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”

• AFP Writes Up Proposed Tax With Next to No Chance of Passage to Set Stage For the Real Thing

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 832
  Youve got to hand it to the propagandists at the AFP. When heavy-hitting members of the party they favor announce an idea whose main purpose is, as the New York Times suddenly "discovered" last weekend , to remind people that wars cost money and distract from supposedly more important priorities, the wire service ...
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• They Don’t Call It “The Blind Side” For Nothing

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 151
  John Nolte explains
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• Knowledge in the Gettysburg Curriculum

  
  Creative Destruction — Authority: 472
  Look at page 28 of the Gettysburg College Course Catalogue 2009-10 . There under the heading "Academic Purposes of Gettysburg College" is an eloquent statement that must have been approved by the faculty many years ago (before I arrived at least) concerning the goals of a Gettysburg College education. We read: In ...
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• Democratic National Committee Says Sarah Palin is “Dangerous” (Darkness hates light)

  
  Audacity Of Hypocrisy — Authority: 495
  With Sarah Palin in the spotlight as she continues her nationwide media and book tour, the Democratic National Committee is suggesting to its supporters that the former GOP vice presidential candidate could pose a real threat to the Democratic agenda. In a fundraising e-mail sent out Friday, Organizing for America ...
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• NY Gitmo trails may not start for a year

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  but where are the terrorists going to be kept before and during the trail. Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said he thought there was little chance that Mr. Mohammed would be acquitted. But he argued that Mr. Holder’s decision was a mistake for a different reason: in the future, he said, ...
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• S2781: The “Don’t call them retarded” Act

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  More political correctness because someone was offended by the term of mentally retarded. S. 2781 To change references in Federal law to mental retardation to references to an intellectual disability, and change references to a mentally retarded individual to references to an individual with an intellectual ...
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• HR4111: The ‘Don’t 7-11 captured Islamic Terrorists” Act

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  Don’t mirandize enemy combatants caught on foreign soil. Don’t treat them like they robbed the local 7-11. H. R. 4111 To prohibit the prosecution of unprivileged enemy combatants by the Department of Justice. Source: Thomas LOC Don’t allow enemy combatants caught on foreign soil tried on US Soil in the ...
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• Texas State regents approve academic center

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 519
  Texas State University System (TSUS) regents approved the design of a $47.7 million undergraduate academic center Friday, moving ahead with the 130,000-square-foot facility at the universitys south gateway.
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• Free At Last From the Threat of Anthropogenic Global Warming

  
  BitsBlog — Authority: 141
  As Eric rambled : AL GORE… RED COURTESY PHONE PLEASE… I’ve mentioned a couple of times over the years that if we ever managed to get into some of the internal documents, and the real behind the scenes discussions of the global warming crowd, that the whole thing would be clearly revealed as a fraud.  ...
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• This is what CNN has become Kyra Phillips calls “bullies” of Will Phillips “Dork wads”

  
  Fire Andrea Mitchell! — Authority: 590
  Wasn’t the whole excuse over at CNN that the reason why they got rid of Lou Dobbs is because they don’t want “opinions” on the air, and just give the “straight news”? Well, I guess that doesn’t apply when it comes to liberal causes. Take for example the little kid named Will Phillips from Lincoln ...
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• Liberal Means Never Having to Say Sarah

  
  Bloodthirsty Liberal — Authority: 151
  “I said Going Rogue, not Vogue. No, not Michael Palin, Sarah Palin, the ex-governor of Alaska. Alaska.”Surprise: Many San Francisco booksellers refusing to carry Palin’s book“Our customers are thinking people,” said Nathan Embretson, a bookseller at Pendragon Books in Oakland. “They’re not into reading ...
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• It Was A Dark And Stormy Night In Chicago…

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 151
  As Jonah Goldberg writes, “ Palinophobes Hate First, Ask Questions Later” : S late magazine is just one of the countless media outlets convulsing with St. Vitus’ Dance over that demonic succubus Sarah Palin. In its reader forum, The Fray, one supposed Palinophobe took dead aim at the former Alaska ...
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• ADL Blasts J Street, Questions Pro-Israel Bona Fides

  
  Solomonia — Authority: 628
  Following a brief hiccup, we are happy to be four-square behind the ADL once again. Michael Goldfarb has a pair of must-reads here, starting with a report on J Streets going after Sarah Palin for, yknow, being too pro-Israel for...
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• Palin And GOP Go Populist?

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 151
  James Pethokoukis writes, “Here comes Sarah Palin and the anti-Wall Street GOP: Don’t interpret passage of the watered-down Kanjorski amendment as the peak of the “break up the banks” movement. It may be about to get some new allies on the right, folks tired of Big Government, Big Money and crony ...
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• The shorter Iain Dale

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 176
  Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells.
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• MSNBC attacks young Palin Supporter

  
  Western Journalism.com — Authority: 144
  This is the story of Jackie, the 17 year old young lady in the video below. She went with her father, and thousands of others to meet Sarah Palin at a Going Rogue book signing event, in Michigan. After waiting outdoors and at the mall for almost 24 hours she was accosted by Norah O’Donnell correspondent from MSNBC ...
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• OK, THIS COULD BE BIG AND COULD SKEWER OWLGORE

  
  KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'........... — Authority: 497
  I first saw it earlier today on Free Republic but did not pay much attention to it figuring it was posted by someone trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. Then I saw it on BMEWS , GWP, and an Australian newspaper. This is just one of the emails which seem to prove that this hoax was foisted upon the world ...
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• Another Obama Slight to American Jews

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 709
  -By Warner Todd Huston In another in a long series of swift kicks to Israel and American Jews, the Obama Administration has announced that it is slashing the guest list and budget for its 2009 Hanukkah celebration. According to the Jerusalem Post the guest list is being cut in half causing some American Jews to ...
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• Obama Now Below 50% in Gallup

  
  BitsBlog — Authority: 141
  Ben Smith says at Politico: President Obama’s job approval numbers will dip below 50% for the first time today in Gallup’s daily tracking poll, according to a Gallup official. “Gallup Daily tracking results just in. Obama will be below 50% for the first time when we update our numbers at 1:00 p.m.,” ...
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• ThirdPartyTalk: Setting the Board

  
  Corrente — Authority: 622
  I dont know if anyone pays attention to the generic ballot for Congress, but things are looking up lately for Republicans. The aggregate on Pollster.com shows a generic Republican polling only two points behind a generic Democrat; at several polling outfits, notably Rasmussen Reports, Republicans are ahead ...
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