- Conservatives remain largest ideological group in U.S.: poll
About four in ten Americans identify themselves as conservative, outnumbering those who self- identify as moderate or liberal, a new Gallup poll showed Monday.
Forty-one percent of Americans identify themselves as conservative, compared to 36 percent as moderate and 21 percent as liberal, according to the annual survey. If this pattern continues, 2011 will be the third straight year that conservatives significantly outnumber moderates -- the next largest ideological bloc, it said.
Conserva ... tenアメリカ人の4つについては、保守的に自身を識別する、中程度またはリベラルとして自己識別する人より多かった、新しいギャラップ世論調査では月曜日を示した
- Tony Kushner's degree snub puts playwrights in their place
Academia should be a bastion of intellectual freedom, but this retraction shows writers are expected to keep the status quoPlaywrights who speak out often suffer a backlash. It happened to Harold Pinter in Britain, and the latest example is Tony Kushner in the US. He was supposed to receive an honorary degree from John Jay College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), but it's now been vetoed because of a protest from a single trustee who claims that Kushner is anti-Israel. Kushner himself has robustly denied the charge that he ever advocated a boycott of Israel, however critical he may be of Israeli defence policies. It makes you wonder whether any self-respecting intellectual will in future want to accept an honorary degree from a college that seems so ready to stifle open debate.The irony is that Kushner is, among many other things, a profoundly Jewish playwright. He first came to attention with A Bright Room Called Day, which showed a group of friends in Weimar Germany in 1932-33 disintegrating under the pressure of Hitler's rise to power. And Kushner's most famous work, Angels in America, pits a conservative Mormon against a liberal Jew, depicts closeted gay McCarthy henchman Roy Cohn as both a political Machiavelli and an incarnation of life force, and rejects stasis in favour of reconciliation, hope and the possibility of change.What is absurd is that Kushner should be penalised at all for speaking out on the subject of modern Israel. But society likes its playwright to know their place. Pinter was constantly mocked in the media for attacking the lies and falsehoods of American foreign policy and its British supporters – until, that is, the invasion of Iraq on dubious legal and moral grounds woke people up to the truth of what he was saying. Like Kushn アカデミアは、知的自由の砦する必要がありますこの後退は、作家は、しばしば反発を受ける声ステータスquoPlaywrightsを保つと予想されますを示しています
- Michael Tomasky: Dandy healthcare premiums calculator
As you will all surely agree this blog is nothing if not a public service, and in that spirit I commend to you this handy-dandy and incredibly useful and informative device, on the web site of the estimable Kaiser Family Foundation, that helps you calculate how much it will cost you to buy insurance in the great new dawn.You simply plug in an annual income (do NOT use dollar signs, just the numerals), age, family status, and presto. So for example: I plugged in $50,000, family of four, age 44. Result: Total annual premium cost of $10,668, of which the person/family must pay 34%, or $3,618, with a government subsidy of $7,050. Whether people will be able to afford to buy insurance has naturally been a question many have had. In the current case we see that the cost will be $300 a month or so. Not bupkes by any means, but not absurd. So give it a whirl, especially all of you who a) are American and b) are over 26 and b) live in a household with an annual income under $88,000 a year, since you're the ones who'll be affected. But of course I want you Brits to try it as well. 'll be very interested in how some of these numbers compare to what you currently pay in NHS taxes.And before some of you start in, as a few inevitably will: piss off. I'm not rich; yes, I have had to pay for insurance out of my own pocket in the past; no, I am not cavalier about the hardships faced by working-class families, and if there's a problem here, it's that the subsidies aren't higher, which they would have been if the liberals had had their way.US healthcareMichael Tomaskyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
このように、すべてのきっとこのブログを同意することは何も公共サービスは、利用できない場合は、精神に私はあなたには、このハンディダンディと非常に便利で有益なデバイスは、見積カイザーファミリー財団のWebサイト上で、その場合に役立ちます称賛を計算するどのくらいの場合は、偉大な新しいdawn.You単に年間の所得のプラグインの保険を購入する費用がかかります（ただの数字）、家族の状態、およびプレスト年齢は使用しないでドル記号がありません
- Death sentence for Pakistan policeman
A Pakistani court found a police commando guilty of murder and sentenced him to death for killing a liberal governor who had urged reform of a blasphemy law, a defence lawyer said. パキスタンの裁判所は殺人の警察部隊が有罪と冒涜法の改革を促していたリベラルな知事を殺すために死を宣告、被告側弁護士は言った
- Rwanda: prison reform by colour, chants and drums
A job in rural Rwanda offers a close-up view of some interesting approaches to prisoner reformIn failing light my wife and I reached our abode, a large if rather dingy house hidden behind a wall on the main street of our provincial town. I was to be working in Rwanda for a year as an education management adviser but already things were not going according to plan. There were also several men loafing about when we arrived. It turned out that one of them came with the house.House guards are common in Rwanda. Joseph had been looking after our house for the two months it had been empty, or rather he had stepped in for the last few days after the previous guard fell off his bike and hurt his foot, although stories like this can get complicated in badly translated, unfamiliar languages. He carried out his 'guard' duties mostly from a horizontal position on his mattress.The next morning we went into the throbbing centre of our small town. Almost immediately we saw the strangest thing: muscular men in pink and orange uniforms marching, two by two, along the main street each swinging a large axe or club in their free hand, with the fingers of the other loosely intertwined with their buddy's. They were prisoners from one of two nearby jails on a work assignment who, as far as I could see, were without a single guard supervising them. A colleague said that you can get away with such a liberal policy in Rwanda because the country is so small and crowded that prisoners can easily be recaptured if they do decide to go on the run.On returning to our house, we discovered to our shock that the second town prison, solely for police officers, was just across the road. It appears police are not reformed by marching along the streets in coloured uniforms. Their rehabilitation seems to invol 農村部のルワンダでの仕事は光を妻に失敗した囚人reformInにいくつかの興味深いアプローチのクローズアップのビューを提供しており、私たちの住まいを、私たちの地方の町のメインストリートの壁の後ろに隠れている場合ではなく薄汚い大きな家に達した
- Rewrite of JFK legacy sparks outrage
A new TV mini-series masterminded by the rightwing co-creator of 24 has outraged liberals and placed the legacy of the Kennedy family at the heart of America's culture wars.The show is the brainchild of producer Joel Surnow, who... 新しいテレビミニシリーズは、右翼の共同- 24の生みの親が首謀リベラル激怒して、アメリカの文化wars.Theショーの中心部にあるケネディ家の遺産を配置プロデューサーの発案ジョエルサーノウは、人...
- Obama's court orders | Poll
Barack Obama has to decide who should replace supreme court justice John Paul Stevens when he retires. Should he opt for a liberal and risk the wrath of Republicans, or play it safe?
バラクオバマ氏は人々が、彼が引退最高裁判事ジョンポールスティーブンズを置き換えるかを決定する必要があります
- Egypt polls open in first election since fall of Mubarak - video
Egyptians go to the polls in Cairo and in Alexandria in parliamentary elections that pit a coalition of liberal parties against Islamist parties
エジプト人はイスラム主義政党に対してリベラル政党の連合をピットという議会選挙でカイロやアレキサンドリアで投票所へ行く
- Gabrielle Giffords profile: liberal, but a pro-gun pragmatist
Giffords remarkable feat in securing re-election last November was testimony to astute political positioningFor Gabrielle Giffords, it was a routine political stop, a speech at a shopping mall on Tucson – the kind of event unlikely to attract attention even from the local press. But she has now become a figure in history, the target of first attempted political assassination in the US for three decades.The Democrat congresswoman survived a shot to her head that entered above her ear and exited through her forehead, according to medical staff in Tucson. Even though the chances of recovery from head shots is normally not good, her doctor described her chances as high.Until yesterday, Giffords was relatively unknown outside Arizona; her husband Mark Kelly, an astronaut scheduled to go into space this year, probably had greater name recognition. But she was beginning to make a mark in Washington, where she was widely seen as a rising star, popular with Republicans as well as Democrats.Aged 40, she pulled off a remarkable feat in securing re-election last November, in defiance of the anti-Democratic mood that swept across the country. She won in the face of opposition from Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement who had placed her on a list of Democrats they most wanted to see ousted.In the race, she held off an Iraq veteran, Marine Sergeant Jesse Kelly, an ultra-conservative. But it was a tight race, and her support dropped by 6%, leaving her the victor by just 1.5% of the vote.Her victory was a testimony to astute political positioning. Arizona, with its pride in rugged individualism and traditional values, is not easy country for a Democrat.Giffords held the advantage of being local, having been born and brought up in Tucson. She did not compromise on core liberal principl イベント現地のマスコミからも注目を集めそうの種類 - 昨年11月に再選を確保する上でジフォーズ偉業は、抜け目のない政治positioningForガブリエルジフォーズと証言した、日常的停止、ツーソンのショッピングモールでのスピーチでした
- Political Novice Victorious in Seoul's Mayoral Election
Liberal independent activist Park Won-soon's win may foreshadow South Korean presidential elections in 2012 リベラルな独立活動家の朴ウォン - 間もなくの勝利は、2012年の韓国大統領選挙の前兆ができる
- Michael Moore defends WikiLeaks suspect
Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning filmmaker, will contribute $5,000 to help defend the Army private suspected of leaking classified documents to an internet whistle-blower from serving time in prison.A champion of liberal and left-wing... マイケルムーアは、オスカー受賞監督、陸軍インターネット内部告発へのprison.Aチャンピオンの時間を提供してから機密文書をリークの疑いのプライベートを守るために$ 5,000に貢献し、左派リベラル...
- Moldova's liberals poised to name new president
Moldova's liberal forces appeared on the verge Sunday of finally getting the votes necessary to appoint a new pro-Western head of state for Europe's poorest state.Two exit polls from Sunday's parliamentary election -- the third in the former Soviet republic in less than two years -- put the three-party liberal alliance well ahead of their Community Party foes.The RIAS-Publika TV poll gave the liberals 65.1 percent of the ballot while the CBS-AXA marketing firm gave the three parties a combined 56.2 percent of the votes. 旧ソ連共和国の2年足らずで第三 - モルドバのリベラル勢力は最終的に日曜日の総選挙からヨーロッパの最貧state.Twoの出口調査の状態の新しい親欧米派の頭を選任する票が必要になっての日曜日危機に瀕して登場 - は、CBS -アクサマーケティング会社は、3つの政党に投票の合計56.2パーセントを与えたながらも先の共産党のfoes.TheのRIA - Publikaテレビの世論調査の三党自由同盟を置くリベラルに投票の65.1パーセントを与えた
- McYale with the death penalty
Plans for Ivy League liberal arts to come to Singapore through a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore quickly led to the island-state being touted as the thought center of Asia. However, Yale alumni and Singaporeans who've suffered restrictions on free debate say the pride of America's university system has compromised its principles. - Muhammad Cohen (Sep 8, '11) エール大学とシンガポール国立大学との連携を通じて、シンガポールに来てアイビーリーグのリベラルアーツのプランはすぐにアジアの思想の中心地として宣伝されている、島の状態をもたらした
- Beijing turns screws on independents
Practice trumps theory for candidates wanting to run as independents for township assemblies in China: the authorities hound them out of exercising their rights. No matter that enhancement of the formidable control apparatus coincides with liberal-sounding messages from senior cadres, the real message Beijing is sending with a crackdown on would-be independents is that it is tightening control over all forms of real and possible dissent. - Willy Lam (Sep 26, '11) 中国の町のアセンブリのための独立系として実行するようにしたい候補者のための練習の切り札の理論：その権利を行使する当局の猟犬、それらから
- 1919: Lenin agrees to Guardian interview
Russia has no laws against propaganda by British people. England has such laws; therefore Russia is the more liberal-minded, says Vladimir LeninA transcript of the interview: The interview with Lenin had been a matter of some difficulty to arrange; not because he is unapproachable - he goes about with as little external trappings or precautions as myself - but because his time is so precious. He, even more than the other Commissaries, is continuously at work. But at last I had secured a free moment and drove from my room, across the city, to one of the gates of the Kremlin.I had taken the precaution at the beginning of my stay to secure a pass that set me free from any possible molestation from officials or police, and this gave me admission to the Kremlin enclosure.Entrance to the Kremlin is naturally guarded; it is the seat of the Executive Government; but the formalities are no more than have to be observed at Buckingham Palace or the House of Commons. A small wooden office beyond the bridge, where a civilian grants passes, and a few soldiers, ordinary Russian soldiers, one of whom receives and verifies the pass, were all there was to be seen at this entrance.It is always being said that Lenin is guarded by Chinese. There were no Chinese here. I entered, mounted the hill, and drove across to the building where Lenin lives, in the direction of the large platform where formerly stood the Alexander statue, now removed. At the foot of the staircase were two more soldiers, Russian youths, but still no Chinese. I went up by a lift to the top floor, where I found two other young Russian soldiers, but no Chinese, nor in any of the three visits which I paid to the Kremlin did I see any.I hung up my hat and coat in the ante-chamber, passed through a room, in which clerks were ロシアはイギリス人によるプロパガンダに反対する法律があります
- Slovak president appoints liberal Radicova as PM
Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic on Thursday appointed liberal Iveta Radicova as prime minister, at a ceremony at the presidential palace.Radicova, the country's first-ever female leader, pledged allegiance to Slovakia, its constitution and laws, then shook the president's hand and signed the appointment decree.She is heading a four-party centre-right coalition championing fiscal discipline, which clinched a majority of 79 seats in the 150-seat Slovak parliament in a June 12 general election. スロバキア大統領イヴァンGasparovic木曜日に首相として、大統領palace.Radicova式典でリベラルイベタRadicovaを任命、国初の女性リーダーは、スロバキア、憲法と法律に忠誠を誓ったし、大統領の手を振ったと署名予定decree.Sheは、4党中道右派連合を6月12日の総選挙で150席スロバキア議会で79議席の過半数を獲得財政規律を擁護向かっている
- Free school meal emerges as next wedge issue in S. Korean politics
South Korea's political scene has taken a new turn in the run-up to local elections in June, as the idea of providing free school meals for all children is emerging as the next big wedge issue that pits conservatives and liberals against each other.
While liberal and leftist opposition parties have adopted offering free meals at elementary and middle schools as one of their key campaign pledges for the upcoming local election slated for June 2, the conservative-leaning ruling camp is dismissi ... 韓国の政界は、順番を取っ新しいて実行を開く選挙にローカル6月に、子供のためのすべての食事を学校の提供自由な発想、他の各に対してピット保守と進歩をされる問題次の大きなウェッジ新興として一方リベラルと左派野党が1つの地方選挙6月2日に予定さのために重要な公約として、小学校と中学校で無料の食事を提供して採用している、保守寄りの与党はdismissiです...
- Swiss vote to keep guns at home
Switzerland upheld its reputation for having one of the most liberal yet lethal firearms laws in Europe yesterday after voters overwhelmingly rejected proposals that would have obliged some two million gun owners to keep their weapons... スイスは、有権者が圧倒的に武器を保つために約200。銃の所有を義務付けられているかの提案を拒否された後、昨日、ヨーロッパで最もリベラルなまだ致命的な銃器法のいずれかを持っていることのための評判を支持...
- 'Lib MPs in heated row after torrid vote'
THE Liberal presidency vote has roused allegations of secretly-switched loyalties and gate-crashing at an election-eve party.
リベラルの大統領選挙では、密かに交換さ忠誠心と選挙前夜のパーティーでゲートクラッシュの主張を発奮しています
- Liberal Anglicans will mourn the death of Colin Slee | Stephen Bates
The former dean of Southwark would have been a fierce critic of conservative evangelical resistance to the Anglican covenantColin Slee, the dean of Southwark and one of the doughtiest and most outspoken liberals in the Church of England, died overnight, within a few weeks of suffering the galloping onset of cancer. When I last saw him, a couple of weeks ago in hospital, he told me all passion was spent and he felt he no longer had any enemies within the church, but I guess had he still been as hale as he was a few months ago and able to attend this week's general synod in London, of which he remained a member, he would have snorted in derision and despair at yesterday's goings on in the Anglican communion.In brief, Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, pleaded with the synod on Tuesday to vote in favour of the Anglican covenant, the compromise plan painfully drawn up over seven years largely to appease conservative evangelicals within the worldwide church who have been outraged over the existence of gay clergy. The covenant would comprise a set of agreed principles for Anglicanism and include mechanisms for censuring out-of-line provinces within the communion – for which read the American Episcopal Church which had the temerity to elect a gay bishop in 2003 – and exclude them from the inner counsels of the denomination. Liberals within the church have been decidedly sniffy about the covenant, believing it would undermine the traditional autonomy of national churches in making their own decisions and open the way for conservatives – such as the homophobic archbishops of central Africa – to veto innovations in other provinces they dislike.But the covenant is also regarded by many, including the archbishop, and many more moderate evangelicals, as the only way of sa サザークの元部長は、苦しみの数週間以内に、聖公会covenantColinスリー、サザークの部長やイギリスの教会で最も率直doughtiestリベラル派のいずれかに一晩保守的な福音派の抵抗の激しい批判を死亡されているか癌の発症を疾走
- Should Robert Gibbs be drug tested?
Whitehouse press spokesman Robert Gibbs has caused a storm by complaining that liberal critics of President Obama 'ought to be drug tested'. Perhaps he needs a taste of his own medicine…
ホワイトハウス報道官ロバートギブズは、オバマ大統領はずされる薬のリベラルな評論家のテストを主訴に嵐を起こしている
- Romanian oppositions form alliance
All the three opposition parties in Romania's parliament Saturday signed a protocol forming the Social Liberal Union (USL), a political alliance of liberals, conservatives and social democrats.
The protocol was signed by the Social Democratic Party's leader Victor Ponta, the National Liberal Party's leader Crin Antonescu and the Conservative Party's leader Daniel Constantin.
The union wants to be an alternative to the current ruling coalition made up of the Democratic Liberal Party ... ルーマニアの議会土曜日のすべての野党3党は、社会教連合（USLが）、リベラル派、保守派と社会民主主義の政治的同盟を形成する議定書に調印した
- Ministers in incoming Danish government leaked to media
A list of cabinet ministerial posts in Denmark's incoming minority coalition government of center-left parties was leaked to the press here Sunday.
The incoming prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt visited Denmark's Queen Margrethe II Sunday to confirm that the policy basis for the new government, including the names of those holding ministerial posts, is now in place.
The coalition government is composed of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), led by Thorning-Schmidt, the Social Liberal P ... 中道左派政党のデンマークの着信少数連立政権の内閣閣僚ポストのリストは日曜日ここにマスコミにリークされた
- Pakistan: Assassinated for speaking out
Rarely have Pakistan's religious minorities and liberals felt more beleaguered. Less than two months after the killing of Salmaan Taseer, another government minister has been assassinated in a hail of bullets.On this occasion,... まれに、パキスタンの宗教的少数派とリベラル派は窮地に立つ感じている
- Obama's new year blues as Republicans push for spending cuts
With the Republicans in a position of real power, Obama and the Democrats are bracing themselves for a fight on three frontsWhat's in store for Barack Obama as 2011 opens? Forget the nicey-nice tenor of the lame-duck session. As of tomorrow the new Congress is sworn in. Republican John Boehner takes the gavel out of Nancy Pelosi's hands and will preside over the House of Representatives, a body that has 63 more Republicans than it did last year. Over on the Senate side of the Capitol building, the Democrats are still the majority, but the Republicans number 47 rather than 42, and among the new faces are several hard-right tea-party types. The era of co-operation (that glorious two-week interval!) is over.The big issue will be one with which British readers may be familiar: the budget. The deficit hovers well north of $1tn. Medicare, the elderly public-insurance plan paid for through payroll taxes, is in parlous fiscal shape. Social security it is not, really, but a lot of people believe it is (or say they do). So now that the Republicans are in a position of real power, they will push Obama and the Democrats for severe spending cuts.They will be looking for concessions on social security that will probably include raising the retirement age. As for Medicare, its fate is also wrapped up in the healthcare bill, which many new Republicans hope to repeal, and which the supreme court may partially invalidate as unconstitutional sometime this year.For their part, Democrats will push back on two fronts. First, that the Pentagon not be spared the budget knife. Democrats say, yes, we'll take a look at outlays for liberal things like environmental protection and poverty fighting, but the military needs to be on the table too. Second, many Democrats will simply be dead set against 2011年に開くと本当の力の位置の共和党は、オバマ氏と民主党は、3つのfrontsWhatの戦いのために自分を引き締めているとバラクオバマのための店でですか？ラメ-アヒルセッションの愛想の良いテナーを忘れてください
- Healthcare and divided government | Michael Tomasky
I'm intrigued by this new poll on attitudes toward healthcare reform, as we gear up for tomorrow's big (not actually so big) repeal vote. AP via HuffPo:As lawmakers shaken by the shooting of a colleague return to the health care debate, an Associated Press-GfK poll finds raw feelings over President Barack Obama's overhaul have subsided......The poll finds that 40 percent of those surveyed said they support the law, while 41 percent oppose it. Just after the November congressional elections, opposition stood at 47 percent and support was 38 percent.As for repeal, only about one in four say they want to do away with the law completely. Among Republicans support for repeal has dropped sharply, from 61 percent after the elections to 49 percent now.Also, 43 percent say they want the law changed so it does more to re-engineer the health care system. Fewer than one in five say it should be left as it is.Passions have subsided, I suspect, because conservatives are less enraged now that they feel they have a voice in the government. Independents repeatedly say in polls that they are fine with divided government. So that leaves only liberals who are really unhappy, witness the 43% who want more changes.I wasn't happy on election night, Lord knows, but I guess in many ways Obama is better off with a divided government. If the Democrats ran everything, the Republicans, so expert at whining in opposition and ginning up phony accusations, could continue blaming every single bad thing that ever happened on the Democrats. And now, in independent voters' minds, the suspicion that Democrats are going to try to jerk the country to the left are null and void. They know it can't happen. The president and the GOP House have to fight over the middle, which is how the middle likes it, and whic 我々は明日のビッグ（は、実際にはそれほど大きくない）廃止の投票に備えて準備をするように私は、医療保険制度改革への態度に、この新しい調査に興味をそそらです
- Gillard to pocket more than US president
Federal politicians are in for a big pay rise with Prime Minister Julia Gillard set to take home an extra $90,000 and Liberal turncoat and new Speaker Peter Slipper pocketing an extra $70,000, News Ltd papers say.The report says... 連邦政府の政治家がために総理大臣ジュリアギラードとの大きな賃金の上昇は家。余分$ 90,000を取り、余分な7万ドルポケットリベラル裏切り者と新しいスピーカーピーターのスリッパに設定されている、ニュース株式会社新聞say.The報告書は述べている...
- Pakistan: Playing with fire | Editorial
Everyone is recoiling from the battle that should be fought against people who impose their authority by murderOne by one, those who stick their head above the parapet to demand changes in Pakistan's infamous blasphemy law are being gunned down. First Salmaan Taseer, the governor of Punjab, and now Shahbaz Bhatti, Islamabad's minister for minorities, himself a Christian. To say these men were liberals is to posit a false dichotomy. The people gunning them down are not conservatives. They are people who impose their authority by suicide bombings and murder. Their form of argument is terror, and the battle which should be fought against them by anyone who upholds freedom of belief should be as clear on the streets of Islamabad as it is in the foothills of Waziristan.But everyone recoils. The government backs off through a misguided sense of self-preservation. Weak and fragile, it believes it is being goaded into a conflict it cannot win. So it retreats, backing up against a precipice over which it will eventually fall. Instead of mobilising mass demonstrations against the killings, the Pakistan Peoples party appeases the very forces responsible for the murder of its former leader Benazir Bhutto. The next woman on the death list is Sherry Rehman. Rather than support her bid to reform the blasphemy law and hold the debate where it truly resides, with elected representatives in a parliament (what else was the struggle to end military rule all about?), the PPP prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, hung his former information minister out to dry. Under pressure from religious clerics, he claimed that she had voluntarily withdrawn a bill proposing changes to the law. She had done no such thing. After ruling out reforms, Mr Gilani invited religious leaders to tell him how to preve 誰もが、誰が欄干の上に頭を付ける人が射殺されているパキスタンの悪名高い冒。法の変更を要求するいずれかによってmurderOneで自らの権威を課すの人々と戦ったする必要があります戦いから反跳されます
- Video: Salmaan Taseer receives state funeral in Pakistan
The liberal Punjab governor murdered by his bodyguard is laid to rest in Lahore amid rising tensions in the country
彼のボディーガードに殺さリベラルパンジャブ州知事は、国の高まる緊張の中でラホールに安置され
- Tel Aviv's annual Gay Pride parade - in pictures
Thousands attend the annual parade in the liberal Israeli city, named by Lonely Planet as one of its top three cities for 2011
数千人が2011年のトップ3の都市の一つとして『ロンリープラネット』で指定されたリベラルなイスラエルの都市で毎年パレードに出席する
- Michael Tomasky: Israel and America
I'm going to refrain by and large from just writing posts denouncing Israel. You can read plenty such essays on this web site and others, and anyway I was hired to write about America, so that's what I'm going to do.And in America, this event really could be a tipping point. The Beinart essay from the New York Review that we discussed previously has kicked up a broader, introspective conversation among American Jews about why younger Americans don't feel connected to Israel in the way older Jews did in earlier generations, and what that lack of empathy portends for Israel's future. Not being part of the circle, maybe it's not for me to say quite so much, except that from what I can observe, this tragedy having happened at the precise moment that such a thoroughgoing evaluation was taking place, it can't but have the effect of creating more anger and disillusion among many American Jews under 40, for whom the occupation looms far larger than the founding Zionist-humanist impulse.There is of course another current here, and the Israel-right-or-wrong contingent is breathing fire today: the flotilla was put together by a Turkish nonprofit with ties to a Saudi umbrella group that has financed terrorism, according to the Weekly Standard. Read the Standard online and the blog at Commentary magazine, called Contentions, if you want to keep up with how this faction is trying to spin the flotilla event. One post actually argued that the main problem here was that the IDF went in with too little force.Arguments like these will continue, but I believe the constituency for them in the US is growing smaller and smaller. Remember, Jews are liberals, by and large. There is a chasm between their liberalism and their support for Israel, a chasm that was widened (perhaps considerably) yes 私はで大規模なだけの記事を、イスラエルを非難する書き込みを控えるつもりです
- Egypt army chief to meet party heads after protest
Egypt's military chief of staff Sami Enan was due to meet party leaders on Saturday, a day after protesters converged on Cairo's central Tahrir Square to demand reforms.Enan, who is also the number two in the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), invited a range of parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood and the liberal Wafd, the state-owned Al-Ahram newpaper reported. スタッフサミ鏡像のエジプトの軍の長は、抗議者たちはまた、軍の判決最高評議会（SCAF）で第2位のですreforms.Enanを、要求するカイロの中心タハリール広場に収束後の土曜日にパーティーのリーダーを満たすことによるものであった、ムスリム同胞団とリベラルワフド党を含む当事者の範囲を、招待、国有アハラムnewpaperが報じた
- Liberal bishop 'forced' to quit
The Pope has accepted what has been called the forced resignation of a Queensland bishop condemned for his liberal views.A statement on the Catholic Church's website said Pope Benedict XVI had received and accepted the resignation... 法王は、ローマ法王ベネディクト16世は受けていたと辞表を受け入れているカトリック教会のWebサイトで彼のリベラルなviews.A文の死刑囚のクイーンズランド州の司教で強制的に辞任と呼ばれているか受け入れている...
- Reaction To Obama Ending His Vacation And Going Back To DC Tonight -Media Training
Obama is smart to end his vacation before the hurricane hits. If the Hurricane Irene is severe and people ending up dying, the imagery of Obama lounging about on an island paradise living it up with liberal Thurston Howell III's would have made Bush's Katrina PR problems look like a minor traffic ticket. オバマ大統領はハリケーンのヒットの前に彼の休暇を終了するスマートです
- Clybourne Park – review
Wyndhams, LondonThere are few more enjoyable sights than watching liberal hypocrisy being given a good thrashing, and Bruce Norris's Royal Court transfer arrives in the West End with such a combustible mix of race, territory and property prices that it is like a hand grenade lobbed into the stalls, primed to explode in the second act.Those who do not want to know why a white woman is like a tampon or the one about the white man and the black man in a prison cell, may not wish to return after the interval. Those who do will be in for one of the most offensively delicious skewerings of the resentments and real feelings that lurk behind the euphemisms and politically correct rhetoric of racial discourse ever to erupt on a stage. It's like watching a boil being lanced. Along with the rest of the audience, I squirmed like a worm on a hook.In fact, things begin lethargically in what seems like a cosy American, Ayckbourn-style comedy. It's 1959 and after a family tragedy, unhappy Bev (Sophie Thompson) and Russ (Stuart McQuarrie) are moving out of their Chicago neighbourhood – the same one aspired to by the black Younger family in Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 classic, A Raisin in the Sun. The knock-down price means that a black family will be moving in, much to the disquiet of resident Carl (Stephen Campbell Moore), who pops round to tell Bev and Russ – in front of the black maid Francine (Lorna Brown) – that they are undermining property values.Fast forward 50 years and a young white couple, Lindsey (Sarah Goldberg) and Steve (Campbell Moore again) want to build a new house on the same plot, but face hostility from the all-black residents' committee who are concerned that white newcomers will erase the cultural significance of the area. Is the whiplash-tongued Lena (Brown ag Wyndhamsは、LondonThereスラッシング、良いとBruce Norrisさんのロイヤルコートの転送は、にlobbed手榴弾のようなものです人種、領土や財産の価格のような可燃性のミックスとウエストエンドに到着与えられているリベラルな偽善を見ているよりもさらにいくつかの楽しい観光スポットです、白人女性はタンポンや白人と刑務所の独房で黒人のような理由は分からないしたくない第二act.Those爆発的にプライミング屋台は、間隔の後に返すように希望されない場合があります
- A guide to Libya's new political landscape | Ghaffar Hussain
A post-Gaddafi Libya will see liberals, Islamists and secularists jostling for position with the largest grouping: nationalistsThe ousting of the Gaddafi clan and the collapse of their jamahiriya system, has left many feeling unsure about Libya's political future. After all, the National Transitional Council (NTC) is not a political party and won't exist beyond the first elections. Many of its members, being having been officials in Gaddafi's regime, are unlikely to seek executive political positions.The systematic suppression of civil society and all forms of opposition by Gaddafi has also left the country weak and fragile. So who will dominate Libya's political scene in the coming years?The political scene in Libya today comprises four broad camps: nationalists, liberals, Islamists and secularists, according to Noman Benotman, an analyst at the Quilliam Foundation who is also a former member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.The nationalist camp, being the largest of these factions by far, contains 40%-50% of Libya's political activists. These are largely non-ideological players who will seek to establish a civil state based on Libyan culture and democracy. They have no strong views on the role of Islam in the state but do see it as an integral part of Libyan culture.Many key defectors, such as Abdel-Salam Jalloud and Mustafa Abdul Jalil, are nationalists and currently the most high-profile political figures in Libya. As such, they could quite easily appeal to the masses, create a large power base and dominate the political scene.The liberals, comprising 20%-25%, support an open democratic system with a free market economy. They will seek to create a civil state rooted in liberal values and encourage a socially liberal climate. However, they are viewed as elitist b ポストカダフィリビアは最大のグループ化と位置については目白押しリベラル、イスラム主義者と世俗主義者が表示されます
- Will The Compact Clause Trump The Tobacco Settlement?
There's a good backgrounder over at Balkinization on how the Supreme Court could invalidate the 1997 tobacco settlement as a violation of the Compact Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The author, Michael Greve, is the J.D. Searle Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, so liberals and pragmatists of all stripes can cue the laugh track. Another quixotic right-wing attack on established law, right? 最高裁判所は合衆国憲法のコンパクト節の規定に違反し、1997年タバコ決済を無効にする方法についてBalkinizationでにわたって良好な背景がある
- In praise of … Bernie Sanders | Editorial
It was not technically a filibuster because Mr Sanders did not hold up Senate business. But he did generate an audienceNot many senators in Congress can claim in their time to have made C-Span, the cable equivalent of BBC Parliament, the hottest topic on Twitter. Such was Bernie Sanders' achievement when he spoke for eight and a half hours on the Senate floor. His fire was aimed at President Obama's Faustian pact with the Republicans which allowed the Bush tax cuts for the rich to continue for two more years. It was not technically a filibuster because Mr Sanders did not hold up Senate business. But he did generate an audience for his principal theme that America's besetting sin is to make the richest people richer still. And a marvellous performance it was too. It was not simply that he spoke from the heart. It was also that he was manifestly and abundantly right. One of the worst elements of the deal was an estate tax that would affect just 3,500 families. Government of the people, by the people, for the people ? Hardly. Mr Sanders is sui generis, as is the state of Vermont, which he has represented for 20 years. In a nation where liberal can be used as a term of abuse, he has no hesitation calling himself a socialist. He is an independent but caucuses with the Democrats and has been an Obama supporter. For all these reasons, no one should kid themselves that the Democrats will turn as a result of this intervention into a progressive party. But in a climate where congressmen are expected to mouth the lines their funders feed them, Mr Sanders reminds us that there are still people around who refuse to be bought.US CongressUnited StatesUS politicsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Fe 氏サンダースは、上院の事業を保持していないので、技術的にフィリバスターされませんでした
- Bill Drops Fund to Shut Failed Banks
Leaders of the Senate Banking Committee said that they agreed to limit the likelihood of a taxpayer bailout of big banks, but liberal Democrats said they would push for reducing the size of the nation’s biggest banks. 上院銀行委員会の指導者は、彼らが大手銀行の納税者の救済の可能性を制限するが、合意リベラル民主党は、国内最大の銀行の大きさを低減するためのプッシュと述べたという
- Barack Obama: Returning to the fray | Editorial
A fighting President Obama is better than one who pretends to stay aloofGone are the days when liberal America let itself be mesmerised by a big Obama speech. Long gone. Today's president acts only after a blizzard of advice from the centre-left telling him, with varying degrees of exasperation, what he should say. The implication is that it no longer trusts him to do the right thing. Barack Obama has by now established something of a track record in stinging this section of his electorate with a cattle prod. Extending Bush-era tax cuts for the super-rich was one instance. Budget cuts he agreed with Congress to prevent a shutdown of federal government last week were another. The White House dismayed them by actually trumpeting the cuts (to health, education, housing, transportation) as being among the largest in history, while making a virtue of the fact that they would not undermine the economy. Not only did some economists rightly dispute this claim. They also questioned why their president had stopped fashioning himself as a job creator (his first incarnation after the banking crash) and had now started painting himself as a deficit cutter.Mr Obama had got the tactics wrong: he let the Republicans go first. The Republican chairman of the House budget committee, Paul Ryan, duly obliged, by saying he would cut federal spending by $6tn over the next decade by radically restricting healthcare access and giving away $4.5tn to the highest earners. The White House was being too clever by half. The idea was to let Mr Ryan look so extreme that it would give Democrats the room to attack. What happened instead was that the Ryan plan framed the debate. Mr Obama had a ready-made debate filler before he himself chose to wade in – a bipartisan commission on the subject which came o 戦うオバマ大統領はリベラルアメリカ自体が大きなオバマのスピーチに魅了させているころは、より良いもの人aloofGone滞在するふりを超えています
- Tunisia unveils stimulus package to boost film industry
The Tunisian government have recently set up a national committee and unveiled a stimulus package to boost the ailing film industry of Tunisia, a country boasts Africa's oldest film festival and enjoys one of the most liberal cinemas in the Arab world.
The government set up the National Committee for the Reform and Development of the Audiovisual Sector, and decided to provide more money for cinematographic productions, calling on TV stations, internet services providers and DVD vendors to mak ... チュニジア政府は、委員会をて、国民最近に設定さまで、チュニジア発表刺激の産業を促進する病気のフィルムのパッケージを、国はお祭りを誇るアフリカ最古の映画、世界楽しんでアラブリベラル映画館の中で最も1つを政府は国民をセットアップ時委員会改革と開発視聴覚セクターのための、そして映画制作のためのより多くのお金を提供することを決めた、テレビ局に呼び出し、インターネットサービスプロバイダーやDVDのベンダーが試運転に...
- Barack Obama's White House bows to the conservatives again
Inflamed by Fox News, a politically-edited video cost Shirley Sherrod her government job, Even when it was exposed as a blatant lie, the White House did not defend herIt is a tried and tested technique. A story surfaces on an obscure, journalistically dubious, conservative website. It spreads to Fox News who churn out their standard-issue anti-liberal outrage. Then, in an effort to catch up, the rest of the mainstream media piles in.So it was last week with a video of a black department of agriculture official, Shirley Sherrod, apparently speaking about not giving a white farmer as much help as she could because of his race. Responding to Fox-inspired howls, Sherrod was rapidly forced to resign by agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack. White House officials clucked approval, apparently relieved they could show that having a black president did not mean being anti-white. Even the venerable civil rights group the NAACP lambasted Sherrod's anti-white racism.But the then a fuller video emerged, revealing the full context of what Sherrod had said, rather than the much shorter, edited version that conservative misfit blogger Andrew Breitbart had posted. It showed beyond doubt that Sherrod had not been describing recent events, but had been talking about her experiences 24 years ago. More damningly, neither had she been racist. Her full speech was in fact a moving story of her discovery that race did not matter and that the real divide in America was between haves and have-nots. Far from abandoning the white farmer, she had helped to save his farm. That version was confirmed by the farmer, who heaped praise on Sherrod on CNN.The behaviour of the conservative media was revealed in all its grim dirty tricks. But what was truly shocking was the reaction, not of Fox News, who can be e 炎症は、フォックスニュース、政治的に編集されたビデオコストシャーリーシェロッド彼女の政府の仕事でさえもがそれは真っ赤なうそとして公開され、ホワイトハウスはherItを守ることはなかったとした、テクニックをテストした
- No government shutdown, but what do we have instead? | Michael Tomasky
So we have a deal and a government, and the eighth-graders visiting Washington (by tradition in the US, it's in the eighth grade, or form as you call it, when students take their field trips to the capital) can go to the Smithsonian today. That's all nice.Also nice is that the offensive (and offensive it was) against Planned Parenthood failed, so at least we haven't yet reached the point as a society that poor women must die of cervical cancer to satisfy the ideological itches of a few men, although fear not, we're getting there.But the $38 billion cut is the largest single-year cut in the history of the country, according to the president, who taped a three-minute video statement shortly after 11 pm Friday night, when the deal was announced by Speaker John Boehner. It'll be next week, I'd reckon, before we know exactly what was cut and by how much. As those details come out, an already disgruntled liberal base is just going to get angrier.I understand what Obama is doing when he talks, as he does in the video, about the government needing to live within its means. I'm sure it polls well with independents, and as I've said many times, he needs to rebuild his standing among independents. We all get this.But but but: to hear Obama kinda-sorta boasting about overseeing a domestic spending cut on a scale that even Ronald Reagan never managed leaves one wondering where and over what he might someday draw a line in the sand.Last December, he signed George W. Bush's tax cuts. Then he introduced his own budget, which include a five-year pay freeze for federal employees and cut funding for a couple of subsidy programs for poor and elderly people.Finally, during this whole process, he never once that I can remember made a forceful public statement singling out a GOP cut as sever だから、契約と政府、ワシントンを訪問して第8年生を持っている（米国では伝統的に、それは中学2年生でだまたはフォームは、学生は、資本への遠足を撮るときに、それを呼ぶ）に行くことができますスミソニアン今日
- TV matters: Doctor Who, featuring President Nixon
Why is it that years after his death, Tricky Dicky remains a fixture of television fiction?President Richard M Nixon (1913-94) never had a very strong grasp of popular culture – once appointing Elvis Presley as a special agent in the war against narcotics at a ceremony in which the singer was out of his skull on drugs – but, since his death, popular culture has strongly grasped the former president.Apart from the opera (John Adams's Nixon in China) and movies (Nixon, Frost/Nixon), he has become a regular reference in TV dramas and comedies, a startling posthumous apotheosis continued this weekend when the president, played by Stuart Milligan, turns up in the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who.In The Impossible Astronaut, the Tardis arrives at the White House in 1969, throwing the time lord into a plot involving the moon landings. The script is by Steven Moffat, who is already responsible for an earlier invocation of America's 37th president in British telly: Moffat's 1997 school-based sitcom Chalk had a headteacher, played by the late John Wells, called Richard Nixon.It's hard to get away from Tricky Dicky in TV fiction. In Glee, the demonic and plotting cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester keeps a photo of Nixon in her office, as does Jack Donaghy, the uber-Republican TV network boss in Tina Fey's 30 Rock. These appearances join the dead politician's long stint in the cartoon Futurama – in which his preserved head is running the world government – and there have also been frequent Nixonian references in Matt Groening's other show, The Simpsons.The reason for this startling artistic afterlife is that the writers of these shows – Moffat, Groening, Fey – came to political consciousness in a post-Watergate era when Nixon was democracy's biggest monster: to liberals, ？回麻薬との戦争に特別代理人としてエルヴィスプレスリーを任命 - なぜ年が彼の死の後、トリッキーディッキーは、テレビ小説大統領リチャードのMニクソンのフィクスチャ（1913年〜1994年）は決して大衆文化の非常に強い把握していた残っていることですこれで歌手は麻薬で彼の頭蓋骨の外でした授賞式で - しかし、彼の死以来、大衆文化が強くオペラ（中国でのジョンアダムズのニクソン）や映画（ニクソン、フロスト/ニクソン）の元president.Apartを把握している、彼は驚くべき死後の神格化は、スチュアートミリで演奏大統領は、博士Who.Inの新シリーズインポッシブル宇宙飛行士、Tardisの最初のエピソードの交流になります場合は、この週末に続きテレビドラマやコメディーで、通常の基準となっている月面着陸を含むプロットに時間の主人を投げて、1969年にホワイトハウスに到着します
- The House budget vote | Michael Tomasky
One way you can tell which party is running the House is whether things happen on time. If they do, it's the Republicans in charge. And so it came to pass that the budget vote actually occurred around 4 this afternoon. In a Democratic era you can be sure it would have been 11 tonight.The vote was mildly surprisingly to me in that only 57 Republicans opposed, while 179 supported. That was few enough, obviously, that John Boehner had to rely on Democratic votes for the thing to go through. Some are trying to spin this as a bit of an embarrassment for Boehner, but there was never any serious doubt that around half the Democrats would indeed vote for it, so he always had some wiggle room.The Democratic tally was 81 for, 108 against. The liberals and the hard-shell tea partiers were against, obviously for different reasons, and the moderate Democrats and the merely conservative Republicans were for it.We could be entering a period, after a decade of very stringent GOP unity, of a pretty seriously splintered GOP caucus. Assume the debt ceiling vote passes but under similar circumstances. That'll be strike two. It'd be nice if these two factions were moderates and conservatives, you know, in the way that Democrats have moderates and liberals, rather than conservatives and ultras. On the other hand ultras can be amusing to watch. Too bad there are no witches.US CongressMichael Tomaskyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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- 2004: Election blues
Emma Brockes on liberal Britain's collective depression as George Bush wins a second term as PresidentClick on the article below to read the full piece from Emma Brockes.Perhaps G2's depression was caused in part by their efforts to influence the vote. The paper launched Operation Clark County in 2004, encouraging readers to write to voters in the undecided state of Ohio, with mixed reactions from the US. NewspapersNational newspapersGeorge BushUS elections 2004US politicsPolitics pastGuardian Research DepartmentEmma Brockesguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
ジョージブッシュとリベラルな英国の集団うつ病にして、Emma Brockesが投票に影響を与えるための努力によって部分的に発生していましたエマBrockes.Perhaps G2のうつ病からの完全な作品を読むには、以下の記事をPresidentClickとして二期目を獲得
- Changing the terms of economic debate | Dean Baker
As long as we let ourselves be boxed in by a rightwing agenda that leaves us searching for least-worst options, we're losingThere is a new economists' sign-on letter being circulated that warns bad things will happen if there are big cuts to the public investment portion of the federal budget, as Republicans in Congress are now advocating. The argument in the letter is correct, but it is nonetheless painful to see this sort of thing being circulated right now.The politicians in Washington may have missed it, but we are still in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The unemployment rate is still 9.0% and virtually no forecaster, including those in the administration, expects it to return to normal levels any time soon. In addition to the unemployed, we have more than 8 million people underemployed, and millions more who have given up looking for work altogether. In such times, we might expect that there would be discussion of a big new stimulus programme. After all, we do know how to generate growth and create jobs. As a large and growing body of research shows (pdf), we just have to spend money. This means that tens of millions of people are suffering as a result of unemployment or underemployment simply as a result of bad economic policy.The politicians who could, in principle, push through more stimulus have been intimidated into silence by the business lobbies and the media which have decided to make concerns about the deficit the top and only economic priority. In this context, it would have been reasonable to expect that a letter drafted by prominent liberal economists (the lead signers include Alan Blinder and Laura Tyson, two of the top economists from the Clinton administration) would centre on the need to boost demand to create 長い間私たちは自分自身は、少なくとも最悪のオプションについては、我々はlosingThereされている我々の捜索を離れる右派議題によって囲まれることができる限り新しいエコノミストの記号文字に大きな削減にある場合に発生する悪いことを警告していることが流通している議会での共和党員として、連邦予算の公共投資の部分は、現在提唱している
- The continuing disgrace of John McCain | Michael Tomasky
The vote tally on the Start treaty is now posted. Twelve count 'em 12 Republicans voted for it, and in the spirit of the season, let's give them propers: Lamar Alexander, Tennessee; Robert Bennett, Utah; Scott Brown, Massachusetts; Thad Cochran, Mississippi; Susan Collins, Maine; Bob Corker, Tennessee; Johnny Isakson, Georgia; Mike Johanns, Nebraska (interesting, the only one surprising to me; helps give Ben Nelson cover in 2012, no?); Dick Lugar, Indiana; Lisa Murkowski, Alaska; Olympia Snowe, Maine; George Voinovich, Ohio. Kind of amazing. All Democrats voted for. Even Ron Wyden made it back from prostate surgery.Missing from the list? A certain McCain fellow. He really has now just degenerated completely into being a hack. Who can possibly take the man seriously anymore? You just know he's lying through his teeth when he ladles that praise on Sarah Palin. And as for Start, it's exactly the kind of thing he used to be in the Senate to help put his stamp on.In truth, McCain has always had a reputation for standing on the sidelines, throwing stink bombs, then sweeping in at the end to gobble up credit. Except on campaign finance and a couple other things on which he genuinely did do the work. But now he's just a complete joke. I can understand if you're a conservative you'd have preferred him as president. But for the rest of us...God forbid. Meanwhile, this session of Congress...geez. Obama could lose an election tomorrow and still be one of the most active and successful presidents of the modern era. Things are going to get pretty tough again next March, when he and the Republicans start fighting over the budget, but for now, enough complaining, liberals!US CongressJohn McCainMichael Tomaskyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content [スタート]条約の投票の集計は、現在掲載されています
- German elections: Green shoots | Editorial
Unless Merkel can engineer a recovery, the German government faces a period of weakness when Europe needs German strengthEurope has seen many examples of electorates delivering the order of the boot to governments that have led them into recession and financial misery. Weekend state-level election results in Germany, however, suggest that voters who stayed in work and funds throughout the recession are just as unimpressed with the parties of power as those who have fared far worse.In the prosperous state of Baden-。ürttemberg, where the local economy is growing by an enviable 5.5% and unemployment is a mere 4.3%, voters this weekend threw out Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU for the first time in half a century. In its place, they handed power to what is likely to become Germany's first Green party-led state coalition. Meanwhile in Rheinland-Pfalz, the CDU could not muster enough support to oust a tired state government led by the unpopular centre-left SPD; here again, a strong Green performance tipped the balance against Mrs Merkel's party.These are sensational results, particularly by German standards. The humiliation for the CDU is a huge one, with the loss of Baden-。ürttemberg following hard upon a bad defeat in Hamburg last month. The Green success is the third great step in the party's electoral history, following election to the Bundestag in 1983 and to coalition government in 1998. The results are a mixed bag for the SPD, which will be a party of government in both states even though its vote fell in both. But the real loser is Mrs Merkel's junior coalition ally, the liberal FDP. Its poor showing will increase the pressure on its leader Guido Westerwelle, the current foreign minister. None of this is immediately threatening to Mrs Merkel's government ( メルケル首相は回復を設計できる場合を除いて、ヨーロッパは、ドイツstrengthEuropeは景気後退と金融不幸にそれらをリードしてきた政府にブートの順序を提供する有権者の多くの例を見ている必要があるときに、ドイツ政府は、弱さの期間に直面している
- Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations by Ayaan Hirsi Ali – review
The Somali/Dutch feminist combines the polemic and narrative strands of her writing to electrifying effectAyaan Hirsi Ali has produced two genres of writing. First, there is the sharp but programmatic style of her first book, The Caged Virgin, which assaulted the theological foundations of Islam and promoted the rights of Muslim women. While earning her death threats from within the Islamic world, her message has also attracted condemnation from a wide circle of liberal and feminist commentators. For them, her arguments are too stark, too totalising, too lacking in nuance.Then there is her autobiographical writing. Her first memoir, Infidel, tells of her emergence on to the European political stage from a Somali desert culture. Hers is a story of exile from her clan through war, famine, arranged marriage, religious apostasy and the shocking murder on the streets of Amsterdam of her collaborator, Theo van Gogh. Told with lyricism, wit, huge sorrow and a great heart, this is one of the most amazing adventure narratives of the age of mass migration.With Nomad, Hirsi Ali combines her two genres, narrative and polemic. She tells stories that were glanced over in Infidel – of her father, mother, sisters, brother and cousins – describing a clan system shattering on the shores of modernity. But the longest shadow is cast by the remarkable figure of her grandmother, who gave birth to daughters alone in the desert and cut her own umbilical cord, raged at herself for producing too many girls, rebelled against her husband, arranged for the circumcision of her granddaughters and instilled in them an unforgiving, woman-hating religion.Hirsi Ali observes that her own nomadic journey has been taken across borders that have been mental as much as geographical. In Nomad she calls her a ソマリア/オランダフェミニストは、記述する2つのジャンルを生産している衝撃的なeffectAyaan Hirsiアリに彼女の執筆の論争と物語ストランドを組み合わせたものです
- Letters: Multiculturalism and national identity
David Miliband is not strictly correct when he says that the third of the population who class themselves as ambivalent on the issue of multiculturalism identify with Labour (Insecurity is fuel for hate, 28 February). It would be more accurate to describe them as those who used to identify with Labour, as it was this group that deserted the party at the last election. As a Labour candidate I lost count of the number of times I heard when out canvassing that we had failed to get a grip on immigration – including from many ethnic minority voters. It is also a view reinforced by the fact that every time a Labour MP brings up these difficult issues, such as Margaret Hodge and housing allocation in 2007, or Jack Straw and sexual grooming earlier this year, they are always ostracised by liberal commentators.A key factor in making Labour electable again will be to come up with policies on immigration that reflect the economic insecurity that many communities now feel, regardless of race. Not doing this will simply leave the debate open to David Cameron, and the far right.Nicholas MiltonStratford-upon-Avon• David Miliband rightly highlights the need for people of all cultures to enjoy an authentic sense of identity, but surely that is not the point of difficulty in Britain today. The national sense of identity reveals itself through our media, our schools and many other institutions. If there are groups within society whose sense of alienation is a potential source of discontent, then we will not win them over by lectures about muscular liberalism, nor even by advocating a common identity which already exists. What is needed is to open a real social dialogue, which not only calls for those from minority cultures to recognise British identity, but also shows them that legendary デイヴィッドミリバンドは、厳密に彼は言うときに修正されていないクラス自体は、多文化主義の問題について態度を決めかねて労働と特定の人口の（不安は憎しみの燃料である2月28日）は、サードいることを確認します
- Politics Weekly podcast: A new politics?
According to David Cameron it's time for a New Politics, but what doesthat really mean? We ask how the new coalition will work and what the make-up of the new cabinet tells us. Jonathan Freedland thinks the Liberal Democrats have done OK on numbers, but not on big jobs. Julian Glover ventures that even though Nick Clegg has been given the job of parliamentary reform thinks it's going to be tough for him to push all that much through.We ask whether this is a new liberal moment. Jonathan says there is potential for a huge realignment of British politics while Seumas Milne thinks the Lib Dems have been drawn in to the hawkish Tory line.Finally we look at Labour, as candidates for the leadership start to emerge. Julian Glover gives his vote to John Cruddas while Seumas thinks that the party has to move from the New Labour style that has dominated the party for the last 13 years.Tom ClarkAllegra StrattonFrancesca PanettaJonathan FreedlandJulian GloverSeumas Milne
デービッドキャメロンによると、新政治のための時間だが、どのようなdoesthat本当に意味ですか？新しい連立政権が動作する方法とメイクアップを新内閣の我々は教えてくれるお問い合わせください
- Predictions for 2011
Let's all make some predictions for 2011. Here are mine:1. The economy will improve, slowly then roaringly by the end of the year, although unemployment will still be around 8%.2. The big spending showdown anticipated for this spring will be a little disappointing to those fixin' for a big fight.3. Obama will infuriate liberals.4. Okay, that was a joke, but not really. Obama will be seen by liberals as selling out Social Security by agreeing at some point to raise the retirement age for most workers.5. Hillary will manage a big breakthrough somewhere, maybe on North Korea.6. No progress will be made on closing Gitmo; Republicans won't agree to bring detainees to prisons on the US mainland. 7. Congress' approval rating in a year will be 11%.8. Obama's will be 49%.9. Mike Lee, whom you've barely heard of now, will be the leader of the Objectivist Caucus* in the Senate, not Rand Paul.*that's a metaphor, not an actual caucus. 10. Obama will not, in fact, sell Manhattan back to the Native Americans, nor will he and George Soros conspire to destroy the dollar.11. Sarah Palin will announce her candidacy for president late in the year.12. Shortly thereafter, those Palin emails will be released. 13. The Supreme Court will, by 5-4, declare the individual mandate constitutional. Kennedy will side with the liberals. Lookout!14. The Bears will beat the Chiefs (?!!?) in the Super Bowl.15. Oregon will beat Auburn in a game that will be close until the fourth quarter but will end something like 45-31.16. Michael Scott and Holly Flax won't end up together. He'll eff it up at the last second.17. For the most part, the world will hobble along on its weary and petulant path.18. Margot will start talking.19. I will buy a new screen door for the kitchen.20. God willing all of us will be here みんなで2011年のいくつかの予測を行うことです
- Obama and the mosque | Michael Tomasky
Yes, I'm leaving for the beach momentarily, and my daughter is in my lap and for the moment not crying, but I felt obliged to write a quick take on Obama and the lower Manhattan mosque.Good for him for saying what he did. There were a hundred excellent reasons to duck it and stay out of it. But what the hell. He's the president. A president ought to lead sometimes. Say what he actually thinks about something. Hang the consequences.This is going to be demagogued to death in the next few days. The important part is going forward. Hang tough. Stand by the position. Don't trim sails or add asterisks after Mitch McConnell or Dick Cheney or whomever says whatever hideous thing they're going to say. Say that McConnell or Cheney or whomever is the one being un-American, and there is absolutely no doubt that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would agree with me. Throw it back at them.The people who think he's a Mooslem already think it. The vast majority of voters in the middle do not. And obviously liberal voters do not. Ignore the right-wing noise and aim words at the latter two groups and everything will be more or less fine. The economy is going to be the issue anyway.Obama administrationIslamMichael Tomaskyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
はい、私はビーチに一時的に、と残している私の娘は私の膝にあり、今泣いていないのが、私は素早くオバマ氏と彼のために、マンハッタンのmosque.Good彼が何をしたと言っかかる記述する義務が感じ
- Letters: Berlusconi at fault for economic failure
Your editorial (A conflict too far, 14 December) rightly records a few of the many scandals that render Berlusconi unfit to govern, but omitted the one with the greatest impact on ordinary Italians. This is the macroeconomic catastrophe that has occurred since 2001 – the year Berlusconi came to power, to remain there for seven of the nine subsequent years. In the eight years up to 2001, when Berlusconi was out of office for all but seven months, Italy's economic performance was mediocre but roughly in line with that of other large European countries. In the eight years from 2001 to 2009, Italy has been the only major country whose economy shrank over the period as a whole.Berlusconi entered politics in 1993 promising a liberal revolution that would shrink the size of the state. Public spending was 53% of GDP at that time, and this share fell steadily to reach 46% in 2000. Once he came to power in 2001, the steady fall was reversed, and it was back up to 49% when he left office in 2006. It remained unchanged in the two ensuing years, and, since Berlusconi's re-election in 2008, has risen back to 53%. In this regard, he has delivered the precise opposite of what he promised. This outcome is the consequence of the economic stagnation that he has brought. It is now clear that anybody seeking a liberal economic revolution would be unwise to entrust the task to a monopolist.While the conflict of interest and bunga bunga scandals can be laid at Berlusconi's door, it must be recognised that blame for the macroeconomic catastrophe must be shared by the Northern League, his partner in government throughout the period since 2001.Charles YoungOxfordSilvio BerlusconiItalyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditio あなたの社説は、（競合すぎ12月14日）当然、レンダリングベルルスコーニ不向きが支配している多くのスキャンダルのいくつかの記録が、普通のイタリア人に最も影響を省略しております
- Obama and North Carolina | Michael Tomasky
When Democrats and liberals think about the next presidential election and the electoral map, they begin by conceding a number of states that Obama won in 2008, states that never go Democratic and probably did last time only because Bush was in the crapper, the economy was even worse, and the Republican candidate's choice of vice-president was even worse still. Indiana, for example. Hadn't gone Democratic since 1964.Most people include North Carolina in that list. Obama won it by just .4 percent, or 49.9 to 49.5. And the liberal and black votes were really pumped up. So next time, under normal circumstances, it just isn't happening, right?But here's a poll today of North Carolinians with these numbers:National2012 President47% Obama (D), 42% Gingrich (R)45% Obama (D), 45% Huckabee (R)51% Obama (D), 40% Palin (R)44% Obama (D), 42% Romney (R)Job Approval / DisapprovalPres. Obama: 48 / 46Sen. Burr: 38 / 31Sen. Hagan: 35 / 42Favorable / UnfavorableNewt Gingrich: 29 / 48Mike Huckabee: 42 / 39Sarah Palin: 37 / 57Mitt Romney: 32 / 41I'd say that still looks pretty good for the guy. If he's holding at 48% in the state right now, he's only lost 4% of his support (that is, he's gone from 50 to 48, a decrease of two raw points but 4%), and that's not really bad at all. It's not as if I have roamed far and wide across the great Tarheel plateaux, but I do have a firm sense of central NC as being nearly as perfect an embodiment as we have in the US of the Judis/Teixeira Ideopolis. a concept with which you should become acquainted between now and 2012. I would bet today on Obama carrying North Carolina again, maybe even against the Demon Barbour of Dixie (can one make Sondheim jokes about southern governors?). Not Indiana. And maybe not Florida, and maybe not Ohio either. But North Ca 民主党とリベラル派は、次の大統領選挙や選挙マップについて考えるとき、彼らはオバマ氏は、2008年には決して民主党に行くだろうか、ブッシュはうそつきでという理由だけで、前回の状態を獲得した状態の数を失点で開始するには、経済がいたも、そして副大統領の共和党の候補者の選択はさらに悪いことにも劣っていた
- Guardian/ICM Europe poll: get the full data here
A unique poll of people in five European countries reveals exactly what we think about the big issues. Download the data here• Get the dataWhat kind of continent is Europe? A new Guardian/ICM poll gives us some new answers.The poll was carried out online by ICM using a representative sample of more than 5,000 people of working age in five leading EU states – Britain, France, Germany, Poland and Spain. As Julian Glover writes today:It paints a picture of a continent confident in its liberal values and still mostly committed to EU institutions such as the euro and the free movement of people between states, but notably hostile to state spending and political leadersSo, what are the key findings so far?• Only 6% of people across Europe say they have a great deal of trust in their government. Overall, the percentage of those who think politicians are not at all, or not very, honest outweighs those who disagree by a massive 89 percentage points.• 40% of those polled think their economy will get worse over the next 12 months, against 20% who think it will improve. Economic anxiety is greatest in France, where pessimists outnumber optimists by a net difference of 46 points. In Britain, the difference is 40 points and in Poland 30 points• Overall, 62% describe themselves as liberal on social issues - the highest percentage being GermanyICM interviewed a random sample of 5,023 adults in five EU states aged 18–64 from its online panel between 24 February and 8 March, 2011. In order to achieve a nationally representative sample within each country, quotas were set by gender, age and region. At the data analysis stage, data was weighted to the profile of all adults aged 18-64 in each countryAs more of the data is released we will publish it here (you can also download the full PDF 5つの欧州諸国の人々のユニークな世論調査では、我々は大きな問題は何を考えて正確に明らかにする
- Egypt's Wafd party opts to take part in election
Egypt's liberal Wafd party has chosen to take part in upcoming parliamentary elections, its newspaper said on Saturday, ignoring calls from other opposition groups to boycott the poll.Wafd party members voted at their general assembly on Friday, with 504 in favour of participating in the November election compared with 407 against, the daily Al-Wafd reported.The move came despite earlier calls from within and outside the party to boycott the election due to the failure of the regime to meet demands for political reforms. エジプトのリベラルワフド党の党が総選挙を間近に参加することを選択した、その新聞は20日、poll.Wafd党員は金曜日に彼らの総会で、参加に賛成504での投票をボイコットする他の野党グループからの呼び出しを無視している11月の選挙では407に対抗し、日刊紙Al -ワフド党のreported.Theの動きが内をボイコットする党内外の選挙制度の失敗政治改革の要求を満たすためにに起因する、以前の呼び出しにもかかわらず、来て比較した
- Information is Beautiful Friday: Tory vs Labour voting records on gay rights
How liberal have the shadow cabinet been on gay rights? See how they compareDavid Cameron recently stepped forward to support the teaching of gay equality in schools as a way of countering homophobia. At the same time, the Lib Dems released pointing out that sections of Cameron's shadow cabinet had voted against gay equalities legislation in the past - including Cameron himself. The LibDem report concluded that 30% of Cameron's cabinet had voted against gay rights in the past. But I struggled to interpret the finer deters.So (inevitably) I thought I would visualise the results instead. And, to be fair, I also went through the voting record of the current Labour Cabinet to see who had voted against gay rights legislation.This chart depicts the results, side-by-side.The data is here (with some additional information on voting records) if you want to explore further.Additional research: Alexia Wdowski, Peter HarringtonAdditional design: Joe SwainsonAbout David McCandlessI run InformationIsBeautiful.net, dedicated to visualising information, ideas, stories and data.My book of infographic exploria, Information Is Beautiful is published in the UK on 4th February 2010.In the US, the book's called The Visual Miscellaneum World government data• Search the world's government with our gatewayCan you do something with our data?Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group or mail us at datastore@guardian.co.uk• Get the A-Z of data• More at the Datastore directory• Follow us on TwitterGay rightsDavid CameronWilliam HagueChris GraylingFrancis MaudeLabourGordon BrownGeorge YoungLiam FoxTheresa MayCaroline SpelmanDavid McCandlessguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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- Some big questions | Michael Tomasky
Commenter ravcasleygera (are you new? welcome) asked me on the last thread:Just out of interest, Michael: do you ever actually think, 'I give up?' Have their been moments in this spectacularly depressing period since about six months into the Obama presidency where you have just thought: 'American democracy is broken beyond repair?', or, 'the slow dismantling of the state is unavoidable?'I'm not being facetious, I just genuinely wonder. People seemed so convinced the 2006-8 results meant some sort of leftward swing, the end of the Reagan era.... now that energy seems to have been replaced by libertarianism, of all things? Do you think it's hopeless? Do others?Well, no, I don't give up. But my darkest fear goes something like this. Historically speaking, the conservative movement started in the late 1950s. It took a long time but it seized real power in 1980. Results were mixed, it retreated for a bit (Clinton), then roared back to power in 2000.Living these events in real time, the general view of them, I think, has been, well, those were their two best shots, and now they're bound to lose steam. You didn't have to think that the 2008 election signaled a liberal renaissance (and I did not) to think that a 50-year old movement that hadn't produced a truly new idea in a long time was running out of gas.But now I think: taking the longer historical view, it may well be that the Reagan and Dubya years were just warm-up acts, and that the conservative movement has yet to behold its triumph. The amount of money corporate titans can now pump into politics, the level of activism, the utter inability of the media to call lies lies, the weakness of the Democrats...we may be in for a 40-year descent, until there is no Social Security and there are no environmental regulations and コメンターのravcasleygeraは（？あなたが新しく追加された歓迎）最後のスレッド上で私に質問：ちょうどうち興味深いのは、マイケルは：あなたが実際にどう思いますか、私はあきらめる？。。u0026#39;あなただけ考えているオバマ氏の大統領に約半年からこの見事憂鬱期間中のされて瞬間を為すは、：。。u0026#39;？アメリカの民主主義修復できないほど壊れているが。。u0026#39;、または。。u0026#39;が遅い状態の解体は避けられない？。。u0026#39;私ではないひょうきんされて、私はただ純粋に疑問
- We mustn't let the lure of trade blind us to Russia's failings | Observer editorial
The west still needs to be wary of Moscow's abuses of powerDuring the cold war, Russian dissidents tended to be intellectuals: poets, artists, scientists. Mikhail Khodorkovsky does not fit that pattern. He is one of a post-Soviet generation of businessmen who acquired lucrative shareholdings in state enterprises in exchange for supporting the former president, Boris Yeltsin. Most Russians consider that deal a colossal theft of public assets. The beneficiaries became known as the oligarchs.Now Mr Khodorkovsky is in jail, convicted of fraud in 2005 and facing new charges that would see him imprisoned for another 20 years. His fate reveals a lot about the direction Russia has taken in the decade since Vladimir Putin took power.Mr Putin offered the country's media and energy barons a deal. They could keep some of their wealth if they renounced any ambitions to meddle in politics. Most acquiesced; Mr Khodorkovsky did not, seeking to fund liberal trends in an increasingly authoritarian, nationalist climate. That is why he lost his freedom.Writing in today's Observer, he describes himself as a political prisoner and calls on Britain to challenge Russia on human rights and corruption. Many Russians would question the authority of a former oligarch in passing moral judgments. Khodorkovsky is no Solzhenitsyn. But the thrust of his argument is sound. The Kremlin exercises power capriciously and without regard for the rule of law. At the domestic level, that makes for individual tales of injustice. At the global level, it poses a strategic threat. Russia is a nuclear power and a major supplier of energy to Europe.Britain alone cannot change the course of Russia's political development. But it can resist the temptation to ignore abuses of power in exchange for investment favours. Mr 西はまだ寒い戦争をpowerDuringモスクワの人権侵害を警戒する必要がある、ロシアの反体制派知識人する傾向：詩人、芸術家、科学者
- State of the union buildup puts Obama ahead in PR battle | Michael Tomasky
Barack Obama's state of the union address has been framed as middle-ground, while Republicans are on the defensiveThe White House, perhaps having learned from some of its errors over the past two years, handled the runup to Barack Obama's second state of the union address adeptly. This runup is a five-days-or-so period of raising and lowering expectations with timely and well-placed leaks that attempt to frame the way the media talk and write about the speech beforehand. Both sides play, of course, and the Republicans are generally pretty good at this sort of thing.But heading into tonight's speech, it seems to me that the White House people are clearly winning this public relations battle. They managed to get the speech framed as Obama reaching out to the middle with various non-controversial proposals on popular issues such as education, research and innovation. The president's recent (or current) comeback in the polls among independent voters helps to drive this narrative.At the same time, the White House has managed to placate Democrats to his left – for now, anyway – by making it clear that Obama will not be discussing possible cuts to social security in the speech. Here was another layer of what we Americans call inside baseball. About three weeks ago, blind quotes from administration aides started appearing in news stories speculating that Obama might be willing to put social security on the table. I'm not clear on whether these leaks came from people who wanted that to happen or did not, or both. In any case, the pushback from the left was enough that liberals' most cherished policy of all seems safe for now.Finally and most importantly, Republicans are on the defensive. It's nearly become conventional wisdom in Washington that the Republicans' budget numbers do 共和党はdefensiveTheホワイトハウスにしている間組合アドレスのバラクオバマの状態が労働組合のアドレスのバラクオバマの第2の状態に遡上を扱った、おそらく過去2年間、そのエラーの一部から学んだこと、中間グランドとして囲まれている巧み
- Good list of races to watch | Michael Tomasky
At OpenLeft.com, the progressive activist and consultant Mike Lux has produced an interesting list of 16 key House races liberals ought to pay attention to. It's definitely worth a read.Lux puts Tom Periello's reelection campaign at the top of his list because he is a freshman progressive Democrat who barely won in 2008 and has voted pretty much down the line for HCR and so on. If he can somehow get himself reelected, which at this point is a bit of a long shot but not impossible, that would be a hopeful sign.And how about this race:CA-45. Steve Pougnet. This is a district carried by Obama in 2008, and Steve (the Palm Springs Mayor) is running a solid race. He would be the first openly gay dad in Congress, as well as the first legally married gay man elected to Congress. Mary Bono Mack has always had some vulnerabilities, and it's time to take her out. The first married gay man! I am way for that guy, and I hope some of these loony-toons from down south get trapped in the elevator with him. Mary Bono Mack, by the way, is the post-Cher wife (and ergo widow) of Sonny Bono, who for those of you who don't know became an off-the-charts right-winger after the singing career went poof, although by today's standards he was probably a moderate.Palm Springs, Cali, in the desert, was from the 50s forward an arch Republican redoubt. It was just about rich people and golf and self-exiled Hollywood types of that political persuasion (sadly, to me, including Ginger Rogers, who became deeply right-wing as the years went on, obviously forgetting the moral of undeservedly little-remembered I'll Be Seeing You, in which she co-starred with the great Joseph Cotten). But over the course of the 90s and aughts it became tres gay. But I think that may be kind of a weekend-seasonal thing, so I'm OpenLeft.comでは、進歩的な活動とコンサルタントは、マイクラックスは16個のキーハウスレースのリベラル派の興味深いリストを制作しているはずに注意を払うこと
- Komorowski elected Poland president
Poland's liberals held all the reins of power on Monday after their candidate Bronislaw Komorowski foiled conservative Jaroslaw Kaczynski's audacious bid to replace his late twin in a presidential election. ポーランドのリベラル派は、月曜日にその候補ブロニスワフコモロフスキ後の保守ヤロスワフカチン大胆不敵な入札を大統領選挙で亡くなった双子を置き換えるためにしくじる電源のすべての手綱を開催しました
- Who should replace Jonathan Sacks as chief rabbi? | Alexander Goldberg
It is an odd, many-layered job, and the kind of person a polarising Jewish community should choose is not at all obviousLord Sacks, the chief rabbi, announced on Tuesday that he will be stepping down from his post in September 2013 after nearly a quarter of a century in the job. In the next few weeks and months there will be speculation about his successor and the meaning of the role in the 21st century.What sort of candidate should the community be looking for? Is it more important to have a candidate that can speak to the outside world or one who can speak to disaffiliated Jews? Should the candidate seek to unite orthodox factions, reaching out to the strictly orthodox, or try to engage with reform and progressive movements? How about a great intellectual or academic? Will he be a reformer or a reactionary?The chief rabbinate is an odd job: representing Judaism to the outside world; providing spiritual leadership for mainstream orthodox Jews in the United Kingdom, Australia and Hong Kong (when Britain gave up its colony, the local community kept our chief rabbi); and finally trying to please conservative, centrist and liberal wings of those who recognise his spiritual authority (the United Synagogue and the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth). This final task will probably dictate the choice of chief rabbi.Sacks has given the community great standing in the outside world. In academic and political circles he is taken as a serious thinker on modern social issues; the government has openly borrowed his ideas on integration and cohesion; and his contributions to Thought for the Day on Radio 4 have given millions a window onto modern Jewish ideas. Sacks will be remembered for his intellectual endeavours, his championing of Jewish education and as an a これは、奇数、多くの層の仕事です極性ユダヤ人のコミュニティは選択する必要があります人の種類は、すべてのobviousLordサックスではない、彼は後に2013年9月に彼のポストから辞任することを火曜日に発表した首席ラビ、ほぼジョブの四半世紀
- Josh busts Politico | Michael Tomasky
This is one of the must-read blog posts of all time, by Josh Marshall about the Politico. Contained within it: everything that goes wrong with the Politico, which I basically respect (and certainly read) but which too often is too eager to Drudge-ify its copy so that Drudge gives them prominent links; and everything that's excellent and necessary about TPM. And by the way, happy tenth anniversary to TPM. I've been reading it since the beginning. I don't read many things and think, that is exactly what I would have done. But TPM is pretty much exactly the site I would have created. The difference is Josh did, and I didn't.Anyway, as to the substance of the matter, there are two jaw-dropping things about the story: 1, that Republican aides are today spinning it in a way that is completely divorced from the facts of what actually happened (well, now that I put it that way, I see that it is not remarkable at all); 2, that Politico ran with this so blithely.I don't want to start a whole debate about the media again. Well, maybe I do. Those of you who insist the media are liberal-liberal-liberal are of course describing things as you honestly see them, but I think you're failing to make a crucial distinction, which is as follows.The media are generally liberal when it comes to social values. Christian conservatives and tea partiers are indeed painted as a little loopy. Transgendered athletes and so on are generally portrayed sympathetically. No denying that form of general bias.But when it comes to capital-P Political stories, the capital-P political media have two chief characteristics: one, they mostly go with the flow; two, they want conflict.In 2008, the flow was with Obama. Now it's mostly against him. In 2002, the flow was decidedly with Dubya. Then, after Katrina, it w これは、-政治についてのジョシュマーシャルのすべての時間のブログの記事を読まなければならないの一つです
- Britain's illiberal attitude to the church has driven me away | Theo Hobson
The Anglican church's version of Christianity is full of charming but deadly imperial ghosts. It needs an almighty exorcismI have moved to New York, for I don't know how long. I don't think I've emigrated, but for the first time in my life it's a possibility. I used to assume I was too patriotic to think of living elsewhere for long, but I have gradually found my patriotism wearing thin. Religion is at the heart of this.I have found the English way of religion to be dominated by nostalgia, class, and embarrassed evasion. It has no real interest in reforming itself; indeed it is deeply inoculated against reform. It would take an uber-Luther to get the necessary debate rolling.Nostalgia is the most obvious, and serious, charge. Christianity has taken many forms in its time, and it has been mixed with all sorts of other creeds, from Thor-worship to Marxism, but never has it been so deeply mixed with nostalgia. To be an Anglican is to subscribe to a version of Christianity that's full of charming but deadly imperial ghosts. It needs an almighty exorcism.The unholy ghost-in-chief is of course establishment, which is the pretence that we still live in the pre-liberal era, when nations had official established religions that unified them. Isn't this just a harmless link to our past? Yes and no: in secular political terms it doesn't seem to bother people, so maybe we should let sleeping unicorns lie. But it ought to bother Christians very much. For it sows enmity between Christianity and the modern liberal state. It idealises the theocratic monoculture we used to be. It is terrifically bad gospel-communication.Many will say that establishment has become so weak in recent decades that it's not worth complaining about. I disagree. In some ways it now dominates national Christiani キリスト教の聖公会教会のバージョンは、魅力的が、致命的な皇室の幽霊がいっぱいです
- Coast Guard allowed toxic spray
NEW ORLEANS - BP inched closer to permanently sealing the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico as environmental officials defended themselves on Sunday against assertions they allowed the oil giant liberal use of chemical... ニューオーリンズ - BPは近い環境当局は、日曜日にアサーションに対して、彼らは化学の石油大手は、リベラルな使用許可自体を擁護として永久にもメキシコ湾の本格的なアウトオイルシールに58.5 ...
- Should religions compete? | The question
Would the world be a better place if religions concerned themselves only with the crimes and follies of their own?Almost all monotheisms are missionary religions. It is not enough to worship one God: it must be the right one, and in the right way. The Church of England last week released a report (pdf) saying that of course it was right to try to convert unbelievers – what else could it say? – and many Muslim missionary organisations are active in this country. Atheists are constantly trying to prove believers wrong; Jews may not proselytise much in the outside world but they are happy to convert each other. But is this wrong?Does all this activity leave anyone wiser or better, or closer to the truth? Everyone knows how off-putting it is to be the victim of conversion attempts. And where does pointing out the folly of certain ideas shade into pointing out that the people who hold them are fools? The clash of ideas and of values is a central part of the modern liberal vision of a good society. It is meant to be one of the things that makes societies worth living in. But is it possible to carry things too far? And how do we stop arguments about ideas from becoming tribal? Would the world be a better place if religions concerned themselves only with the crimes and follies of their own: if Catholics only told other Catholics what to do, and atheists only lectured atheists?ReligionChristianityguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
宗教は犯罪や自分の愚行？ほとんどすべてのmonotheismsだけで自分自身を心配すれば、世界はもっと良くなるがか宣教。宗教です
- The Senate cloture vote on the tax deal | Michael Tomasky
So the Senate voted overwhelmingly last night to close debate on the tax deal, by 83-15 with two not voting. Lots of people are remarking on how surprising it is that most liberal opposition melted away at the last minute, as only nine Democrats voted no. But I'm somewhat more surprised that only five Republicans voted against. One of those five, George Voinovich of Ohio, opposed it for his own reasons, that he didn't think the tax cuts were defensible. But only four voted no from a conservative position.So why is this interesting? Because, remember, Rush Limbaugh has been fulminating against the deal, and a couple of national tea party groups said they opposed it and would pressure lawmakers to do the same. Those are usually pretty powerful levers in GOP politics, but this time, their efforts fizzled.Maybe they just want to get home for Christmas. Maybe they're waiting to see what the House does. Remember, the Senate will vote again on final passage. If House liberals succeed in making the estate tax numbers more progressive, maybe a lot of GOP senators will break against it and it will barely pass next time (when it needs only 51, not 60).As much as liberals are attacking the whole business as another Obama sell-out, I can guarantee you that Limbaugh and the conservative blogosphere and commentariat will spend the holidays inveighing against this massive sell-out by establishment Republicans to Obama, thus steeling the resolve of the incoming class of tea-party-backed senators and House members to block such capitulations to socialism. It will be an interesting year.Obama administrationUS CongressUS taxationMichael Tomaskyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
上院は、2つは投票で83から15で、税の契約についての議論を閉じるために、昨。圧倒的投票だから
- Press freedom: The Singapore grip | Editorial
The country presents itself as a modern liberal democracy yet has an autocratic political cultureSingapore is proud of its place near the top of many international rankings. Its school system is by some measures the world's best. The island state promotes itself as diverse, competitive and cultured – an exciting global hub. But there are two league tables which shame Singapore. The first, compiled by the campaigning group Reporters Without Borders, places the country 136th in the world for press freedom – below Iraq and Zimbabwe. The second is the rate at which Singapore executes convicted criminals: arguably higher, per capita, than any other country in the world.Singapore presents itself as a modern liberal democracy: it has a parliament, elections, courts, a constitutional right to free speech and the consumerist gloss of capitalism. Its citizens are free to become rich and to travel. Many do both. The country has by any measure succeeded since independence. But its autocratic political culture – overseen by the country's founding father and now official minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew – is highly and needlessly restrictive. The media is largely state-owned. Defamation and contempt laws threaten dissent. The latest victim of these is Alan Shadrake, a British-born writer sentenced yesterday to six weeks in prison and a large fine after being found guilty of contempt of court. His book Once a Jolly Hangman questioned the independence of Singapore's legal system, and its use of the death penalty.It is depressing that a country as successful as Singapore should feel the need for such restrictions on free speech. Singapore argues that, without them, the balance between the country's Chinese, Malay and Indian populations would be upset. But the reality is that other successfu 国は現代のリベラルな民主主義がまだ独裁政治cultureSingaporeは、多くの国際ランキングの上部にその場所を誇りに思っているているとしての地位を提示します
- The margins of House races | Michael Tomasky
There's no getting around that that was just a total shellacking every way you look at it. Democrats and liberals who spend today looking for silver linings are deluding themselves.The thing I am most struck by as I scroll through individual House races is how large some of the margins were in elections that were judged to be close. Take Ohio 18. That's Democrat Zach Space. I discussed this race on a video. I had it close, with Space slightly ahead, as did most people. He lost by 14 points. Next door in Ohio, Democrat Charlie Wilson was maybe supposed to win and lost by five.One of my four bellwethers was Indiana's 9th, with Democrat Baron Hill. He lost by nearly 10. Although it does seem that Oregon's Kurt Schrader held on, as did (apparently) Arizona's Gabrielle Giffords. But a lot of the margins were crushing. Alan Grayson in Orlando, held out by the liberal blogosphere as an example of a liberal who voted bravely and gave 'em what-for in a swing district and would prove that it could be done? Walloped by 20 points. And of course a number of races went Republican that weren't generally expected to.All these numbers tell us something about who turned out. I haven't looked deeply into that yet. I do know that young voters made up less than 10% of the electorate, whereas they were 18% in 2008. It appears that except for in a few states, like Illinois, Democrats didn't get their vote out. I expected a higher-than-anticipated Democratic turnout in Illinois in particular, which is why I pegged Giannoulias to upset Kirk. And he came closer than expected by most, but came up short.Flordia governor is still not called, and that's one to watch. The Republican, Rick Scott, is ahead slightly. And of course Alaska senator, which Murkowski evidently has won, though it won't be kno そこは、それはあなたがそれを見てあらゆる方法を完敗だけで合計されたことを周囲なってきている
- Primary results | Michael Tomasky
I'm traveling today, taking the kid out to see her grandparents in California for the first time, but I did want to scribble down these quick thoughts.I know that the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee issued a rather icy statement about Christine O'Donnell's win in the Delaware Senate primary, which indicates that she's probably not going to get much money from them. And I know that liberals are happy, as her win gives Chris Coons a far better chance to take the seat in November.But if this were a football game, this is exactly where the coach would warn his players, don't get cocky, as we call it in the US (strutting, like a cockerel, presumably). Coons is not exactly a household name. He's a county executive. Yes, Delaware has only three counties, and the one over which he executes is by far the largest in population terms (I know it's the rules and it's fair, but isn't it just a little weird that O'Donnell won the nomination with just 30,000 votes, in a whole state?). So he has a base. And voter registration figures in the state have moved dramatically in the Democratic direction over the past decade, from a 45,000-enrollee advantage to one of about 100,000. That's a lot of votes in that state, and Coons should win on it alone.Whatever the official GOP does, O'Donnell is going to get massive money and time from tea party people around the country. Doesn't take much money to run in that state anyway. You do have to buy some air time in the Philadelphia market, which is expensive, but the state is small enough that you can drive it in 90 minutes, so you can meet every single voter if you want to.I also think liberals are going to go overboard in making fun of her view that masturbation equals adultery, as Rachel Maddow did last night. Believe me, a nice-looking 私は今日、初めてカリフォルニアの祖父母を見て子供を出して旅行んだけど、私はこれらの迅速なthoughts.Iをシャット走り書きしたいか、共和党上院選挙委員会には約はなく、氷の声明を発表知っているクリスティンオドネルの彼女はおそらく、彼らから多くのお金を得るつもりはないことを示しますデラウェア上院プライマリで勝つ
- 9:00 pm thoughts, mine and yours | Michael Tomasky
I'm updating columns for editions of the print paper, but I thought I should check in with my regular crowd and see what you think.We appear to be headed toward around 50 in the House and seven or eight in the Senate. I guess it could be more. Hard to say yet. Watch Kentucky-6, Democrat Ben Chandler's district. Neck-and-neck, wasn't supposed to be. If the Republican challenger prevails there, it could mean a few more pick ups. It looks like the R's beat Rick Boucher in Virginia, and that's one the D's were counting on holding.In Florida, Republican Daniel Webster has clobbered Democratic incumbent Alan Grayson. Clobbered. This is one liberals need to pay attention to. Here's a guy the liberal blogosphere limned as a hero, and he got his clock cleaned.The exit polls had Reid-Angle neck-and-neck, at 47 apiece (there's a third candidate in the race, on the right). Also Illinois is reportedly neck-and-neck. In Colorado, Democrat Michael Bennet was a couple of points ahead of Ken Buck. If those flip toward the D's, it's not a bad night in the Senate at all, with loses as few as five. Joe Manchin already won in West Virginia. But five is unlikely. Seven, like I said.It's way too early to know a lot of things, but it's not too early to know one thing. Speaker Boehner. Probably the functional end of Nancy Pelosi's career. I guess that's two things, even if they amount to the same thing.Sound off.US midterm elections 2010Michael Tomaskyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
私は、印刷用紙の各エディションの列を更新するんだけど、私は私の定期的な群衆に確認してください、あなたがthink.We上院で下院で約50 7または8に向かって進むように表示されるかを参照してくださいと思った
- Michael Tomasky: Faking it during a crisis
I was able to was only bits of yesterday's press conference. First of all, I think it's ridiculous that Obama hadn't given a press conference in 10 months, and I think it's absurd that as far as I can remember he has not done a single one of those 8 pm from the Oval Office 30-minute talks to the American people. Those are a great venue for getting a point across without any media interference, no GOP response, etc. I don't get it. Anyway.Gail Collins and David Brooks of the Times both agree that they're happy Obama has been strutting around declaiming these past few spillagey weeks. Brooks:I persist in the belief that unless Barack Obama has a degree in underwater engineering that he's not telling anybody about, there's really not a lot, post-spill, he could be doing. Like you, I'm not a huge fan of presidential grandstanding. The idea that the president is the big national daddy who can take care of all our problems is silly.It may be silly, but Obama has a habit of letting crises sneak up on him. You have to look like you're doing stuff even when you're not. A very crucial executive skill.I think I've said this before but Giuliani was far and away the best I've ever seen at this. That guy was in rhetorical charge at all times. He thrived on crisis and sought out confrontation. It was just his personality.Exasperated liberals used to wonder: Why isn't Giuliani more roundly condemned in the mainstream media for putting his emergency bunker in the only building in his city that had ever been the target of a terrorist attack (the same one they blew up on 9-11)? It's an extremely fair question and one I often asked.The answer is partly that after 9-11 the media insisted on keeping up this pro-Giuliani narrative But it is also that Giuliani always just seemed so in charge o 私はできるだけ、昨日の記者会見のビットされたことだった
- Speaker, Deputy Speaker of Australian 43rd Parliament elected
Australian Coalition Member of Parliament Peter Slipper on Tuesday has been elected as the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Slipper, the Liberal Member for Fisher, won the secret ballot against the Coalition's nominee, Nationals MP Bruce Scott, 78 votes to 71.
The Liberal Member for Fisher was nominated for the position by the Labor Government, while Scott was put forward by the Coalition.
According to ABC News, it is not clear if Slipper will agree to any arrangement wit ... スリッパー火曜日ピーターメンバーは議会連合、オーストラリア、フィッシャーのメンバーは、リベラルスリッパ代表
- Michael Tomasky: Obama legacy, you choose
Kevin Drum offers a mordant observation in the wake of finreg passage:Here's the good news: this record of progressive accomplishment officially makes Obama the most successful domestic Democratic president of the last 40 years. And here's the bad news: this shoddy collection of centrist, watered down, corporatist sellout legislation was all it took to make Obama the most successful domestic Democratic president of the last 40 years. Take your pick.In any case, I think this probably marks the end of Obama's major legislative agenda. I don't give Congress much chance of passing a climate bill, and after the midterms the Democratic majority will either be gone or significantly reduced, making large-scale legislation just about impossible.Still, if you're a liberal, this is the best you've had it for a very long time. Whether this is cause for cheer or cause for discouragement is, I suspect, less a reflection on Obama than it is on America writ large.It has a lot more to do with America writ large. And I don't think it's necessarily the end of the legislative agenda. The guy potentially has six-plus more years as president. We can't know what the situation will be in 2014.I don't think these are small potatoes. As I've said a bajillion times, in an atmosphere with little precedent in American history, in which the US Senate is essentially dysfunctional and one of our two major political parties isn't even pretending to try to govern, these are achievements, especially for a guy who supposedly has no backbone and lets himself get kicked around.Obama administrationMichael Tomaskyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
ケビンドラムの通過をfinregをきっかけに媒。観測を提供する：ここでは良いニュースだ：プログレッシブ達成この記録は正式にオバマ氏を40年間で最も成功した国内民主党の大統領になります
- Oliver Stone nails Latin America's troubled relationship with the USA
Political interference and studio nervousness have undermined so many worthy films on the subject, it's a wonder that South Of The Border got made, let alone seen in the USADespite my many differences with Oliver Stone as an artist, I congratulate him on having managed both to present an unhysterical assessment of Latin American leaders and issues in South Of The Border, and also to get it seen in the US. The latter, especially, is achievement indeed.A rare precedent is Costa-Gavras's Missing, which netted Oscars in 1982 with its horrifying story of the US State Department's involvement in the murder of one of its own citizens during the US-backed Chilean coup of 1973. In retrospect, it looks like the last gasp of those liberal Hollywood instincts that saw producer Bert Schneider thanking the Viet Cong leadership as he accepted his Best Documentary Oscar for Hearts and Minds in 1975.Elsewhere the story is one of movies ignored, shelved, suppressed and sabotaged. Roger Spottiswoode's Under Fire, set in Somoza's Nicaragua, barely squeaked on to US screens in 1983 amid rumours of studio nervousness – and political interference – when the Contras were at their barbarous high tide. Stone's Salvador was a critical hit you could barely find in cinemas. Ditto Haskell Wexler's Latino, in which Vietnam vet Robert Forster, sent to train the Contras, comes to see how his country is sponsoring mass murder overseas.Even Missing has its antecedent in Costa-Gavras's career, State Of Siege, about the reasons behind the kidnapping of an American USAID official, which explicitly indicts Fort Benning's School of the Americas, a finishing school for aspirant tyrants. Scheduled as the inaugural screening at the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in 1973, it was withdrawn with the lame e 政治の干渉やスタジオ緊張は、件名には多くの立派な映画が損なわれて、それが不思議ボーダーが行わ得たのは、南、ましてやUSADespiteでアーティストとしてオリバーストーンと私の多くの違いが、私は両方を管理することを彼を祝福見てきましたと、ボーダーのラテンアメリカの指導者と南の問題のヒステリーでない評価を提示するも、米国で見られる取得します
- Hollywood at war over TV 'hatchet job' on JFK
LOS ANGELES - She isn't the first person to be accused of helping to assassinate JFK, but she may be the most glamorous: Katie Holmes, the actress better known as Mrs Tom Cruise, is at the centre of what Hollywood liberals are theatrically... ロサンゼルス - 彼女は最初の人JFK暗殺を支援と非難されることはできませんが、彼女は最も魅力的な可能性があります：ケイティホームズが、女優よりは夫人トムクルーズと呼ばれ、ハリウッドのリベラル派は、劇場ものの中心にある
- Michael Tomasky: McChrystal out, Petraeus in
By the time it happened, the firing of Stanley McChrystal had largely been drained of drama. We knew this morning that he went to the White House, stayed a mere 30 minutes and left, suggesting that he would not be standing next to Obama at any microphones later that day.So when Obama finally did announce his sacking, it was expected. It was, as I finally came around to writing last night, the best move Obama had. From a constitutional perspective, Obama had to lay claim to the principle of civilian control over the military. And he had to show that he couldn't be rolled. He's let himself be rolled in the past. Now he's taken a heavy scalp, a hard one for a liberal Democrat to take. Maybe he'll develop a bit of a taste for it, and maybe it'll make his political opponents (and certain world leaders) take notice. That's not a reason that has anything to do with Afghanistan, but this is politics, after all, and as political reasons go, it's a damn good one.So he did the right thing, and it wasn't surprising. But then the Petraeus part really did surprise me. It's a technical demotion. It's back into the hellmouth after lately being based in Florida. It's the pressure cooker again. One can wonder how much he really wanted to do it. But when a president asks, a military man cannot say no. That's part of the deal.Here's the conventional wisdom via Politico:The choice of Petraeus also signals Obama's strong re-commitment of the Afghan strategy with a military icon whose popularity and credibility in this area is unquestioned. Now as the head of US Central Command in Tampa, Petraeus is in a position to slide into the job and pick up where McChrystal left off when he left Kabul abruptly last night. The choice means that Obama has prevailed over members of his cabinet and senior l それが起こった時には、スタンレーMcChrystalの発火は、主にドラマの排水されていた
- One last win for Obama as Elena Kagan joins the US Supreme Court | Richard Adams
Elena Kagan's confirmation continues the White House's run of victories this year. But from now Obama faces a rougher timeThere have been thunder and lightning outside in Washington DC, but inside the Senate chamber it was plain sailing for Elena Kagan's nomination to join the US Supreme Court.Kagan was comfortably confirmed as an associate justice by a vote of 63 to 37, with five Republicans – Lindsay Graham, Judd Gregg, Richard Lugar, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe – crossing the aisle to vote for Kagan and just one Democrat – the always disappointing Ben Nelson of Nebraska – voting against.The remarkably trouble-free confirmation process for Kagan means that three of the nine members of the Supreme Court will be women, itself a remarkable shift in the court's make-up since Kagan will be only the fourth woman to sit on the nation's highest bench. And it means that Obama has already successfully nominated as many justices his predecessors George Bush and Bill Clinton: two.Republicans made a half-hearted effort to fight Kagan's nomination, attempting to paint her as anti-gun and anti-military, but couldn't make it stick, in part because the Democratic majority in Senate made it numerically too difficult and because Kagan was replacing a liberal justice, John Paul Stevens, thus not upsetting the balance of the court, which currently has a conservative bent – the most conservative in decades, according to New York Times analysis. As well, the White House did an excellent job guiding its candidate through the process, while Kagan herself didn't put a foot wrong.On top of the successful nominations of Sonia Sotomayor and Kagan, the administration has also had success in passing its healthcare reform and its overhaul of financial regulations, which is a lot of heavy lifting エレナカガンの確認は、今年の勝利のホワイトハウスの実行を継続します
- The appeal of the softer Jaroslaw Kaczynski to Poles | Kamil Tchorek
Kaczynski's cuddly makeover and welfare-protecting stance was nearly enough to make him the surprise winner of the presidencyI am filing from Tel Aviv, Warsaw's Israeli cafe-bar, which plays Jewish reggae and is decorated with homoerotic art. It is a controversial place for Poles, who come here to rant about whether there really should be this much garlic in the baba ghanoush.The Islingtonisation of the Polish capital is almost complete, and yesterday's presidential election is the strongest indication yet. With 95% of votes counted, the liberal Bronislaw Komorowski, on 52.6%, defeated his conservative rival Jaroslaw Kaczynski's 47.4%. The data is less important than the fact there was no vitriol in this campaign, which showed a general shift to the centre.Nobody predicted that Kaczynski would do so well. His short-lived, paranoid and aggressive coalition government (which included two bizarre fringe parties) was destroyed in Poland's 2007 general election. It seemed Kaczynski's popularity would never recover, and he trailed in polls for most of this year. However, since his late brother's tragic death on 10 April, Kaczynski convinced voters he is a changed man.Kaczynski has always been strongly pro-Jewish, especially since personal friends had to leave Poland in 1968, during an antisemitic purge masterminded by the communists. Aside from that single subject, he has been willing to flip-flop from one populist issue to another in bids for power. His recent tactics took the biscuit. When Kaczynski's campaigners used John Lennon's hippie anthem I laughed so hard that I fell off my chair – then realised the image makeover could win it for him. The all-new friendly Kaczynski said nice things to Germans, Russians and even the Polish left (whose rising star Grzegorsz Napierals カチンスキのかわいい変身福祉は立場の保護がほぼ彼presidencyIの驚きを受賞するのに十分なテルアビブ、ワルシャワのイスラエルのカフェバー、ユダヤ人のレゲエを果たしている同性愛アートで飾られてから申請いるんだ
- Jeffrey John and the global Anglican schism: a potted history
The battle in Southwark is only the latest battle in the disintegration of the Anglican communionThe struggle in Southwark over Jeffrey John is part of a global Anglican schism, which started in the US about 30 years ago and has since then destroyed the coherence of the Anglican communion and turned it into a loose grouping of national churches united only by their conviction that the others are heretics.The first issue was women priests. Although a couple of Chinese women had been ordained as an emergency measure in Hong Kong during the war, they renounced their orders after the 1948 Lambeth conference, the 10-yearly gathering of Anglican bishops from around the world, which as far as possible decides what the communion stands for.The American women who put themselves forward for ordination after the first wave of feminism in the 70s were less disposed to submit to authority. The 1978 Lambeth conference asked in vain for there to be no further women ordained; by 1988 the conference was trying to stop the Americans electing a woman bishop. In 1989 the diocese of Massachusetts chose Barbara Harris anyway.But members of the Episcopal church of the US did not all share the liberal values of New England. In the south there was a noisy and well-funded conservative backlash. In 1998, the central arguments at the Lambeth conference were about gay people, and the conservative Americans, who saw this as the issue on which to avenge their defeat over women, recruited hundreds of African bishops to their cause in advance. One of these tried to exorcise a gay Christian in front of the TV cameras.With the enthusiastic encouragement of the then Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, the conservatives pushed through the conference a resolution on sexuality which liberals could not ac サザークの戦いは、ジェフリージョン以上のサザークの聖公会communionThe闘争の崩壊で唯一の最新の戦闘は、米国では約30年前に開始し、以来、聖公会の一貫性を破壊してしまった世界聖公会の分裂の一部であり、とは、国家の教会の緩いグループ信念だけで、他はheretics.The最初の問題となって団結することにしたが、女性の聖職者だった
- Silvio Berlusconi survives crucial vote of confidence after defection of ally
Silvio Berlusconi survived a crucial test of his government's strength in parliament tonight following the defection of more than 30 MPs led by his erstwhile ally, Gianfranco Fini.After an emotional and at times heated session, the lower house voted by 299 to 229 in support of the government. But 75 deputies, including 25 loyal to Fini, abstained – enough to have defeated the government if they voted against it.The outcome sent a clear warning to Berlusconi that he is now a hostage of his former ally and Fini's new partners in the centre of the political spectrum. His group had agreed its policy of abstention with a Christian Democrat party and two smaller groups.The house rejected an opposition motion calling for a junior justice minister who is a suspect in a criminal inquiry to be sacked. Berlusconi had hinted his government would fall if it lost the vote.But the ballot nevertheless marked a watershed for Berlusconi's two-year-old conservative administration. The rebels' abstentions gave visible shape to a split that began last week when the rebels announced they were forming a separate group in parliament to press for reform in the governing party. A former neo-fascist, Fini has gradually altered his views and, since the return of the right to power in 2008, become a standard-bearer of a more progressive conservatism.His group's causes include more liberal policies and a tougher approach to corruption in high places. But even though Fini had earlier said members of the government should step down if formally under investigation, his followers held back from endorsing the opposition's motion.Its target was Giacomo Caliendo, who is accused of forming part of a secret society that allegedly conspired to fix judicial and political appointments, discredit Berlusconi's po ベルルスコーニは、今夜、30以上の議員彼のかつての同盟国、ジャンFini.After感情や、時には加熱セッション主導の離党、次の国会で政権の強さの重要なテストを乗り越えた、衆院は299で229への支援の投票政府
- Angela Merkel: Another day, another crisis | Editorial
Last night's three rounds of voting did much to restore the drama the German constitution has tried to expungeChoosing a German president is boring by design, largely because the last head of state to make the job exciting was Adolf Hitler. The post is ceremonial and decided by secret ballot in a special assembly of MPs, state representatives and even celebrities. There is no move to make it a direct election – even though that would now be popular in a country confident of its democratic institutions – and the reason for that is also buried in the past: to prevent a wave of populism emerging.Even so, last night's three rounds of voting in the Reichstag did much to restore the drama the German constitution has so conscientiously tried to expunge. The nail-biting finish (hundreds were gathered outside the Reichstag to watch the event on giant television screens) had less to do with the two main candidates than it had with the plummeting fortunes of Chancellor Angela Merkel herself.Nine months into a coalition with the liberal Free Democrats (FDP), the dream partnership has turned into something of a nightmare. Unlike the grand coalition with the SDP before it, neither side has been able to blame their wobbles on the need to keep the other party's backwoodsmen quiet. The result is that the two rightwing parties have been bickering constantly. Guido Westerwelle, the FDP leader, has been sidelined as foreign minister. And relations were not helped when Merkel ditched her plans for tax cuts, the main item on the FDP's manifesto, after a heavy defeat in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state.Merkel's political touch also seems to have left her. Relying on a coterie of political friends, she was surprised by some heavyweight resignations, such as president Horst 状態の最後の頭は仕事を刺激する主な理由投票の最後の夜の3回のラウンドは、ドイツ憲法はしようとしたドラマを復元するデザインで退屈はドイツ大統領expungeChoosingには、多くのでしたアドルフヒトラーだった
- Supreme Court justice to retire, Obama gets new pick
US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said Friday he will retire in June, giving President Barack Obama a chance to make his second pick in two years to the key nine-member bench.A leader of the court's liberal wing, Stevens, who celebrates his 90th birthday this month, is one of the longest serving justices ever, having been a member of the top court for 34 years.His retirement is likely to set up a tough nominating battle in the Senate, where Democrat Obama's allies have a 59-seat majority but could face moves to hold up the appointment. 米最高裁判事ジョンポールスティーブンズは金曜日、彼は6月に、バラクオバマ大統。機会を2年間で祝う裁判所のリベラル派、スティーブンスのキー9メンバーbench.Aリーダーへの彼の2番目のピックを作成すること引退するという彼の90歳の誕生日は今月、1つの最長提。裁判官までの、34 years.Hisの退職後の最高裁判所のメンバーになっている上院、民主党のオバマ氏の同盟国は59席を持って厳しい指名戦いをセットアップする可能性があります大半が動きを任命を保持するために直面することができます
- Michael Tomasky: On federal agencies
On the Lincoln thread below, I see that an expected skirmish has broken out between conservatives who say government agencies (especially under Obama) want to dictate what we can watch and read and believe and so forth, and liberals trying to argue this down.I don't know who I'll convince with this post, but I just want to write in support of your average bureaucrat, who works hard for not really much pay and who is typically very disciplined about trying to remain nonpartisan. I know several such people. They are serious and dedicated folks. They're in the jobs they're in because of their expertise and are usually sacrificing income to be there. And they are very serious about staying out of politics. I've chatted with Justice Department lawyers who you just knew were basically liberals, but if you started to talk about politics and Karl Rove or whatever (this was back in the Bush days), they got nervous and they made it clear that they didn't make political judgments. They work through Democratic and Republican administrations, and they have a code to follow, and they follow it.Today, we live in an environment such that bureaucrats who want simply to do their jobs are pegged as socialists by definition; after all, they're government, and if they try to perform the tasks assigned them, they are big government made flesh, and hence evil. It's patently insane. Read kattw at 4:03 for sound wisdom on this question.Our civic bloodstream is just so full of poisonous lies now that stating a simple truth like this, or a bureaucrat simply trying to carry out her job as the law says, is a matter of contention. It's like having to reargue whether the earth is flat or round. Or how old the earth is. Oops, sorry I brought that one up...United StatesUS domestic policyMichael Tomasky 以下のリンカーンのスレッドで、私は予想される小競り合いはオバマ、特に下の政府機関（と言う保守派の間で壊れている）を参照し、私たちが見ることができる、読み取りと信じてなどと、リベラル派このdown.Iを主張しようとして指示する誰私はこの記事で納得させるか分からないけど、私はハード本当に多く払っていない、誰の作品の平。官僚のサポートへの書き込みをしたいが、通常は非常に超党派のままにしようとして約規律です
- Michael Tomasky: Pennsylvania Senate, and the question of analogies
Pennsylvania Democrats will vote next Tuesday in a crucial Senate primary between Arlen Specter, the Republican-turned-Democrat who's trying to hold on to his incumbency, and Joe Sestak, the House member and Navy veteran challenging him. The winner will face GOPer Pat Toomey, a pretty hard-right anti-tax candidate.TPM has a good summary of the state of play here. Basically, some polls just came out showing that Sestak might be ahead. Other polls looking toward the general show that Sestak has at least basically caught up with Specter against Toomey, though both trail him by a few points.Sestak released an ad that you can watch here about Specter's party switch. If seeing George W. Bush again makes you want to drink strychnine, it's pretty devastating. Specter couldn't possibly look more oleaginous. This ad will be shown to budding future politics as a reminder that in this day and age they need to watch every word they say and watch how they say it.If Sestak wins, the media will draw instant parallels with what just happened to Bob Bennett in Utah, on the mere basis that it's another incumbent being tossed out by moblike angry primary voters.It's a pretty superficial comparison, I think, because it's just not as if Pennsylvania Democrats - who as we recall from the 2008 primary are not flaming liberals but largely blue-collar, moderate-to-liberal voters - are the left-wing equivalent of the tea party. It's a totally different dynamic.And this raises this larger question of comparisons and analogies. It's one of the running clashes on our comment threads, as you know, that I write something about the right, and conservatives always counter with some vaguely similar thing about the left, but usually the two aren't really very similar upon inspection.I'd like to lift this ペンシルベニア州民主党は来週の火曜日アーレンスペクター、共和党出身の民主党彼の在任期間に保持しようとしている、とジョーSestak、ハウスのメンバーと海軍のベテラン、彼に挑戦間の重要な上院選挙で投票する
- Michael Tomasky: Israel and Congress
If you wonder sometimes why it's so hard to change US policy toward Israel, consider this confluence of events.Bibi Netanyahu announced yesterday that Israel is easing the blockade. In the meantime, Aipac has released a letter that circulated Friday that 85 senators signed on to urging Obama to stand tall with Israel and face down the UN if it gets up to making a new set of demands on Israel. The letter justifies the blockade thus:We fully support Israel's right to self-defense. In response to thousands of rocket attacks on Israel from Hamas terrorists in Gaza, Israel took steps to prevent items which could be used to support these attacks from reaching Gaza. Israel's naval blockade, which is legal under international law, allows Israel to keep dangerous goods from entering Gaza by sea. The intent of the measures is to protect Israel, while allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza.In other words, exactly while Israel is slightly softening its position, the vast majority of US senators signs a letter defending the old position. Aipac has a strong hold on the US Congress, and that will not change. In fact, the more a presidential administration shows signs of wanting to make demands of Israel, the stronger that hold gets.The list of signatories is here. Every Republican signed except Jim Bunning of Kentucky, and the Democrats who didn't sign are mostly liberals who feel secure in breaking from the Aipac position and have sometimes done so in the past (John Kerry, Russ Feingold, Chris Dodd) or who represent states that don't have many Jewish voters (Jay Rockefeller of you know where). Meanwhile Obama and Bibi are meeting again July 6.US CongressIsraelMichael Tomaskyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Condition あなたは時々、なぜそれが一生懸命、イスラエルに対する米国の政策を変更するかしら場合は、events.Bibiネタニヤフこの合流は21日、イスラエルが封鎖を緩和することを発表しました検討します
- Michael Tomasky: Intellectual consistency can be overrated
When we write about libertarianism, most liberals feel compelled to say something like, you know, I disagree with that viewpoint, but I respect that it's principled and intellectually consistent.I say balderdookey. Libertarianism is kookoo. There can be no such thing as a basically stateless society (except for national defense and barest administration of law, I think are the exceptions they typically allow for). It's just ridiculous. Civil society would collapse without the state.I've written this before, a few months ago. Conservatives, and libertarians, seem to think that we have regulations in this society because we have a bunch of underemployed pencil pushers sitting around dreaming up ways to make small business people's lives miserable.It's ridiculous. We have regulations because throughout history people in various pursuits did really sleazy and unethical things. They swindled investors, they dumped toxins into bodies of water, they made children work long hours for slave wages. Et cetera. And so laws were passed and regulations were written.And unfortunately such is man's endless capacity for sleaze and unethicality that this process will never end: as technology presents new ways to be sleazy, we'll always need to invent new ways to prevent sleaze from happening.Yes, fine. Some regulations are onerous. Liberals should always be sensitive to legitimate concerns along these lines.But you need a state. Time and history have proven no one else will perform these tasks.So there's nothing in the least inellectually respectable about libertarianism. Intellectually consistent? Great. So was Goebbels. That doesn't mean much to me.We all support a few libertarian-ish principles; we all agree that the state should have some limits. For example, I think it's perfectly f 私たちは約リバタリアニズムを書く、最もリベラル何かのように、あなたが、私は視点に反対するけど、私は尊重してそれが理にかなっている知的consistent.Iはbalderdookeyと答えを得ないと感じる
- Britain wakes up to new political era
LONDON - Britain woke up to a new political era Wednesday with the first coalition government since World War II - an unlikely marriage between the Conservative Party and the left-leaning Liberal Democrats.With a handshake, smiles... ロンドンは - イギリス新しい政治の時代に水曜日最初の連立政府との二次世界大戦以来、目が覚めた - 保守党と左派リベラルDemocrats.With間そう結。握手、笑顔...
- Face to faith | Ian Bradley
Liberals across all faiths should create a coalition to turn the fundamentalist tideThe compromises of coalition government are presenting many of us who are political liberals with the unsettling prospect of seeing cherished principles watered down in favour of policies driven by conservative ideology. For theological liberals this is an all too familiar state of affairs. For much of the last hundred years theological conservatism and its close ally, fundamentalism, have been in the ascendant across the world's major faiths, and liberalism in steady retreat.The consequences of this are all too clear to see: rising levels of bigotry within and across faiths, judgmental attitudes leaving no room for generous, fuzzy broad-mindedness, and an obsessive interest in sexual behaviour expressed especially in rampant homophobia.Increasingly, the divisions within Christianity are not denominational but rather between liberals and conservatives. Powerful new alliances are being forged between Roman Catholics, evangelical Protestants and Pentecostalists against abortion, homosexuality and liberalising social and cultural tendencies. It is not inconceivable that fundamentalist Muslims and Jews will soon also be entering these coalitions.What can those of a liberal theological inclination do in the face of this fundamentalist tide? We, too, need to band together across both denominational and faith boundaries. There are strong liberal traditions within all three of the great monotheistic faiths. In Judaism it is the rabbinic approach of imaginative interpretation of the Torah, so different from the literalism of the scribes and the Pharisees with whom Jesus clashed. In Christianity it is that grace-filled universalist impulse that stretches back from the Broad Church movement of the 自由党はすべての宗教者大事原則を政策保守的なイデオロギーによって駆動に有利な水で見ることの不安の見通しとの政治的リベラルている私たちの多くを提示さ連立政権の原理tideTheの妥協を有効にするために作成してください
- U.S. House rejects pullout from Afghanistan
U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to reject a bill demanding President Barack Obama pull troops out of Afghanistan.
The House defeated the bill by a 356-65 vote, introduced by Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich. 60 liberal Democrats and 5 Republicans supported the bill.
The bill demands Obama to pull all troops out of Afghanistan 30 days after the bill becomes law, or by the end of the year, should he deem the 30-day timeline too much of a risk.
Kuci ... 米下院は27日に圧倒的多数で法案バラクオバマ大統領はアフガニスタンの撤退要求を拒否することを決めた
- Geert Wilders's election success could be a mini-earthquake
The Freedom party has seats in just two of the 393 Dutch local authorities, but June's general election may bring more winsOf the 393 local authorities in he Netherlands, the far-right Freedom party of Geert Wilders will be sitting in only two. Of the thousands of local councillors, a mere 17 followers of Wilders have just been elected.It seems slight. But Wednesday's ballot across Holland represents a mini-earthquake nonetheless. The tall, bleached-blond iconoclast with his noisy anti-immigrant tub-thumping has notched up another victory.Only a few years ago the anti-establishment maverick cut a lonely figure, sitting alone in the second chamber of the Dutch parliament. These days he and his lieutenants occupy nine of the 150 seats. Come the general election on 9 June, according to the pollsters, he could muster thee times that, making him either a potential prime minister or kingmaker in the Dutch coalition system.Last year his Freedom Party also came second in The Netherlands in the European elections, trouncing the social democrats of the Dutch Labour party. He did particularly well then in The Hague, the seat of government, and the central town of Almere, which explains why, with meagre resources and staff, he targeted the same two places on Wednesday.The strategy paid off. In Almere Wilders took nine seats to be the strongest single party, in The Hague he took eight, two seats behind Labour.The two big parties, the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats (CDA and PvdA) in coalition government until their collapse 10 days ago, fared badly in the local elections, haemorrhaging support to liberals, the Greens, and Wilders.While Wilders lacks the personnel to run nationally for the local authorities, he insists he has enough candidates lined up to contend nationa 自由のパーティが、わずか2 393オランダ語、地方自治体の議席は6月の総選挙よりwinsOf彼はオランダでは、2つだけに座ってされるGeertワイルダーの一番右の自由の当事者は、393の自治体をもたらす可能性があります
- Why equality matters to us | Aaron Goldstein
Liberal Judaism looks forward to celebrating civil partnerships under its roofs. We hope that other religions follow suitIn 2005, the rabbinic conference of Liberal Judaism published Covenant of Love, a service of commitment for same-sex couples, and in doing so became the first religious movement in the country to produce official liturgy for this purpose. The same-sex commitment ceremony affirms the importance and holiness of marriage and Jewish family life. We remain steadfastly committed to the justice of civil partnerships and we see this as an extension of our belief that all are equal and created b'tselem Elohim – in the image of God. Our rabbis have long acknowledged that modern ethical, psychological and scientific insight demands a change in traditional attitudes to same-sex relationships, and have welcomed lesbians and gay men as members of its congregations, as teachers and as rabbis. We truly celebrate this inclusion and with it the enrichment that it brings to our community.Liberal Judaism's engagement in such ceremonies is not forced on our rabbis or congregations. Our rabbis have simply created the possibility for an affirmation of the sanctity of a loving and committed same-sex relationship within the bounds of Judaism. Neither do we seek to enforce our beliefs and practices on any other religious denomination, Jewish or otherwise. However, we have seen that our courage in making such blessings possible has emboldened other religious movements and individuals to follow suit, albeit timidly at times.Likewise, the amendment to the equality bill, proposed by Lord Alli, does not seek to force any organisation or individual to do anything in respect of civil partnerships. It merely allows those who wish to do so to open the doors – literally – to their house リベラルなユダヤ進む市民のパートナーシップを祝うため、その屋根の下に見えます
- Michael Tomasky: Too slow? Yes
I can't find the piece now, so maybe I'm fooling myself, but I think I wrote at some point back in late 2007 or early 2008 that there was something Barack Obama could learn from Rudy Giuliani.Giuliani was usually really good during a crisis at giving the appearance of being in total command of the situation. Whether he was in command in fact was a more complicated question. During certain police shootings, especially of black kids by white cops, he often shot from the hip. And during 9-11, to take the most obvious example, the only reason he was running around in lower Manhattan like that was that he'd built his infamous emergency bunker in...the World Trade Center, the only building in the city that had been the target of a previous large-scale terrorism attack.So the facts weren't always so great for him. But by God, he looked like he was in charge. Being a chief executive, and looking and acting like one, came naturally to him -- as it does to some people, and not to others.Chief executive-ness does not come naturally to Obama. But he'd better be aware of this and compensate for it. If I'd been advising him, I'd have said: fly back to Washington the day after Christmas. Don't just be engaged and concerned, as I have little doubt he was from Hawaii. Look engaged and concerned. In our climate, the latter is as important as the former. Cancel your vacation. Head back to your desk.He and his people probably thought: no, that would just alarm people. Since we've been discussing ideology and psychology, I'd say that line of thinking (assuming it was part of their calculations) is very reflective of a liberal mindset. The conservative mind is more likely to want to provoke some degree of alarm and concern -- think back to the days of calls for constant vigilance against the 私は今ので、多分私は自分だましている部分を見つけることができますが、私はいくつかのポイントに戻る時は、2007年末か2008年初めには、何かがバラクオバマルディGiuliani.Giulianiから学ぶことができると書いたと思う通常は本当に良い時にされた状況の合計コマンドの中にいるの外観を与えるの危機
- Republicans win key seat in Senate
Scott Brown becomes 41st Republican in Senate after defeating Democrat Martha Coakley in historically liberal stateRepublican Scott Brown today captured the US Senate seat long held by liberal icon Ted Kennedy, leaving Barack Obama's health care overhaul in doubt and marring the end of his first year in office.Brown's defeat of Martha Coakley for the Massachusetts seat signalled big political problems for the Democrats in November, when House of Representative, Senate and gubernatorial candidates are on the ballot.More immediately, Brown will become the 41st Republican in the 100-member Senate, which could allow the Republicans to block the president's health care legislation and the rest of Obama's agenda. Democrats needed Coakley to win for a 60th vote to thwart Republican procedural manoeuvres to block votes on legislation.The election transformed reliably Democratic Massachusetts into a battleground state. One day shy of the first anniversary of Obama's swearing-in, it played out amid a backdrop of animosity and resentment from voters over persistently high unemployment, industry bailouts, exploding federal budget deficits and partisan wrangling over health care.For weeks considered a long shot, Brown rode that wave of bitterness to draw even with Coakley in the final stretch of the campaign. Surveys showed his candidacy energised Republicans while attracting disaffected Democrats and independents uneasy with where they felt the US was heading.With 87% of precincts counted, Brown led Coakley, 52% to 47%.Even before the polls closed, Obama administration officials and Coakley's supporters were blaming each other. Administration officials privately accused Coakley of a poorly run campaign. They played down the notion that Obama or a toxic political landscape had much スコットブラウン41共和党の上院での歴史的なリベラルstateRepublicanスコットブラウン、今日民主党のマーサCoakleyを撃破した後になると、疑問のバラクオバマ氏の医療改革を残して、米国の上院議。長いリベラルのアイコンテッドケネディ開催を捕獲し、就任1年目の終わりにmarringマサチューセッツ州の席をマーサCoakleyのブラウン氏の敗北、11月に下院議員、上院議員や知事選の候補者のballot.More直ちにされている民主党にとって大きな政治的問題の合図、ブラウンのメンバーの上院は41の100で、共和党になるは、オバマ氏の議題の残りの部分は、大統領の健康法をブロックする共和党の可能性があります
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