enter the fray: our reader discussion forum

The Fray

Browse by Tags

Advanced

All Tags » Conservatism

Not compelling
You kind of phoned this one in. This article is full of assumptions and conjecture and not much evidence or substance. I think there is a case to be made that in general people are heading in a more socially liberal direction, but that case wasn't made, just assumed. It wasn't addressed that everyone on the ticket in 2008 (McCain, Palin, Obama, ...
Posted to The Big Idea by WPercy on November 2, 2009
Re: Social Conscience of Americans
It's an oxymoron. Like SteveH, I think Jacob Weisberg is being overly generous when it comes to this statement: ''Morally speaking, Americans are surely more accepting of economic inequality than their European brethren. But the random unfairness that condemns the uninsured to bad health and the risk of untimely death offends the social ...
Posted to The Big Idea by Ave Cassandra on July 21, 2009
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor -- Says Roe Is "Settled Law"
All I need to know about today's U.S. Senate Nomination Hearing for Liberal New York City Feminist Sotomayor, is that she thinks the appalling pro-Abort ''Roe vs. Wade'' Supreme Court ''Decision'' of 1973, is ''Settled Law'' (her words.) Hispanic voters may be trending towards the Democratic Party side of the political ledger lately, and who ...
Posted to Dialogues by MichaelBernard4 on July 14, 2009
Listening parties is a start...but being honest is difficult
...for Republicans. First off, the entire statement about Conservatives having ''faith in God'' as one of it's core principles is to insinuate that Democrats are just godless heathens, which is not true...or to say that conservatism can't stand without that principle, which it certainly can. The conservative platform must get as far away from ...
Posted to Politics by JohnnyCaffeine on May 4, 2009
Simple ... pardon them all!!!
There is no problem... give them all a pardon and release them. They all have suffered enough with the torture and being held like animals. Release them and be done with it. Turn Bush and Chaney over to the war crimes tribunal that will be formed soon and that recent history of the US can be put behind us so that we can look to the future. ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by Bobrobert on November 16, 2008
Governance
I could not agree with the author more, that bringing the Republican governing philosophy into the new millenium is the greatest challenge. The free market of ideas has already begun to churn, with Senator McCain the first casualty. What kind of leadership will Gingrich, Steele, Palin, Romney, etc assume? It will be based on the power of thier ...
Posted to Dialogues by BradToft on November 12, 2008
The GOP Will Die Unless They Embrace Secularism.
The GOP elephant in the room is that there may be no elephant in the room in 15 years. My advice to the GOP is to stop demonizing their opponents and trying to turn them into socialists, Godless, unpatriotic elitists. That trick has used up its usefulness, and if they try it again they're history --literally. My favorite bastardization of a ...
Posted to Dialogues by john adkisson on November 10, 2008
Proposition 8 Results
I am shocked, apalled, & awakened! First of all, I am black and proud of it. Obama was equally elected for president of the USA by the will of the people. Now, there are only few folks who want to overturn the legal passaged of proposition 8 by an illegal act of force! Proposition was legally passed by the will of the people, for the ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by rich777 on November 9, 2008
Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..
... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008
Great Review of Some Important Books . . .
. . . BOOKS which I think all Americans need to read and consider: Making Government Work, by Fritz Hollings Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, by Phillipe Sands The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover), by Jane Mayer. Terrorism and Democracy ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008

1 2 3 Next >