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”

 

• CBO: Obama Budget Adds $5.2 Trillion To Deficit, $1 Trillion In New Taxes

  
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  CBO: Obama Budget Adds $5.2 Trillion To Deficit, $1 Trillion In New Taxes – Big Government The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says President Barack Obama’s 2014 budget would add $5.2 trillion in deficits over the next ten years and contains nearly $1 trillion in new taxes. . The Obama budget, which was ...
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• Congressional Republicans To Investigate EPA Freedom Of Information Requests Scandal

  
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  Lawmakers To Investigate EPA FOIA Scandal – Daily Caller Republican lawmakers are launching an investigation into claims that the Environmental Protection Agency, while giving preferential treatment to environmental groups, made it harder for conservative groups to obtain government records. . “According to ...
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• Your Daley Gator Lying Leftist Liars IRS Cover-up News Roundup For Monday (Videos)

  
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  Obama And The IRS: The Smoking Gun? – American Spectator President met with anti-Tea Party IRS union chief the day before agency targeted Tea Party. . “For me, it’s about collaboration.” – National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley on the relationship between the anti-Tea Party IRS union and ...
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• Merritt on the Mainline: Part II of Panel on Coffmans The Christian Century

  
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  Part II of our panel on Elesha Coffmans The Christian Century and the Rise of the Protestant Mainline . Author, pastor, blogger, twitter-er, co-hoster of God Complex Radio , among many other "ers", Reverend Carol Howard Merritt is one of the most important voices of liberal Protestantism in the United ...
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• Harvard Students, As a Group, On Average, are Assholes. But of Course.

  
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  When the Truth Is Scandalous Posted on | May 20, 2013 | By Robert Stacy McCain Jonathan Karl of ABC News is evidently a Republican, and liberals think it’s a horrible scandal that a Republican could be employed as a reporter: “Didn’t he see the ‘No Republicans Allowed’ sign?” Meanwhile, Jason Richwine’s ...
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• Peter Tatchell: ‘MPs should vote for heterosexual civil partnerships’

  
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  I urge MPs to vote for the right of heterosexual couples to have a civil partnership. Banning them is wrong. This is a simple issue of equality. Just as gay couples should be allowed to marry, straight couples should be permitted to join together in a civil partnership. There should be no discrimination in civil ...
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• Global Warming IS Killing Us Says Liberal Nuts

  
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  Whateverhappentocomm · 1,524 videos Published on May 19, 2013 Global Warming IS Killing Us Says Liberal Nuts, Whatever Happened To Common Sense, Liberals are really stupid If you comment we reserve the right to use your comment in/as a post Follow us, donate and help us stay on-line. Filed ...
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• Liberals Are Lousy Tippers

  
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  Whateverhappentocomm · 1,524 videos Published on May 19, 2013   Liberals Are Lousy Tippers, Liberals are cheap, You can tell by the car they drive many times, Liberals at the Car-wash, Liberals at the Restaurants Join The New Nation Site Now http://commonsensenation.net/ Get The Newsletter Now! ...
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• Nick Clegg: ‘I will make sure the same-sex marriage bill doesn’t get hijacked by those with ulterior motives’

  
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  Liberal Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says he will not allow Tory opponents to succeed in wrecking the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill. Three Tory MPs who are against marriage rights for gay couples – Tim Loughton, Charlotte Leslie and Rob Wilson – are pushing for civil partnerships to be ...
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• Our Fascist University System

  
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  Here I’m using fascist in the usual sense – heavy-handed, threatening, authoritarian – rather than in the structural sense. At Yale University, you can be prevented from putting an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote on your T-shirt. At Tufts, you can be censured for quoting certain passages from the Quran. Welcome ...
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• Lib Dem MP Stephen Gilbert: ‘Equal marriage is now a litmus test for David Cameron’

  
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  Writing exclusively for PinkNews.co.uk, Liberal Democrat MP Stephen Gilbert says today’s start of the third reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill is a huge test for David Cameron’s commitment to marriage equality and for the progressive elements within the Conservative Party. May has been a good month ...
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• What Would We Have Said If George Bush Had Done Any Of This?

  
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  Nation of Hypocrites : The Obama administration’s Justice Department issued a sweeping demand for two months of office, cellular and home telephone records from multiple Associated Press reporters and editors to investigate an alleged breach of national security. The AP story in question, on a foiled terrorist ...
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• Let’s Exploit Liberal Hypocrisy

  
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  Some establishment types are shaking their heads as they warn conservatives that we must not politicize the Administration’s Benghazi bungling, its Obamacare shakedowns, its AP records grab or... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Moonbat and Moonbattier

  
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  It turns out that the “bitter clingers” reside not in West Virginia or rural Pennsylvania, but on West 43rd Street: [H]ere’s a comparison of today’s New York Times and Washington Post on their handling of the IRS scandal. Keep in mind that print headlines and web headlines often differ. The Post has two ...
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• 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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