liberals

Political liberals generally promote the ideals of personal freedom and equal rights under law. Overall, 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. However, of the millions who consider themselves liberals, there is a wide range of belief and practice. This is consistently evident in the online world.

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.

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.

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• NOBODY ASKED ME BUT

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 148
  We offer the rambling thoughts on the human condition of a twenty year old mind trapped in a 79 year-old body. As Americans await the arrival of 2010, many wish we were awaiting the arrival of 1910. I must be unusual, I have never hated anyone for more than 24 hours. Roast beef establishments weigh the amount, but ...
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• Climategate: The final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’?

  
  Conservative Central — Authority: 116
  Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’? By James DelingpoleIf you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite ...
  6 hours ago

• Reasons to be cheerful: Lets put things in perspective

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 639
  Thirty years ago, Ian Dury and the Blockheads released a song called "Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3." The song always goes through my head at this time of year. Just the title makes me smile (there were never Parts 1 and 2). Maybe its a last-ditch effort, before winters short days and blue afternoons set in, to ...
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• Revolution the new spirit of the Libs true fightback (Oz conservatives taking back their party)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  MALCOLM Turnbull is gone and all but buried. In a stunning revolt, the Liberals grassroots are reclaiming a party hijacked by a leader of the Left. Turnbulls leadership was finally shot dead by frontbencher Tony Abbott and the Liberals Senator leader, Nick Minchin. Both told Turnbull he had to reconsider the decision ...
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• Podcast: The American Left-Right Divide: Is It As Big As It Seems?

  
  Dr. Melissa Clouthier — Authority: 617
  Tommy Christopher of Mediaite.com and Caleb Howe of RedState.com join me to discuss a divided America. We veer off into health care and other topics. Then, John Hawkins joins me to talk about American and Thanksgiving and thankfulness. Happy Thanksgiving all! Enjoy! Download MP3 To subscribe on iTunes, ...
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• Enfants de la Patrie (again) ?

  
  UK Commentators — Authority: 472
  Ive written about this sort of thing before . Now even the Indie is noticing : "No," he said. "Im not watching the match. I never watch France play football. The team disgusts me because they are not really French." What did he mean, I asked (although I knew exactly what he meant). My neighbour mumbled ...
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• Jason Kenney puts a Liberal whiner in her place

  
  mooseandsquirrel.ca — Authority: 437
  I’ve been a little obsessed with Climategate; I needed a break:
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• Dions "Green Shift" officially dead

  
  Christian Conservative — Authority: 424
  Michael Ignatieff has announced that the Liberals "Green Shift" Carbon Tax scheme, Stephane Dions (err, wasnt it Iffys idea in the first place?) electoral albatros, has now been offically "deep sixed".(or, electorally speaking, I guess you could say its been "Deep Twenty-Sixed"... as in 26%, their final numbers from ...
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• Senator Harry ‘Hands Up’ Reid SEEKS to CURTAIL FREEDOM in PHONY HEALTHCARE BILL

  
  Desert Conservative — Authority: 496
  Submitted by: Marie Woods Words in the Senate Healthcare Bill RedState http://www.redstate.com/ Words Mean Things http://www.redstate.com/hogan/2009/11/24/words-mean-things/ Posted by hogan The Senate healthcare bill has numerous flaws – but you needn’t know the details to know that it erodes ...
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• Elderly VET Tells Obama HOW IT IS!

  
  Desert Conservative — Authority: 496
    This venerable and much honored WW II vet is well known in Hawaii for his seventy-plus years of service to patriotic organizations and causes all over the country. A humble man without a political bone in his body, he has never spoken out before about a government official, until now. He dictated this letter ...
  15 hours ago

• HAS The U.S. Congress LOST ITS MIND? Device IMPLANTATION!

  
  Desert Conservative — Authority: 496
  Submitted by: Marie Woods  hmmmmm microchip in bill? Section 2521 DOES CALL for IMPLANTATION of a DEVICE! Do as I did, WRITE and CALL your Senators and STOP THIS MADNESS! There is no way in this world that I am ever going to consent to that. Never. Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 4:24 PM   ...
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• Ignatieff tweets confirmation of the Libs’ belief in junk science of climate change

  
  mooseandsquirrel.ca — Authority: 437
  In the words of Kelly McParland of the National Post: Liberals clamber aboard good ship Climate Change . “Three years and three ministers later, Stephen Harper still has no plan to tackle climate change,” The Liberals say. “Rather than leading the world, Canada has been repeatedly called out for sabotaging ...
  16 hours ago

• Betraying Our Troops

  
  Reflections From a Murky Pond — Authority: 422
  Once again the domestic enemies of America, who have though Americans’ unhealthy addiction to uncontrolled and unmitigated tolerance for anti-American sentiments, beliefs, and activities, have struck at our servicemen. Three US Navy SEALS successfully captured the subhuman, Muslim terrorist vermin, Ahmed Hisham ...
  17 hours ago

• Did the Tories run down highway construction?

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 148
  Liberals say the darnedest things Watching Question Period in the PEI Legislature can be amusing. Yesterday it reminded me of the old Art Linkletter show Kids Say the Darnedest Things Transportation and Public Works Minister Ronnie McKinley filled out his reply to an unconnected question with the statement ...
  18 hours ago

• Defiant Turnbull takes on climate rebels

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  This afternoon several senior Liberals quit their frontbench positions over Mr Turnbulls insistence that the party back the Governments emissions trading scheme.
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• Hollyweird And Climate Change

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 516
  One thing that you can say with certainty is that the Hollyweird set and the liberals have something in common: they come into a discussion rarely armed with facts. Ed Begley, Jr. validates my point perfectly as he espouses the myth (fraud?) that is climate change. If you like liberal babbling, then you’ll love ...
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• Turkeys Of The Year

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 491
  By Michelle Malkin [Editors Note: The second to last paragraph of the following Michelle Malkin column contains language that some readers may find offensive.] As we gather round the Thanksgiving table, bow our heads in prayer and feast on the holiday bird, it is only fitting to take a moment to fete the ...
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• Global Warming and Ed Begley, Jr.

  
  An American Lion — Authority: 535
  I don’t deny the science. I question the fervor sometimes. Ed Begley Jr. has hardly made a secret of his passionate beliefs about global warming/climate change. It’s kind of hard to go subtle when you have a Discovery Channel series sharing your version of an ecologically acceptable lifestyle. Still, Stuart ...
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• Manufacturing Conensus: Why Climategate Hurts The Warming Faith

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 491
  By Andrew Bolt Ilya Somin, associate professor at George Mason University School of Law, explains why the Climategate emails undermine the faith non-experts have about man-made warming: I thought that global warming was probably a genuine and serious problem because that is what the overwhelming majority of ...
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• Obama To Copenhagen: Will Anything Change?

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 491
  By Nick Loris Before Barack Obama accepts his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the White House announced that the president will swing by the climate change summit in Copenhagen to outline the country’s climate goals. The AP reports : The president will lay out his goals for reducing the United States’ carbon ...
  22 hours ago

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