Sentences with phrase «liberal ideas like»

Believes in classical liberal ideas like natural law, individual rights and the Rule of Law.

Not exact matches

Walmart is nobody's idea of liberal, but the retailer has forced vendors like Koch's Georgia - Pacific unit, which makes paper products, to reduce packaging and optimize their truck deliveries to cut waste, CO2, and other pollution.

The idea of neoconservatism as a liberal plot to highjack conservatism for the left might seem hopelessly dated» the social democratic wing of neoconservatism disappeared long ago» but it remains vibrantly alive in the pages of journals like Chronicles and in the imaginations of ideologues attracted to the candidacy of Pat Buchanan.

I've sounded crazy to you liberals time to time but I threw ideas so people will know how the absolutely - worshipped secularism in the West looks like to some Christians now.

Even though I went to a pretty liberal church, the senior pastor did not like his ideas challenged.

Like many other old liberal Protestant ideas, Dibelius's view passed into wide circulation in the Catholic world when biblical studies engaged with modern historical criticism at the time of the Second Vatican Council.

The same goes for other liberal democratic norms, like the rule of law - the idea that governments are restricted by law and can not act arbitrarily.

He emphasizes that leading classical liberals and libertarians — even Ayn Rand — have implicitly or explicitly invoked something like the Rawlsian idea that the social system ought to work to everyone's benefit.

Mike, perhaps rather than reading a couple of fringe blogs by right - libertarians (and even those don't hold the opinions you're attributing to them, but often talk about alternative economic ideas like a citizens» income) who are about as representative of mainstream Liberal Democrat thought as Tony Benn is of Labour, you should look at sites like http://socialliberal.net/, which more or less represents the mainstream of the party.

Rather, we would like to see Conservatives and Liberal Democrats proposing their own ideas separately — as Nick Clegg did last week, with his welcome call for a further and faster rise in the income tax threshold.

Anyone who thinks that this does not provide the resources with which to solve the Blue Labour problem of the detachment of places like West Cumbria is not thinking imaginatively enough about the rich ideas bequeathed by the liberal tradition.

Here's the response I got from Rob Ryan, Mr. Hoffman's spokesman: «Like most Republicans, Doug Hoffman had no idea how liberal Dede Scozzafava is.

It might be a liberal idea — but like the mansion tax, it is an idea that Conservatives should take seriously.

The Liberal Democrats, who hoped to get the British people acquainted with the idea of coalition politics, would like us all to think we are now in a period of plurality.

Cuomo floated the idea of a lawsuit, calling the repeal unconstitutional and a concentrated effort to punish liberal states like New York, New Jersey and California who voted against Trump.

Brodsky says if you look at Cuomo's policies, he's fiscally conservative on issues like curbing state spending and capping property taxes, but socially liberal on items like raising the minimum age, defending women's reproductive rights, and offering free tuition at public colleges, an idea first proposed by 2016 Democratic presidential challenger Bernie Sanders.

Wonks love the frisson of danger from embracing an idea that their ideological allies don't like, whether they are conservatives committed to states» rights or liberals troubled by inflexible standards.

But the idea that I was in cahoots with one side or the other isn't well borne out by my coverage, which has been attacked routinely by liberals and conservatives alike as not to their liking.

Often Liberal / progressive ideas include real benefits to the middle - class (that's why the DFL exists) but propaganda muddies the water, so people like you guys fight against your own best interests.

The idea that if we continue to suppress the oil and gas industries and users, and somehow magically replace them with «green» energy, India, China and the emerging Third - World countries like Indonesia, Brazil etc. would follow suit is stupid, liberal rubbish, similar to «if we get rid of our nukes, Russia, China, N. Korea and Iran would also.

From big schools like the University of Michigan to small liberal arts colleges like Amherst, the idea of divestment is spreading like wildfire.