Liberalism

Source: www.moreover.com --- 18 days ago
Pittsburgh is being haunted by Liberalism and the city is still spending money it does not have. ...

Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 23 days ago
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 28 -- An out-of-work truck driver accused of opening fire and killing two people at a Unitarian Universalist church apparently targeted the congregation out of hatred for its support of liberal social policies, including its acceptance of gays, police said Monday. ...

Source: www.propeller.com --- 18 days ago
Mary Lyon, in this interview, shows why she is an island of sanity in a sea of madness. Her ideas about the environment, parenting and ... ...

Source: forums.scout.com --- 1 day ago
http://quis.qub.ac.uk/libsoc/Liberalism.htm Seems that many of the Libs on this board ...

Source: blog.beliefnet.com --- 9 days ago
Somehow I found time to read David Lebedoff's "The Same Man" this weekend, and boy oh boy, did I ever enjoy it. Lebedoff credits George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh with having a strikingly similar vision about the modern world's debasement... ...

Source: www.associatedcontent.com --- 30 days ago
Let me first say that I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican Some may call me a Moderate but it is of my belief that moderates are just a mixture of whiny disgruntled outcasts from either party who did not get everything they wanted ...

Source: www.alternet.org --- 39 days ago
Data from 1984-2006, shows a narrowing gap between cons and libs. ...

Source: www.reason.com --- 16 days ago
In Sunday's Washington Post Outlook section, the Century Foundation 's Greg Anrig published a strain of curious left-of-center analysis I'm seeing more and more this election: That the Republicans are losing because limited-government ideas don't work, and are no longer popular. This critique requires a significant leap of logic − that George W. Bush, and his would-be GOP successor John McCain, practice and/or believe in limited government principles. Anrig glides over this problem via assertion. McCain's ongoing difficulties in exciting voters aren't just a tactical problem; his woes stem largely from his long-standing adherence to a set of ideas that simply haven't worked in practice. [...] The single theme that most animated the modern conservative movement was the conviction that government was the problem and market forces the solution. It was a simple, elegant, politically attractive idea, and the right applied it to virtually every major domestic challenge − retirement security, health care, education, jobs, the environment and so on. Whatever the issue, conservatives proposed substituting market forces for government − pushing the bureaucrats aside and letting private-sector competition work to everyone's benefit. So they advocated creating health savings accounts, handing out school vouchers, privatizing Social Security, shifting government functions to private contractors, and curtailing regulations on public health, saf ...

Source: clipmarks.com --- 10 days ago
clipped by: suckmyclip clipper's remarks: " I must admit that the colossal and explosive growth of the federal government under Bush has surprised me. But I can't deny its logic, given the legacy of Liberalism. What surprises me more painfully is that Bush has done all of this with so little protest or resistance from conservatives who should know better." Clip Source: www.sobran.com During the fuss about the Bush administration's warrantless wiretaps, liberal critics were on the verge of making a few good points. But they missed the biggest point of all: George W. Bush is the fruit of their own Liberalism. David Ignatius of The Washington Post quite properly noted that Bush and Dick Cheney make the dubious claim that the president's constitutional wartime authority “trumps everything,” even acts of Congress specifically forbidding, say, warrantless wiretaps. Sound familiar? Where have we heard this before? Yes, of course! Abraham Lincoln felt entitled to claim any powers he deemed necessary to perform his transcendent duty to “save the Union.” True, the Constitution didn't spell these out, but as Harry V. Jaffa has written, Lincoln “discovered” a whole “reservoir” of wartime powers implicit in Article II. Why shouldn't Bush imitate the great example of Lincoln, one of Liberalism's gods? Tags: funked-up , liberal , logic ...

Source: rossdouthat.theatlantic.com --- 15 days ago
Isaac Chotiner makes some fair points in response to my remarks on Adam Gopnik's essay on G.K. Chesterton, so let me try to clarify my beef with the essay, and by extension with the style of criticism it embodies. My complaint was not that Gopnik brought up Chesterton's anti-Semitism, or that he deplored it. Rather, I objected to the disproportionate weight he placed upon it, which felt more appropriate to an essay on, say, Ezra Pound than to a figure like Chesterton, whose conduct in the shadow of totalitarianism compares relatively favorably to an awful lot of his intellectual contemporaries. And I especially objected to the way that Gopnik used the taint of anti-Semitism to dismiss nearly everything in Chesterton that a contemporary liberal might find challenging or troubling. His essay starts by reassuring the New Yorker 's readership - whose familiarity with GKC is presumably extremely limited - that Chesterton "has a loving following among liberal Catholics, like Garry Wills and Wilfrid Sheed, and even nonbelievers, like Martin Gardner" (so it's okay to read him, folks), while simultaneously promising to rescue the Good Chesterton from his reactionary admirers - those "conservative preVatican II types" whose admiration for GKC makes him "a difficult writer to defend." And Gopnik ends, predictably enough, by suggesting that the Good Chesterton, the one New Yorker readers should admire, is the Chesterton who doesn't challenge any o ...

Source: mises.org --- 4 minutes ago
Recorded 29 July 2008 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama. ...

Source: voices.idahostatesman.com --- 5 days ago
Our friend Randy Stapilus has already predicted this quote will go viral. So let me do my little bit to highlight this caustic comment from Wayne Hoffman, the outspoken spokesman for Rep. Bill Sali. Taking issue with a recent editorial in his old paper, Nampa's Idaho Press-Tribune, Hoffman says, "The Press-Tribune has, regrettably, joined the chorus of shrill news lemmings all marching willingly to a sea of Liberalism, filth and innuendo." Other than that, I guess, we're all doing a whale of a job. read more ...

Source: pajamasmedia.com --- 1 day ago
Why treating success as a form of failure is wrong. ...

Source: www.mcall.com --- 11 days ago
As another school year approaches, I warn students and parents that there are many teachers and professors in public schools and colleges who are indoctrinating and recruiting students into the Church and Army of Liberalism. ...

Source: pajamasmedia.com --- 1 day ago
Why are many thoughtful people, including many Democrats, so uneasy about the prospect of an Obama presidency? Please don’t tell me it’s because of “racism.” The race card, in so far as it operates in this election, will operate mostly in favor of Obama (consider, for starters, the fact that he is expected [...] ...

Source: www.nysportsday.com --- 15 days ago
Anyone notice that in forums that don't have a political focus (i.e. sports franchise, TV shows, etc) but in their GDFs they tend to lean towards the left? Then again, it could just be the places *I* hang around, other than here of course, but it does seem that there is more of a liberal/democratic slant in cyberspace than a conservative/republican one. Just a couple of examples of my point: Was randomly searching YouTube and came up with a video of Larry David explaining his views on religion were "keep it out of my face," not Bill Maher's "it needs to be abolished entirely" or anything, but the comments section was littered with "liberal" atheistic "Way to go Larry" comments and very few comments against. Well there was one, someone posted a reply which featured Michael Savage ripping Larry for being a "self-hating Jew" and continuing the sterotypes, through both of his programs, that most Americans hold of those of the Jewish faith being whiny and narcassistic whimps who can't fight for themselves. Needless to say that video was littered with anti-Savage comments and barely any pro-Savage and anti-David/way Jews are portrayed in entertainment commentary. Another example is a mega TV forum which has branches devoted to non-fiction and news shows, in other words MSNBC, FOX, etc. Well if you went by the page and post count totals, one would think MSNBC and CNN were trouncing FOX News, and many of the commentary on the threads reveal mo ...

Source: www.southcoasttoday.com --- 37 days ago
Criticism ...

Source: www.bloggernews.net --- 16 days ago
Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died Sunday at the age of 89 in Moscow, was greatly admired by the late Pope John Paul II. According to Ted Lipien, the author of a recently published book, Wojtyla’s Women, How They Shaped the Life of Pope John Paul II and Changed the Catholic Church, both men shared a highly negative [...] ...

Source: www.southbendtribune.com --- 14 days ago
After reading an opinion piece in the July 29 Tribune, I've come to the realization that a few Michiana residents may be harboring some misconceptions concerning American Liberalism. ...

Source: openpr.com --- 1 day ago
The ongoing battles for the preservation of individuals’ rights and the optimization of the freedom of choice have never been more pronounced than they are today. Dr. Yale Kramer in his Xlibris ... read more ...