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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

Mr. Viersen is the former treasurer of the Barrhead / Neerlandia local of the Association for Reformed Political Action, a social conservative Christian organization that has spoken against Gay - Straight Alliance legislation for Alberta schools and questioned the existence of human - influenced climate change.

As a political survivor against political odds that should have seen him crushed, he remains standing as the Progressive Conservatives prepare to celebrate forty years as government in September.

(For the conservative critics, that would be one more count against Rawls's general theory of justice and political morality.)

Either social conservatives will devise effective new political strategies now, in 2018, or the Republican party will turn against them, and Democrats will exercise their power more aggressively, unhampered by fears of opposition.

I hope they weren't political conservative causes because you just railed against that in your story.

This so called Christian is the first to openly accept gay marriage as a political stance, which if you want to not believe what the bible says about it then fine, but this wasn't his stance when running in Chicago against a conservative black candidate.

He assembles these objections as a prelude to attacking his political opponents.Eichenwald rails against school prayer and conservative prayer rallies, stating that they are a violation of Jesus's warning to followers not to parade their piety publicly but to pray in secret (Matt 6:5 — 15).

CNN: Top Catholic defends Obama invite against conservative criticism Cardinal Timothy Dolan, America's most prominent Catholic official, defended on Wednesday the decision to invite President Barack Obama to a major Catholic dinner in the face of criticism from conservatives, saying the event is an opportunity for «friendship, civility and patriotism» amid a heated political campaign.

But there was a time when many evangelical and conservative Christian men spoke loudly and clearly against sexual exploitation by a political leader.

A growing coalition of conservative political leaders, religious groups and government officials is leading the attack against publicly supported programs of sex education, school - based health centers, guidance programs in family planning, and other activities designed to address the sexual needs of youth from both a social and a health perspective.

This was just a conservative political weapon they could use against the democrats, target of opportunity.

It would have been good if these conservative Christians had not simply spoken out against personal, but also against political, sins.

And I also recognize that you don't have to be a political conservative to object to these incidents; they've also been used as fodder for arguing against GMOs (contained in those Ritz crackers) and against the inextricable links between agribusiness and the federal school meals program, among other issues often raised by the political left.

But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

Political analysts are still unsure of how the level of support the fight against libel has in Conservative circles, although Dr Harris said «there are some Conservatives that are interested».

Even though their positions in the political spectrum span from the left to the extreme right, the total number of votes won by these three parties amounted to nearly 6.5 million, against the Conservatives» 11.3 million.

Yet the working - class Khan managed to win out against a Conservative rival with family pedigree, wealth and friends in powerful political, media and business circles.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand can expect a strong political assault in her re-election campaign against Republican, Conservative and Reform candidate Chele Farley, The challenger made her first visit locally Thursday.

New Yorkers for Growth, the conservative political action committee that has launched a crusade against the Working Families Party, and GOP / Conservative gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio are out with duel statements slamming AG Andrew Cuomo for agreeing today to accept the endorsement of the labor - backed party and run on its line conservative political action committee that has launched a crusade against the Working Families Party, and GOP / Conservative gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio are out with duel statements slamming AG Andrew Cuomo for agreeing today to accept the endorsement of the labor - backed party and run on its line Conservative gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio are out with duel statements slamming AG Andrew Cuomo for agreeing today to accept the endorsement of the labor - backed party and run on its line in November.

On the surface, it's a surprising win for a political neophyte who is not known outside of conservative activist circles against two other candidates with clear geographical bases who are also current officeholders.

«And I think that on the one hand, conservatives rail against political correctness unless they are the ones who are determining what that political correctness is.

It covers Margaret Thatcher's premiership from 1983 - 1987, when she was at the height of her powers and against many odds saw off most of her political foes, both within and outside the Conservative Party.

It came after he and his political advisers concluded over the weekend that he could not win a Republican primary against a conservative challenger, particularly in light of his vote for the president's economic stimulus package.

Fiscally conservative groups including Unshackle Upstate argue against public financing for elections as nothing more than «labor's latest effort to enhance their political influence at the expense of taxpayers.»

In Ward 1, political newcomer Jeffrey Ventura Morell will run on the Democratic and Working Families line against Republican, Conservative and Independence Party candidate Michael T. Russell for the seat being vacated by Eckert.

Writer Kate Maltby, who accused Conservative MP Damian Green of sexual harassment, Labour party activist Ava Etemadzadeh, who accused Labour MP Kelvin Hopkins, and former special adviser to Nick Clegg Bridget Harris, who made allegations against Lib Dem peer Lord Rennard, said they had little faith their political parties would put their houses in order, and accused them of ignoring the issue for decades.

The release of last week's 38 - page Electoral Commission report produced a minor political earthquake: as a result of the biggest investigation the commission has ever undertaken, it levied its largest - ever fine against the Conservative party and referred the case of the party's treasurer, Simon Day, to the Metropolitan police for further criminal investigation.

The next act of this political play comes with November's general election that pits Sheehan mainly against Republican Jesse Calhoun and Conservative Joe Sullivan.

Railing against the Soviets» «dirty jackboots» all over Europe, and how «Lady Thatcher saved us» from socialism made him sound stuck in a geo - political past, or at least a battered history textbook, not relevant to Conservative defectors, floating voters, and even loyal Conservative voters the party needs to target today.

But Conservative leaders have often attempted change against the conservative, if not reactionary, instincts of the party's parliamentarians and activists.Balfour dithered, and, as Harris notes, he saw the Carlton Club as «infested by the political bore», and «when Balfour or any other Conservative lost the bores, he lost the pConservative leaders have often attempted change against the conservative, if not reactionary, instincts of the party's parliamentarians and activists.Balfour dithered, and, as Harris notes, he saw the Carlton Club as «infested by the political bore», and «when Balfour or any other Conservative lost the bores, he lost the pconservative, if not reactionary, instincts of the party's parliamentarians and activists.Balfour dithered, and, as Harris notes, he saw the Carlton Club as «infested by the political bore», and «when Balfour or any other Conservative lost the bores, he lost the pConservative lost the bores, he lost the party».

But the coalition against big government (and political expediency) has the potential to derail not only the coalition but the Conservative party itself.

In the 60th Senatorial District, where GOP Sen. Mark Grisanti is fighting for his political life, CSEA went with Hamburg Democrat Michael Amodeo, who is facing off against former Erie County Legislator Chuck Swanick (who has the Conservative Party's nod) in the September primary.

(CNN)- A political group of gay conservatives will begin airing ads against a handful of Democratic candidates on Monday, including a spot against openly gay Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts.

The bomb - throwing Buffalo builder got enough votes on the Conservative line in his disastrous gubernatorial campaign against Democrat Andrew Cuomo to secure the No. 3 spot on the ballot for the right - leaning political party, which had once been written off by political observers.

Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin wouldn't rule out a primary against Sen. Roy McDonald this afternoon at the Conservative Party Political Action Conference, criticizing Republican politicians who do not stick to signed pledges.

He was Scottish spokesperson for Conservative Friends of Israel and for the Campaign Against Political Correctness, a campaign allied to the Freedom Association, a right - wing Eurosceptic pressure group that supported apartheid in South Africa.

The country is looking for leadership against Labour and the Conservative part of the political class are looking as though they are part of the problem

Abortion is also a political wedge issue against the Governor's republican opponent Rob Astorino who Cuomo has attempted to portrayed as an «ultra conservative».

The other Republican / Conservative - backed candidates endorsed by the union are Teryl Mickens, a member of the Independence Party who is running against incumbent Democrat Bill Carey in Ward 5; James Rodden, a registered Democrat who is running against incumbent Democrat Steve Schabot in Ward 8; and Patrick O'Reilly, who is not enrolled in a political party and is running against registered Democrat Bryant «Drew» Andrews for the open seat in Ward 7.

The Conservative chairman said his party was «absolutely not» involved in a smear campaign with calls from fake political pollsters, against a former Tory MP who defected to UKIP.

The American Foundation for Equal Rights — with its attention - getting political odd couple of conservative Republican lawyer Theodore Olson and liberal Democrat David Boies — will announce Monday it is joining a lawsuit against what the lawyers called Virginia's «draconian» laws prohibiting same - sex marriages, the recognition of such marriages performed where they are legal, and civil unions.

Frank Field and Michael Portillo both said tat it would be better for Scotland to go independent, Michael gove was described last year in a spectator article as the greatest leader Labours never had, portillos first political hero was Harold Wilson, and black Tory lord John Taylor said of Portillo that he was just pretending to be Thatcherite to further his career in the 80's So to take the view that there are some non Blairite, non Corbyinsta, EU skeptics who appeal to the Socially conservative, yet Social democrat view of politics, what was needed was a 42 year old, Admirer of Frank field and Michael Portillo, who was against Iraq, voted leave, and didn't back David miliband for leader in 2010

«We're prepared to fight back and that means against our political opponents in the Conservative Party, and not amongst ourselves.»

The Wisconsin Realtors Association funneled more than $ 1 million to a conservative group engaged in political advocacy, against the wishes of some members whose dues paid for the contribution.