Sentences with phrase «political points here»

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No matter the outcome, the point here is that political dysfunction is unfavorable — to put it lightly — and muni investors should remain cautious.

The point here is not to debate the relative merits of Hobbes and Locke, but to stress the atomistic individualism of modern political theory in both these forms.

Indeed, the fundamental point here is that the strong appeal of the proposals being made by the new reformers is due to the fact that they cohere so well with the way in which we now understand political life and with the way in which we represent ourselves as moral agents.

Here's the pattern at hand: a) discouragement or disgust with radical politics or the undeniable impact of some conservatism - friendly facts, results in a move away from political statements and activism, a retreat, into counter-culturalism, self - discovery, and artistry - for - artistry's sake, b) shifts in the political situation, or disgust at «apathy,» provoke a passionate recommittment to the leftist cause or a new articulation of it, and then, at some point, the rock - bohemian returns back to a).

Here Theissen pointed to the unavoidable ambivalence of New Testament social teaching: it offers an explosively political vision without a political strategy.

You can read more about the trouble in translating this here, but the salient point is that the verse has become a rallying cry for the anti-Ahok political movement in Indonesia, who use it to justify not trusting the governor, who is a Christian.

You can read more about MoveOn's accusations on their petition page, but I'll summarize Eli's points here: as more and more political expression moves onto commercial platforms such as MySpace or YouTube, we risk running afoul of what he characterized as «unreliable mediators.?

First, Florida political blogs take on different angles of the primary races, from strategy to policy to matters even more vital: My point here...

«I will not sit here and blame only the NDC... He has a point if he says all political parties register minors,»

What we have is some outrageous politically - motivated FALSE CHARGES HERE - not meant to improve any race relations at all - just to score cheap political points.

My point here is not to debate these policies, but to observe one of the differences between normal voters and political junkies such as myself and (probably) you.

«There is too great an interest, I think, in (the Cuomo administration) to make a headline, to score political points, to leverage people against one another in order to score a win instead of truly understanding the kind of change that needs to happen in order to grow the economy, keep New Yorkers here and make the state more affordable and improve everybody's quality of life,» Molinaro said.

Hatch: «This hearing should not be used to score cheap political points, but I am afraid with all due respect Mr. Chairman that that's what we are going to see here today.

While there are plenty of high points to recommend here from the giddy sophisticated comedy - romance Jewel Robbery (1932), a Pre-Code Ernst Lubitsch wannabe, to the eclectic political espionage thriller British Agent (1934) to the exotic and risque melodrama Mandalay (1934), I cast my vote for THE HOUSE ON 56TH STREET (1933) as the quintessential Kay Francis vehicle and an excellent introduction to the actress.

There's half of a great satire here, as Seth Rogen, James Franco and Evan Goldberg combine that freewheeling mayhem from This Is the End with some more pointed political comedy.

For as she points out here ever so succinctly,» White men's right of access to black women's bodies was an assumption supported both by their history as legal property and by the myth of their sexual promiscuity,» and «Emancipation did not end the social and political usefulness of this stereotype.»

Luckily, he's matched by a superior supporting cast of actors who deliver equally assured performances here, even when the people they're playing feel less organic than machined to make a political point about tolerance and hypocrisy: To name just a few, Jesse Plemons, Rory Cochrane, Bill Camp, Ben Foster and the ubiquitous Timothée Chalamet are all on hand for some duration of the journey; Rosamund Pike, as a woman they meet named Rosalie Quaid, delivers a searing portrayal of trauma at its most physically excruciating and psychically disorienting.

And here's a press release that summarizes the main points of the story: Voucher Supporters Achieve Political Success in Louisiana.

You might think Malloy did this because of the growing opposition to both in his state, but blogger Jonathan Pelto points out here that he did it not because he really believes there is a problem with the school reforms but because he is trying to assure his re-election this November and can read the political tea leaves.

Black art, elsewhere so dishearteningly co-opted for political statement, here featured as high art; case in point, the pristine oil and stick grid painting on board by McArthur Binion at Massimo de Carlo.

Artistic practice is likewise no substitute political practice but the important point here is that it also should not be dismissed as a potential opening into a prefigurative practice of institution building.

It never occured to us it might be necessary to explicitly point out the difference between «the politicization of the science», which is obviously something we talk about quite frequently here at RC, and the «political implications of the science» (i.e., whether or not the Kyoto Accord should be ratified), which is something we obviously don't.

Here's why I see no social or political tipping point: Behind the ups and downs tracked by Gallup, Pew, The Times and others, there's been little evidence of a shift in what political and socials scientists call «issue salience» for global warming — making it the kind of problem citizens bring to the voting booth.

Readers who actually want a thorough and careful account of the pros and cons of I - 732 from a policy point of view should read the three detailed articles by the Sightline Institute here: http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/01/pros-cons-carbonwa-carbon-tax-swap-ballot-initiative-732/ http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/02/does-initiative-732-carbon-tax-have-a-budget-hole/ http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/03/weighing-critiques-of-carbonwa-i-732/ Readers who are interested in the messy political conflict over the initiative might start with a couple of Patrick Mazza's articles: http://cascadiaplanet.blogspot.com/2015/11/can-wa-state-climate-policy-train-wreck.html http://cascadiaplanet.blogspot.com/2015/12/wa-climate-initiative-conflict-on-road.html If you want to know why the Alliance's proposal won't do much for low - income families facing higher energy costs as a result of a carbon fee (though it would produce a lot of union trade jobs by funding State infrastructure spending) start here: http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/16/green-stamps-a-climate-equity-proposal-for-the-pacific-northwest/

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

So far, here in the United States, public debate over climate change has been little more than an endless series of arcane scientific and political talking points tossed back and forth on the Internet between those who believe AGW will destroy the planet and those who believe the whole thing is a massive hoax.

Now turning to the three options and thinking from a systems view point (we are talking about interfaces between systems here) the only difference between the first and the second is that the political process has been extended into the domain of science.

The previous post here made the point that the IPCC serves much less to inform debate than as a vehicle for any number of political ambitions or prejudices, few of which can be justified on the basis of the IPCC's reports — assessments of what «science says».

Here's another recent example — Pielke and his fellow conservative contrarian colleague Dan Sarewitz had an article in the Financial Times recently («Climate policy robs the world's poor of their hopes») that I think misses the mark so badly, in a let's - be-provocative-and-act-like-we're - the - real - progressives way, that it would be tempting to ignore it, except that it's in a high - profile publication and feeds misleading talking points to a right - wing corporate political and economic culture.

IPCC critic / blogger Donna Laframboise utilized one of McIntyre's posts here regarding a political point made by IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri, and «Red Hot Lies» book author Chris Horner had a nice 6 - page summary of the video and the complaints here.

Bonus political points, however, for the then - current IPCC Chairman for naming three of the most famous skeptic scientists accused of being industry - funded shills (screencapture here):

This is disappointing news: here at Treehugger, we've repeatedly driven the point home that the president has almost no control over the price of gas in the short - term — a cocktail of global demand, oil speculation, and political instability in volatile regions determines the price of gas more than anything else.

Great news here is that this is now becoming a big discussion in Brazil... let's see if we can break political resistance and make a deep change on this point.

The point here is not that these claims are wrong, but that most studies do not provide evidence for the causal assertions and policy conclusions that are made on both sides of the political spectrum.