liberal

A political liberal generally promotes the ideals of personal freedom and equal rights under law.

Social liberalism is often concerned with counteracting economic inequality through government action. Liberal economists often advocate increased economic regulation, tax reform, and increased social services.

Of the millions who consider themselves liberals, of course, there is a wide range of belief and practice. Overall, however, liberals believe that steps must be taken to ensure freedom and equal opportunities for all members of a society, and that social change should be enacted into law in order to protect individual rights.

In the blogosphere, liberals generally oppose themselves to conservatives in political and cultural debates. Just as there are moderate liberals, so are there extremists; in the politically-charged climate of the online world, extreme opinions and pundits can sometimes drown out more moderate voices.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “liberal”

• in Politics
  Rush Limbaugh and the Testing of the Constitution
  With Rush Limbaugh in the news again, the timing couldn't be better to look at our most cherished beliefs.
  by randini / on Mar 10, 2012
• in Politics
  Pope Benedict Warns of "Secularism", Words Clearly Relevant to American Politics
  Pope to US bishops: Defend the Churches’ place in public square
  by michetrab / on Jan 24, 2012
• in Politics
  Berlusconi's Resignation: a Defeat of Whole Political Italian Leaders
  New challenge for Italian politics. Berlusconi has still a leader of mayor italian party. Opposition leaders not able to defeat him at the Parlament.
  by michetrab / on Nov 14, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “liberal”

 

• 16 YEAR OLD POSTS VIDEO ABOUT HOMO MARRIAGE; GETS DEATH THREATS

  
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  Only kind, compassionate, and caring liberals would engage in this sort of crap. Madeleine McAulay, a sixteen-year-old Christian conservative from North Carolina, is speaking out today after receiving a litany of death threats and vile responses for publicly espousing her views on gay marriage. After North ...
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• AMERICA BROKE AND HARRY REID STILL CURRYING FAVOR WITH ILLEGALS

  
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  He is blocking a vote on a bill that would close a loophole allowing illegals to collect child tax credits and send them to Mexico. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS’ WORTH!!     A bill that would close an IRS tax credit loophole that allows the IRS to funnel over $4 billion to illegal immigrants is being held up by ...
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• REMIND YOU OF ANYONE?

  
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  It’s a parody. These guys are great. Who might the one on the left remind you of? I call him O’Fuckup. You can call him what you want. Listen and enjoy.   H/T: Theo
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• TAKING BETS THAT NOTHING WILL COME OF THIS

  
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  If you were female and groped males and got sued, you might be forced to pay $1,000. If you were male and groped females and got sued, you WOULD go to jail and have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollarsa. If you are a faggot like Roy Horn , you will have te case dismissed against you and be honored by the homo ...
  19 hours ago

• OBAMA ACCUSES REPUBLICANS OF CALLING HIM A BIG SPENDER; “TINGLES” STEPS RIGHT UP TO SUCK HIS AZZ

  
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  Barry O’Fuckup is on the circuit accusing republicans of calling him a “reckless spender.” At a fundraiser for his re-election campaign in Denver tonight, President Obama set out to upend conventional Republican wisdom that his administration has been defined by excessive government spending. “I’m ...
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• THE NIGHT THE LIGHTS WENT OUT IN ….. DETROIT

  
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  Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of asswipe liberal , nanny-state government-tit-sucking liberals. Detroit, whose 139 square miles contain 60 percent fewer residents than in 1950, will try to nudge them into a smaller living space by eliminating almost half its streetlights. As it is, 40 percent of the 88,000 ...
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• DEMOCRATS PAY WOMEN LESS THAN MEN, KEPT-WHORES CAN’T BE BOTHERED TO COVER IT

  
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  Yet somehow all we hear about is the “republican war on women.” Whining about “fair pay” for what I call unfair work given women work fewer hours, are not as committed, refuse to take strenuous jobs and do less traveling, female Senate democrats are still beating the “inequality” drum while ignoring ...
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• Stand Against Abusive Felon Brett Kimberlin (sticky for the day)

  
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  I told you a bit about Leftist felon and bomber Brett Kimberlin the other day and that Lee Stranahan called for a blogburst today. Today bloggers will stand with Aaron Worthing , Robert Stacy McCain , Patterico ,  Liberty Chick , Seth Allen, and others who have been terrorized by Kimberlin for exposing ...
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• Transgender Advocates Hail Argentina Law

  
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  A new law allows an easier path to sex reassignment surgery, putting in place some of the world’s most liberal rules on changing gender.
  20 hours ago

• S.E. Cupp Discusses Her Photoshopped Hustler Picture On The "View" (Video)

  
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  21 hours ago

• Another expenses farce! Watchdog who monitors MPs¿ money is claiming £400 a day for meetings they don¿t even attend

  
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  http://www.dailymail.co.uk Another expenses farce! Watchdog who monitors MPs¿ money is claiming £400 a day for meetings they don¿t even attend Liberal Democrat Sir Bob Russell says members of a watchdog set up to monitor expenses claimed £400 a day for attending meetings despite only taking part by ...
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• WORLD SCHIZOPHRENIA DAY

  
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  Today is World Schizophrenia Day!
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• Robert Riech: Dumb to the Bone

  
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  Given, the time, any decent electronic type, could build a volt meter. Why, because a volt has been defined. In order to measure something, it first must be defined. You could not build a meter for a gasoline pump, if the volume of a gallon were not define. Yet Robert Riech, for reasons unknown to the science of ...
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• media blackouts to make the Chinese envious…

  
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  Outrage Over 72 Hours Of Network Silence On Catholic Lawsuit Spreads To Other Christian Leaders… Fury over the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts’ continued refusal to report the lawsuits Catholic entities have filed against the Obama administration has spread beyond the Media Research Center watchdog group and ...
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• UNDERCURRENTS: A LIFE BENEATH THE SURFACE

  
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  Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface http://www.amazon.com/Undercurrents-A-Life-Beneath-Surface/dp/006251184X "I’m getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what’s wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk, to cry. I love them for their caring, but I want to ...
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• Larry Flynt Libels Woman, NAG Stand Mute

  
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  The National Association of Gals, the NAG’s has a mighty selective sensitivity to women’s issue. No news in that. Well at least the girls of the View has some sense of decency, from Byran Preston, Pj Tatle r: S.E. Cupp appeared on The View today to discuss the Hustler fake explicit photoshop of her. ...
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• The Liberal Mind – Asymmetric Cacooning

  
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  George Rebane For some years in these pages I have written about the apparent ignorance of the liberal voices about what’s going on and how things work. Quite often I, and other conservative bloggers, have been taken to task by...
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• Civility Watch Update

  
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  Boy, that right wing—pretty dangerous, huh? In the last few days, we’ve had a student threatened with arrest (albeit by his ignorant teacher) for merely questioning Obama; conservative commenter and pundit S. E. Cupp was smeared in Hustler Magazine; oh yeah, and Governor Haley’s effigy was beaten like a rented ...
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• Green Supremacism: The Morgenthau Plan Finally Begins in Germany

  
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  On Sunday, I flashed back to the Morgenthau Plan . As I wrote, it was a scheme for post-World War II Germany that was viciously punitive, if understandably so, and crafted by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., FDR’s  Treasury secretary, around 1944, designed to de-industrialize Germany, to prevent another outbreak of war: ...
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• Senate Dems Demand Equal Pay for Equal Work, Pay Female Staffers 35% Less Than Males

  
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  I am disappoint You know how you know what a liberal is doing? Look at what they are accusing conservatives of. Case in point: A group of Democratic female senators on Wednesday declared war on the so-called “gender pay gap,” urging their colleagues to pass the aptly named Paycheck Fairness Act when ...
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