Conservatives engaged in a racial smear campaign against Mr. Obama put Senator John McCain's election success at risk, and the risk is not only the loss of black Republicans.
Colombia's conflict can be traced to the 1948 assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, a popular politician and Presidential contender, which started the civil war known as La Violencia; Gaitán's Liberals and the rival Conservatives engaged in a vicious bloodletting that lasted a decade and killed as many as three hundred thousand people.
"The conservatives engage the questions of freedom and utopia directly," Ian Morrison, the editor of Platypus's newsletter, said.
The conservatives engage in defensive voting, too, so it's not clear that there will be four votes to review the Ninth Circuit decision in the Prop.
Re "Mort Sahl, Still Simmering After All These Years" (Arts pages, April 27): Why is it that when a liberal engages in vicious name-calling -- like Mort Sahl's branding of the talk-show host Sean Hannity as a fascist -- his words are described as being wickedly satiric, but when conservatives engage in this kind of rhetoric it is branded mean-spiritedness or McCarthyism?
The reason conservatives engage in bouts of Sweden-bashing is that they want to convince us that there is no tradeoff between economic efficiency and equity -- that if you try to take from the rich and give to the poor, you actually make everyone worse off.
This general attitude of getting tough on problems affecting people of color started in the 1960s, and it was mostly conservatives engaging in that sort of rhetoric.
It's about conservatives engaging in rank partisanship in an effort to prevent President Obama from putting anyone on the D.C. Circuit, period.
In fact, although many of the psychology studies that I've surveyed seem to capture conservatives engaging in more intense motivated reasoning, liberals have been caught in the act too.
They were astute businessmen, socially conservative but engaged with the world, and well-versed in manners and mores of the Levant.
