Sentences with phrase «rights liberal thought»

This understanding of freedom follows from the natural - rights liberal thought of John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and Robert Nozick, but it is also consistent with the rights - generating rule - utilitarianism of Herbert Spencer and others.

Not exact matches

The B.C. Liberal leader made the announcement Wednesday at a paper products company in Surrey while campaigning for the May 9 provincial election, saying an impasse over softwood lumber «gives us the freedom to do what I think is unquestionably the right thing.»

Chrystia Freeland, The Globe and Mailâ $ ™ s candidate in Toronto Centre, recently wrote a book about inequality (which I have not yet read) and is supposed to â $ œbring fresh thinking to the Liberal Partyâ $ ™ s economic team.â $ She has already attracted a few jabs from right - wingers Terence Corcoran and William Watson.

I think you're right about vote splitting but Why is it the Liberals fragmenting the vote?

When Jesus returns, I don't think he will automatically fall into the Conservative camp, with all his radical beliefs about shunning wealth and individual rights, Jesus just may be the biggest Liberal of them all.

I'm highly intelligent and willing to stand up for what is right, not for what the liberal machine tells me to think is right.

«The kind on thinking I saw in Saudi Arabia and among the Brotherhood of Kenya and Somalia, is incompatible with human rights and liberal values.

I'm a progressive Christian and liberal on 90 % of political issues including marriage equality and women's rights; however, I think that this should be seen as a tipping point for Christians everywhere.

They seem to think that it is enough merely to be right about liberals having been wrong on this question.

Right wing conservative types have a Jesus who is against gay marraige, is anti-abortion, thinks there should be prayer in school, and teaches the prosperity stuff and so on... Left wing liberal Christians quote the verses about giving up possessions, feeding and clothing the poor... inner city Christians often have a Jesus who is about social justice... we were made in His image?

But insofar as you do think there are differences between rightly understood Locke and the contemporary libertarian or classic liberal reading of natural rights applied to economic issues, perhaps you will wind up defending at least part of my theory.

The liberal group People for the American Way's report on how conservative foundations have deployed vast sums to support think tanks, friendly media and other institutions that promote right - wing causes is titled «Buying a Movement.»

«The kind on thinking I saw in Saudi Arabia and among the Brotherhood of Kenya and Som - alia, is incompatible with human rights and liberal values.

I think the bottom line is that if liberals want to give women (and others) the right to choose what to do with «their body» and «in their bedrooms» I think it would only be consistent to allow the rest of us the right to choose what to do with our bodies, our wallets, and in our houses.

It's not about Rush being «right,» it's about him thinking that Pope should change Jesus» message just because it's too liberal for his taste.

And here, I think, the liberal insight is right.

They have not offered ideas; rather they remain in a very dated liberal, statist view concerning economic problems and injustice, following the line of thinking of the late John A. Ryan, «The Right Reverend New Dealer.»

I think the hard - right is going to be mobilized and the moderates and liberals need to ban together and counter that with a strong surge of voting (I would go with Obama).

Enough is enough and let us kick the liberal politically correct naive liberals right in the butt and tell them if you don't like it here: Go to China or to a Muslim country and see what they think about their own cultural heritage.

And what's more, I think liberals are absolutely right to be laying their emphasis on this point: It's the best argument (and, indeed, increasingly the only argument) in favor of the current legislation.

Yeah, right... he «unintentionally hurt» people... he accidentally said parents should hit their kids if they THINK they might be gay... sure, it was a typo... he couldn't actually have MEANT it... and it was secular liberal media's fault... because all real «fair - minded» people know what he meant... and that he didn't mean it... and someone else was to blame if he did... not that he did... but still he was the REAL victim...

Maybe you think environmentalist are those tree - hugging, liberal lunatics who fight for the rights of rainforest birds and Pacific salmon while ignoring the humans and unborn babies.

Thirty - two Muslim essayists affirm conventional Western liberal doctrines such as the separation of church and state, the equal rights of women, and freedom of thought and speech.

Perhaps it may be right to say, that in general the politically conscious educated middle class of India were guided more by the Liberal and Marxian ideologies than the Gandhian or other versions of reformed Hindu thought.

The liberals, many of whom aren't even religious, think it's the right thing to do.

And he, much to the shock of vegetarians, liberals, animal - rights activists and grocery - store shoppers everywhere, makes an enthusiastic and palpable argument (palpable in that it is entertaining and well thought - out, albeit full of name - calling like «tofu breath») for the supposed ecological, physical and familial benefits of killing your own food (including growing your own veggies).

And I'd like to help get the well - meaning liberals out of that absurd position, of accidentally endorsing the far right on a supposedly anti-racist ticket, and being massively behind where most people got to when it came to England and football - without thinking so much about it - at least 15 - 20 years ago.

12:24 - Right - after a question on families from a Labour MP, it's time for Ian Swales - the improbable Liberal Democrat MP from Redcar - who invites Cameron to comment on councils thinking of turning down the government's offered council tax freeze.

The government is charged vociferously with paying too much attention to faith groups (accused by left - liberal secularists of an unprincipled timidity on faith schools, being too open to faith engagement in third sector; and of being generally rather socially conservative; and, alternatively, by the right having a cynical multiculturalist approach to minority faiths as electoral blocs) and also of too little attention to faith (with some «competitive grievance» claims that Muslims are getting too much attention, by some claiming to speak for some other minority faiths and by some Christian voices; and traditionalists who think there is a secret project to do in every institution).

Where I agree with Jonah is the notion that populist politics is NOT necessarily progressive / liberal — just think of the 1980s tax revolt, or a lot of the anti-civil rights activity in the South in the»50s and»60s.

The clarification was necessary presumably because he had become painfully aware that the other kind of liberalism — the «muscular» one that has a much clearer idea of the right way to act, speak and even think — was a powerful, increasingly hegemonic force in the liberal circles in which he moved.

Politically, the left think it is too conservative and the right think it is too liberal.

(Alternatively, if he does think that they are liberals, Turner is the most extreme right wing candidate ever to run in New York City.)

Liberal watchdog group Media Matters was the first to sound the alarm, but within a day, gay - rights supporters — from Mark Stern at Slate to John Aravosis at AmericaBlog — had joined the chorus of voices asking Klein: What were you thinking?

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.

«If you've ever looked at the Liberal Democrats and thought: «they've got the right ideas but can they deliver» your answer is here in this manifesto.

I think that russellbruce is right that Clegg's statements set up the chance that the remaining Lib Dems splinter in that scenario — in the grand tradition of Liberal splinters — but that's clearly beyond the domain of this model.

I think is fairly described as a very robust Labour tribalist from a trade union organiser background (I would place him very much on the right of the party, though you may well approve of his rebelling on ID cards, 90 days detention, the 10p tax rate and other more left / liberal rebellions, which shows he is not easily pigeonholed).

I think this answer is right, and just want to comment that here in the UK (and I think elsewhere in Europe), outside of tabloids and US - influenced TV etc, «liberal» tends to mean classically liberal rather than the newer US meaning.

But when it came time to choose a keynote speaker for the San Francisco convention's opening night, Mondale thought of Cuomo right away: Who better to set the tone for the convention and shore up the party's traditional blue - collar base than the eloquent and emphatically liberal Italian - American governor of New York?

«Lib Dem politics is fiercely parochial, so people who might think of themselves as centre - right or economic liberals were often isolated in their own local party structure.»

The former Conservative Cabinet minister Ken Clarke has warned David Cameron that any attempt to imitate UKIP will «drive moderate people to stick with the Liberal Democrats», adding: «I can't think of a more certain way to lose the general election than to go for a lurch to the right.»

A member of the free market think tank Reform, Browne has been associated with the more right wing and free - market orientated wing of the Liberal Democrats, and occassionally suggested as a target for seduction by a Conservative party looking to lure Liberal Democrat defections (more information at They work for you)

On the question of how much influence the Liberal Democrats have within government, most Conservative and Liberal Democrat supporters think they have a little influence, with Conservatives thinking that is about right or too much, and most Liberal Democrats thinking the party should wield greater influence.

On the Liberal Democrats and the coalition, with the benefit of hindsight 34 % of people think entering the coalition was the right thing for the Liberal Democrats to do, compared to 48 % who think it was the wrong decision.

«But it's others that have moved, not us, and I think the real divide is between not so much left and right but from liberal and authoritarian.

Liberal Democrats are more evenly divided, but even among them, the 47 % who want to curb human rights outnumber the 43 % who think all suspects» rights should be fully protected.

From stem cell research to global warming, human cloning, evolution, and beyond, the science debates are not exactly about science, but come down to a dispute between liberals and conservatives about the right way to think about the future.

Right now there are many Uk sex contacts sites, but these sites focus on the United Kingdom as a whole, West Midlands sex contacts focuses on the liberal thinking people that live in our towns and cities.

The picture and that title kind of makes you think or hope that Barbara Stanwyck is going to play some kind of freewheeling gal with some liberal views on life and love, right?