Sentences with phrase «about conservative values»

(CNN)- Charlie Crist is robo - calling Florida voters, talking about his conservative values as he wages another campaign for governor.

Most try to pretty it up a little with exhortations about conservative values and concerns about the debt, but you have ably shown their ugly underside.

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Finally, Angelina Chapin's report (pp.50 - 52) on lingerie sales in conservative Islamic countries isn't exactly about ethics, but it certainly raises questions about conflicts, and perceived conflicts, between various value sets.

George Will argues that American politics is divided between conservatives, «who take their bearings from the individual's right to a capacious, indeed indefinite, realm of freedom» and progressives «whose fundamental value is the right of the majority to have its way in making rules about which specified liberties shall be respected.»

Ralph Reed, the leader of conservative group the Faith & Freedom Coalition, planned a Wednesday morning press conference to release his data about what he called the enduring influence of «values voters.»

Such conservatives, estimated by pollster Daniel Yankelovich as one American in five, are actually somewhat marginal to the mainstream of national life, have few polished spokespersons, and are given to unsophisticated and vehement expression of their resentment about assaults on their convictions and values.

She's a bit more conservative than me in many ways and her family's habits / values differ at times but I love having older women like her write about how they raised their children and kept their home and did life as a family.

Nor is it to be found in most of the discussions about the virtue and value of public service for America's young people, discussions that have been going on for some years now» for convenience call them «post-Vietnam»» among both liberals and conservatives.

Like when conservatives talk about family values, and then fly off to see their mistress?

Adults are sometimes more conservative about sexual values in their adulthood than they were in their youth.

I think it must have something to do with the con that conservatives have perpetuated on the stupid, that if they talk a lot about «family values,» those people won't notice that their real objective is to make sure that the American workforce gets the bare minimum in order to ensure that rich shareholders can continue to reap their millions without lifting a finger.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

... Conservatives are always going on about how Americans are losing their values and their morality, well maybe it's because you worship a guy who drowns babies.»

Talk about hypocrisy, «conservatives» are the ones spouting off traditional values and then running off to do their dastardly deeds.

The tendency has been to bog down in fights between the Right and the Left, where conservatives were worried that character education programs were all about teaching mushy diversity and general sort of tolerance, and liberals were worried that character education was about teaching religion and more conservative values.

Certainly, the Coalition has not been big on socially liberal reforms (gay marriage being a major exception), but nor has it been especially socially conservative — gone is the sermonising about «Victorian values» and «Back to Basics» which was a pronounced feature of the» 79 - «97 Conservativeconservative — gone is the sermonising about «Victorian values» and «Back to Basics» which was a pronounced feature of the» 79 - «97 ConservativeConservative government.

In 2015, Ed Miliband tried and failed to covert non-voting youngsters to Labour's cause, most notably by speaking to Russell Brand about the value of voting and the threat to living standards posed by Conservative spending cuts.

«Tea party activists are divided roughly into two camps, according to a new POLITICO / TargetPoint poll: one that's libertarian - minded and largely indifferent to hot - button values issues and another that's culturally conservative and equally concerned about social and fiscal issues.

«At its heart, this plan is about the defining value of the modern Conservative Party: responsibility.

A fellow Blue Labour - ite is Jon Cruddas, the Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham, who has been talking and writing about the need for Labour to return to socially conservative, pre-1960s values for some time - and also emphasising the importance of Labour understanding England, rather than «the UK», or «the British».

Comparing the image of the Conservative party now with how it was seen back in 2003, it hasn't changed to a great extent — people think it has a better team of leaders (39 % think so, compared to 22 % back in 2003), is more competent (43 % now compared to 32 % in 2003) and is more united (46 % compared to 32 %), but in things like whether the Conservative party cares about the problems of ordinary people, shares peoples values, is honest and trustworthy or understands normal peoples lives, the improvement is far more meagre.

The Circus: Inside the Wildest Political Show on Earth, Season 1, Episode 1: Ted Cruz puts in the time in Iowa to send a message about his conservative politics, values and faith in religion.

by Angelo Muredda It says a lot about the ideological thinness of the Resistance ™ against the current American administration that the basic dignity of a lifelong conservative - values Republican gets elevated to the most rarefied heights in Morgan Neville's Won't You Be My Neighbor?.

A few years ago, standards were being attacked by Christian conservatives fearful of the outcomes - based - education movement, which appeared to be succeeding in making a particular set of liberal expectations about attitudes and values the official approach.

After all, most of the public intellectuals among movement conservatives are focused more on the expansive role of the federal government in civil society and the marketplace, while more populist conservative types are concerned about preserving what they consider to be traditional values such as the idea that the government that is best is the one at the local level that is, in theory, closes to the people (even if the virtual and real bankruptcies of cities such as Detroit and Vallejo, Calif., call that thinking into question).

As we've discussed in our About Greenbackd and About liquidation value investing pages, we apply Graham's liquidating value methodology because it's conservative, it doesn't require a great deal of sophistication — it's a simple formula — and it doesn't require the heroic leaps in reasoning required to forecast future earnings.

The end - June balance sheet has $ 201.6 m of vessels (for 8 tankers, this carrying value looks about right, perhaps even conservative) & $ 16.5 m of vessels under construction.

In any case, today's price of $ 6.95 / share is still a substantial discount to the company's estimated «conservative value»; about a 45 % discount to the conservative valuation.

If Rick can maintain a conservative average annual rate of return of 4 % on his $ 1.17 - million portfolio, he will be able to draw a net after - tax income of about $ 55,000 annually for life and still have close to $ 1 million in net worth at age 90 (including the value of his home).

And that's why you want to be cautious and conservative about that when it comes time to value and buy a stock.

It's difficult to tell how much more valuable the card has become without knowing more specifics about these benefits, but I think even a conservative assessment can assign $ 70 + value to this card each year.

That's very much at odds with what residents know about Texas, which is home to a broad mix of conservative and liberal values and lifestyles.

The piece falls into the partisan trap of painting all opponents in one color when in fact there are conservatives who care about science and energy, even some (Charles Krauthammer comes to mind) who — while challenging the portrayal of global warming as a real - time crisis — see the value in a high tax on gasoline, swapped for lower taxes elsewhere.

The claims about climate change science made by these conservative / industry groups have questionable scientific value.

If the conservatives — those who are supposedly concerned about fam» ly values — don't care about what their children and grandchildren might have to face, why should we?

As for the amount of the bet, look at the paleontological evidence for when temperatures were about 3 C higher than preindustrial levels, find the difference in sea levels, call it a conservative 1 meter, now total the world property values for the land that is less than 1 meter above sea level and see how much that is.

If political conservatives have so far not found environmental policies to their liking, then a priority for everyone who cares about climate change, whatever their political leaning, is to find a way of reconciling the values of the right with policy responses to climate change that are sustainable and just.

Let us not forget that David's «values» are aligned with his innate skepticism so that he can «correctly» identify any «collective deceptions» about the attributes of liberals and conservatives, respectively.

about climate change that do not threaten conservative belief systems, or which use language that better resonates with the values of the centre - right.

The entire half - day experience was well orchestrated, brisk (or at least not tedious), and reminded me of the value that outside perspectives can offer — especially to a profession which has some innately conservative attitudes when it comes to talking about itself.

For a conservative investor or someone with a shortened life expectancy who wants to leave the money in the VA for their spouse (or someone else), but is concerned about making an investment that could lose value, the enhanced death benefit offers a solution.

When Playboy was founded in 1953, conservatives were up in arms about the way that it contradicted traditional «American values.»