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”

• MSNBC’s Ratigan Blames ‘Snowpocalypse’ on Global Warming

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 149
  By Jeff Poor With Washington, D.C. buried beneath at least 20 inches of snow , and with more in the forecast, common sense would suggest global warming alarmists look elsewhere to make the argument to raise awareness for their concerns. But no, Dylan Ratigan thinks it’s ridiculous to suggest all the snowfall ...
  3 hours ago

• Snow job

  
  Baltimore Reporter — Authority: 143
  From Powerline My wife and I managed to return to the Washington DC area this morning just behind the two feet of snow that fell over the weekend and just ahead of another storm that’s expected to produce a foot-and-a-half of snow. Earlier last week, the area apparently got half a foot of snow. This followed [...]
  6 hours ago

• GET YOUR FEET OFF OUR DESK OPEN POST!

  
  Angry White Dude — Authority: 136
  NO CLASS OR RESPECT! I don’t know why this photo bothers me as much as it does..but it does! The desk in the Oval Office was a gift to President Hayes from Queen Victoria in 1880. I guess when one takes Hussein’s full record into account, the photo shows how he feels about America. He has no respect for ...
  9 hours ago

• Who’re you gonna believe?

  
  JABbering Stooge — Authority: 422
  Former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger, or a lying, nakedly racist accused felon? If you’re Greg Brock, the alleged “standards” editor for the “librul” New York Times, you go with the lying, nakedly racist accused felon, apparently. *SIGH* The next person who says that the media is biased in ...
  10 hours ago

• HuffyPuffy Post wrong as usual – “Green Police” Superbowl Ad

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 138
  Audi can make fun of enviro whackos while promoting a “green” product. Is it me or were the Super Bowl commercials this year unusually ugly, misogynistic, and, worst of all, unfunny? Some of Americas biggest corporations seemed to be trying to play to Teabag America, and the results were as bitter as the ...
  10 hours ago

• Magazines Worship Of Obama Equats To Circulations Plummet

  
  Politik Ditto — Authority: 525
  Mediadecoder.com : Magazines’ newsstand sales plummeted in the last six months of 2009, and subscriptions dropped as well. Newsstand sales for the 472 consumer titles in the United States measured by the Audit Bureau of Circulations declined 9.1 percent, to 39.3 million, in the last half of 2009 versus the ...
  13 hours ago

• Liberal Denial & Pamela Geller Making Ron Reagan Cry

  
  The Rude News — Authority: 431
  Atlas went on Joy Behar. Listen to Ron Reagan defile the memory of his old man: Pam entered the “lyins” den. Amazing how pissed off these libs get when they aren’t coddled. Pam’s face at 7:22 is the best. At 9:28 a liberal says “yeah so” when Pam says how good America is. This was after they ...
  13 hours ago

• DANGEROUS PRECEDENT SET as South Carolina’s New Law Requires “Subversives” to Register, and Obama’s Pick Links Conservative Organizations and Christians to Violence

  
  Gospel of Jesus Christ, The Gift of Eternal Life — Authority: 119
  There are good reasons why Americans are NOT SAFE  against Islamic Jihadist Extremist Attacks, especially when the Obama Administration and others are focusing NOT  on Islamic Radicals or their evil plans against us using their entrenched infrastructure, but instead on old-fashioned American Patriotic Pride ...
  14 hours ago

• That’s not a knife…

  
  Cubik's Rube — Authority: 493
  I do like getting wound up over a good alleged religious discrimination story once in a while. It’s been ages since that Christian registrar who didn’t want to conduct civil partnerships, so the recent story about Sikh children bringing daggers into school sounded very promising. Unfortunately, not only am I ...
  14 hours ago

• Senior SNP Glasgow Councillor Alex Dingwall defects to the Liberal Democrats

  
  Andrew Reeves' Running Blog - but what am I running for..... — Authority: 414
  Glasgow City Senior Councillor Alex Dingwall has decided to leave the SNP after 31 years as an SNP member and has today joined the Scottish Liberal Democrats . I know there is bound to be the usual dismissal from the SNP that this isnt big news but actually it is. The SNP gloss is peeling now and people are ...
  15 hours ago

• Lib Dems arts policy marred by spelling errors

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 989
  The Liberal Democrats, it turns out, have an arts policy: it was laid out last week in a paper called The Power of Creativity. With a design incorporating ink splats and multicoloured typefaces (presumably to appeal to those madcap arty types), the document is certainly creative as to its spelling. We have a forward ...
  15 hours ago

• Altona By-election Battles On

  
  Labor View from Bayside — Authority: 119
  Transport and law n order have always been the main game in this Saturdays Altona by-election in Victoria. They will certainly be at top of the list at Novembers State election. WHILE the Altona by-election war of words heated up between the two main parties last week, nominees continued to campaign heavily on the ...
  15 hours ago

• Remember When We Believed In a Place Called Hope?

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 588
  Remember when Donna Brazile told us all that the Democratic Party was forming a New Coalition that was “…more urban, as well as suburban…” and that the party didn’t need gays, Hispanics, blue collar voters (more commonly known as Jacksonians) and us bitter, clingy feminists anymore? Donna was either flying ...
  16 hours ago

• National Security Official Questions Patriotism of Obamas Critics, Media Mum

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 802
  "It is not irresponsible to demand that bureaucrats do the job we pay them to do. It is not irresponsible to expect people in authority to be held responsible for dumb, and perhaps fatal, mistakes. And, finally, it is not irresponsible, even in time of war, to raise questions about the presidency of…" Can you ...
  16 hours ago

• Publius Podcast: Anti-Gun Government Tyranny in Canada

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 656
  A Canadian columnist has his door practically beaten down by Toronto’s stormtrooping police because he had a 30-year-old bird rifle that he forgot to re-register. America THIS is coming to YOUR door if the left gets its way in banning guns. Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
  18 hours ago

• Obama Says Goodbye to Murtha

  
  Tammy Bruce — Authority: 520
  From those clever troublemakers over at iowntheworld.com Related: Obama: ‘She insisted she’s going to be buried in an Obama t-shirt’ Share and Enjoy:
  18 hours ago

• Bipartisianship? Not without genuine liberals

  
  Chas' Compilation — Authority: 128
  Gerard Alexander: Why are liberals so condescending? Every political community includes some members who insist that their side has all the answers and that their adversaries are idiots. But American liberals, to a degree far surpassing conservatives, appear committed to the proposition that their views are correct, ...
  19 hours ago

• The Absurdity of Liberal Theology

  
  Miscellanies. — Authority: 509
  One of the most endearing features of atheist Christopher Hitchens is his intolerance of intellectual posturing. Do you believe Jesus was God incarnate and raised from the dead for sinners? Fine. Hitchens will respect your position and argue with you in honest debate. But claim to be a Christian and doubt the essence ...
  19 hours ago

• How Media Chooses Words Adds to Bias

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 656
  -By Warner Todd Huston The Politico had a story about Big Labor penned by Jeanne Cummings, the reporter famed for going after Sarah Palin’s Party purchased wardrobe during the 2008 presidential campaign, that was an abject lesson in Old Media bias. Her piece headlined “ Labor helps kill its own top priority ” ...
  20 hours ago

• Start Over on Healthcare: Now I Give John Boehner a Pat on the Back

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 656
  -By Warner Todd Huston The other day I was slapping Congressman John Boehner (R, OH) around for his absurd claim that there was no difference between the Tea Party movement’s principles and the GOP establishment’s principles (or lack thereof). Well, today I have to give our Congressional Minority Leader a pat ...
  20 hours ago

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