Your Search Returned 24 tagged news reports
I dimly remember plans for something similar when John Major was Prime Minister, to be run initially by the Prince's Trust. But the Trust chose to focus its efforts on the most disadvantaged young people. The idea of a universal scheme was taken up by...
Tags: David Cameron, United Kingdom, London, Ken Livingstone, Conservative Party, Scheme, Conservatism, Anglo-Scots, Blind people, David Blunkett, Politics
Ed Balls, the Education Secretary, this week introduced new rules making the study of Darwin’s theory of evolution compulsory in primary schools. Previous guidance has banned Biblically derived ideas that the Earth and species were created suddenly within...
Tags: United Kingdom, Gateshead, Cameron, Conservatism, Tottenham, David Cameron, David Lammy, Conservative Party, Politics, Religion Belief
For some conservatives, including some center-right Democrats, the very point of tackling health care reform is to get health care costs under control. Ezra Klein has a great item today, explaining how the Senate reform bill does just that. If this...
Tags: fiscal conservatives, San Francisco, Fiscal conservatism, Paleoconservatism, Paleolibertarianism, Health care, Healthcare reform in the United States, Classical liberalism, Conservatism, Health Medical Pharma, Politics, Social Issues
But in many Muslim countries the term liberal has been distorted by fundamentalists and become a direct accusation of being an atheist, steeped in immorality, and even corrupt. This misconception, argues renowned columnist and one of the founders of the...
Tags: Kuwaiti, Ahmad Al-Sarraf, NDA, National Democratic Alliance, Kuwait, Jalīb aš-Šuyūẖ, Conservatism, Elections in Kuwait, Liberalism, Liberal Party, Politics, Political ideologies, Social theories
The proposals also widen the remit of the Financial Services Authority to an explicit task of ensuring financial stability, allowing the regulator to collect data from any firm that is deemed to be systematically important, including foreign firms and...
Tags: Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Christopher Kelly, New Labour, Britain, banking laws, proposed tough, Labour Party, United Kingdom, London, Bank, Financial Services Authority, Alistair Darling, Goldman Sachs, Subprime mortgage crisis solutions debate, Council on Foreign Relations, Group of Thirty, Timothy Geithner, Business Finance, Politics, Conservatism, Conservative Party, Social Issues, Lobbying, William Hague, Israel lobby in the United Kingdom, Conservative Friends of Israel, Poju Zabludowicz, Harriet Harman, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal
This past August, I held town-hall meetings across my home state of South Dakota. Through all of the heat and frustration, two main themes emerged as my constituents fundamental concerns: costs and control. Their worries about unrestrained federal spending...
Tags: Sioux Falls, Small Business Administration, Conservatism in the United States, Conservatism, Healthcare reform in the United States, Business Finance, Political ideologies, Social theories, John Thune, Politics
The South West Norfolk Conservative Association met in Swaffham to decide whether to deselect her as their constituency candidate. Local Conservatives said they had not known of the affair when the association selected Ms Truss, 34, as a candidate in...
Tags: David Cameron, Ms Truss, tories mp, United Kingdom, London, Conservative Party, International Democrat Union, Conservative Party of Canada, Politics, Bridge, Mechanics, Structural system, Truss, Turnip, Norfolk, Islamic terrorism, Islamism, Taliban, Tory, ConservativeHome, Conservatism, Georgian era, Jacobitism, Discrimination, Sexism, Affirmative action, All-women shortlists, Eric Pickles, John Maples
But Brewer raised the ire of fiscal conservative Republicans when she pushed a sales-tax increase in an effort to limits cuts to education and social programs conservatives wanted, and now faces at least two solid primary challengers. "I rather suspect...
Tags: spending cuts, tax increase, Phoenix, Paleoconservatism, Paleolibertarianism, Republican Party, Business Finance, Classical liberalism, Conservatism, Fiscal conservatism, Politics
a small business owner who has consistently brought an array of common sense solutions to the forefront. In the early 90s, she was among the first legislators in the nation to recognize the harmful effects of violent music lyrics on teenagers (such as...
Tags: Center for Arizona Policy, Arizonan, Arizona Secretary of State, Jan Brewer, common sense, Clint Van Wuffen, McCain-Palin, Canada, Toronto, Arizona, Conservatism, John McCain, Brewer, Evan Mecham
14 PST Critics decry the healthcare bill as fiscally irresponsible...And let's say you're deciding whether to back two pieces of imminent legislation. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the first bill's spending provisions cost...
Tags: CBO, Congressional Budget Office, Iraq, Baghdad, Paleoconservatism, Paleolibertarianism, Deficit, United States federal budget, Politics, Classical liberalism, Conservatism, Fiscal conservatism, Health Medical Pharma, Business Finance, Social Issues