If you listen to people like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck you can not really find any traditionalist
conservative ideas in their world view.
Leaving policy to judges has not served
conservative ideas in the past, and this exception shouldn't hearten education reformers on the right in the way it has.
Millions of Americans only hear about conservatives when they (putatively) misbehave and about
conservative ideas in ugly and distorted forms.
They're supposed to have carved out more room for
Conservative Ideas in our nation's Commanding Intellectual Heights — but the Buckley Brigade's been outgunned in that fight since it began.
I think conservatives need to see these qualities for what they are — sources of the continued political and social strength of
conservative ideas in America.
Not exact matches
Clarke was not a widely known figure
in 2002, and when his first election rolled around shortly after the appointment, the overwhelmingly Democratic Milwaukee County still had no
idea he was staunchly
conservative.
She believes women often are more
conservative than men and don't believe
in themselves enough to push their
ideas.
In doing this, the
Conservatives mock the very
idea they once supported.
Outside the hall, across the country, are millions of voters who are pretty sure,
in many cases, that a
Conservative government is a bad
idea.
Back
in 2014, it was a good
idea for Trudeau and the Liberals to start thinking of
Conservatives as neighbours — as people with whom they would have to find common ground.
A
Conservative party source speaking on background said Harper was
in contact with his chief of staff, Guy Giorno, and communications director Kory Teneycke, the officials behind the
idea, while he was
in Europe last week.
During my panel at the
Conservative Political Action Conference, conservative columnist Ralph Hallow said that the United States is «bringing in people with no experience with our idea that the individual has ultimate worth and that the government exists only because we say it
Conservative Political Action Conference,
conservative columnist Ralph Hallow said that the United States is «bringing in people with no experience with our idea that the individual has ultimate worth and that the government exists only because we say it
conservative columnist Ralph Hallow said that the United States is «bringing
in people with no experience with our
idea that the individual has ultimate worth and that the government exists only because we say it can.»
While the NDP have long supported the abolishment of the Senate, the
idea has grown popular
in conservative circles
in recent years.
When the
Conservatives first came into power
in 2006, the whole
idea was shelved.
The killings
in Florida have also revived the debate over whether teachers should be allowed to carry guns
in schools — an
idea DeVos, while careful not to outright endorse it, said
in an interview last week with
conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt should «be part of the broader, more robust conversation about how can we avoid these things
in the future.»
As a
conservative and a Christian, I think it is unfortunate that
conservatives have been so eager to buy into the
idea that «we are all
in it together.»
Program was founded
in 2010 to provide a forum for the
conservative ideas so often excluded from Yale's classrooms.
Their interest
in local and national politics is intense: They picket regularly for pro-life causes, enroll their children
in debate clubs that argue for
conservative political
ideas, and rally for Bush
in the 2000 election.
CNN:
Conservative leader agrees to visit home of married gay couple for first time A conservative Christian leader who opposes same - sex marriage has agreed to the idea of dining at the home of a married gay couple, after saying he had never done so in an intervi
Conservative leader agrees to visit home of married gay couple for first time A
conservative Christian leader who opposes same - sex marriage has agreed to the idea of dining at the home of a married gay couple, after saying he had never done so in an intervi
conservative Christian leader who opposes same - sex marriage has agreed to the
idea of dining at the home of a married gay couple, after saying he had never done so
in an interview with CNN.
In 1949, Lionel Trilling, the literary embodiment of the old liberalism, deplored those American conservatives who «express themselves» only in «irritable gestures which seek to resemble ideas.&raqu
In 1949, Lionel Trilling, the literary embodiment of the old liberalism, deplored those American
conservatives who «express themselves» only
in «irritable gestures which seek to resemble ideas.&raqu
in «irritable gestures which seek to resemble
ideas.»
While I do share some
conservative ideas they always seem more interested
in just supporting Republicans
in all things regardless of their effects on other people, myself included.
I remember countless conversations
in the dorm rooms of my
conservative Christian college about how to defer to a guy as the «spiritual leader»
in a relationship, an ideal that far too often resulted
in women deliberately diminishing their own gifts,
ideas, and dreams
in an effort to better play second fiddle.
For years I struggled with the
idea that
conservative evangelical Christians had a monopoly on truth and that everyone else
in the world faced likely damnation.
But, if I am understanding Wright correctly, this
idea has consequences for both uber -
conservative Christians (who may tend to see God's presence and revelatory activity as limited the words printed
in the Bible) and more liberal Christians (who may prefer to think of the words of Joshua and Jeremiah as entirely their own, and not the words of God).
And it is precisely the
idea of peoplehood that made
Conservative Judaism the most popular movement
in the 1950s and 1960s that has also made it fall out of favor for American Jews
in the twenty - first century.
(CNN)- A
conservative Christian leader who opposes same - sex marriage has agreed to the
idea of dining at the home of a married gay couple, after saying he had never done so
in an interview with CNN.
Whatever was the case then, that hardly holds today: modern
conservatives, at least
in America, are bursting with
ideas.
The fact that many theologically
conservative evangelicals are also aligned with political conservatism — a movement which has developed strong Zionist sympathies — has helped to reinforce the
idea that the Jews have a natural right to dwell
in Israel.
The promotion of
conservative ideas is not new
in Afro - American history.
A compassionate -
conservative approach to governing would result
in a different and smaller federal role — using free - market
ideas to strengthen families and communities, rather than constructing centralized bureaucracies.
It provides a good warning to
conservatives against falling into the trap of defending the
idea of «judicial supremacy»
in their critique of the president's statement about a «group» of unelected people striking down a congressional law.
It provides a good warning to
conservatives against falling into the trap of defending the
idea of «judicial supremacy»
in their critique of the president's statement about a «group» of unelected people striking down....
In fact, for several years now, I cringe at the
idea of being called a
conservative or a Christian.
After The
Conservative Mind, however, it was no longer possible to accept Lionel Trilling's claim that «nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circula
Conservative Mind, however, it was no longer possible to accept Lionel Trilling's claim that «nowadays there are no
conservative or reactionary ideas in general circula
conservative or reactionary
ideas in general circulation.»
The ideologists of the burgeoning
conservative movement included a disproportionate number of ex-Marxists who retained the conviction that
ideas are weapons
in the struggle for power.
If you want to believe
in God, there's nothing wrong with that; it's no more wrong than choosing to believe
in liberal or
conservative ideas.
Gardner's success, however, reveals problems
in the establishment
conservative platform and shows what it would take for a populist
conservative with better policy
ideas to get elected.
Back
in 2008 I wrote a post called «A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Polls» to address how surprised I was at the way
Conservative Evangelical Christians were embracing the
idea of a woman for Vice President while at the same time standing against women being ordained as pastors.
My fancy 100,000 word answer turned out to be little more than a long way of saying, «I have no
idea how to reconcile the violence of God
in the Old Testament with the self - sacrificial love of Jesus Christ
in the New while still maintaining a
conservative view of inspiration and inerrancy.»
This concept is based on the faulty
idea that there is an «us» (the moral,
conservative Christians who this nation really belongs to) and then there is a «them» (
in this case, liberal secularists whose sole objective is to undermine all biblical values).
Both
conservative and liberal politicians have spoken
in favor of the
idea.
Kim, You may show up here so you can educate / ridicule those of us with a much less rigid
conservative viewpoint, but by just condemning people and their
ideas in that way, you lose any authority or influence to teach.
It is an interesting thesis, although he pushes it too far when he writes that «
In the past twenty years, conservative thought as represented in conservative journals and think tanks has increasingly come to reflect southern traditions, experience, and cultural idea
In the past twenty years,
conservative thought as represented
in conservative journals and think tanks has increasingly come to reflect southern traditions, experience, and cultural idea
in conservative journals and think tanks has increasingly come to reflect southern traditions, experience, and cultural
ideas.
Ms. Bachman is one of those
conservatives that doesn't care what anyone else thinks or says unless it's
in agreement with her
ideas and agenda.
I could launch into a bit concerning the relation between self - reliance and manliness, and another bit about the sort of
conservative democratic individualism that's paradoxically low on the «individuality» you get out of liberal democratic individualism (I'd work
in a meditation on the word «generic»)... but I'd rather hear your
ideas.
For it is a plain fact that nowadays there are no
conservative or reactionary
ideas in general circulation.»
The
idea of God continues to haunt the work of the radical theologians, putting them
in many ways closer to the new
conservatives than to the liberal revisionists who busily analyze our experience
in order to spin off plausible intimations of transcendence.
I'd like to explore the
idea that the way the Bible is being used
in modern Christian circles, particularly among
conservative evangelicals, may
in fact border on idolatry.
Pro-life
Conservatives in Alabama may be understandably uneasy with the
idea of casting a vote for Doug Jones, a Democrat with a history of supporting abortion rights.
I read National Review and I think there are some good
ideas in there, but I wouldn't want to be called a
conservative.