Sentences with phrase «for liberal thinking»

It's a hard truth and very difficult for liberal thinking people to understand.
Stephen Tall is editor of the Liberal Democrat Voice and research associate for liberal think tank CentreForum

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And I think here's an opportunity for me a conservative and you a liberal and people like us to sit down and say, «Ok, let's push all this aside.
«And I think the Liberals aren't that opposed to running a deficit for a while.
Like the critical thinking gleaned from a liberal arts degree, for one.
«I personally think there's going to be a greater demand in 10 years for liberal arts majors than for programming majors and maybe even engineering,» Cuban said.
They thought Harper was the best person for the job, with 74 % choosing him, and 20 % choosing Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff.
Walk into a store — old - school hip - hop playing softly, like Muzak for millennials — and you'll find customers leafing through Oak Street, the company's in - house magazine (a recent issue features an editorial by Ethan Song that quotes Steve Jobs's thoughts on the intersection of technology and the liberal arts).
That is the Institute for Women's Policy Research, a liberal think tank that helped write the report with ROCU.
Co-founder and CEO Eli Pariser, whose site first staked a reputation for re-packaging liberal stories, says the move to partner with a traditional network (and MSNBC in particular) is one that makes sense for both companies: «We had a meeting with NBCU and realized that we were thinking about a bunch of the same things, and that it would be fun to collaborate on a project,» he says, by «bringing together what we learned from curating a lot of video for purpose - driven millennials, and what they know about visual video storytelling,» he tells Inc. exclusively.
The Liberals have also put this budget through a gender - based analysis, which involves thinking about how a certain measure might affect men and women, or boys and girls, in a different ways, while accounting for other intersecting factors such as income, ethnicity, disability and sexual orientation.
«There's more people willing to work than the unemployment rate would have you believe,» said Nick Bunker, a senior policy analyst at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a liberal think tank.
He has said he values his liberal - arts education for the communication, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills it afforded him.
A report by the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal think tank in Washington, found that if Trump is successful in lowering the top marginal tax rate to 33 %, Fortune 500 CEOs would stand to save $ 196 million on income taxes they would otherwise owe if they withdrew from their nearly $ 3 billion in special tax - deferred accounts.
Third, he criticizes the Liberals for pursuing their progressive trade policies in these talks: «Did anyone really think that the Liberals could somehow force the Trump administration into enacting their agenda — union power, climate change, aboriginal claims, gender issues?
The B.C. Liberal leader made the announcement Wednesday at a paper products company in Surrey while campaigning for the May 9 provincial election, saying an impasse over softwood lumber «gives us the freedom to do what I think is unquestionably the right thing.»
Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic Policy and Research, a liberal think tank, said he «can't think of any way they were a factor at all.»
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.
Gee, and I thought the liberals and Dion were all about the environment, which is why May is the one party Green lobby for «Dion» as PM.
The election of a majority Liberal government not only saw high - profile changes in rhetoric — think, «Canada is back» — but also equally lauded announcements on accepting 25,000 refugees from Syria, international peacekeeping, or a bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council, among others.
Piers Morgan generated some discussion by tweeting that there's a «message there, methinks, for all the screaming Trump - hating liberals: not everyone in America thinks like you...»
Abacus Data polling last month said Canadians are more likely to think the NDP will «promise anything to win votes» than the Liberals are, an unusual spot for a party so rooted in principle and ideology.
Schleiermacher was a liberal theologian because he thought modernity represents something fundamentally new and positive for humanity, something that stimulates Christian reform, enabling the true genius of our faith finally to achieve full expression.
Typically, liberals will attack her worse than any conservative would because of their extreme unquenchable hatred for anyone who thinks differently than they do.
Talk to a good old fashioned northeast liberal and they really think if you are african american you need to be protected, cared for, coddled like children.
You know they love their white liberal MASTER, to think for themselves, to form their own opinion, to voice their concerns, and to bring black issues to light is not allowed.
I'm highly intelligent and willing to stand up for what is right, not for what the liberal machine tells me to think is right.
as for the liberal «Jews» who think that Obama is somehow Israel's BFF: may they never live to see how wrong they are.
Do you seriously think for even one millisecond that the religiously driven anti-intellectual climate in America is not largely due to adults telling kids that evolution isn't true, that climate change is just a big liberal conspiracy, or that generally speaking nobody really needs to be good at math or science anymore?
I love how liberals accuse the GOP (falsely) of racism, then accuse any black person who thinks for themselves and decides to be a conservative (actual racism).
I don't think the ex-Missourians were «liberals» in a sense significantly different from the way Richard John Neuhaus was in those days or» for that matter, Robert Benne.
«The point of my going was that I wanted to be a songwriter for a living, and I thought that it would make me a better songwriter to have a solid liberal arts and humanities basis,» he said.
I'm a progressive Christian and liberal on 90 % of political issues including marriage equality and women's rights; however, I think that this should be seen as a tipping point for Christians everywhere.
In their view, the American political experiment is liberal to its rotten core, and Baxter in particular thinks the very core of the core is the First Amendment that pretends the state is «neutral» to religion when in fact it is an insidious instrument for taking Christianity captive to provide «legitimation» for a capitalist, consumerist, warmongering society.
But for some reason you white liberal think it's wrong for a blackman if that's what you want call him specifically provides help for people who look like him, you say it's wrong.
He was a connoisseur of detecting overconfidence in any system of thought» he could detect overreach (one of his favorite words) even in understatements» but he never suspected that most of those responsible for his revival would be more liberal than he ever was.
Specifically, I will argue that Whitehead's perspective yields an understanding of happiness sufficiently different from the liberal view that Whitehead's thought can be the basis for a transcendence of the liberal tradition.
The liberal group People for the American Way's report on how conservative foundations have deployed vast sums to support think tanks, friendly media and other institutions that promote right - wing causes is titled «Buying a Movement.»
He thinks the CUA case a test case for true liberalism, and is waiting to see how many liberals, including Catholic liberals in academia, protest publicly.
Liberals generally are for the killing of babies and other horendous ideas that war against the sanctity and liberty of human beings... Giving men with this kind of a world view «equal time» isn't what I think God desires.
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).
The point about all these pontifications, I thought at the time, whether over the airwaves or in the print media, either by secular commentators or by the kind of Catholics the liberal media like to give a platform to because their views on the Catholic tradition are so similar to their own (it seemed by the beginning of the conclave that it had all been going on for ever) was — or so I reflected then in my simple way — that this wonderful free - for - all was the only chance for many of them to be heard at all on this subject.
Not surprisingly, therefore, the radical Catholic thinks it necessary to engage liberal order in a fundamental, ontological critique, while the neoconservative Catholic settles for a moral, sociological, legal, or political approach.
For the original witnesses, it would never have been enough to say with old - line liberals that Jesus is alive in my thoughts, or embodied in my Christlike acts, or symbolized in the Lord's Supper.
This anticlerical thinking gave rise to a theologically liberal brand of Protestantism, whose adherents were receptive to demands from atheists, liberals, and secular Jews for total separation.
I know many liberals who are devoutly religious, and I know many non liberals (such as myself) who think religion is the last bastion for the frightened and retarded.
I think it's important that we should stand up for those liberal centre ground values.
I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.
In other contexts, such as that of social action, we may want liberals to be more assertive about convictions that divide them from others; to be willing, for example, to call a social policy unchristian that they think is unchristian.
America need to stand up for our values and eliminate the liberal «new thinking» mentality that is set to ruin us all...
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