law-abiding gun owners? What do you think?

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Eight False Pretenses Liberals Use to Frame an Argument - PJ Media

HALIFAX Nova Scotia's premier did his best to laugh off a gaffe apparently revealing the provincial election date, after a campaign video was posted to the Liberal party's website Friday.

The video, which was quickly taken down, showed Premier Stephen McNeil next to a campaign slogan and the message "on May 30th vote Liberal."

It is the strongest hint yet that an election will be called in the coming days, although McNeil refused to confirm anything.

"You saw an ad that was a mock-up of an ad, I wouldn't read too much into it," McNeil told reporters at the legislature.

"As you can tell it didn't go through the spell check or anything. There is a number of stuff the campaign is doing, but I wouldn't read too much into it."

The campaign video alsomisspells the party's slogan "Building on a Stronger Nova Scotia" spelling it as "Bulding."

The Elections Nova Scotia website says an election period is "not less than 30 days" from the date the writ drops.

The Liberal government would have to call an election by this Sunday in order for Nova Scotians to go to the polls May 30.

On the heels of aweeks-long spending spree, the provincial government tableda balanced budget Thursday, further fuelling speculation that an election is around the corner.

Still, McNeil chose to remain coy when asked whether he was denying there was going to be an election on May 30.

"There will be an election at some point in the future and I'm looking forward to that," said McNeil, who added he would be spending his Saturday night at a church dinner in his home riding.

McNeil was again asked whether someone had jumped the gun and pre-empted an announcement that is usually made by the premier.

"Well there's no campaign," he laughed.

Progressive Conservative Leader Jamie Baillie said he didn't see what happened as being funny.

Baillie said the episode looks bad on the government, and how it has handled the run-up to what seems to be an imminent election call.

"It just shows that we've got to get away from this style of leadership where you pretend you're presenting a real budget and really you are planning an election," he said. "That's why I've been in favour of fixed election dates and this is probably the strongest argument yet."

Nova Scotia is the only province in Canada without a fixed election date.

Keith Doucette, The Canadian Press

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