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Showing posts with label liberals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label liberals. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

From Frum Forum: Charles Whalen: Congressman Of The Real Majority

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The author of the book discussed below wrote about the Republican member of Congress who seemed to most embody the liberal/moderate Republi...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

1972 Presidential Candidate McGovern Dies

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The NYT has a look at his life . The word liberal is tossed around carelessly, this is what one really looks like.
Saturday, April 30, 2011

What’s Left of the Left

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An inquiry into the decline of a movement .
Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Will Obama's Compromise With Republicans Drive a Wedge in the Democratic Party?

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Greg Sargeant thinks not : . . . there may be a gap between what high profile liberal commentators -- the so-called "professional lef...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Liberals Unhappy With Obama

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Democrats are also dealing with disaffected ideologues within their ranks. Obama has been too centrist for their taste. (These two links ...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

Are Liberals Rational in their Criticism of Obama?

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Ross Douthat contributes to the ongoing question about whether we expect too much from presidents in general, and whether liberals specific...
Monday, May 3, 2010

Sacrificing Freedom to Gain Greater Freedoms

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Here's some commentary on the different conceptions liberals and conservatives have about freedom. This guy uses an example I've use...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

We Are All Activists Now

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Barry Friedman and Jeffrey Rosen argue that both the left and right have grown accustomed to the use of an activist court to achieve their ...

Defining the Terms of Political Debates

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E.J. Dionne thinks conservatives have been able to do so for several decades now and that its about time liberals stepped up .
Monday, April 26, 2010

The Country Isn't Angrier, Anger Has Switched Sides.

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The anger conservatives feel today was matched by the anger liberals felt in 2006 . Maybe each side is just upset to be out of power.
Monday, March 8, 2010

Liberal Wing of Democratic Party Pulls Party to the Left

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From the Washington Post , word of a rupture within the Democratic Party. Liberals are as upset about Washington as as conservatives. Democr...
Sunday, November 8, 2009

Internal Divisions within the Democrats

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The Democrats have their own issues attempting to restrain activists . Democrats who want to aggressively push abortion rights and civil ri...
Sunday, March 1, 2009

Liberal Interest Groups Rule

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Another consequence of November's shift in power. Groups that had wandered the wasteland for the past 8 years -- or even since 1981 -- o...
Sunday, November 23, 2008

Liberalism, Progressivism, and What Words Mean

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Michael Lind wonders if its OK to be liberal again instead of progressive .
Saturday, November 22, 2008

And Still More About Republicans

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More commentary on the Republican realignment that wasn't and the essential components of the Obama Coalition. At the moment it seems t...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Kill all the Liberals

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Apparently that's one of the things that motivated Jim David Adkisson to fire a shotgun into a Tennessee church . This is one way to de...
Monday, August 6, 2007

Nothing Changes?

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The Mainstream media has been covering the latest (physical, not cyber ) gathering of fans of the Daily Kos , a left-liberal blog that has ...