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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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  • ETHICS PROBLEM? MUST BE A DEMOCRAT!


    KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'........... — Authority Authority: 438
    Even more to be expected, a democrat who proves that fruit never falls far from the tree: Jesse Jackson, Jr.   LIKE FATHER…..   LIKE SON   The House Ethics Committee could be probing a second allegation that Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) broke House rules, according to the Chicago ...
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  • OK, OBAMA’S NOT THE “FOOD STAMP” PRESIDENT. HE’S THE “WELFARE PRESIDENT!”


    KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'........... — Authority Authority: 438
    Especially given how many more people are on welfare because of his failed policies:     The American public’s dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released study by the Heritage ...
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  • Today’s Front Page


    Paternal Prose — Authority Authority: 146
    In its 2007 manifesto, the Free National Movement (FNM) made nine promises in a bid to “reduce crime and better protect Bahamian families”. Even though it kept most of those promises and is working to fulfill the remaining ones, nearly five years have passed and the government is no closer to reducing crime than ...
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  • Liberal parenting Little Legacy 29


    Alexander Residence — Authority Authority: 104
    LIB·ER·AL/ˈLIB(Ə)RƏL/ Adjective: Open to new behaviour or opinions and willing to discard traditional values. Noun: A person of liberal views. Synonyms: generous – bounteous – lavish – bountiful – free   My parenting was fairly liberal.  I first realised this when our kitchen ...
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  • NHS reforms: Lib Dems try to table emergency motion at conference


    The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority Authority: 962
    Opponents of the bill, who helped persuade the government to pause its progress last spring, call for another vote Liberal Democrat activists are to try to table an emergency motion at the partys spring conference opposing the governments health reforms, but face an uphill battle to get the issue on to the floor of ...
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  • Why we cant all get along


    Writing Boots — Authority Authority: 109
    Yesterday my funny, brilliant, musical conservative speechwriter friend Mike Long said on Facebook last week that he was deeply upset by this Huffington Post piece that basically claims conservatives are dumber than liberals . As a liberal, I find the article, and its suggestion that theres a physiological ...
    5 hours ago

  • Privatisation of NHS set to continue


    People's Republic of South Devon The Peoples Republic of South Devon — Authority Authority: 463
    NHS - apparently its not for sale, only it increasingly looks like it is The reform privatisation of the NHS is set to continue with backing by the Lib Dems and rubbish opposition from Labour (politicians eh, not worth the paper they’re printed on). The top-down reform of the NHS has lost the support of pretty ...
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  • Vince Cable in row on choice of university access tsar


    The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority Authority: 962
    Conservative MPs reject Lib Dems choice for university admissions chief Prof Les Ebdon, a critic of higher tuition fees Business Secretary Vince Cable has told Downing Street he is unwilling to accept what he regards as a Tory-inspired move to block his choice of Les Ebdon as head of the Office of Fair Access (Offa). ...
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  • An Armed Citizenry


    The Constitution Club — Authority Authority: 122
    Nothing riles a leftist more than the right to keep and bear arms. The slapstick performance of Eric “My People” Holder and his Justice Department in the Fast and Furious scandal amply testifies to this fact. The gun-running fiasco is only the latest in a succession of hysterical initiatives on the part of the ...
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  • Paul Auster’s Moral Ambivalence on Israel


    Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority Authority: 605
    Paul Auster and David Grossman at 2010 Jerusalem Writers Festival (Yoav Ari Dudkevitch)id In light of the argument between Tayyip Erdogan and Paul Auster about the relative freedoms of Turkey and Israel, I thought it would be instructive to quote from a Hebrew language profile of Auster published (of all places) ...
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  • Lib Dem group launches in protest against Tory-led coalition


    The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority Authority: 962
    Liberal Left group aims to mobilise opposition against drift to the right, claiming the mood in the party is radicalising The first Liberal Democrat group openly opposed to the coalition is to be launched at the partys spring conference in Gateshead next month with a warning that the coalition has been a political ...
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  • Californians Could End Up Paying For The $100 Billion ObamaRail


    Blue Collar Philosophy — Authority Authority: 475
    Living in California is like being on a passenger on the Titanic. Except in this case, we can see the iceberg coming in plenty of time to change course. Only thing is, the Democrats who run this state would rather ram the iceberg at full speed. One example of this is the strange thinking that building the ObamaRail ...
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  • Liberal lapdog Larry


    Dr Roy's Thoughts — Authority Authority: 419
    Larry just cannot believe that the Canadian people keep re electing the Tories. His beloved grits keep losing. he and his grit friends demanded deficit spending and now complain about. he and his liberal friends gutted the military and sent our soldiers into harms way under equipped. Liberal larry really wants to ...
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  • US-Iran foreign policy through the eyes of a liberal!


    The Political and Financial Markets Commentator — Authority Authority: 603
    This is how a pragmatist understands US foreign policy in conjunction with the Iranian nuclear weapons crisis! Yesterday morning I wrote a short commentary on the Obama administrations lack of understanding about Iran and that countrys quest to obtain nuclear weapons . The writing was in response to ...
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  • White House May Cave to Church Fathers On Birth Control


    feminist blogs — Authority Authority: 135
    If you thought the idea of universal access to birth control for women who have health insurance sounded too good to be true, well yeah. It turns out that Obama forgot to get permission from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. White House May Look to Compromise on Contraception Decision Liberal Politics ...
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  • OBAMA REGIME’S NEWSPEAK MINISTER TAKES PAGE FROM “ANIMAL FARM”


    KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'........... — Authority Authority: 438
    Listen as Jay Carney, the Obama Regime’s Propaganda Minister, twists the English language to have us believe people dropping out of the work force is a “good thing.” How this fucker can look himself in the mirror is beyond me. And how anyone can believe him shows how stupid so many Americans are.     ...
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  • Ginsberg dislikes our Constitution


    The Pickle — Authority Authority: 107
    “ I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a Constitution in the year 2012. I might look at the Constitution of South Africa... ” Typical!
    2 days ago

  • Labour accuses Tory right of contempt for the environment


    The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority Authority: 962
    Shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint says chancellor George Osborne believes environmental policies are a luxury that can only ever be afforded when times are good Labour has accused the chancellor of the exchequer of "actively revelling in contempt for environmental protection", in the latest broadside in the row ...
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  • Global Warming and British Pensioners.


    Anna Raccoon — Authority Authority: 508
    Roncesvalles, Spain, Thursday Feb. 2, 2012 Now that global warming has covered the whole of Europe in a thick blanket of snow, will the Prime minister finally accept that the thousands of pensioners who moved to Europe over the past two decades do NOT live in a ‘hot’ country? As recently as last December, we ...
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  • New HBO Series: Girls (Video)


    Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority Authority: 112
    Read about it at Melissa Silversteins Women and Hollywood Liberal Politics Feminist News Gender
    3 days ago

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