"A national survey of the number of homosexual clergy in the Church of England will take place this year, according to gay rights campaigners. Inclusive Church, a network of individuals and organisations working for better recognition of minorities, says the survey will be...
I ran across this opinion piece at RealClearPolitics.com. I thought it was a remarkable piece of insight, though I will bet that the analysand here, the liberal wing of the democratic party, objects. The expression...
Michael, the creative mind at My Personal Litmus, believes the 60-year-old animated short, Make Mine Freedom (1948), should be shown to every school child in the United States. Furthermore, he writes: "The...
I had the fortune to see the author, Phyllis Chesler speak at an event I went to. She has been on the forefront for Women issues in the U.S. for many years. " The London School of Economics has just banned the...
South African anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman died yesterday at the age of 91. She was a committed liberal, not only at a time when it was an unfashionable political stance, but in the face of great adversity. As a Jewish woman in a parliament dominated by male Calvinist...
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"Will he disappoint us? Will we disappoint him? Will we disappoint ourselves?" Read the second installment of the Obama trilogy from The Liberal magazine at: http://www.theliberal.co.uk/Barack_Obama_and_the_Politics_of_Expectation.html
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"In Focus: From Abu-Fana to Al-Burullus Opinion By Khalil Al-Anani, June 10, 2008Egypt is boiling; this is the least one can say of the general conditions in Egypt. From Abu-Fana monastery, which witnessed violent clashes between Muslims and Copts less than two weeks ago, to...
An essay by editor of The Liberal magazine, Benjamin Ramm, exploring the meaning of Barack Obama's candidacy: ``Obama ’s unifying project aims to make the United States more than the sum of its parts – not a union divided and ruled, appeased and triangulated, but...
Ideas necessarily generate their opposites, making for conflict, and, often, violence. The hatred generated by such adversarial antitheses dehumanises humanity. That is why it is imperative to move away from ideas towards practice.
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The Catholic League has gotten its knickers in a knot about the organizers of the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco. Apparently they don't like the fact that the last supper is being depicted as a place...
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By MICHAEL GOLDFARB, June 17, 2007, New York Times
THIS is an obituary for a great American institution whose death was announced this week. After 155 years, Antioch College is closing.
Established in 1852 in...
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Liberalism, which can occasionally breed great advances, was, in the main, prior to 9/11, only a frustrating form of self-absorbed and emotion-driven drivel that all modern societies must overcome to succeed and to prosper. The Bill Mahers, Ward Churchills and Michael Moores...
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"The ex Supreme Court Justice John Major's appointed by Harper to conduct a public hearing into the Air India F.U. has discovered that like the Arar Inquiry the State has marshelled all their forces in a united front called National Security. The RCMP, CSIS, Foreign...
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Either because he believes it to be true, or because he does not want to get the United States into a religious war against 1.6 billion Muslims, President Bush has many times taken pains to keep separate the radical Islamic killers from the overall Muslim community. Another...
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Jurgen Habermas a modern political philosopher was a member of the Frankfurt School of Hegelian Marxism. His recent works on Public Potlitics challenges the theories of classic liberals and the current post-modernist communitarian ideology of identity politics. Extracts from...
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