Sentences with phrase «american liberal thinks»

Moreover, the typical American liberal thinks all morally serious and intelligent people agree with him.

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OTTAWA — Donald Trump needs to butt out as a hovering presence over the North American Free Trade Agreement talks and U.S. lawmakers must come clean about what they really think of the deal, says a veteran Liberal MP.

Talk to a good old fashioned northeast liberal and they really think if you are african american you need to be protected, cared for, coddled like children.

In their view, the American political experiment is liberal to its rotten core, and Baxter in particular thinks the very core of the core is the First Amendment that pretends the state is «neutral» to religion when in fact it is an insidious instrument for taking Christianity captive to provide «legitimation» for a capitalist, consumerist, warmongering society.

Finally, while broader trends in American culture might seem closer to the ideals of liberal Protestants than their evangelical counterparts, I think both groups simply now find themselves on the margins of an American culture that seems out of synch with either brand of Protestant Christianity.

It's curious to think of the American Catholic generations in this way, of course, since liberal Christians of all denominations imagined in the 1960s and 1970s that they were expanding and opening up their faith.

The liberal group People for the American Way's report on how conservative foundations have deployed vast sums to support think tanks, friendly media and other institutions that promote right - wing causes is titled «Buying a Movement.»

The new liberal church need not fall into the grievous error, so popular among tolerant Americans, of thinking that it doesn't matter what people believe so long as they believe something.

Conservative Catholics think and vote just like conservative Americans in general; and liberal Catholics think and vote just like liberal Americans in general.

I do nt think Jesus would be liberal or conservative in the sense that americans practice it.

The magazines move from the strongly traditional viewpoint of Moody Monthly (a viewpoint carrying on the social ethic of late nineteenth century American revivalism), through the moderately conservative stance of Christianity Today (a stance that seeks perhaps unconsciously to revive the social activism of American fundamentalism prior to the repeal of Prohibition and the Scopes trail), to the socially liberal commitment of The Reformed Journal (a position seeking to be contemporary, and yet faithful to Calvin's thought) and the socially radical perspective of Sojourners (a perspective molded in the Anabaptist tradition).

«in the 1920s and 1930s many American evangelicals fought the rise of liberal, critical thought and rallied around the term «fundamentalism.»

Until liberal American Christians begin to take interest in African Christian thought and seriously engage with it, dialogue between the two will remain tortuous, if not impossible.

The second American way of relating to French thought, characteristic of many liberals, amounts to French envy.

I am a liberal, but I think if anyone breaches an American Embasy we should Shoot to Kill!

And as a committed African - American Pentecostal, I never thought I could become such dear friends with so many in the faith community - Christians and Muslims, Hindus and Jews, conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats - who care first about God, and second about their neighbors, and seek to live this care out into the world.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Americans thought the world stage had been cleared for our benevolent power to lift others to the broad, sunlit uplands of liberal democracy and free - market prosperity.

It is interesting to me that, in the American political scene, the people of great wealth, like the Roosevelts and the Rockefellers, have tended to be liberal in their political thinking.

Just a preface... American line of thought on «Liberal» to the degree where it's almost a curse word in the population does not align with what liberalism is.

Liberals, who have dominated American foreign policy thought, have maintained a positive - sum view of world politics: through the impact of free trade, institutions, and the effort of a benign hegemon, the world is becoming more and more prosperous, and everybody — especially the US — is gaining from this endeavour.

WashPost And AP: Obama Is «Liberal» Because He Agrees With Most Americans We Need More Climate Action Think Progress

But when it came time to choose a keynote speaker for the San Francisco convention's opening night, Mondale thought of Cuomo right away: Who better to set the tone for the convention and shore up the party's traditional blue - collar base than the eloquent and emphatically liberal Italian - American governor of New York?

These so called liberal democrats must think the American People are idiots!

Watson's proposition, in other words, that black African intelligence is somehow «not really... the same» as white American intelligence was, I thought until October, squarely within the liberal range of views.

A new analysis by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C., found that since the inception of clean coal programs aimed at capturing CO2 earlier this decade, $ 3.5 billion has been spent by private companies to develop the technology via 18 projects — just a fraction (1/17) of their profits in 2007 alone, according to researcher Daniel Weiss.

Peele's «Get Out» is a remarkedly assured black comedy (pun intended) that relies on exploitation tropes (startle effects, etc.) to comment on what the Black Lives Matter movement has insisted all along: though white liberal Americans may fool themselves into thinking otherwise, racism still permeates suburban gated communities.

Shanker thought of himself as a liberal, indeed a Socialist; but for many liberals he seemed a racist conservative, as he maintained his fierce anti-Communist stance, supported American military power in defense of democracy, and insisted on the primacy of the trade - union movement in making a better society.

Of course, liberal notions about the potential of education to serve the ends of justice are nothing new to American social thought.

What it is: The Center for American Progress, a liberal public policy think - tank, this week released a report titled «The State of Teacher Evaluation Reform,» which looks at new teacher - evaluation systems in New Jersey and five other states as they continue to evolve under new state and national mandates.

Dr. Franklin, the 10th president of Morehouse College, the nation's largest liberal arts college for men, has written several books on social issues, including Crisis in the Village: Restoring Hope in African American Communities (2007); Another Day's Journey: Black Churches Confronting the American Crisis (1997); and Liberating Visions: Human Fulfillment and Social Justice in African American Thought (1990).

Conservative funders like the Walton Foundation also give generously to charter schools and liberal think tanks such as the Center for American Progress.

But scandal - plagued voucher programs allow for centrist and liberal Democrat reformers to indulge in such fallacious thinking, and, in the process, weaken the multi-partisan coalition needed to overhaul American public education.

Sharpe realizes that many «white» liberals are susceptible to wishful thinking: the white liberals see quite clearly that American public schooling, steeped in class and racial segregation, is a moral disgrace.

Bard College seeks to realize the best features of American liberal arts education, enabling individuals to think critically and act creatively based on a knowledge and understanding of human history, society and the arts.

Obama transition chief John Podesta promoted a similar idea earlier in his role as president of the Center for American Progress, a liberal Washington think tank.

Does anyone seriously think that China, India and Brazil are as gullible and superstitious as the average Western - educated, flip flop - wearing science astrologers that are taking government grants to spin doomsday tales about evil American businesses causing a climate Armageddon as an excuse to ramp up taxes on all factors of production to fuel an out - of - control Leftist - liberal government grown too big to fail?

Obama also hired Podesta, founder of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, to advise him on energy and climate policy, among other issues.

John currently runs the liberal think - tank Center for American Progress, which has served as a farm team for Obama administration aides and gives both Podesta brothers easy access to the president.

I don't know much about the Brookings Institution - «American think - tank» is not a phrase that inspires confidence in me - but it appears to be relatively liberal in outlook and reasonably credible.

This left 26 think tanks for analysis: 12 categorized as conservative (e.g., The Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution) and 14 categorized as liberal (e.g., Center for American Progress, Brookings Institution).

And Joe Romm can shape much of what educated American liberals, environmentalists and Democrats think about any given energy and climate news event, scientific article, book, or policy proposal.

The Center for American Progress is a liberal think tank and advocacy group created by former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, modeled after conservative counterparts the Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute.

The Post «s editorial board today praises a move by Alice Madden, a cabinet - level adviser (think «czar») on global warming policy for Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, to give up a $ 3,000 monthly stipend she receives from the liberal Center for American Progress.

Plus it comes in handy when some liberal spouts out some nonsense like (and this just happened to me last week), «American society thinks of women just as poorly as Arab states.»

Daniel J. Weiss, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, said the EPA's proposal would allow the administration to tackle climate change if Congress does not limit carbon emissions through legislation.

What's happening is people are agreeing «that the cost of inaction is on the high side and the cost of action is affordable,» said Joseph Romm, a policy analyst at the liberal think - tank Center for American Progress, energy business consultant and trained physicist.

I'm not a libertarian, nor do I agree with most Americans of liberal inclinations that freedom of political speech should be practically absolute, but I do think restrictions on it with the force of law should be imposed very cautiously and under intense public scrutiny.