Liberal

A political liberal generally promotes the ideals of personal freedom and equal rights under law.

Social liberalism is often concerned with counteracting economic inequality through government action. Liberal economists often advocate increased economic regulation, tax reform, and increased social services.

Of the millions who consider themselves liberals, of course, there is a wide range of belief and practice. Overall, however, liberals believe that steps must be taken to ensure freedom and equal opportunities for all members of a society, and that social change should be enacted into law in order to protect individual rights.

In the blogosphere, liberals generally oppose themselves to conservatives in political and cultural debates. Just as there are moderate liberals, so are there extremists; in the politically-charged climate of the online world, extreme opinions and pundits can sometimes drown out more moderate voices.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Liberal”

• ETS

  
  Avatar Briefs — Authority: 129
  Everything turns to shit.
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• The Common Factor – Australias next conservative leader

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  A number of posts have been made today referring to the turmoil in Australias main conservative party, the Liberal Party of Australia. It is very likely that the current Leader of the Party (and Leader of the Opposition for Australia) Malcolm Turnbull will be removed from that position by a vote of the Parliamentary ...
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• WHY THE SARAH-CUDA WOULD MAKE A BETTER PRESIDENT THAN OBAMBI

  
  KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'........... — Authority: 499
  She has a knack for hitting the nail squarely on the head: With Congress and President Obama spending money on everything at breakneck speed, it’s interesting that they are only now getting nervous about spending – but only when it comes to providing the necessary funds to complete our mission in Afghanistan. ...
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• CLIMATE-GATE NEWS

  
  KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'........... — Authority: 499
  Did you know that so-called “scientists” in New Zealand have been found to be fudging their data, too? The New Zealand Government’s chief climate advisory unit NIWA is under fire for allegedly massaging raw climate data to show a global warming trend that wasn’t there. The scandal breaks as fears ...
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• I HOPE YOU DON’T THINK THE CHINESE ARE STUPID

  
  KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'........... — Authority: 499
  About 2 weeks before the Copenhagen Conference to deal with so-called “global warming” we find out Obama is, after all, going to go. Right after we had also found all those emails scandalizing those retards who believe in global warming and were perpetrating a lie on the world in order to advance their agendas. ...
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• WHY IS UNEMPLOYMENT SO HIGH?

  
  KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'........... — Authority: 499
  Take a gander at this chart and notice the percentages of private sector people each president has appointed to his cabinet. Note how Obama (mmm, mmm, mmm) has less than TEN PERCENT!!! That’s because all his pals in positions of power are commie rat-bastards that come from academia of are fresh off some other ...
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• HOWARD DEAN GOES ROGUE; SLAMS OBAMA-CARE

  
  KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'........... — Authority: 499
  Calls it a bailout that makes the AIG bailout look cheap. Says he would not vote for it. Then again, he wants a public option. But to have come out like this…..  
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• YOU BE THE JUDGE

  
  KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'........... — Authority: 499
  Student goes hunting. Leaves guns in truck Parks truck OUTSIDE school property. Cops using sniffer dogs who alert on the gunpowder. Student gets expelled. What should he do? 1. Should he sue to be allowed back in? 2. Should he sue to be allowed back in and have his name cleared? 3. Should he sue to be ...
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• SOCIALISM DID NOT WORK IN 1620 SO WHY SHOULD IT NOW?

  
  KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'........... — Authority: 499
  This is a shortened version of a longer story about what happened when the pilgrims came here long, long ago. Many people believe that after suffering through a severe winter, the Pilgrims’ food shortages were resolved the following spring when the Native Americans taught them to plant corn and a ...
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• Mandelson Gets His Own Digital Economy Bill Protest Song

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 161
  When Lily Allen inflamed the UK, and indeed, much of the Internet with her views on piracy a couple of months ago, it was difficult to see who could come along and create more controversy on the issue. But of course, Britain has a secret weapon – Peter Mandelson. Lord Mandelson, or ‘Mandy’ to those speaking of ...
  6 hours ago

• Attacks on Indian students not racism: Australian Senate report

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  By Paritosh ParasherMelbourne, Nov 27 (IANS) An Australian Senate Committee formed to investigate a series of violent attacks on Indian students this year has ruled out racism as the prime motive — but Indian student groups say the authorities are in denial.“There was very little evidence that the assaults were ...
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• The Brief Reign Of Acid Rain: The Original “Hide The Decline”

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  On Wednesday, Hugh Hewitt posited to Mark Steyn : Mark, I want to close by going up to 30,000 feet, beginning with Rathergate and the attempt to steal the 2004 presidential election with fake documents, through this one. Again and again, we find the left shading, falsifying, simply inventing narratives that they ...
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• Climategate & the “need” to blame Western man for all manner of social and environmental ills

  
  GayPatriot — Authority: 645
  It seems every now and again this idea for (what seems to be) a brilliant post on Climategate flashes across my mind and then fades before I have a chance to write it down or otherwise record it.   When I try to recall those thoughts or call them up by reading other thoughtful posts on this scandal of considerable ...
  7 hours ago

• Hatcham - Still No Action

  
  Transpontine — Authority: 500
  Still no sign of any action at the Hatcham Liberal Club in New Cross (369 Queens Road), shamefully empty more than two years after it closed. For over 100 years it was a place for drinking, socialising, music and much else. In its last few years alone the hall out the back hosted Exploding cinema film nights, jazz ...
  9 hours ago

• Liberals Using War Tax and Draft Proposals to Blindside Patriots

  
  Blogs For Victory — Authority: 571
  Various proposals are making the rounds to increase taxes to pay for the campaign in Afghanistan and, once again, to institute some sort of draft - this last bit the product of a curious bit of leftist thought that if we have a conscript army, we’d be more wary about going to war (in response to this, I offer WWI, ...
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• Australia carbon emissions law hit by opposition revolt

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  The Australian governments plans to enact a law for an emissions trading scheme have been thrown into chaos. A revolt within the opposition Liberal Party could overturn an agreement reached earlier in the week with the Liberal leader, Malcolm Turnbull. He agreed to pass the measure through the upper house of ...
  10 hours ago

• Australia – Climate Change Turmoil

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 491
  Could it just be that Australia has become the touchstone in the fight against Climate Change Legislation to introduce an emissions trading scheme. This story is raging across Australia at the moment. At that link are further links to related matters, all worth looking at. The story is also making headway in the ...
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• All Atwitter - Social Media and the Liberal Leadership Crisis

  
  gatewatching — Authority: 396
  It’s been a tumultuous week in Australian politics - at times for all the wrong reasons -, and social media have played an important role in the events. My take on the impact of Twitter on the Liberal leadership crisis and political reporting has now been published at ABC Unleashed , and I’m reposting it ...
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• Movement in the Liberal party

  
  Deus Lo Vult — Authority: 415
  Concetta Fierravanti-Wells has quit her post as parliamentary secretary. This was a big surprise as not only had I pegged her as a Turnbull supporter, but she had come out in favour of the ETS deal that had been hashed out with Labor on Tuesday. My guess is that she had her preselection threatened. She was probably ...
  11 hours ago

• The Harper “Reform-Conservatives”

  
  Unambiguously Ambidextrous — Authority: 481
  A Liberal party survey takes offence to the fact that, in general, political groups which obsess on pay equity and affirmative action quotas [like the Liberal Party] are “left-wing” fringe movements. So to fight fire with more fire, they call the Conservative Party the “Reform-Conservatives”. It’s as ...
  12 hours ago

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