Liberals

There's Danger in Playing Chess with Politics

Leslie Reece Schichtel | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Dialogue, Elections 2012, Debate, Democracy, John Dewey, Conservatives, Liberals, 2012 Election, Politics News

The object of a game of chess is to vanquish one's opponent. To do so, both players strategize each piece's trajectory to eventually lock the opponent...

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The Gay Marriage Debate Misses the Point Entirely

Howard Barbanel | Posted 05.11.2012

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This week President Obama became the first president in U.S. history to come out in favor of gay marriage. Obviously, Mitt Romney is against such a th...

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The Great Populist Wave

Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.10.2012

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At this moment, in our land, it is time for the true champions of the 99 percent to launch the largest voter registration, mobilization and turnout campaign in the history of freedom.

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Americans Are Liberals

Stephen Herrington | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: U.S. Economy, War on Women, Economy, Economic Crisis, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Gop, Tea Party, Voter Suppression, Paul Ryan, Congress, Liberals, Barack Obama, Conservatives, 2012 Election, 112th Congress, Politics News

'Liberal' is nothing but a synonym for being adaptive instead of voodoo doctrinaire. Americans are smarter now that they've seen what the GOP/Tea Party will do when elected to real government at a time when we most need real government.

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Where Did All the Liberal Civil Liberties Advocates Go?

Noah Baron | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Civil Liberties, Democratic Party, Liberals, George W. Bush, President Obama, Activists, Guantanamo Bay, John Yoo, Politics News

If civil liberties mean anything to liberals, we need to start criticizing violations of those civil liberties regardless of who perpetrates them -- and that criticism must be done with the same urgency as always.

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Why Obama and Romney Are Both Wrong About Becoming Rich in America

Douglas LaBier | Posted 04.25.2012

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We're not isolated entities on a planet that exists for our personal benefit, alone. We all need and depend on each other. President Obama would do well to show aggressive leadership towards pushing that vision. It's the American Dream, after all.

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The Republicans' Masterful and Insidious Prey on America's Founding Fears and Stories: Part III

Ian I. Mitroff | Posted 04.25.2012

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We won't solve all of our thorny problems through a better understanding of unconscious forces alone. But we also will not solve them through all of the appeals to so-called rational policies and thinking alone! Unfortunately, conservatives understand this far better than liberals.

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WATCH: Eric Alterman on How Liberals Need to 'Toughen Up'

Bill Moyers | Posted 04.24.2012

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How Liberal Is President Obama Really?

Bill Moyers | Posted 04.19.2012

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Count Me: An Ode to Liberty

Robin Koerner | Posted 04.18.2012

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Left and Right and Right and Left / Have left America bereft / Of liberty, its founding light. / Christians, Liberals speak of peace / Until they hold the nation's leash, / And send its youth to fight.

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The Moral Contemptibility of the Conservative Mind

Ian I. Mitroff | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Philosophy, Jonathan Haidt, Conservatives, Liberals, Liberalism, Kant, Morality, Political Philosophy, Morality and Politics, Liberal Morals, Book Review, Conservative Morals, Politics News

Author Jonathan Haidt enjoins liberals to make a sincere attempt to listen to conservatives and appreciate sincerely the values they hold dear, and even more, to see that that they are generally necessary for any society to hang together.

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Conservatives, Health Care and Fire Departments

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Obama, Conservatives, Fire Fighting, Health Care, Liberals, Obamacare, Social Policy, Affordable Care Act, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Social Darwinism, Politics News

This philosophical argument over the role of government has been going on in America since colonial days, and in Europe long before that. One of the most interesting debates was over firefighting services.

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Stephen Colbert, Scientific Pioneer

Chris Mooney | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, Conservatives, Truthiness, Political Science, Liberals, Science of Politics, Liberal Voters, Conservative Voters, Democrats, Republicans, Science News

Truthiness is the quality of knowing something in your gut or your heart, as opposed to in your head. Colbert didn't just diagnose a deep malady in American political discourse. He also used phrases that anticipated research results on the differences between liberals and conservatives.

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Universal Health Insurance and the Failure of Liberal Framing

Mitch Rofsky | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Economics, Obamacare, Health Care, Liberalism, Conservatives, Liberals, Conservatism, Michele Bachman, President Obama, Party Lines, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Health Insurance, Sean Hannity, Medicare, Socialism, Politics News

Obama's health care program, with its private doctors, hospitals and insurance companies, isn't close to socialism, of course. But is it close enough to liberalism?

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The Truth About The Democratic Party

Tim Suttle | Posted 05.24.2012

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As a Christian who grew up in the rural Midwest, I sometimes feel as though I'm a progressive trapped in the body of a conserver. Yet, the Democrats can make it really hard for a natural-born-conserver to be a part of the conversation.

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My Worst Nightmare: I Was Married to Newt Gingrich

Nancy Wurtzel | Posted 05.23.2012

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Early this morning I awakened in a full panic. I had a dream and it was crystal clear. In my twisted dream, I was married to Newt Gingrich.

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Africa to Kony 2012: Stop Treating Us Like Victims

James Marshall Crotty | Posted 05.23.2012

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Africans want capital investment, access to global markets, and to be treated as self-sufficient players, not victims in need of continual rescue by their former colonizers. That is the respectful, tough-love attitude that will raise all boats on the African continent.

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The New Conservatism

Gary Hart | Posted 05.22.2012

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The political media have accepted the myth of "equivalence" that says political polarization and governmental dysfunction are the result of both parties going to extremes of right and left. It is a myth.

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Only Democrats Watch Porn!

Susie Sampson | Posted 05.22.2012

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A few months back, Ron Jeremy and some immoral ladies were interviewed by yours truly! They are all no doubt Democrats (no Republican would watch such things!) and certainly only interested in fun.

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Gingrich: Liberals Don't Want NASCAR Drivers To Go Fast

The Huffington Post | Elise Foley | Posted 03.13.2012

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Liberals are too weak to run NASCAR, Newt Gingrich said on a radio station dedicated to the sport. "If liberals ran NASCAR, you couldn't go more t...

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The Media's Double Standard for Israel

Jonathan_Miller | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Mainstream Media, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Liberals, Progressives, Israel, US Israel Relations, US Israel, Israel Liberals, World News

With its remarkably progressive polity, why do so many of Israel's loudest critics come from the American Left?

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Sometimes, the Density of a Democrat...

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 05.12.2012

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Yesterday a poll was released saying some astronomical percentage of Republicans in the deep south think the president wasn't born here, or he's a Mus...

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Limbaugh's Legacy: How to Say You're Sorry When You're Not

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.08.2012

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During a long career of hurling insults, Rush Limbaugh has apologized only a handful of times. Yet perhaps his true legacy will lie in his illumination of the many ways to say you're sorry when you're not.

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Limbaugh: Liberals Want to Control Your Food!

Kristin Wartman | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Food Justice, Elites, Rush Limbaugh, Liberals, Corporations, The American Way of Eating, Tracie McMillan, Big Food, Food Industry, Food News

Limbaugh's a little late to the game on this one, the term food justice is hardly news and he joins an already long line of conservatives who criticize any attempt to reign in Big Food.

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The New Politic: From Diversity To Omniversity

Jason Derr | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Politics, Conservatives, Omniversity, Liberals, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, New Politic, Democrats, Republicans, Politics News

No matter what happens in the upcoming Republican race or the November election, the good people of the United States have been afforded a front-row seat to the Republican Civil War.

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