monday message board – john quiggin
“Are Vietnamese people “conservative immigrants”? Are Vietnamese communities even especially religious?” ..…
shane hernandez, the countercultural conservative
The root of his conservatism, as stance, n in staying conservative when culture, academia, and peers take potshots at the belief system... ..…
argentina elects new president on promises to fix economy and unify a
Macri, a conservative businessman, blamed his Peronist predecessors for Argentina’s economic woes. . ..…
brian stelter: grisham acts more like a propaganda minister than a
He argued that part of the conversation surrounding the impeachment debate is being 'hijacked' because conservative news shows are defending the president. . ..…
pope's amazon synod proposes married priests, female leaders – the
“I’m a supporter of having more married priests, though this Amazon experiment is the wrong way to go about it,” tweeted Damian Thompson, conservative commentator and associate editor of Britain’s The Spectator. ..…
remain’s useful idiot? – harry's place
Conservative leadership contest and the election of Brexiteer, Johnson, has seen Brexit Party lose support to Conservatives.. ..…
bombthrowers exclusive: national security adviser h.r. mcmaster; a
And as frequently happens in Washington, when a strong conservative political appointee faces widespread (often manufactured) controversy, the knee-jerk reaction is to find a replacement the establishment likes. ... Now leftists are coming out of the woodwork to defend McMaster against his..…
how to bring down the ideology of the left
I guess the Left would say that we have evolved and yesterday was so Republican or conservative. ... Some conservative outlets, including Breitbart News and Fox News, are also on the list. . . ..…
weak political parties smooth the way for demagogues – the moderate
Of course, this catechism had long been (in Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s formulation) avowed but not constraining: The conservative party did not allow professed beliefs to influence its behavior. ..…
disagreeing reasonably in a complex world
Another limiting factor is Moskowitz’s unwillingness to acknowledge that the conservative critiques of “political correctness” on campuses have a kernel of truth to them. Universities are not run by leftists, of course, but largely by conservative-to-moderate administrators. ..…
is chief baghdadi dead after us military raid
He then broke with Al-Qaeda and announced his own, more aggressive jihadist group named Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (alternately, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) that aimed to establish its own deeply conservative Islamic nation, or caliphate, on territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border...…
islamic state's baghdadi: a trail of horror and death
His family included preachers from the ultra-conservative Salafi school of Sunni Islam, which sees many other branches of the faith as heretical and other religions as anathema. . ..…
who was islamic state leader abu bakr al-baghdadi?
His family included preachers from the ultra-conservative Salafi school of Sunni Islam, which sees many other branches of the faith as heretical and other religions as anathema. . . ..…
chilean president shaking up government amid protests
Chile’s conservative president also said he might lift the state of emergency that has covered much of the country for the past nine days — a decree that had failed to bring peace after rioting broke out in response to a 4-cent rise in subway fares. ..…
secret alliances and corruption: how the socialist workers’ party
RECIFE, Brazil—The election of conservative president Jair Bolsonaro in 2018 brought an end to the left-wing government of the Workers’ Party, first elected to power in Brazil’s 2002 general election. . ... As a way of presenting an alternative to socialist discourse, several..…
lebanese protesters form human chain across the country
After dusk, the central Martyrs' Square in Beirut and other protest hubs in Lebanon -- including the relatively conservative city of Tripoli -- turn into a vast, open ground where protesters dance, sing or organise political meetings. . ..…
media hypocrisy exposed.
An article published in the conservative journal Quadrant which casts aspersions on female judges involved in the George Pell case is likely in contempt of court, legal experts have said. . ..…
leftists, obama officials race todownplay al-baghdadi death
Conservative Tree House, by Sundance . Posted by Imright — 10/27/2019 4:16:13 PM Post Reply . ..…
andrew cuomo quietly presses to weaken political nemesis in new york
“He killed the Liberal Party pretty effectively years ago,” said Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar. ..…
the atheist conservative: » death of a caliph
President Trump announced in address to the today that US Special Operations Forces have killed or, more accurately, have forced the death of Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS.. ..…
comey: 'there has always been a radioactive stew of racism in' u.s.
What sort of last harm do you think has been done to the race conversation in this country and what role do Fox News and conservative media have in that? ..…
in a society built on war, we must do more than just prefer peace –
They are under a system of global, neo-liberal/conservative (your choice) corporate, predatory capitalism (GPC). . ... There is nothing, absolutely nothing, we can do to stop Big Tech censorship, predominantly enforced against conservative and anti-establishment opinions. ..…
pope's amazon synod proposes married priests, female leaders
'I'm a supporter of having more married priests, though this Amazon experiment is the wrong way to go about it,' tweeted Damian Thompson, conservative commentator and associate editor of Britain's The Spectator. ..…
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