Sentences with phrase «even social conservatives»

Libertarianism is clearly more marketable to conservatives, even social conservatives, than it is to liberals.

Not exact matches

To use a concrete example, if you have a million bucks socked away for retirement, drawing down $ 30,000 a year (in addition to any other sources like Social Security or pensions) is a conservative enough choice that you should be able to sleep at night, confident that even extreme swings in the market won't harm your ability to keep your portfolio healthy into your nineties.

The new party has yet to be named, but even so, a recent Gallup poll reported Stronach had 8 % of voter support, compared to 28 % for the governing Social Democrats (SPO), 21 % for its conservative coalition partner the People's Party (OVP), and 20 % for the opposition Freedom Party (FPO).

It is too early to say whether the election will result in the continuation of the grand coalition between the conservatives and the social democrats, a revival of the conservative - liberal coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP), or even a three - way coalition between the conservatives, the FDP, and the Green Party.

The conservatives and their beloved drug war are taking a clear social problem and making it vastly worse by felonizing even small time dealing, throwing so many people into prison till the «land of the free» has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world and making those people all but unemployable when they get out.

Social and religious conservatives face a double task: arguing a minority outlook plus overcoming those who try to embarrass us for even having that outlook.

Christian Zionism has been denounced as unbiblical and even unchristian by some Christian groups, including the National Council of Churches, but it has become an orthodoxy of sorts among Republican social conservatives.

Even since the New York Times hired conservative pundit William Safire to bring «balance» to its pages, columnists have sought not to be judicious but to stridently represent a particular political — or ethnic or social — viewpoint.

Furthermore, since its ultimate claim to existence is rooted more in the events of the past than in contemporary social problems, it has even a more conservative image than political and economic institutions.

There is a disconnect between conservative notions of «small government» and the «thou shalt not» social agenda of the religious right, which is why the Libertarians gained even the small amount of traction they did.

The immigration policies had the support of the donor class, and Republican elites find it distasteful to advance conservative social policies — even when it is politically advantageous.

Religious and social conservatives, and even traditional liberals, may well have disagreed over the years about what constitutes modesty (Speedos or shorts?

I don't share political and social positions with more conservative Christian, and have even had some tell me I simply can not be Christian and hold some of the positions I do.

And yet, the very grounds on which these controversies have been fought — arguing for the «scientific» basis of creationism, making use of the «rational - legal» procedures supplied by the modern court system, and drawing on social scientists for «expert testimony» — all point to the considerable degree to which even religious conservatives have accommodated to the norms of secular rationality.

In 2006, they downplayed social issues and even ran some socially conservative candidates.

Even a glance at the issue's table of contents shows the article by the Acton Institute's Kevin Schmiesing, «Another Social Justice Tradition: Catholic Conservatives,» which highlights and quotes CA: «The pope approves of that capitalism «which recognizes the fundamental and positive role of business, the market, private property, and the resulting responsibility for the means of production, as well as free human creativity in the economic sector.

The letter dovetails with what the IDC has long asserted in the Senate: Even with a workable Democratic majority of 32 members, the passage of a left - leaning agenda is not a guarantee given the conservative social views of some lawmakers, including Felder and Sen. Ruben Diaz, a Bronx Democrat.

Conservatives, Labour, and Liberal Democrats alike agreed to even stronger devolution than is now the case, with the now - permanent Scottish Parliament being given plenary powers regarding taxation and some important social issues, especially involving the operation of the modern welfare state.

Even though he was a social conservative and a pro-life advocate, Tony never swayed from his union roots.

Washington (CNN)- Sen. John Cornyn, R - Texas, dismissed a request Wednesday from an influential social conservative organization to skip a fundraiser for a Republican gay and lesbian advocacy group, saying that even though he does not agree with the group on social issues he shares its views on fiscal discipline and economic policy.

Even better, they've broken us down into conservative and liberal buckets, which is perhaps more straightforward than it sounds, since someone who's a fan of Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney and the American Enterprise Institute is probably fairly conservative (this kind of «sentiment analysis» can be a real pain to automate when you're talking about individual social media posts, but I suspect it gets easier when you can figure in someone's overall pattern of social behavior, as Facebook can).

Even though the primary movement for this group was in the aftermath of the manifesto launch, this is hard to link to the Conservative's social care or pension plans, since this group is the least likely to be immediately affected by them.

And even if they did, there are other aspects of democratic republicanism, as I understand it - like building up social funds - which just don't fit with Conservative philosophy.

Today you often use the terms left or extreme - left to describe social and progressive measures and right or even extreme - right the more conservative and nationalistic approaches.

Even after a decade in power Labour fears this is an essentially conservative country, where the centre left are interlopers in power, while it is the Tory leadership which knows that the reality is that of a social democratic Britain, to which they must persuade their party to adapt.

Even in the current coalition agreement between Merkel's conservatives and the center - left Social Democrats (SPD), the issue of «technical retrofitting» is treated with extreme care.

Ms. Mark - Viverito's coalition is ideologically diverse, roping in far left members including incoming Councilwoman Inez Barron, a social conservative in incoming Councilman Chaim Deutsch and even Queens Republican Eric Ulrich.

Even if he somehow won the GOP primary, you would see the same result as McCain and Romney where the social conservative base does not come out and vote.

Whenever you doubt that think of my list above or this simple fact: NYC has stayed in the black for twelve years (even though the mayor claimed otherwise more than once just to keep us fiscally conservative) and unlike many cities with far less social programs, NYC never had to entertain bankruptcy (e.g., Detroit goes under with $ 18 billion debt but NYC thrives with a $ 24 billion budget for DOE alone).

One thing is clear, even with a conservative definition of «scientist»: The top of the fame ranking is dominated by social scientists such as Chomsky — by far the most famous living scientist, as measured by mD..

In this Policy Forum, Randall Hansen and Shalini Randeria discuss the different ideological viewpoints of liberals and conservatives in Europe with respect to accepting refugees, highlighting why — even though the continent is not bearing the «brunt» of the refugee crisis — it remains «in the center of a political and social storm» related to refugees asylum.

Some of these critical views have included parents voicing their concerns on social media describing the graduation ceremonies as ridiculous and even conservative critics have argued that «if this continues unabated down the age range, even to those too young to sit exams and receive grades, such awards have no point and could even damage the will to work for success.»

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

Hania Zlotnik, director of the population division at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said the shift suggests that education and access to family planning can play a far greater role than expected in reducing population growth, even in conservative Muslim states.

And let us not forget that, even on this most politically polarized of issues, there are large numbers of conservatives who are deeply concerned about climate change and bravely hold onto this conviction despite the social pressure towards «stealth denial».

Social conservatives and libertarians, each of which has their own ideological reasons to push the OISM petition, have been effective at keeping the «30,000 scientists reject warming chicken - littleism of IPCC» meme circulating throughout conservative media outlets, even as climate disruption - focused media have worked at limiting the damage from the OISM petition.

(C) even under very conservative assumptions, adding solar generation capacity (possibly with a certain amount of battery or other form of storage capacity) is a clear win, even if the social cost of carbon emissions is close to zero.

The case drew even more attention because of the role of history and historians in the litigation: elements of the pro-free trade argument entailed an originalist analysis, a technique which is often a tool of social conservatives seeking to squash rights for women, LGBT people, and others, and very uncommon in Canadian constitutional cases.

A study reported in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology recently summarized in an article in Vox found that pretty much everyone — liberals and conservatives alike — will do a lot to avoid even finding out what their opponents think or why they think it.

For evening and social events, opt for conservative, understated party attire.

The social networking giant continues to deny that it experienced a breach, even after new information has surfaced in a long - running saga involving the digital research firm Cambridge Analytica, which helped deliver conservative - leaning election advertisements to millions of U.S. voters.