For US politicians / regulators, even speaking of geoengineering presents large risks, and leaves one open to rebukes
from liberals and conservatives alike.
Why do these movements draw support
from both liberals and conservatives?
Shanker gained a hearing for his ideas
from both liberals and conservatives, not by taking moderate positions that consistently split the difference, but by embracing a coherent philosophy that sometimes led to «liberal» policy conclusions, other times to «conservative» ones.
Dear EarthTalk: What is the «Green Scissors» campaign, which I understand can help the environment and has support
from both liberals and conservatives?
He says they hope to win votes on the line
from liberals and conservatives.
Not exact matches
The
Conservatives are in a full identity crisis now,
and will have to figure out if they want to play tough with the U.S.
and go back to the Sir John A. MacDonald days of a National Policy — essentially copying Trump's Buy American stance with a Buy Canadian — or if they want to follow the pro-free trade Mulroney - Harper path, which is more likely but offers less differentiation
from the
Liberals.
«In the tough economic times ahead, we need a
Conservative majority led by Harper to make the difficult decisions without the inevitable bickering
from the
Liberals and NDP,» wrote one CEO.
Each week, USA TODAY's OnPolitics blog takes a look at how media
from the left
and the right reacted to a political news story, giving
liberals and conservatives a peek into the other's media bubble.
Without a doubt, government policies (
Conservative,
Liberal, B.C.
Liberal,
and B.C. NDP) have impacted the timelines, risks
and potential future returns
from LNG facilities on the B.C. coast.
However, that won't stop
conservative groups, including Trump
and his supporters,
from arguing that it proves
liberal bias.
Now see how much each party raised on their own
from direct donations
from individuals in 2009, the last full year available —
Conservatives $ 17.8 million,
Liberals $ 10.1 million, NDP $ 4 million, Bloc $ 834,000
and Greens $ 1.2 million.
When it was all over, the tally of alleged wrongdoing cited here today, assigned to one party or another, included unpaid taxes (NDP), abusing election laws (
Conservatives), improperly taking money
from charities (
Liberals), improperly claimed expenses (
Liberals), illegal campaign debts (
Liberals), illegal political donations (NDP), flouting Hill security (NDP), a potentially illegal cheque (
Conservatives), secrecy (
Conservatives)
and sabotaging the committee to select the parliamentary budget officer (
Conservatives).
(This is a major departure
from the practice followed previously by both
Liberal and Conservative governments.)
Conservatives would doubtlessly —
and not without some justification — respond by noting that expressed as a share of GDP, direct program spending has simply been returned to the levels they inherited
from Paul Martin's
Liberal government.
In the days after the shooting,
conservative blogs picked up a narrative later promoted by everyone
from Limbaugh to Laura Ingraham that Broward had adopted a bleeding - heart disciplinary program because of a
liberal, Obama - led effort to keep crime statistics down
and criminals in schools.
Conservatives say there's too much influence
from the left - leaning Silicon Valley, with its
liberal leadership
and employees.
The
Liberals formed the official opposition
from 1993 until 2012, when a significant percentage of their supporters migrated to Alison Redford's Progressive
Conservatives and later to Rachel Notley's New Democrats.
Zuckerberg confessed that the company constantly struggles to determine when someone crosses the line
and he said Facebook gets criticism
from both
conservatives and liberals for its decisions on the subject.
Martin, Pablo Rodriguez, Ignatieff, Coderre, John Manley
and the business
liberals as a whole are indistinguishable
from the centre of the
Conservative Party,
and clearly to the right of the old red - Tories in the former Progressive
Conservative Party.
Winston Churchill, having jumped
from the
Conservatives to the
Liberals and then back again, famously quipped (
and when did he ever quip unfamously?)
Inspired by
conservative political pundit Ezra Levant «s book by the same name, the Ethical Oil website purports to «encourage people, businesses
and governments to choose Ethical Oil
from Canada, its oil sands
and other
liberal democracies.»
Thus Ross has turned
from Dan Brown to the working woman, arguing that
conservatives and liberals alike should agree that
From what we know today he was probably an unshaven long haired homeless black Jew who even today would likekly be considered a nuisance by the establishment, especially the Christian right wing
conservatives and Tea Partyists would probably condemn him to being a Socialist
Liberal or something they all revile.
I've not even responded to your posts until you tried to link me to another poster, which is rather
conservative from what I can see,
and in case you hadn't noticed, I'm a
liberal.
And, speaking
from personal experience, he gave burgeoning young
conservatives the tools to get away with criticizing liberalism in a room full of
liberals.
Ironically I went
from what what most people would consider to be an extremely
liberal and open minded church to a (somewhat) more
conservative church,
and find it more open to honest self examination.
From time to time, voices are raised urging us to get beyond such labels, beyond left
and right, beyond
liberal and conservative.
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.
Praise
and criticism came
from all political sides -
liberals and conservatives both liked the piece
and loathed it.
How much of what happened is parallel to the modernist split between
liberal and conservative that occurred
from about 1880 - 1920?
From Rachel: Can you explain the differences between
conservative Quakerism,
liberal Quakerism,
and pastoral Quakerism?
I must admit that is something I have heard Quakers assert, although it seems to mainly come
from more
liberal and less
conservative Friends.
After years of sparking automatic reactions
from conservatives and liberals, issues of poverty
and welfare are now eliciting a vigorous
and complex academic
and political discussion.
Representatives
from the
Conservatives, Labour
and the
Liberal Democrats spoke to Premier at a hustings held by the international Christian humanitarian charity, Tearfund on Wednesday night.
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.
I've only heard of two schools
from the combined lists of Top 5 most
conservative and Top 5 most
liberal (BYU
and Wheaton).
(«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.)
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).
«2 The diversity which Henry, as one of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the
conservative wing of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire)
from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham)
from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield),
and all of these
from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical
liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.
Therefore, after our imaginative interpretations are made with vigor in dispute with others in the church, we must regularly, gracefully
and with modesty fall back
from our best extrapolations to the sure apostolic claims that lie behind our extremities of imagination,
liberal or
conservative.
They range
from horse -
and - buggy
conservatives to modern, theologically -
liberal progressives,
and everything in between.
Most Helpful: Kathy Escobar with «8 ways those
from more
liberal - progressive
and conservative - evangelical persuasions can better love each other»
Carly Fiorina's fierce
and passionate attack on Planned Parenthood's fetal organ harvesting operation has gotten praise
from conservatives and bitter attacks
from liberals.
It provides a base for new coalitions between Roman Catholics
and Protestants (witness the ecumenical character of its adherents),
liberals and conservatives (witness the continuing concerns of the World Council of Churches
and the evangelicals» Chicago Declaration), «majorities»
and «minorities» (witness the numerous theological works written
from black, feminist, Latin American
and Anglo perspectives),
and therefore can become an acceptable, sound theological foundation for church education.
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.
From 1960 to 2000 the membership of
liberal Protestant churches, measured per 1000 Americans, had shrunk 49 %, Catholics had shrunk 5 %, while
conservative Protestant churches had grown 158 %
and the LDS Church had grown 122 %.
As Martin sees it, this separates him
from the intolerance of the hyper -
conservative fundamentalists, on the one hand,
and the
liberal, apostate culture on the other.
From largest to smallest, these groups are the somewhat
conservative, moderates
and liberals,
conservative evangelicals,
and economically very
conservative secular voters.
equality: «we» may indeed say that gays are equal... but do «they» [the «nay - sayers, if you like, as I don't want to use labels that don't work as in «fundamentalists», «
conservatives», or even «
liberals» — these terms have been hijacked
and reinterpreted to mean something far
from their original intent... sorry — pedantic me?!]