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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Original Technorati articles tagged “liberal”

• in Politics
  Why the Conservative Media Got it Wrong
  When journalists get too close to the rhetoric
  by jwalk6 / on Nov 7, 2012
• in Politics
  New Polls Rock Foundations of Conservatism
  We’re becoming a more tolerant nation. That’s bad news for conservatives.
  by jimmyzuma / on Oct 12, 2012
• in Politics
  Rush Limbaugh and the Testing of the Constitution
  With Rush Limbaugh in the news again, the timing couldn't be better to look at our most cherished beliefs.
  by randini / on Mar 10, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “liberal”

 

• Tweet of the Day

  
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  Things Conservatives Have Been Proven Right About Lately: ☑ Benghazi; ☑ Pigford;☑ Obamacare; ☑ IRS. Next up: The immigration reform scam. — Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 10, 2013 “I suspect that list will grow longer,” Joel B. Pollack adds at the Breitbart.com “Conversation” group ...
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• Beckettian Liberals

  
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  Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett No one fails better than liberals and their policies: The core trait of a scientific mind is that when its commitments clash with evidence, evidence rules. On that count, what grade do liberals deserve? Fail, given their reaction to the ...
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• The IRS Inquisition

  
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  On July 10th, the IRS held a press conference to formally apologize for elements and/or individuals within the organization who they now admit were specifically targeting conservative organizations during the 2012 election season for additional scrutiny. Any organization using the title “tea” or “patriot” was ...
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• Japan ruling party executive to keep visiting war shrine

  
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  The policy chief of Japan’s ruling party vowed on Sunday to keep paying homage at a controversial war shrine despite anger and diplomatic protests by China and South Korea. Nearly 170 Japanese lawmakers made a pilgrimage last month to the Yasukuni Shrine, a flashpoint in a bitter dispute between Japan and Asian ...
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• Michael Gove: I would vote to leave EU

  
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  Education secretary says there would be advantages for Britain as Cameron prepares for Tory revolt on Queens speech vote Michael Gove has entered the seemingly endless Tory row over Europe by admitting he would vote to leave the European Union if a vote were held today. As David Cameron braces himself for junior ...
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• How Much Tolerance for Intolerance?

  
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  United Nations in Geneva. Photo: wiki commons. Tolerance is justifiably one of liberal Democracy’s most cherished values. But what do we do when tolerance, with its openness to multiple views, permits and even supports intolerance? This is particularly an issue today when open prejudice against Jews and Israel, ...
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• Four Questions with Peggy Bendroth

  
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  Randall Stephens The historian Peggy Bedroth is the executive director of the Congregational Library in Boston, MA. Since her first book appeared 20 years ago, she has shaped the field of American religious history in profound ways.  Her insightful work on gender, childhood and family, and the cultures of ...
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• Vince Cable: I could still lead Liberal Democrats at 70

  
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  Vince Cable has no intention of doing an Alex Ferguson - the Business Secretary turned 70 on Thursday but retirement is the last thing on his mind.        
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• Saturday Night Live new low – mocks Benghazi and Cleveland victims

  
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  Leave it to the leftists at Saturday Night Live on Obama’s main propaganda arm NBC to mock the Benghazi victims. But they didn’t stop with Benghazi. They also mocked the Cleveland victims with an ‘Ariel Castro’ character skit while mocking Benghazi. What really is funny is how NBC completely ignored the ...
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• North East Scotland Liberal Democrat Conference

  
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  Yesterday, I had the pleasure of being one of the guest speakers at the North East Scotland Liberal Democrat Conference in Laurencekirk.   It was a thoroughly enjoyable day with a great turnout of Liberal Democrats from right across NE Scotland. Christine Jardine, who has been selected as our partys ...
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• Where’s My Ghost Money?

  
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  Where’s My Ghost Money? Qais Akbar Omar on what Afghanistan needed, and still needs: water, sewers, electricity. Small Private Colleges Lose More Students Despite Rise in Discounting . Despite some good news on the Liberal Arts , cannot neglect the expense pressures for tuition-driven institutions and financial ...
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• ANOTHER INCESTUOUS OBAMA DEAL - CBS NEWS PREZ IS BROTHER OF OBAMA NATIONAL SECURITY OFFICIAL -

  
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  http://visiontoamerica.com/14902/cbs-news-president-brother-of-obama-national-security-official/ And you really expect truth in reporting from CBS?  JUST FLUCKING CLICK THE CHANNEL OFF!
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• ‘Scrubbing the truth from Benghazi’

  
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  Caught playing politics with tragedy, what’s next for the Obama administration and GOP investigators? A statement by a fringe conservative? Wrong on both counts. One of the best political... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• ‘The IRS: First they Came for the Tea Partiers, Then They Came for the Jews’

  
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  “Whoa: Did the IRS also target Jewish groups for ‘extra-special attention’?,” Twitchy asks: The IRS admits to targeting conservative groups for additional review and laughably claims the witch hunt wasn’t “motivated by political bias.”  What will its math-challenged spokeswoman Lois Lerner ...
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• A Play On Words For The History Books

  
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  ShaleShockMedia.org Stories like this give me hope . Whenever people can fight the oil guys with a funny joke we all come out ahead. Jokes about green jobs wouldn’t fly, and besides, if green energy got the kind of subsidies as big oil, we could train the oil workers to make future energy resources that would ...
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• Lies, damned lies and Iain Duncan Smith | Nick Cohen

  
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  The way the work and pensions secretary manipulates statistics is a shaming indictment of his departments failings When you see rottenness in a system you must ask: does it come from one bad apple or does the whole barrel stink? The rank smell emanating from the coalition is impossible to miss. At first sniff, it ...
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• Hey, Time Magazine Promised You He Was The New FDR

  
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  November 24, 2008. Curiously, Time meant their headline to be a compliment. You can’t say you weren’t warned: ● “FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate.” — Press release, UCLA Newsroom, August 10, 2004 . ● “RECOVERY SUMMER #4: Obama: Our economy is ...
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• House Republicans Announce Hearing on IRS Targeting Conservative Groups

  
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  FOXNews.com : The IRS acknowledging that it targeted conservative political groups during the 2012 election season has sparked bipartisan calls for investigation -- with House Republicans already saying they will hold a hearing on the issue. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Friday the Republican-led chamber ...
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• A Tale of Two Families

  
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    If ever you experience a sliver of doubt that leftism is an evil cancer that must be excised as thoroughly as possible for the very survival of our society as a whole, consider these two California families.       The Nikolayev Family Anna Nikolayev and her husband Alex watched helplessly as police ...
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• And That’s The Way It Isn’t

  
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  From those wonderful folks who brought you Walter Cronkite politicizing the Tet Offensive, Dan Rather and RatherGate, and Katie Couric writing Christmas poems in praise of ObamaCare comes this gem from CBS anchor Scott Pelley , speaking to Quinnipiac University: “Our house is on fire,” said Pelley. The ...
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