Sentences with phrase «conservative political point»

Behind Scalia's «originalism» and «textualism,» they claim, lies a conservative political point of view.

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He said he would be inviting «leading conservatives» and people from all across the political spectrum to talk with him and share their points of view about the issues raised by the Gizmodo story.

Carlos, in support of your point, Barry Cooper, a man described in Wikipedia as «a member of an influential group of conservative political scientists, the Calgary School», said the PC party lost its way in the second half of Ralph Klein's tenure.

Denis Coderre accuses Conservatives of trying to score «cheap political points» during election campaign with criticism of planned St. Lawrence sewage dump

Klein points out that out that there isn't even one panel on health care policy at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Liberal Boomers, who seldom if ever seriously criticize the legions of conservative - demonizers in your midst, for this post I will mostly join Mr. Druckenmiller in accusing you outright, that is, I will act as if this was your premeditated plan motivated by selfish interest, and not a pattern of political self - delusion that you fell into, given the drip - drip - drip of Democrat talking points over the years, given your gleeful listening to those who dismissed conservatives as hateful dunces, so that you ceased to even consider the NUMBERS conservatives kept pointing to, and just kept on doggedly voting D.

The challenge to social conservatives at this point is still to name one social, political, or cultural problem that is not made worse by the pressure of overpopulation.

The outrage in Arizona has sparked another cycle of mutual recriminations between liberals and conservatives that points up what seems to be a growing chasm running through our political culture.

Unlike the kind of social commentary that Hollywood still churns out — in which everything would turn out better if only conservatives weren't so busy oppressing homosexuals or women or maybe unionized employees — it isn't interested in easy sociological answers or cheap political point - scoring.

... some Catholic liberals who saw John Paul II as overly conservative have suggested that his cause is being fast - tracked in order to score political points in internal Catholic debates.

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.»

And even if a blanket publication of Parliamentary tax returns shows that Conservative MPs are less able to claim that they are really all in together, Bryant warns his party off political point - scoring.

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) hit back today over media reports on Ministry of Defence (MoD) bonuses and accused the Conservatives of misrepresenting civilian defence staff to score political points.

So now, even before Emma Benson, a field director for the conservative political organization Americans for Prosperity, knocks on a door, she has more than 700 data points about the person behind it, like magazine subscriptions, car ownership (make, model, year), propensity for voting, and likes and dislikes mined from Facebook and Twitter, from rock bands to baseball teams.

Jonah makes the excellent point that conservatives (and libertarians) dominated the «net in its earliest days, and I'll back him up on that — when I was helping to assemble the list of websites for a targeted political search engine back in 1999, progressive / lib sites were grossly outnumbered, and there was no real lefty counterpart to the Free Republic (a then - vibrant online community) or to Drudge.

Underscoring that point is the latest campaign finance report filed by one of the early birds, a political action committee called «Real Conservatives.»

He has made a point of working across the political spectrum — hosting David Cameron and housing the progressive Conservative project, alongside that of James Purnell and Open Left, and publishing Nick Clegg on liberalism.

A former president of the Oxford University conservative association, Robinson is not making an overtly political point.

In May 1998, the then Chairman of the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee, former Conservative Cabinet Minister Lord Pym, told a House of Commons Select Committee that the committee considered a political donation a point in a nominee's favour as it indicated involvement in public life, and that the nominee had «put their money where his mouth iPolitical Honours Scrutiny Committee, former Conservative Cabinet Minister Lord Pym, told a House of Commons Select Committee that the committee considered a political donation a point in a nominee's favour as it indicated involvement in public life, and that the nominee had «put their money where his mouth ipolitical donation a point in a nominee's favour as it indicated involvement in public life, and that the nominee had «put their money where his mouth is».

However, a Conservative Party spokesman dismissed Ukip's announcement as «cynical, misleading and utterly calculating to try and score political points».

«The time for petty point - scoring on climate change, from any political party, is surely past,» the Conservative MP said.

Hilary Benn, Labour's shadow foreign secretary, said it was a «shameful and cowardly poster», while Nicky Morgan, the Conservative education secretary, said: «Using the tragic deaths of innocent people to make a political point is simply shameful.»

Election barometer The Political Forecasting Unit's «election barometer», designed to capture the changing state of the race as it unfolds through the campaign, shows the Liberal Democrats on top by one point over the Conservatives based on an average of the very latest polling, but the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats tied on the Polling Tracker.

Election barometer The Political Forecasting Unit's «election barometer», designed to capture the changing state of the race as it unfolds through the campaign, shows the Conservatives one point ahead of the Liberal Democrats in terms of vote share, with Labour four points further adrift.

The Conservative adviser in turn claimed the former Northern Ireland secretary was attempting to score cheap political points.

However, Ipsos MORI's June Political Monitor showed the Conservative lead to be reduced to just 2 points over Labour, down from 11 points just before the 2010 election.

But I believe my main point stands: conservatives stand with tradition, whether that be political tradition (for political conservatives) or social tradition (or social conservatives) or both (typical US «conservatives»).

In the case at hand, the point of view on gun laws simply seems to roughly follow the political distinctions of «liberal» versus «conservative» in the way that «conservative» politicians tend to not want to change the existing (perceived by many, liberal) gun laws.

The full poll is embargoed until 10 o'clock, but the Indy's Political Editor Andrew Grice has already blogged that the Conservative lead is down to 9 points.

Conservative Party does not endorse GOPer Ed Day for county executive, neglects interview process and endorses Democrat Geoff Finn over registered Conservative Party member Dylan Skriloff in Stony Point, and once again endorses super-liberal Stephanie Hausner in Clarkstown BY MARK MOSS The Conservative Party has handed out their endorsements for political season 2013 and, as -LSB-...]

The key differences, as pointed out by Political Wire: Siena measured registered voters, as opposed to likely voters, and also included Conservative Party candidate Rick Lazio in their survey for governor.

There is a great danger that the response to this challenge will sound something like this: Labour's internal democratisation simply empowers «good» working class people — plainly, those who are receptive to a left - wing political agenda — while there is in any case no point in engaging a dialogue with the «bad» working class people who hold socially conservative views, resent immigration and see UKIP rather than Labour as the «party of work.»

From the point of view of local Conservatives (and the government) the deal opens promising political terrain in a Labour heartland.

The point of a Conservative - UUP alliance would be to bring Northern Ireland politicians into the mainstream of British political debate on issues not limited to Irish affairs.

But senior Labour party sources pointed out that Wick was until recently a senior officer of the Carlton Club, the Conservative party institution whose political committee raises more than # 1m a year for the party, raising questions over his political motivation.

Now if we are driven into voting for UKIP, which does still espouse many Traditional Tory Policies, is unequivocal on a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and which has eschewed all the Eco-rubbish which has beguiled the other political parties such as New Labour, New Conservative and the Lib Dems, this may not win any seats for UKIP at the next General Election, indeed they will be lucky to hold onto Bob Spink's seat at Castle Point under FPTP.

The Political Forecasting Unit «Polling Tracker» has the Conservatives, based on pre-debate polling, six points ahead of Labour.

«Rudy Giuliani was the high point of Staten Island's political history,» said Joseph Borelli, a Republican assemblyman from Staten Island's conservative South Shore.

The last time any government won a by - election was in 1983, and with Labour considerably behind in the nationwide polls and Corbyn's popularity low, a gain in either seat would be a remarkable victory for the Conservatives and further evidence that they are dominating the post-Brexit political landscape (though, as Matt Singh points out on NumberCruncherPolitics, it would be even more remarkable than this).

What the media want is a game of political ping pong with figures in the billions being bunged about between Labour and the Conservatives at this point in the cycle.

Ossorio recalled that Sessions voted against reauthorizing VAWA, and pointed out Trump has embraced a conservative political think tank Heritage Foundation plan that calls for cuts to VAWA.

The Political Forecasting Unit's «election barometer», designed to capture the changing state of the race as it unfolds through the campaign, shows the Conservatives on 34 per cent, four points ahead of the Liberal Democrats on 30 per cent, with Labour on 27 per cent.

Sky News reports that the latest Ipsos Mori Political Monitor poll gives the Conservatives a 20 - point lead over Labour.

The team mapped those political organizations to a 5 - point ideological scale — from — 2 for very conservative to +2 for very liberal — based on survey data.

Scientists measured 218 participants» political identification on a seven - point scale, from «very liberal» to «very conservative.»

The world of the books and game is a rather bleak one, with extreme liberal and conservative political beliefs polarizing the United States to the point of starting a second Civil War.

Political films tend to be driven by a simplistic point, one that almost always supports a liberal or conservative agenda.

Though some observers, including multiple - intelligences guru Howard Gardner, point to schools as the «conservators» of our culture, and therefore instinctively conservative in what they do, the resistance comes more from the fact that our public school system has evolved an extremely delicate balance between many sets of pressures — political, parental, social, organizational, supervisory, and financial — that any technological change is bound to disrupt.

Alternatively, they could pass a hard - line conservative rewrite of NCLB and reap the political points as the 2016 elections move into full swing.

Those in favor of his suspension generally point out that America's 1st Amendment guarantee of free speech only protects you from government interference regarding political speech (and does not prevent employers from exercising their rights to discipline employees), whereas those defending Robertson have been quick to lament the knee - jerk reaction to those expressing counter-progressive cultural beliefs in a very clumsy fashion, and claim there is a double standard in which politically unpopular conservative viewpoints are quicker to result in job terminations than politically unpopular liberal viewpoints that are also clumsily expressed.