How 1st amendment sensitive of them.

President Trump is not part of the Washington deep State. Trump has rolled back many of the policies that were detrimental to America and deep stater's are out to derail him no matter what it takes. Notice Russiagate is no longer focused on Trump colluding with Putin. That who subject is buried and they are looking for ANYTHING to accuse the president with.

Again: GIVE US HARD FACTS, NOT JUST UNDOCUMENTED ACCUSATIONS. When the media comes out with a new accusation (about every two weeks) I ignore them because they are Fact-less. The media is, also, loosing their credibility.

The CBS Sunday morning version of Full Measure With Sharyl Attkisson had a panel of four reporters who discussed this very subject and stated that the American public is fast loosing it's faith in the major news media reporting.

No, President Trump is not perfect but the majority of voters felt he was a lesser or two bad choices. In 2016 I felt that both parties needed to go back and select better candidates. He is overturning bad policies instituted by the last three administrations.

BTW, I question some of what you may be hearing in the Euro News. We're here and Europeans are not. With all respect you don't get the feel for America as we do.

Before I retired I've visited numerous countries in Europe and Eastern Asia and listened to the news and knowing what was happening here was not being relayed in it's complete story.

Article quote:

Some of the doubts are about pollsters’ methods. Do they ask the right questions? Are they manipulating the wording of questions to get the responses they want? And whom did they interview? Some of the doubts are wrapped up in a mistrust of the political parties, marketers, and media giants that pay for the polls.

But it is precisely because of our respect for polling that we are disturbed by many things done in its name. When interest groups commission pollsters to ask leading questions to gather “scientific” proof that the public agrees with whatever demand they are making on government, they demean polling and mislead the public.

Polling is a tool, not a principle. The authors in this issue come neither to praise nor to bury polling. They do, however, acknowledge how important it has become in our democracy. They stress Ronald Reagan’s “trust but verify” rule.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/polling-public-opinion-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

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I had a personal experience with a "poll" back in 1978. The Ford Pinto accident/fire happened 20 miles from where I lived. One year later a law suit was filed against Ford. One day after dinner I took a phone call and the person said this was a poll but didn't say for whom. The questions were worded in such a way that it made me seem anti-manufacturer and eventually anti-Ford. I cut the pollster short and said "you're trying to affect a possible civil trial jury" (my mother was a federal court deputy clerk and I was sensitive to this kind of game). The pollster coughed and tried to move in another direction. I told the person I resented what they were trying to do and hung up the phone.

Yep, just like all of the polls that said Donald Trump would be trounced by Hillary in 2016.

Massive innuendoes and accusations with no "CONCRETE" evidence. This has been going on since Donald Trump became the republican candidate.

Give us HARD FACTS. Not accusations open to interpretation!

Where else will the lost hear the gospel?

The democrat's aren't investigating Russiagate. They aren't investigating foreign interference in our elections. They are investigating every aspect of Donald Trump's life in a coordinated effort to take him down! This is a political and news media witch hunt.

Oh, A story that the media is hiding from us: President Trump, quietly, lent the McCain family one of the presidential planes to bring the casket to the funeral in Washington.

For us he's fumbled far less than the last three administrations. At least he didn't engage in a war like Bush. By the way, tell us about all of the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have come into Europe and are now killing lots of European citizens! At least President Trump is attempting to slow that down for the good old USA.

Donald Trump didn't become a billionaire by chance. He, also, didn't beat out all of the conservative competition by chance. He knows how to play the media game. He isn't one of the "Boy's" from Washington and because of this the media, democrat's and many republican's will do and say anything they can to malign him.

HE KNOWS THIS, and he is playing them against each other. Interesting how the media and the Democrat's were 100% convinced he would loose the election. They forgot to tell the American people! Oh, we all forgot: he hijacked the election didn't he? Right! Americans are all so dumb, right?

We'll see what happens in November!

Big difference between having a slight case of depression and being, involuntarily, placed in a hospital for psychiatric problems as with this guy. Stating on facebook that they plan to shoot up their school as in the case with Columbine. Or being released from the air force for making threats to officers and then killing members of a Church.

Society is being kept in the dark and made to think that the average "joe" is doing these shooting sprees, when they aren't! Everyone of them had a known psychiatric history that should have disqualified them from owning a weapon.

With respect, your response side steps the issue. People with mental illness need treatment, true. Focusing on mentally ill people buying weapons and killing people is not painting every mentally ill person as a killer. It would focus on enforcing gun laws as they should be.

The facts are plain that from Columbine Nigh School until Jacksonville all of them had a documented track record of psychiatric issues. The antigun lobbyists and media purposefully sidestep this issue. They use the excuse they don't want to give the image that all mentally challenged people are killers. However, they have no problem connecting the average law abiding gun owner with supporting serial killers. take note of their shots at the NRA.

This is the main issue. Mentally ill people obtaining weapons when common sense and the law forbids them. I understand condemning the 1961 pop hit "They're coming to take me away". That was rude and demeaning.

Ignoring this fact is hiding the problem. These people need help but should,also, be denied access to weapons. And society needs to know that the average gun owner (and guns themself) are not the problem and the evening TV news refuse to address this issue.

Immediately or within months of these types of shootings the story eventually comes out "The Shooter has mental issues"!

Quote: David Katz, the 24-year-old gunman who opened fire at a video game tournament, had previously been hospitalized for mental illness, according to court records in his home state of Maryland reviewed by The Associated Press. Divorce filings from his parents say Katz was hospitalized twice in psychiatric facilities as an adolescent and said he was prescribed antipsychotic and antidepressant medications.

I keep asking and few want to address the question:
"How do documented, mentally ill people legally obtain weapons of any kind"?

Why aren't the state and federal laws being enforced at the time of purchase?

The antigun people REFUSE to address this question. In Parkland one student tried to and the media refused to talk to him.

I just renewed my Indiana carry permit and I'll tell you I had to jump though more hoops that a circus has: and that's how it should be. It took Indiana 2 months to finish their inquiry into my past in order to find no problems of any kind.

Anyone selling or providing a weapon to a person with a known mental illness should be held accountable if that person commits a crime with said weapon.

A shooting happened in our area 10 years ago. The person was mentally ill and the licensed gun store sold him a hand gun without a background check. Not only was the state weapon license cancelled but the dealer was taken to court by the city and state and prosecuted. This kind of back ground check should be happening country wide.

Absolutely. Jesus was born the Christ (Messiah). It was for this reason and purpose he came into the world. He did not "become" Christ when he was crucified and resurrected as new ager's portray.

1. Socialism is the Big Lie of the twentieth century. While it promised prosperity, equality, and security, it delivered poverty, misery, and tyranny. Equality was achieved only

in the sense that everyone was equal in his or her misery.

In the same way that a Ponzi scheme or chain letter initially succeeds but eventually collapses, socialism may show early signs of success. But any accomplishments

quickly fade as the fundamental deficiencies of central planning and control emerge. Socialism is a system that ignores/removes incentives.

2. The strength of capitalism can be attributed to an incentive structure based upon the three Ps: (1) prices determined by market forces, (2) a profit-and-loss system of

accounting and (3) private property rights. The failure of socialism can be traced to its neglect of these three incentive-enhancing components.

4. The temptress of socialism is constantly luring us with the offer: “give up a little of your freedom and I (the government) will give you a little more security.” As the

experience of the 20th century has demonstrated, the bargain is tempting but never pays off. We end up losing both our freedom and our security. Those who didn't live through it don't have the memory. Add to this those who, today, propagate this either have forgotten or willingly are ignoring the failures as well as the bankrupt government it produces.

Lyndon Johnson's "The Great Society". The Great Society was to make everyone near equal. For decades large amounts of money were supplied to social programs. In the early to mid 70's most high school graduates (whose parents were poor) could easily obtain government grants (didn't have to pay it back). Of those I knew in high school who qualified few made an attempt. When I attended college my parents made a bit to much (no we were not well to do) so I struggled on my own.

The Great Society was a flop. It seemed to propagate a whole sector of society to be dependent on government social programs instead of giving them the ability to provide for themself.

NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN tend to be pro-democrat. FOX tends to be pro-republican

My statement isn't name-calling but stating the obvious. None of them can be trusted. One has to use common sense, have an understanding of politics (human nature) and listen to past and present comments of all individuals involved.

The question is, why?

It sure seems like Obama Care is a near free welfare insurance program paid for on the backs of middle class America.

I'm not against trying to help those in financial need but increased bankruptcies are being caused by major increased premiums and doubling or more of out of pocket costs. Even after the $10,000 out of pocket most insurance companies only pay 80%.

Many middle class Americans can't afford needed procedures even though they have "insurance". Yes, the previous insurance system needed reform but what we now have is a disaster.

My own daughter needs surgery for Endometriosis. By the end they'd own between $20,000 to $25,000. So much for the un-Afordable Care Act.

It's not just Obama that caused this. The democrat's pushed this through in record time. they pushed it through before Americans could find out what was in it:

Pelosi: "We Have to Pass the Bill So That You Can Find Out What Is In It"
Video available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV-05TLiiLU

Quote:
"Attorney General Curtis Hill today praised a U.S. District Court decision ordering the Internal Revenue Service to repay Indiana and five other states more than $839 million because of an unlawful Obamacare tax on state Medicaid programs. Of that total, the court ordered that approximately $95 million should be returned to Indiana.

Indiana joined in a multistate lawsuit filed in October 2015 against the federal government over an Obama-era regulation. Under that rule, federal authorities threatened to withhold Medicaid funds unless state taxpayers paid a portion of the Health Insurance Providers Fee to help fund the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.

“The feds wrongfully took Indiana’s money to fund Obamacare,” Attorney General Hill said. “Since the federal government cannot tax the states, we are pleased to return this illegally collected money to Hoosiers.”

The five other states that now can expect repayments from the IRS are Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Texas and Wisconsin.

Indiana, meanwhile, remains involved in efforts challenging the overall constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act."

Generally I don't trust any of the news networks anymore. NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN tend to be pro-democrat. FOX tends to be pro-republican. The citizen is left trying to figure out what the real story(s) are.