Sentences with phrase «by conservative think»

He was a speaker at the International Conference on Climate Change (2009) hosted by the conservative think tank, the Heartland Institute.

A publication by the conservative think tank, The Cato Institute, argued that NASA's 1992 warnings of a potential ozone hole opening up over the Northern Hemisphere «were exquisitely timed to bolster the agency's budget requests» (Bailey, 1993).

The ideological dimension was also stressed by conservative think tanks (the Cato Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, etc.) which increasingly sponsored pamphlets, press releases, public lectures and so forth, arguing that global warming was not really a problem at all.

Shaviv is a climate change skeptic and was a speaker at the International Conference on Climate Change (2009) hosted by the conservative think tank, the Heartland Institute.

Our research has been relentlessly attacked by conservative think tanks, politicians and newspapers.

(Beder, 1998) • Amplify the voices of contrarian scientists, (Cooler Heads Coalition, created by conservative think tanks) Dunlap and McCright, 2011: 151) • Convince people that «using fossil fuels to enable our economic activity is as natural as breathing.»

On the one hand, it is very important for the political right to have this echo chamber out there — and the arguments generated by conservative think tanks would interact with the biased reasoning processes that are the subject of my piece in a kind of one - two combination.

Analysis by the conservative think - tank found giving schools a 10 % increase, roughly $ 700 to $ 800 in per - pupil funding, only yielded a significant increase in one of 28 academic areas observed.

They maintain that the majority of «currently available ESA literature has been provided by conservative think tanks, whose explicit goal is to advance free - market school choice reform.

School privatization became a key part of the «devolution» of government, advocated by conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, Manhattan Institute, Cato Institute, Heartland Institute, and

Published by the conservative think - tank Fraser Institute, the report's goal is to influence public policy and «set the record straight» on «wildly off - base» reports on financial costs of raising children.

Not exact matches

«The thing about his appointment that I think has not been picked up on by a lot of people who've been reporting on this is when Clarke was under consideration to be chosen at sheriff, there was not any hint from anywhere that he was a conservative,» said Mark Belling, a conservative Wisconsin talk - show host.

It has been based on the production of lies developed by the fossil fuel industry through industry - funded conservative think - tanks, laundered through conservative foundations, spun and repeated by right - wing media outlets, and adopted as ideology by the Republican Party.

And I still would think that, if not for Brexit, Trump and the existence of a former Conservative cabinet minister who thinks she can become leader of the Opposition by appealing to our worst instincts.

He wrapped up an hour later by citing John A. Macdonald, the Conservative founding father of Confederation, who once foresaw a nation «great in thought, great in action, great in hope and great in position.»

Moerdler projects 1994 sales of $ 10 million, but Datskovsky, more conservative by nature, thinks $ 7 million is likelier.

According to the New Yorker, The Mercatus Center was first founded and funded by the billionaire conservative Koch Brothers, and the small think tank advocates environmental deregulation.

In Ontario, the opposition Progressive Conservatives clearly think there are gains to be made by validating the complaints of aggrieved commuters in the vote - rich suburban swath around Toronto.

Posted by Armine Yalnizyan under Conservative government, economic thought, financial literacy, fiscal policy, income distribution, income tax, inequality, liberals, NDP, pensions, poverty, TFSA.

Given that fundamental aspects of how the Internet works are being decided by the PMO, Shade and Moll say it's up to the public to get Canadian politicians «up to speed» on net neutrality the way the American public did in the U.S. To date, there is scarce indication that any of the major parties are thinking about the issue; McArthur says a letter to his Conservative MP in Edmonton didn't even generate a standard response letter.

Proxy Preview also highlights «a surge of proposals — some two dozen — largely filed by or coordinated by the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), a conservative Capitol Hill think tank.»

Posted by Nick Falvo under Bank of Canada, banks, budgets, Conservative government, consumers, deficits, economic growth, economic models, economic thought, employment, Europe, exchange rates, federal budget, fiscal policy, household debt, housing, inflation, interest rates, monetary policy, oil and gas, prices, Role of government, social indicators, tar sands, US.

Working out of an nondescript brick rowhouse in suburban Virginia, a little - known organization named Donors Trust, staffed by five employees, has steered hundreds of millions of dollars to the most influential think tanks, foundations, and advocacy groups in the conservative movement.

Legitimate small business tax rules — put in place by previous Liberal and Conservative governments to support small business growth and expansion — are now thought of as loopholes being exploited by the fat - cat owner of the neighbourhood coffee shop, chiropractor or dry cleaner.

Polls in the United Kingdom indicate the forthcoming election is likely to increase the majority of the ruling Conservative Party, an outcome that should strengthen Prime Minister May's position at home and on the international stage at a crucial time, and one we think would be welcomed by financial markets.

These two elections have shattered the myth cultivated by conservative politicians, newspaper columnists, think tanks and lobby groups for decades that promising to increase taxes is political kryptonite.

I think the people of Alberta had enough of the fear - mongering by the PC government (Wildrose and federal Conservatives be warned!)

Conservative Governments privatize companies by spending all their money on needless things that do not show a profit (think here of our CPP and Harper in control of the board) then come back to the population telling them the company is broke and the only way to save it is to go private.

We conservatives think that nature exists to be used well by the human person, just as we think that human nature isn't an oxymoron.

But still, if a rich and high - powered conservative donor came to ask my advice, whether they should try to start a new college, or whether they should try the easier and apparently more civic - spirited task of helping to reform existing ones (by aiding things like existing APT programs, such as the one that employs me), I think I am obliged to advise the former.

It is a mistake to think that the 2012 election results were primarily the result of conservative stances on social issues articulated by the candidates.

Madison expresses the conservative thought that people will always be prejudiced, and so it's good that the Constitution (by being so hard to change) leads Americans to prejudiced in favor of what's actually good.

I don't think the catholic bishops (or christian conservatives) have any interest in violating anyone's right to healthcare options that are legally allowed by the government.

Usually, my first reaction to these kinds of messages is to get defensive and frustrated by the fact that critical thinking, compassion, and honesty are so often presented as liabilities to faith within the conservative evangelical community.

Once upon a time, I thought that the Christian faith, or at least the purest version of it, had started with Jesus and his disciples, taken a hiatus for about a thousand years during the reign of Roman Catholicism, returned with Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, and gotten properly explained again by the 1895 Bible Conference of Conservative Protestants.

I thought that most conservative Christians, including Reformed Christians, believed that the Bible was written by human beings and had a human touch.

Most Convicting (nominated by Alise Wright): David Nilsen with «Coping with Disappointment When Calvinists Refuse to Be Jerks» «I think one of the problems with most of us who consider ourselves progressive Christians is that we live in constant expectation of being judged by our fellow believers who are more conservative.

Joseph Bottum writes: After six years of President Bush» thought by nearly every observer to be the most socially conservative president of recent decades» where does social conservatism stand?

Now, after the Council, the so - called progressives have no right at all to treat their «conservative» brothers und sisters in the same way as they themselves, rightly or wrongly, thought they had been treated by their so - called opponents before the Council.

By contrast, no conservative Protestant pastors thought God approved of all families, and only 13 percent thought that family ministry was an exclusive term.

The dangers of conservative religious thought have frequently been noted by liberal theologians to include a kind of individualistic withdrawal from the social realities of the world.

I consider myself somewhat conservative and generally in line with alot of republican views — and alot of democratic ones too — I think I am TYPICAL of the YOUNGER GENERATION that is SICK OF MUD SLINGING from BOTH PARTIES and i VOTE INDEPENDANT — I VOTE THE CANDIDATE NOT THE PARTY — and i AM WHITE and I am INSULTED by YOUR RACIST COMMENT on wanting an «all white» country!!

Jesus loved all and came to save all... I do not think he would like the division and lack of love so often shown by conservative evanglists..

about people who experience same - sex attraction trying to live a Christian life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies presented a fascinating look into the way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many conservatives as well — has gone away from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.

That Was the Church That Was (I think I can reveal without causing any grave difficulties to anyone) is dominated by factional differences between evangelical conservatives and liberal Catholics, by office politics, by money troubles, and by struggles over homosexuality and over the ordination of women.

It deals with Christology and the doctrine of God, as well as prayer, the resurrection, heaven, etc. and it provides a general introduction to Whitehead's thought.128 The Task of Philosophical Theology by C. J. Curtis, a Lutheran theologian, is a process exposition of numerous «theological notions» important to the «conservative, traditional» Christian viewpoint.129 Two very fine semi-popular introductions to process philosophy as a context for Christian theology are The Creative Advance by E. H. Peters130 and Process Thought and Christian Faith by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns of a theologian, provides a concise introduction to the process view of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal life.thought.128 The Task of Philosophical Theology by C. J. Curtis, a Lutheran theologian, is a process exposition of numerous «theological notions» important to the «conservative, traditional» Christian viewpoint.129 Two very fine semi-popular introductions to process philosophy as a context for Christian theology are The Creative Advance by E. H. Peters130 and Process Thought and Christian Faith by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns of a theologian, provides a concise introduction to the process view of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal life.Thought and Christian Faith by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns of a theologian, provides a concise introduction to the process view of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal life.»

That's one of the most fundamental differences, I think, between a deeply conservative position and a strictly libertarian one: conservatives think that for all its merits, the right we have to choose in the marketplace needs to be shaped by virtue and ordered by a moral order (I never tire of pointing out that Adam Smith thought himself a moral philosopher).

Overall, I think Douthat's version of the conservative story pays too much attention to popes and bishops and ecclesiastical politics, and too little to the hows and whys and results of the collapse of the institutions and processes by which the faith had been passed on from one generation to the next.

That assumes a level of cynicism that may be cultivated by a Mitt Romney, but probably not many rank - and - file conservatives, who either don't know this, or suffer from such extreme cognitive dissonance that it doesn't effect their thinking.

As Tillich says in the introduction, «The consciousness oriented to the myth of origin is the root of all conservative and romantic thought in politics,» while «the breaking of the myth of origin by the unconditional demand is the root of liberal, democratic, and socialist thought in politics.»