Sentences with phrase «called liberal left»

As for the so called Liberal left its right up there with boiled ice in the fiction top ten.

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In 2003, she heard the channel was planning a new political program called SqueezePlay, built around O'Leary's right - wing free market cheerleading and the left - leaning views of Brian Tobin, the former Newfoundland premier and Liberal cabinet minister.

We criticize our politicians every day, but the right calls all critics «liberals» and the left calls all critics «Nazis».

Sane people can disagree about whether there ought to be a right to privacy, i.e., about whether it is logically a natural right and if so perhaps ought to be put into the Constitution via amendment, or about whether we (usually at state - level) should pass particular laws, such as ones that legalize gay - marriage, that factually expand what might be called privacy, but no sane U.S. Citizen, gay, straight, liberal, or conservative, should be left ignorant about the Constitution - wounding judicial usurpations done in the name of this right, more of which are planned to be done soon enough.

Soviet spies were of the left generally, they supported liberal causes, they defended the Soviet Union in all circumstances, they were often secret members of the Communist Party, they were uniformly suspicious of American initiatives throughout the world, they could be contemptuous of American democracy, society, and culture, and, above all, their offenses were often minimized or explained away by apologists who felt that no man should be called traitor who did what he did for the cause of humanity.

I am someone who is a Bible - believing Christian, call me an evangelical if you want, who is a liberal and of the left, and that is surprising to both camps.

I'd have to say that was how I was pulled out of liberalism and after reading none Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen, I kept reading more and more, None Dare Call It Treason, etc, and eventually had to face that my liberal beliefs had no foundation (the Rockefellers are near the top of the pile and they buy everyone on both sides, right and left).

Last week, Jeffrey Wells called Avatar «the most flamboyant, costliest, grandest left - liberal super-movie anyone's ever seen,» and that's true as far as it goes — but he forgot a word.

Those who call themselves «left» on the spectrum and «liberal» don't lift a finger to actually rescue Muslim women from oppression, forced marriage, violence in marriage and honor killings.

Firmly on the more liberal end of the Conservative spectrum, he caused consternation in Tory ranks and considerable bemusement in the media when he called on the party to pay less attention to Winston Churchill and more to left - wing Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee.

Liberal Republicans (Centre Republicans): Alan Milburn, Anthony Giddens (to a large extent), Richard Reeves, Philip Collins Democratic Republicans (Left Republicans): Gordon Brown, Ed Balls, Ed Miliband, Jim Knight, The Co-operative Party, Scientists for Labour, James Purnell has flirted with Liberal Republicanism, but may well have shifted to Democratic republicanism, as he proved in his resignation letter in the Times, calling for a more open democracy, a more active state and greater regulation.

Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog, a reported opinion blog with a liberal slant — what you might call «opinionated reporting» from the left.

Liberal Democrat grandee Lord Ashdown recently mooted such action, calling for moderates from across various centre - left parties to have a «conversation».

Green Party co-spokesman Peter Eriksson reiterated that his party will not work with the Alliance to form a majority government, but left the door open for possible cooperation with the Liberal and Centre Parties, calling them «natural» partners.

Progressives are what Europeans would call social democrats, while liberals are center - left.

Douglas Hogg, another Tory, has tabled a series of amendments with the Liberal Democrat David Heath also calling for the inquiry to wind up by the end of next month, but his proposal would make allowance for the report to be redacted so as to leave out any material prejudicial to the Green investigation.

Yet Nixon calls him a «fake Democrat» and many on the left see Cuomo as a centrist who embraced more liberal policies when pressured to.

Rallying supporters in Manhattan at the Women's National Republican Club, Cruz continued bashing what he calls the liberal, left - wing values of New York politicians, even listing those he said Donald Trump has supported.

Ambulance response data released under the new targeting system leaves us «in the dark» regarding the performance of the vast majority of emergency calls, the Welsh Liberal Democrats have said.

The Liberal Democrats today called on the government to scrap the Trident nuclear missile system, in the latest intervention designed to head - off growing dissent from the party's disgruntled left - wingers.

So, in the US those who are advocating it, being more left - wing, would be called «liberals» while in Europe and the rest of the world, liberals would be those who calls for free civil gun possession.

The labels mean different things in different environments anyway: what is called «right wing conservative capitalist» in some European countries might well be perceived as «left wing liberal communist» in the United states.

«Liberal» in USA has several meanings, mainly, either (1) «classical liberal» (which in USA is typically branded as «libertarianism» - although it's still called plain «liberalism» in Europe where the term originated); and, wholly independently, (2) «political liberal» - which is a self - made late 20th century [1] rebrand of what used to be called «progressive» (and can be loosely branded «left wing» at times, but personally I absolutely abhore single - axis left / right positioning) poLiberal» in USA has several meanings, mainly, either (1) «classical liberal» (which in USA is typically branded as «libertarianism» - although it's still called plain «liberalism» in Europe where the term originated); and, wholly independently, (2) «political liberal» - which is a self - made late 20th century [1] rebrand of what used to be called «progressive» (and can be loosely branded «left wing» at times, but personally I absolutely abhore single - axis left / right positioning) poliberal» (which in USA is typically branded as «libertarianism» - although it's still called plain «liberalism» in Europe where the term originated); and, wholly independently, (2) «political liberal» - which is a self - made late 20th century [1] rebrand of what used to be called «progressive» (and can be loosely branded «left wing» at times, but personally I absolutely abhore single - axis left / right positioning) poliberal» - which is a self - made late 20th century [1] rebrand of what used to be called «progressive» (and can be loosely branded «left wing» at times, but personally I absolutely abhore single - axis left / right positioning) position.

[1]- Ironically, many true liberals in classical liberalism sense are currently trying to re-brand things back, by reclaiming «liberal» label for their left - libertarian positions (one of the most notable examples is Dave Rubin), while branding former - progressives - now - called - «liberals» as «progressive» again, on the basis that current US progressive movement is claimed by many to be against many individual rights and the basis of classical liberalism

The politically incorrect NYU professor accused of «incivility» by liberal colleagues and put on leave is now suing the college and four fellow profs for calling him everything from a drug addict to Satan.

Five years later, as Labour and the Liberal Democrats were recovering from the shock of John Major's surprise victory, Mr Kennedy showed remarkable prescience on the day after the election by calling for a realignment of Britain's centre - left parties.

On February 17, 2005, Hillary Clinton joined with Left - wing Senator Barbara Boxer in introducing the Count Every Vote Act, a hodge - podge of so - called «reforms» backed by extreme liberal groups such as People for the American Way.

Jointly published by Soundings, Social Liberal Forum and Compass, After the Crash is a call to arms for a coalition of ideas and action on the centre left, working together to find common ground for change.

Of course the liberals and progressives on the left, who are comfortable calling people «Nazis, Racists and Haters», took great offense to the term «pond scum».

It started as a scrappy grass - roots protest movement against Trump, but now the so - called resistance is attracting six - and seven - figure checks from major liberal donors, posing an insurgent challenge to some of the left's most venerable institutions — and the Democratic Party itself.

And Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg called it a «fig leaf», saying it would not cover up Britain's «rotten» political system.

Hannan called for a pact to ensure the Tories do not face the same fate as the centre - left in the 1980s, which saw its vote divided between Labour and the SDP / Liberal Alliance.

That liberals are just as guilty of antiscience bias comports more with accounts of humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in which natural selection operated on humans only from the neck down.

The apparent failure in the United States of both liberal - left and neoconservative policies and programs has given rise to what has been variously called the «radical middle,» the «extreme center,» the «snarling mainstream.»

If the Senate blocks the Emissions Reduction Fund, it will leave the Liberals with three options that I can foresee: 1) drop all pretence of climate action, 2) call a double dissolution using the Emissions Reduction Fund legislation as a trigger, or 3) negotiate a new climate policy with the Senate.

Hence the former Harper government's destruction of the Liberal - created long - gun registry and its vandalism of the data contained therein, plus the Wildrosers» stout defence of the «property rights» of so - called «law - abiding gun owners,» as well as the party's insistence Ottawa leave non-criminal regulation of firearms to the provinces.

He worked with a small team of young volunteers in what was then a unit of Vote Leave called BeLeave that tried to craft messages to turn young and liberal people against the European Union by arguing, for example, that it closed doors to the non-European world.