Sentences with phrase «favored by conservative»

Whole life insurance represents a secure «investment» and is favored by conservative investors since there is almost no risk of losing any of the investment.

Conservative leaders have already voted to back gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio, who is favored by Conservative Chairman Mike Long.

The government will continue to «lurch back and forth» between so - called command - and - control standards on carbon emissions and the deregulatory approach favored by conservatives without such a policy, Mankiw argued, which «makes long - term planning all the more difficult.»

First, while vouchers are a means favored by conservatives to diminish publicly guaranteed social rights, and to advance principles of privatization and marketization, they are among the few remaining means that offer the inner - city poor the possibility of a decent education.

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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.

First, our recent dive into parenthood has made me exceedingly glad we ditched the strict gender roles promoted by conservative evangelical culture in favor of a relationship characterized by mutuality and flexibility.

When the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement within Judaism issued guidelines for homosexual marriage by a vote of thirteen in favor, none opposed, and one abstention earlier this year, a Gentile friend of mine e-mailed me....

My suggestion for religious conservatives is to do us all a favor and cast a «protest vote» by staying home on election day.

But it is also possible that it may presage the development of an American third way between the harsh and unrealistic hands - off approach to social problems espoused by many conservatives, and the rigorously secular governmental programs favored by many liberals.

(It is also ironic that the repatriation measure was first introduced by a since - defeated senator — John Melcher, a conservative Montana Democrat — who was out of favor with his Indian constituents and thought that such a measure might be a relatively cost - free way of placating them.)

The opinions collected here» some dissenting from the majority of the Court, others concurring in judgment but rejecting the majority's reasoning» show how Scalia applies his textualism to these issues, and how it differs from competing theories of interpretation, most notably the «living Constitution» view favored by many on the left and the varieties of intentionalism favored by many conservatives and moderates.

The landmark vote by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly follows a 2006 ruling by the committee «favor [ing] the establishment of committed and loving relationships for gay and lesbian Jews.»

These two strands conflict, of course, on questions of gay marriage and marijuana decriminalization - whenever the individual liberty so prized by libertarians bumps up against the efforts favored by social conservatives to Christianize the nation.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy today sought to curry favor with conservatives (not to mention the DN and Post editorial pages) by issuing a statement from his campaign spokesman announcing he won't be seeking the Working Families Party line this year, and doesn't think AG Andrew Cuomo — or anyone else for that matter — should, either.

Flanagan has been criticized by conservatives and upstate Republicans for his vote in favor of the SAFE Act.

The RNC's Growth and Opportunity Project report hasn't been well received in all quarters (too say the least), with plenty of conservatives dismissing it as just another plan by the elites to marginalize the party's grassroots in favor of dreaded Centrists.

The Conservative leader said the governor knows he can control Alesi and Republicans would be doing themselves no favors by confirming the nomination.

In the first two years of his term, his priority items have included fiscally conservative measures favored by Republicans, as well as more liberal items like same sex marriage, which was approved mostly by Democratic senators, with the help of just four GOP votes.

Gipson won election to his first term in the Senate when a vote in favor of legalizing gay marriage by former Republican state Sen. Steve Saland led to Republicans and Conservatives splitting their votes between Saland, R - Poughkeepsie, and Conservative candidate Neil DiCarlo, of Putnam County.

Clearly the Conservatives, who had already given Stefanik their pre-primary support, did the Independence Party a favor here by nominating Doheny for a judgeship to get him off Row E after he lost the GOP primary.

Gipson, 57, won election to his first term in the Senate when a vote in favor of legalizing gay marriage by former Republican state Sen. Steve Saland led to Republicans and Conservatives splitting their votes between Saland, R - Poughkeepsie, and Conservative candidate Neil DiCarlo, of Putnam County, in 2012.

In practice, fusion has become a game for the political elite, with endorsements by «paper parties» like the Working Families Party, Conservative Party, and Independence Party usually earned in back room deals with implicit — or explicit — trades of political favors and campaign cash (a recent NYPIRG investigative report found that the Working Families Party gets most of its money from the Democratic Party).

But I would argue that Cuomo actually did Skelos a favor by taking this approach with minimum wage, giving the Senate Republicans a path to voting «yes» on something that enjoys widespread public support, but risks further inflaming their already angry conservative base.

The Associated Press reported Thursday night that Connie Mack, a longtime political ally of Crist, tendered a letter of resignation because the governor had vetoed a bill favored by state Republican lawmakers and grassroots conservatives but largely unpopular among teachers» unions.

Grisanti, who is being challenged by conservative Republican Kevin Stocker in Thursday's primary, was one of four GOP senators to vote in favor of legalizing gay marriage last year, allowing the historic measure to pass.

The party establishment, still in rebuilding mode heading into next year's midterm elections, watched helplessly this weekend as Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava was driven from the race by grass - roots activists in favor of a more conservative candidate.

Steyer also dismissed the idea of swapping the Clean Power Plan for a carbon tax, a concept favored by several conservative and libertarian think tanks.

Based on these findings, the research team hypothesized that the bombings would cause liberals to shift moral perspectives in favor of protecting the in - group, akin to the values typically reported by political conservatives.

Melbourne provides the film's sole source of conflict, both political and romantic: his essentially conservative politics hold considerable sway over the naive young Queen, bringing out her of public favor, while the quasi-romantic confidante status he enjoys with her is resented by Albert.

Federal involvement in education has trended up consistently, aided and abetted by conservatives who might have been expected to prefer local or state or family control of education decisions but instead expanded federal influences that favored their policy preferences, e.g., No Child Left Behind.

(For skeptics who speculate that the survey might have been conservative - leaning by its nature, the same group of respondents also favored Democrat Barack Obama over Republican Mitt Romney for president 51 percent to 40 percent.)

«Being pro-school-vouchers is a big plus in the Republican nominating process because it's favored by almost all of the conservative groups,» said professor Larry Sabato, director of University of Virginia Center for Politics.

DeVos and her ilk have succeeded in politicizing the education debate to such an extent that historically nonpartisan contests have seen clear divides between candidates who defend public education (and are often backed by Democrats, progressives and teacher unions) and candidates who align with the DeVos agenda (and who are often backed by Republicans, social conservatives and corporate interests that favor privatization).

But critics say Rhee risks destroying the very public schools she aims to save by forging alliances with political conservatives, evangelical groups and business interests that favor turning a large chunk of public education over to the private sector.

Vanguard also offers the more conservative Wellesley fund VWINX and the American Balanced Fund BALFX (F1 Shares) is favored by many.

For important investment goals, investors tend to prefer conservative investment strategies, and they favor bonds over stocks, (the amount by which they do so would, of course, depend on the extent of their loss aversion), while for very ambitious goals, investors are willing to take more risk.

... And I am struck by how many conservatives insist we must reduce the deficit immediately, but many Republicans continue to vote in favor of pork for their states and districts.

According to a new poll released by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a majority of voters in six moderate to conservative congressional districts now believe global warming to be the top environmental problem and favor immediate actions to reduce carbon emissions.

Paul Ryan, considered an arch conservative by anyone except actual ideological conservatives, favors a massive, activist federal government.

The plan reflects some of the concerns expressed in Issues by a conservative scholar who argued that all climate policies «must be compatible with individual liberty and democratic institutions,» but it also presses beyond what some conservative stalwarts might favor.

by Chris White Daily Caller A New York court ordered AG Eric Schneiderman Thursday to fork over public information about elements of his climate crusade to a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C. New York Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in a case involving a series of documents conservatives believe could reveal a -LSB-...]

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I attempted to create a simple model for calculation purposes on the skepticalscience site and even with overly conservative numbers (that favored AGW) i couldn't account for the 0.73 C increase in temperatures over the 36 year period by the reduction in OLR even using the authors» modeled results (which was between 1 - 2K reduction in OLR Brightness Temperature).

A recent study co-authored by conservative Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner confirms something that has been obvious to Supreme Court watchers for years — the Roberts Court places a huge thumb on the scale in favor of corporate interests.