Sentences with phrase «from conservative think»

Critics and skeptics — primarily industry spokespeople and scientists from conservative think tanks — immediately attacked the theory.

Interestingly, the volume of climate work from conservative think tanks has skyrocketed; from 203 documents between 1990 and 1997 to 16,028 documents from 1998 — 2013.

One study found that from 1972 to 2005, over 92 % of climate contrarian books originated from conservative think - tanks.

However, a report from the conservative think tank Fordham Institute and the Oklahoma Business & Education Coalition said replacing the standards may cost significantly more.

«In retrospect, it seems strange that so many liberals bought into an idea that emanated from conservative think tanks and conservative thinkers,» education scholar and anti-privatization activist Diane Ravitch wrote.

Mann successfully blocked that, only to be hit with a FOIA request from a conservative think tank.

All the Orange County legislators were provided with documentation of factual cases of civil forfeiture abuse; law enforcement agencies and local municipalities using the proceeds of forfeiture properties, cash and cars to balance their budgets; articles from conservative think tanks like The Heritage Foundation against this law and public comments from citizens, attorneys and former police officers expressing their view against this law.

A new report from conservative think tank Migrationwatch says the government has seriously underestimated how many new migrants would arrive in Britain each year.

A break from this his conservative beliefs to embrace the contemporary beliefs in football management that places emphasis on winning titles instead of to be playing good entertaining football without winning the PL and the CL titles which amounted to playing to the gallery will be most welcomed next season if Le Prof will change from his conservative thinking to contemporary thinking..

Not exact matches

«The thing about his appointment that I think has not been picked up on by a lot of people who've been reporting on this is when Clarke was under consideration to be chosen at sheriff, there was not any hint from anywhere that he was a conservative,» said Mark Belling, a conservative Wisconsin talk - show host.

(Trump didn't explain why he thought net neutrality would specifically target conservative media, but it's worth noting that, in principle, preventing ISPs from giving a leg up to any online source would seem to ensure that a conservative news outlet could deliver stories without technical handicaps.)

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre said Friday that he thinks the economy got a lift last year from temporary factors and he noted there are «ominous signs» ahead due to U.S. uncertainty, slowing growth and weakening investment.

After dropping out of a PhD program at Duke University to, in his own words «pursue a life of thought - crime,» Spencer worked as an editor at a variety of right - leaning publications including Taki's Magazine, American Conservative, and the National Review, and was fired from the latter two for his extreme and racist views.

I don't think that detracts from being a free trader and being a small - C conservative.

(For all the fights the 2012 budget sought to pick with the Yankees and the environmentalists, there were a lot of hangdog expressions at Hy's that night among Conservatives who had hoped for real small - government conservatism from a majority government and thought Flaherty had delivered thin gruel.)

Lighthizer is expected to try to nix another transnational court for investment disputes, and he has backing from a wide variety of constitutional lawyers, environmental and labor groups, and conservative think tanks that say the special courts encroach on U.S. sovereignty.

As Conservatives must be starting to realize, now that their voices are growing hoarse from their first round of screeching about Mr. Trudeau's fashion choices, there are enough pictures of their own beloved Stephen Harper dressed up in lame costumes for them to think about just letting this part of the story rest.

Closing Thoughts on Procter & Gamble from SSD Procter & Gamble has long been a favorite dividend stock for conservative investors.

At the same time, however, I think the NDP did get some support from (small c) conservative voters in the last election, who really wanted the PCs out but couldn't bring themselves to vote Wildrose.

If Canadians become more focused on economic risks, the thinking goes, they will pay less attention to the Duffy scandal, and they will be more cautious when casting their ballot. In this world - view, it actually helps the Conservatives to talk up bad economic news. This marks a U-turn from earlier messaging, when Conservatives first tried (futilely) to deny the economy was in any trouble at all. With the negative numbers piling up around them, the Tory spin machine has decided to throw in the towel, and try to make a silk purse from this sow's ear. They now want to emphasize the gloomy economic outlook (while simultaneously, of course, evading blame for contributing to it at all).

I haven't seen conservatives of any stripe so ecstatic since the PCs thought Jim Prentice would rescue them from their own history.

He goes on to say, «Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the SC and think tanks to the media and social groups.

«Does the American Conservative Union really think the liberties and values they seek to preserve can be maintained when they partner with individuals and organizations that are undermining the understanding that our liberties come from God?

Most readers of «First Thoughts» are likely, being mostly conservatives of some sort, to feel that things are always getting worse and that the contemporary world has fallen a few steps down the slope towards decadence from the position its predecessors held.

The publisher thought the complaints were from people on the opposite ideological spectrum from Barton, a conservative political star who has long billed himself as an evangelical historian.

Most of the «new» theological thinking has been from the USA and seems to be in response to a more conservative type of Christianity and culture than we have here in the UK.

However, much of my thinking no longer meshes well with many people from my childhood, and I've been largely afraid to «come out» as not - so - politically / theologically - conservative anymore.

I come from a similar conservative background, and several of the ideas and thoughts I grew up with have been shaken down around me within the last few years (mostly thanks to writers like Donald Miller, Jen Hatmaker, and Rachel, of course).

The Reformed tradition is much broader and more diverse than many of us realize, and since we've already featured the more conservative Justin Taylor for «Ask a Calvinist...» I thought it was time to interview someone from the progressive end of the Reformed spectrum for our «Ask a...» series.

Ben Ryan from the religion and society think tank Theos told Premier where it went wrong for the Conservatives, explaining: «If you saw the campaign leaflets that came through my door, they had «Theresa May says «back my candidate»».

P.S. I do think my Songbook deserves to eventually win for itself a significant place among the works seeking to interpret the overall rock phenomena, but for now it remains a peculiar feature of Postmodern Conservative, and unknown to those who would most benefit from it, the handful of sane pop - culture theorists, and the more general class of intellectually open rock hipsters.

The dangers of conservative religious thought have frequently been noted by liberal theologians to include a kind of individualistic withdrawal from the social realities of the world.

I consider myself somewhat conservative and generally in line with alot of republican views — and alot of democratic ones too — I think I am TYPICAL of the YOUNGER GENERATION that is SICK OF MUD SLINGING from BOTH PARTIES and i VOTE INDEPENDANT — I VOTE THE CANDIDATE NOT THE PARTY — and i AM WHITE and I am INSULTED by YOUR RACIST COMMENT on wanting an «all white» country!!

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.

And Matt, though he comes from a different perspective than I do, confirmed what I have always suspected: people who are not conservative or Christian think we're crazy.

A survey that William McKinney and I recently conducted invited 1,500 conservative and mainline Protestant denominational leaders to choose from a list of 63 contemporary religious leaders and authors the ten who have had «the greatest impact on your thinking about the church's life and mission today.»

The magazines move from the strongly traditional viewpoint of Moody Monthly (a viewpoint carrying on the social ethic of late nineteenth century American revivalism), through the moderately conservative stance of Christianity Today (a stance that seeks perhaps unconsciously to revive the social activism of American fundamentalism prior to the repeal of Prohibition and the Scopes trail), to the socially liberal commitment of The Reformed Journal (a position seeking to be contemporary, and yet faithful to Calvin's thought) and the socially radical perspective of Sojourners (a perspective molded in the Anabaptist tradition).

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.

In the end, however, Feezell's moderate view (which leans toward the «conservative view») is not too much different in practical effect from my or Hartshorne's moderate view (which leans toward the «liberal view») in that I am only delivering a carte blanche for abortion in the early stages of pregnancy and pointing out that the fetus in the later stages of pregnancy has a moral status analogous to that of an animal, a status which I think deserves considerable attention on our part.

Overall, I think Douthat's version of the conservative story pays too much attention to popes and bishops and ecclesiastical politics, and too little to the hows and whys and results of the collapse of the institutions and processes by which the faith had been passed on from one generation to the next.

That assumes a level of cynicism that may be cultivated by a Mitt Romney, but probably not many rank - and - file conservatives, who either don't know this, or suffer from such extreme cognitive dissonance that it doesn't effect their thinking.

Going back to what started this most recent topic on this thread, the opinion on Proposition 8 from the shameless conservative which Daniel posted, I have to say that I think this guy is playing word games.

I think my move from orthodox Anglicanism to Conservative Quakerism was pretty radical, and while it was a shock to think I had given up on 20 years of study and work, well — I am now content and happy with the decision.

I personally, & I concede that my viewpoint is to an extent learned from my conservative Christian upbringing & influenced by my own sexuality, can not think other than gay sex between men is unnatural, that is, not as nature & therefore as God intended.

Nevertheless, both the Catholic tradition and conservative Protestantism strike certain deep notes which, though not absent from liberal Protestant thinking and preaching, have been underemphasized to our great loss.

Look down your noses at the «rust belt» and think because you sit on top of the oil industry that the rest of the nation will have to put up with the conservative christian bs that exudes from every pore of Texas.

Here he differs from other conservative Christians, including some Catholics, who think the reestablishment of responsible male headship in church and home is necessary for the reformation of church and society.

In 1968, he won the award for best editorial of the year from the Catholic Press Association» Catholics liked giving awards to a Lutheran in those days; they thought of it as being bravely trendy and ecumenical» for an essay on abortion, and he cried, «The pro-abortion flag is being planted on the wrong side of the liberal - conservative divide.»

Conservatives around the world pretty much think alike... or rather not think but like Santorum just speak from the heart... even if it's stupid.

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