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Not exact matches
That's a long
way of saying the
Conservative government could have seen the current temporary foreign worker scandal coming
from five decades away.
Inside the committee room, Morneau had been subjected to yet another round of rankling questions about his small - business tax proposals
from Pierre Poilievre, the
Conservative finance critic whose rare knack for getting under the skin of his political adversaries reminds me of the
way Claude Lemieux used to drive his NHL opponents to rash retaliations.
First voiced in the 1970s by Arthur Laffer, an adviser to the Nixon administration who came
from the
conservative Chicago school of economics, it was embraced by the likes of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and, consensus has it, went a long
way to alleviating the stagflation of that era (though falling energy prices and interest rates, demographic shifts and yes, deficit spending contributed too).
Justin Trudeau's Liberals had already decided to treat the new
Conservative leader, Andrew Scheer, a little differently
from the
way a previous
Conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, had treated a string of Liberal leaders.
«Yesterday my NDP colleague
from Scarborough Southwest said that his party will offer practical solutions,» explained the
Conservative MP who had to fight all the
way to the Supreme Court for the honour to stand in this place and say these words.
To be «
conservative» about society means that you are against helping your fellow human beings in any
way, as we can see
from their actions.
(BTW, current
conservative triumphing about uncovering de Blasio's Sandinista support is
way premature and
way tone - deaf to the 1980s situation
from a Democratic perspective — all sorts of Dems were toying with levels of Sandinista support — and those commies were careful not to do too many Sendero Luminoso - like atrocities and Stasi - like oppressions — which isn't to deny that Nicaragua would have wound up as oppressed as Cuba remains had the Sandinistas not been defeated.)
The argument gains a good deal of persuasiveness
from the sharp contrast in religiosity between that period and the «50s, when liberal and moderate Protestants were not only happily a part of the American
way of life but enjoyed a growth curve comparable to that of
conservative Protestants.
George Will argues that American politics is divided between
conservatives, «who take their bearings
from the individual's right to a capacious, indeed indefinite, realm of freedom» and progressives «whose fundamental value is the right of the majority to have its
way in making rules about which specified liberties shall be respected.»
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck told listeners Friday that Hurricane Irene, the Category 1 storm that's working its deadly
way up the Eastern Seaboard, is «a blessing
from God.»
The new line of work detached him a bit
from the
conservative movement» in the most
conservative way imaginable.
It leads to the formulation of doctrine in
ways that are clearly
conservative but that differ
from Roman Catholicism and well as Calvinism.
It's just an age - old attempt to have it both
ways; people who are Christian and perceive that others will reject them for being «religious» or «
conservative» love this kind of talk because it allows them to distance themselves
from the Christian community while still claiming to follow Christ.
From Karl: Who do you feel you have more in common with, religiously - Christians who take a progressive / liberal theological approach to their faith similar to the
way you approach Judaism, or Jews (
conservative or Orthodox) who take a significantly more literal /
conservative approach to the Jewish faith than you do?
Stories that define a community different
from the world around us because of the
way these stories shape our self - understanding, a community that may sometimes be wildly radical politically and on other issues seem
conservative, but will not let anyone else's vision set its agenda.
John Warwick Montgomery, a lawyer and philosopher as well as theologian, provides perhaps the most comprehensive argument by a
conservative in his recent book Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Apologetic for the Transcendent Perspective (Zondervan, 1986) He concludes that rights derived
from the inerrant teachings of the Bible give authority to the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration, even exceeding its claims in significant
ways.
about people who experience same - sex attraction trying to live a Christian life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies presented a fascinating look into the
way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many
conservatives as well — has gone away
from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.
(«Religious switching,» as Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney call it, goes both
ways, but aside
from the drift into secularity and out of active church life, the dominant one is
from the
conservative toward the moderate or liberal side.)
Most Helpful: Kathy Escobar with «8
ways those
from more liberal - progressive and
conservative - evangelical persuasions can better love each other»
This also means that while I agree with Beer that we could benefit
from a better
way of capturing the distinction between liberalism in theology and liberalism in (Catholic) politics, I also think that terms like «
conservative» and «liberal» are a healthy
way of acknowledging the obvious.
Perry and Santorum both played the pork game in their own
way, but Perry needs to stop Santorum
from becoming the consensus «non-Newt Romney, non-Ron Paul, real
conservative candidate» if Perry is going to have any chance at all in South Carolina.
The word «
conservative» (
from «con - servator» = «one who preserves») simply refers to a rigid conformity with orthodox or establish
ways or beliefs, it doesn't refer to what those beliefs might be.
Ok, for starters, the author of this article is
way off base
from the beginning, and lets not kid ourselves that CNN will look for any
way to shoot down something a
conservative would like.
If they are
from a biblically
conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a
way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.
With biblical «
conservatives» he shares reverence for the sense of the given text, the «last» text.8 He is not concerned to draw inferences
from the text to its underlying history, to the circumstances of writing, to the spiritual state of the authors, or even to the existential encounter between Jesus and his followers.9 Indeed, Ricoeur, in his own
way, takes the New Testament for what it claims to be: «testimony «10 to the transforming power of the Resurrection.
AND And teaches us to say yes And allows us to be both - and And keeps us
from either - or And teaches us to be patient and long suffering And is willing to wait for insight and integration And keeps us
from dualistic thinking And does not divide the field of the moment And helps us to live in the always imperfect now And keeps us inclusive and compassionate toward everything And demands that our contemplation become action And insists that our action is also contemplative And heals our racism, our sexism, heterosexism, and our classism And keeps us
from the false choice of liberal or
conservative And allows us to critique both sides of things And allows us to enjoy both sides of things And is far beyond any one nation or political party And helps us face and accept our own dark side And allows us to ask for forgiveness and to apologize And is the mystery of paradox in all things And is the
way of mercy And makes daily, practical love possible And does not trust love if it is not also justice And does not trust justice if it is not also love And is far beyond my religion versus your religion And allows us to be both distinct and yet united And is the very Mystery of Trinity
I thought about the variety of faith backgrounds represented on this blog — Catholics, Lutherans, Baptists, Presbyterians,
conservative evangelicals, agnostics, Mennonites, Methodists, Pentecostals, doubters, skeptics, fundamentalists, disenfranchised fundamentalists, religious scholars, and religious misfits — and all I could think to say was, «My blog attracts people who are in transition... or who have recently transitioned...
from one
way of approaching their faith to another.»
Still, this much is true:
From the moment Scooter Libby was indicted, all the
way down to this moment of his sentencing, I have judged the character of many acquaintances in the worlds of writers, public intellectuals, and
conservative politicians ¯ their courage and their trustworthiness ¯ by a simple measure: whether or not they stood up for Scooter Libby.
Leaving aside the evidence that arrives each day
from Eastern Europe which seems to show that the opposite is the case, that socialism there has in some sense «frozen» traditional
ways of life, there is a more important issue: one wonders if tradition, when purchased and consumed like a commodity, can really play the role which some
conservatives believe it must in any healthy society.
Given the
way the culture wars divide religious folk among themselves on the question of how to respond to modernity, it was only a matter of time before the
conservative Christian effort was matched by one
from an ecumenical group of Christians and Jews.
The London mayor fired one of his strongest salvos yet against the
Conservatives» coalition partners on the
way down to Hampshire
from the capital, in a move only likely to send coalition relations further into the mire.
As the
Conservative party's collective suitcase trundles out of the doors of the Midland hotel, as the delegates make their
way back to the leafy shires, they return
from the confines of the secure zone to a Britain threatened by global economic ructions.
The government came under fire last night
from the
Conservatives and the human rights group Liberty over the
way the media is briefed on counter-terrorism operations.
The latest Web video
from the state Democratic Party is a highlight reel of some of GOP /
Conservative gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino's more memorable — and controversial — statements, dating all the
way back to 2008, when the Buffalo businessman said the local school superintendent had been hired only because he was black.
And a united Labour, he adds, is the only
way to win power
from the
Conservatives, because «if we learned lessons in 1981 to 1983, it's if social democracy is in real trouble and you split it still further you merely reinforce the majority of your opponents and that would happen - there is no question about it.»
If she does, and there's a GOP primary, we could end up with a situation similiar to 2010 when Lazio lost to Carl Paladino in the GOP primary and then «ran» for a judgeship in the Bronx so he could get off the
Conservative line and make
way for the mad - as - hell businessman
from Buffalo.
And we won't just find Republican leaders and the party apparatus online: individual
conservative activists can learn
from Obama's online organizing as fast as their liberal counterparts (Ron Paul's supporters certainly did their part to lead the
way).
For, away
from the daily focus of the Westminster media,
Conservative and independent free - market leaning think tanks are flourishing in a
way they haven't for years.
And that is not something the new majority leader — still under fire
from conservatives (who, by the
way, would have preferred to see Syracuse Sen. John DeFrancisco as leader) for his «yes» vote on the SAFE Act — is likely to give any time soon.
In allowing the sense slowly to develop that Brexit might be delayed or diluted, the
Conservatives are playing with electoral fire: if it looks like they're going back on Brexit in any
way they'll face an appalling backlash
from these people that have kept the faith.
Labour took the blame for the crisis, just in the same
way the
Conservatives lost their reputation for economic competence on Black Wednesday in 1992, when the pound was ejected
from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
The first is that the
Conservatives don't even end up as the largest party and Cameron is summarily ejected
from Downing Street, in which case he would immediately resign, leaving the
way clear for Boris to fight a leadership contest against, in all probability, George Osborne and Theresa May and possibly one or two other, darker horses — odds on Chris Grayling anyone?
But Clegg also went out of his
way to disassociate himself
from Conservative backbenchers during the press conference, saying the «loopy ideas of Peter Bone» showed that large sections of the party were stuck in the past.
And now the reality is that he has all but completely aligned himself with a
Conservative party that is sleepwalking its
way to European Union exit, has threatened to withdraw
from the European convention on human rights and seems hell - bent on pushing Scotland towards independence for short - term political gain.
Every Wednesday, just after 12.30 pm, the texts wing their
way from Downing Street and
Conservative HQ.
Note that this is a negative swing i.e. this means the swing was actually
from Conservative to Labour of 2.9 points but by doing it this
way, it means that on the chart, swings
from Conservative to Labour will appear below the zero line in red and swings
from Labour to
Conservative will appear above the zero line in blue..
Some Liberal Democrats have said they will block separate Tory - inspired plans to cut the number of Commons seats
from 650 to 600 if the
Conservatives stand in the
way of Lords reform.
The only faction that split
from Mahoney is the
Conservative Party, which stretched
way across the aisle to cross-endorse the Democrat and send a message to Mahoney.