Sentences with phrase «liberal states when»

Andrea Miller says New York is one of the more liberal states when it comes to abortion rights.

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Thus, it is no surprise when empirical research shows that Justin Bieber Blog people who are believers give more of their time and resources to the needy than do unbelievers, and people who cherish limited government (conservatives) give more than welfare - state liberals.

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.

When President Bush nominated Judge Clarence Thomas to a vacancy on the United States Supreme Court, liberals opposed to confirming the nomination at first directed critical scrutiny to statements the nominee had made in favor of employing «natural law» in constitutional interpretation.

Greenawalt concedes that citizens of a secular liberal state have a legal right to vote their religious convictions, but he is more concerned with when and whether they ought to exercise self - restraint in the interests of good citizenship.

That was an amazing feat, taking place at a time when the amendment's feminist and liberal supporters seemed to be in control of every American institution except the White House, but I was living in California at the time, and the key battles of the ERA had taken place in geographically and culturally distant states: Florida, Illinois, North Carolina.

Millions of working - class whites felt that Obama was talking about them, too, when he said, «There's not a liberal America and a conservative America — there's the United States of America.

Liberals are right when they insist that regarding the poor as the equals of all other citizens is essential to the incorporation of a viable welfare state within a robust democracy.

Professor Nord may want to check his liberal credentials at the door when he attends the next Church / State Section of the American Academy of Religion.

The best part of the «joshing» comes when Rorty, who is a professor at a state university, goes on to distinguish slyly between the liberal intellectuals who are playing this game and the taxpayers, incapable of liberal ironism, who are paying them to play it.

The Chris Dillow link is very good, and I'd venture to say that when OB liberals rail against the state, it's that managerialist aspect, rather than simple size, that upsets them.

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Liberals often claim that while there may be other forms of voter fraud in the United States, like voter registration fraud, the only kind of voter fraud that a voter ID law can possibly prevent is in - person voter fraud (where someone shows up at a polling station and votes when they're not legally permitted), and that there have been almost no documented cases of someone committing intentional in - person voter fraud in the United States.

Since 2010, when the Liberal Democrat leadership decided to enter into coalition with the Conservatives, the party has been in a state of internal turmoil.

Donald Trump Jr. fired back at liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, who questioned whether Mar - a-Lago had opened as a shelter when Hurricane Irma hit the state, noting it's located on an island and in a mandatory evacuation zone, «probably not the best idea, but you know, narrative!»

When John F. Kennedy accepted the endorsement of the state's old Liberal Party in 1960, he declared, «I'm proud to say I'm a Liberal.»

sanbikinoraion: when I wrote the above I was thinking about liberal egalitarianism as a general philsophy and I had in mind what I see as the «big three» works of contemporary liberal egalitarianism: Rawls» A Theory of Justice, Dworkin's Sovereign Virtue and earlier, related essays, and Ackerman's Social Justice in the Liberalliberal egalitarianism as a general philsophy and I had in mind what I see as the «big three» works of contemporary liberal egalitarianism: Rawls» A Theory of Justice, Dworkin's Sovereign Virtue and earlier, related essays, and Ackerman's Social Justice in the Liberalliberal egalitarianism: Rawls» A Theory of Justice, Dworkin's Sovereign Virtue and earlier, related essays, and Ackerman's Social Justice in the LiberalLiberal State.

There was a bit of an anomaly in 1917 when the Conservatives and some Liberals came together to form the Unionist Party (which was essentially an election about conscription), but the Unionist coalition was gone by the next election in 1921 (technically, the Conservatives came third in that election, but they were still named the Official Opposition due to the leader of the second - place party declining Official Opposition status — and so the largely two - party state continued).

Endorsing the liberal Sanders over a mainstream Democrat like Hillary Clinton in many respects was the opposite outcome from the New York governor's race in 2014, when the state WFP ultimately backed Gov. Andrew Cuomo (who is identified with the Clinton wing of the Democratic Party) over Fordham Law School professor Zephyr Teachout.

By the traditional standards of party loyalty, it was a setback for Mr. Cuomo on Tuesday when Republicans captured the State Senate in convincing fashion, since the party stands in the way of a number of his liberal goals.

It was a moment unimaginable in the governor's first term, or in his four years prior as state attorney general, when he forged a reputation as a cutting - edge social liberal and a cast - iron fiscal conservative, a triangulating centrist contemptuous of public sector unions and of the anti-Wall Street outrage that erupted after the 2008 financial collapse.

He refused and continues to oppose surcharge on millionaires to continue, which some economic liberals consider a tax cut for the rich at a time when the state needs money.

Astorino often compares himself to Pataki, who was a little - known state senator way behind in the polls when he surged to an upset victory on Election Day, ousting a national liberal icon, former Gov. Mario Cuomo.

Rep. Keith Ellison, a leader in the national progressive movement, caused a stir in liberal New York political circles when he posed for a selfie with state Sen. Marisol Alcantara, a fellow supporter of Bernie Sanders and a member of the Independent Democratic Conference.

Representative Joseph Crowley, the chairman of the Queens committee, and State Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie, the power behind the Bronx committee, are still irked over the outcome of the last Council speaker race, when their candidate, Mr. Garodnick, was defeated by the liberal coalition and the mayor's maneuvering.

«It's all about race,» Wimes said, noting the difference in EMILY's List's involvement in this race compared to its neutrality in the 2014 gubernatorial Democratic primary when longtime abortion - rights liberal, former state Sen. Nan Rich, ran against former Gov. Charlie Crist, who had been a self - styled «pro-life» Republican before leaving the GOP.

The Liberal Democrats position is that they wish to recognise a democratic, sovereign and viable Palestinian state when it will help the peace process most.

But liberals in other states — and eventually in Congress, when Democrats win it back — won't want to follow either roadmap blindly.

[17] When the Conservative and Liberal Democrat Coalition formed the Government in 2010, Blunt was appointed as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice.

Cable stated at the Liberal Democrat conference that the sustainability of the present higher education funding arrangements did not keep him awake a night because he would be over 100 - years - old when its consequences came home to roost.

His election literature stated: «A dedicated community activist, Tim joined the Liberal Party when he was 16.

With more money, staff and name recognition than when he ran for office four years ago, Mr. Hawkins is hoping an unexpectedly strong showing can boost the standing of his party and liberals in New York State.

The state's leading pundits had the primary as a «liberal revolt» by those who feel the governor has drifted too far to the right and needed to hear a message, but expect that these voters will come right back into the Cuomo fold in November when faced with a conservative alternative on the ballot like Astorino.

I suspect when you state people are going for the nationalist then state Plaid your not taking into account the mess Plaid made going into coalition with Welsh Labour, they like the Liberals became the mouth piece for Labour forgetting everything people had voted for them.

The liberal club had called a special session to reconsider its endorsement of Hochul, a few hours after Teachout and Wu had won their biggest victory to date, when the state's second - largest public employees union had endorsed their ticket.

When Nick Clegg claimed he was in politics to fight for the poor and downtrodden, and then revealed he didn't have a clue what the state pension was, this writer's suspicion that he is a professional politician using the Liberal party as a stepping stone to higher office was confirmed, and now he is using the Tory Party as a stepping stone.

For years, the Republican «Long Island Nine» in the State Senate stayed out of the way when Cuomo looked to pass liberal social policies like gay marriage and gun control, and supported his fiscally conservative agenda on taxes, education, public sector unions and regulation.

Her trip leftward began when she became a senator and found herself representing a state dominated by the liberal politics of New York City and some of its suburbs.

When the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition following the 2010 general election, Hunt was appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport (combining the roles of leading the Department for Culture, Media and Sport with that of Minister for the Olympics).

«One of our most interesting findings is the fact that, when people had a hard time determining someone's political orientation, they seemed to revert (unhelpfully) to gender stereotypes, assuming feminine - sounding people were liberal and masculine - sounding people were conservative,» states Carpenter.

Hey, folks, we're making a movie here: When this movie was in production, the American Right thundered that it was being made by Godless liberal communists in Hollywood financed by the Democratic National Committee as a propaganda piece to re-elect that Kenyan who usurped the office of President of the United States.

These objections come mostly from such liberal organizations as Norman Lear's People for the American Way, or from individual citizens who look at proposed textbooks when they are on display before adoption in 30 centers around the state.

And the pro-voucher group American Federation for Children, which she headed as chairwoman and is based in Washington D.C., has spent more than $ 5 million in Wisconsin in favor of Republican elected officials since 2010, when the GOP gained control of state government, according to data from the liberal - leaning Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, which tracks campaign spending.

Back in the summertime, when a lone liberal Democrat state legislator funded by a local oilman was pushing to bring his tax hike proposal to the ballot, a teachers union member's question was published in the CEA Journal (the union's official «rag»):

When talking and thinking about the Blaine Amendments, we should focus not only on the prejudices and biases of Nineteenth Century Brahmins, Radical Republicans, and Klansmen, but also on the ongoing arguments of which these Amendments are a part: about education, citizenship, tolerance and pluralism in a secular, liberal state.

People (some erstwhile liberal or labor supporters of the freedom movement who never had difficulty accommodating to the ancient practice of white domination and exclusiveness) profess shock and alarm when Black leaders assert that the time has come to secure majority rule in the counties, cities, towns, congressional, senatorial and state assembly districts where Blacks are the majority.

He is everything Conservatives fear when they talk about the problems with a welfare state and he is everything Liberals fear when they timidly advocate for sex positive education.

When the Nazis forced the Bauhaus school to close in 1933, Albers (who was Jewish) and her husband went to the United States, where Josef had been invited to teach at Black Mountain College, a newly opened experimental liberal arts school near Black Mountain, North Carolina.

However when you ask what will fix it from Liberals, the money usually has to come from the United States tax payers and usually goes to some liberal cause like the UN another Liberal or global goveliberal cause like the UN another Liberal or global goveLiberal or global government.

He also stated, «I have always voted Labour (except when I foolishly voted Liberal on a couple of occasions).»