Sentences with phrase «conservatives are against»

Secondly not all conservatives are against freedom of speech, self righteous or dumb, but considering you are the one lumping every person who has a political affiliation that you don't approve of under one umbrella, I'd say self righteous & dumb applies pretty well.

Anyone who considers themselves a conservative SHOULD be for legalizing marijuana since the prohibition of marijuana and prosecution of marijuana users involves everything conservatives are against: intrusion into private lives of citizens, over arching government control, increased government spending and waste and it goes completely against the idea that every person has «the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.»

Scruton is spot on in the opening paragraphs as he describes the encroachment of government, and it is that encroachment that conservatives are against.

Conservatives are against big government and don't want it interfering in the private sector.

Conservatives were against it.

Fifty - six percent of voters who identify as liberals and 60 percent of New Yorkers who say they are conservative are against the idea.

Not exact matches

A counter-suit against conservative political commentator Tomi Lahren was filed Monday in a Texas court by Glenn Beck and his media outlet The Blaze, just over a week after she filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against them.

The prime minister's Conservative party critics, who are already unhappy with her leadership on Brexit, are poised to speak out against her leadership should Labour make major gains across the country.

But even a conservative organization needs to be careful about holding an employee's off - the - job activities against him.

Republicans probed Zuckerberg about allegations of bias against conservatives and if that is the regular practice of Facebook.

OTTAWA — Long the whipping boys of revenue - hungry governments, Canadian smokers are now the target of the Conservative crusade against the deficit.

The bill has shown divisions in the Republican party, which dominates Texas politics, pitting the pro-business establishment wing against the powerful socially conservative wing, which said it was a common - sense measure needed to protect privacy.

A vote on the measure was delayed for hours after Democrats revolted against provisions to roll back part of the Dodd - Frank financial reform law and allow more big money political donations, while conservative Republicans objected because the measure did not block funds for Obama's immigration order.

«It's difficult to ignore that this action comes during a period of heightened tension regarding Facebook's role in our elections, and its perceived bias against conservative voices,» Petersen wrote in an open letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Conservative donors and operatives who gathered on a mountain shrouded resort this past weekend for the Koch brothers» annual winter retreat know that they're up against a historical tide in this year's midterm elections.

For many conservatives it goes against the very fiber of their being.

Matthew Whitaker, a former US attorney and 2014 Republican primary candidate in Iowa's Senate race who is now the executive director of the conservative Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, told Business Insider in an email that Comey's testimony made it «clear» that «there is absolutely no criminal case to be made against President Trump for obstruction of justice.»

Earlier, about 100 conservative South Korean lawmakers and activists staged a sit - in near the border with North Korea, facing off against about 2,500 South Korean police to protest against the arrival of a northern delegation led by an official accused of being behind a deadly 2010 attack on a South Korean warship.

But while Amash's conservative record is strong, he has occassionally bucked his party, most notably by voting against Paul Ryan's budget and against the deal to raise the debt ceiling.

Pushing back against «political correctness,» in 1987, Thiel co-founded the Stanford Review, a journal of conservative and libertarian viewpoints, and was its first editor - in - chief.

The George W. Bush appointee isn't merely an outspoken critic of affirmative action today — he was among the most hostile questioners in Fisher and a virtual lock to vote against Texas» admissions policy — but also was part of a conservative alumni group at Princeton that was sharply critical of such policies 40 years ago, when Sotomayor was attending classes there.

Some conservatives tried to fight back against Trump, pleading with their audiences to see what they contended to be the rational point of view, but their arguments seemed to go unheard.

An issue like the Potash decision, Murphy says, «is where the two halves of Tony — the guy who believes in Conservative ideals and the Tony who loves politics and understands the team game — may be bumping up against one another.»

Once again, this series focused on the possibility that seemingly unrelated factors may have conspired against Peterson, as the conservative jury may have been biased against him due to his bisexuality.

A conservative political lobby that is part of the Koch brothers political network recently argued against states offering tax incentives to Amazon.

The document's author also wrote that employees with conservative political beliefs are discriminated against at Google and lamented about how «leftist» ideology is harmful.

And similarly, the story is being exploited by conservative media to deflect from accusations against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.

Unlike the Greens in the U.S., who have a policy of not running against Democrats where they have a chance of winning, May and her party are fielding a complete slate, once again risking electing Harper Conservatives.

In the Conservative leadership race, O'Leary is up against a real murderers» row of political heavyweights.

A decade ago, he was the Harper Conservative MP assigned to gleefully explain to reporters the party strategy behind the attack ads unfurled against Stéphane Dion weeks after federal Liberals crowned the former environment minister as leader.

But on this issue and others, Republican lawmakers face counterpressures from conservative antigovernment groups including Heritage Action, Club for Growth and Charles and David Koch's Americans for Prosperity, which want to kill the Ex-Im Bank and are ready to finance campaigns against unsupportive Republicans.

One stereotypical knock against conservatives who speak in the language of economics, especially if they focus on deficits, debts and taxes, is that they couldn't care less about the poor.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says many Americans are concerned that Facebook is biased against conservatives.

Even one of Trump's most consistent defenders, Rep. Mark Meadows (R - NC), who chairs the conservative House Freedom Caucus, tweeted against the proposal — although, notably, he put the onus on the Commerce Department, not Trump.

If the proposal doesn't comply with the Senate's rules, an ensuing fight could pit conservatives against moderates and institutionalists — and could edge Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY) closer to completely eliminating the legislative filibuster, a move with far bigger implications than health care policy.

A fixed interest rate loan is viewed as a more conservative financial option, that can protect you against rising interest rates and additional interest costs accrued.

Mr. Nanos said the Conservatives will exploit the payments once when the cheques are delivered, and then repeatedly throughout the rest of the campaign as a hammer against the opposition.

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

Benoit and others said they had never been told how to vote in committees and on the floor but acknowledged there were some «genuine problems,» citing the committee that deemed Conservative MP Mark Warawa's motion against gender selection abortion non-votable.

Meanwhile, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Tuesday that the Justice Department is «not going to be extorted» after members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus drafted articles of impeachment against him.

Unsurprisingly, PSAC has decided to work against the re-election of the Conservatives: the reasoning is presumably that once the Conservatives go, so does the austerity.

-- Conservative insurgent Chris McDaniel announced he would run against Sen. Roger Wicker (R - Miss.).

Rep. Steve Scalise, R - La., asked Zuckerberg about a report that found that a new algorithm Facebook uses to determine what appears in users» newsfeeds had a «tremendous bias against conservative news and content, and a favorable bias toward liberal content.»

It was a shrewd move that could be a decisive win for Mr. Prentice in the Conservative Civil War that the two parties have waged against each other since the mid-2000s.

House Republicans and conservative media cast it as proof of Trump's long - running narrative of FBI bias against him; Democrats say it's deeply misleading, twisting and cherry - picking classified intelligence to make the president seem right.

He didn't get flustered when Sen. Ted Cruz implied that Facebook is biased against conservatives, or defensive when Sen. John Kennedy said bluntly that, «Your user agreement sucks.»

Maybe the most hard - edged social conservative in Ottawa, Mr. Anders is well - known for being the sole parliamentarian to vote against granting former South African president Nelson Mandela an honorary Canadian citizenship.

Late on Saturday afternoon, House Democrats surprised the country by releasing their rebuttal to the so - called Nunes memo — the document, prepared by Rep. Devin Nunes (R - CA), that has become a key part of the conservative argument that the FBI is biased against President Donald Trump.

Any future conservative Alberta government would also likely try to reimpose the longstanding unconstitutional limitation on union membership by farm workers included in Bill 6, which was at the heart of the fury against the bill.

Conservatives are railing against dual decisions by the British government to prevent Alfie Evans» parents from transporting him to Italy for further treatment, and to order Alfie's doctors to withdrawal life support from Alfie, which they did, and which soon led to Alfie's death.