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”

• Somebody’s Taking All Those FDR Comparisons A Little Too Seriously

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 149
  Montel is ready to party like it’s 1942! “Montel Williams Suggests Ft. Hood Shooting Could Cause Massive Internment, Like Japanese Under FDR.” Uh-huh. Still though, Time magazine warned us that President Obama was the second coming of FDR…
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• Liberal liars and the lying liars that write them

  
  Coralville Courier — Authority: 488
  Check out the latest from the Iowa Liberal, well leave it to you to comment either here or there. http://iowaliberal.com/?p=4194
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• Obama’s Justice Dept attempts to destroy privacy on Internet

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 129
  Even the loony left should object. In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day. The grand jury subpoena also required the ...
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• Obama: most gifted orator or greatest teleprompter reader

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 129
  Is Obama a worst speech maker than Bush? As the most gifted orator of his generation, President Obama finds speechmaking perhaps his most potent political tool. It propelled him to national prominence in 2004 and to the White House in 2008. And whenever he needs to calm economic fears or revive stalled health care ...
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• Obamacare rationing is already here

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 129
  H1N1 is NOT a crisis except in the socialist minds. From a letter to the editor: The new era of government control over our lives and freedoms has begun. This week, it got personal, and I felt helpless. The doctor overseeing my health care advised me to get an H1N1 flu shot. Ive been under a six-year treatment ...
  4 hours ago

• Hes 25 Years Old

  
  First Draft — Authority: 637
  At the risk of being called a pathetic woman acolyte, I need to bring you this Joke making a joke of himself story because even if his ire is directed at a moron, its just so completely JOKE: Now thats...
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• End Clinton-era Military Base Gun Ban

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 149
  For those who are wondering why an army base of all places is, effectively, a gun-free zone, the Washington Times notes its origins : Among President Clinton’s first acts upon taking office in 1993 was to disarm U.S. soldiers on military bases. In March 1993, the Army imposed regulations forbidding military ...
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• Nancy Pelosi: Healthcare Bill Is A Christmas Present For The American People

  
  The Admonition — Authority: 138
  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, in her continued delusion, is now saying that the bill passed by the House would be a Christmas Present to the American people. Uh yeah, that about sums it up Nancy; a bill that says we have to buy health insurance or go to jail. A bill that says we can only buy a health plan ...
  5 hours ago

• ‘Twas The Night Before PelosiCare…

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 149
  [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] The First Amendment states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” But Nancy Pelosi (D-North Pole) just blurted out that her socialized medicine proposal is her “Christmas Present ...
  5 hours ago

• At ABC: Diane Sawyer asks tough questions of Al Gore and Jack Tapper points out some flaws in Obama job numbers

  
  Values Voter News — Authority: 488
  Media Research Center praises ABC for asking tough questions of Al Gore on Good Morning America and Values Voter News found an interesting article from Jack Tapper at ABC News which should be recognized for fair reporting at $160,000 Per Stimulus Job? White House Calls That Calculator Abuse Surprise: ABCs Sawyer ...
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• Viewers, Employees Of Al Gore’s TV Network Becoming More Selective

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 149
  Yesterday, we quoted British journalist Alastair McKay transcription of a speech Al Gore gave at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in August of 2006, to launch the British premiere of an An Inconvenient Truth . McKay quoted Gore as saying: “The information ecology defined by the printing press was ...
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• Redefining Competence And Ethics In The Age Of Obama

  
  FamilyFoundationBlog.com — Authority: 135
  Probably not too many of you have heard the name of Erroll Southers, but he is President Barack Obama’s nominee to head up the Transporation Safety Administration (see Federal Times ). As it turns out, once upon a time, Southers used his access to government records to spy on his ex-wife’s boyfriend (see ...
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• The Brave New World Of “Fannie Med”

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 149
  At Real Clear Politics, John Stossel writes , “No matter how honorable the central planners’ intentions, they will fail because they cannot know the needs and wishes of 300 million different people. And if they somehow did know their needs, they wouldn’t know them tomorrow”: Proponents of so-called reform ...
  7 hours ago

• The Rendezvous With Scarcity Rolls On

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 149
  As Rand Simberg writes, Barack Obama, while on the campaign trail last year, “persuaded many small business people to pull in their horns and make plans to keep a low profile (including laying people off) in order to avoid the wealth confiscation of the populist, socialist, economic storm they saw coming with his ...
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• All The News That Gifts

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 149
  Newsbusters’ Clay Waters notes an interesting rhetorical tic in the Gray Lady’s coverage of the left. I wonder if this phrase has its own entry in the Times’ style manual: New York Times reporter Peter Baker questioned whether President Obama’s soaring rhetoric (”the most gifted orator of his ...
  8 hours ago

• TOO many liars in Canada

  
  The non conformer's Canadian Weblog — Authority: 418
    Hey I STILL DO TOO often read contradicting news on the internet from the news media.. it is not real factual news, rather too often it is spin doctoring lies… lies about how good Bell is, lies about how many cell  phones are being sold, lies about how good the economy is, lies about how good the Medicare ...
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• Police to continue to hold DNA of innocent people

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • Profiles to be kept for six years under revised bill • Terror suspects details could be held indefinitely Chief constables are to carry on refusing requests to delete the DNA profiles of arrested people released without charge, while a fresh political battle is waged over how long the details should remain on ...
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• “Major Nidal Malik Hasan: Traitor”

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 149
  While the legacy media continues to pussyfoot around Malik Hasan’s action’s, Austin Bay doesn’t mince words : “ One word aptly describes Ft. Hood mass murderer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan: traitor”: Traitor is a tough word. It doesn’t smudge and squish. “Traitor” draws a hard line, one that ...
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• Classical Liberalism Is All in Our Heads? Responding to Paul Harvey on Race

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 629
  In the current issue of Books & Culture, Professor Paul Harvey (not to be confused with the late radio icon) takes aim at my “imagined” (read: invented) tradition of classical liberalism on race. You can read his full review here . Harvey concedes that Race and Liberty in America rediscovers ...
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• Lessons of November: Politics out of touch with American life

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 531
  All over America, pundits are spinning the wisdoms and trends revealed by the New Jersey, Virginia, mayoral, and Maine votes. No doubt, much is simple spin, and many fine observations lurk. This short article will try to bend the debate in a very different direction. I believe that hordes of voters went yesterday and ...
  10 hours ago

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