When the Judiciary Committee, still under Democratic control, rejected Bush's nominations of Priscilla Owen and Charles Pickering to appeals-court judgeships, in 2002, the grounds were explicitly ideological, based mostly on Owen's views on abortion and Pickering's on race.
In short, both Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama have adopted the favored position of their ideological base on a subject that profoundly animates both of those camps.
The connection to Israel is the product of a powerful ideological project based on religious and political identity.
But the positive impact is being overwhelmed, as nature is sucked into an ideological vortex based on a fundamental lack of understanding of our dependence on it.
If the United States Supreme Court justices vote along ideological lines based on their view of federalism, it is understandable and historically in accord with how justices perform their work.
Abdulbasset Belhassan, the president of the Tunis-based Arab Institute for Human Rights, said the Islamists "are facing a strategic choice — between keeping an ideological approach based on their old legacy, or entering a new era based on human rights and democracy".
That change would not take place without turmoil within their ranks, but at the end of the day their ideological purity — based on the "absolute sovereignty of Allah" concept — would be corroded by parliamentary participation.
The fact that the rent from council flats funds libraries and leisure centres instead of funding conspicuous consumption doesn't matter to Conservatives – the destruction of social housing is ideological, not based on fiscal responsibility or common sense.
One should not fear denouncing sustainability itself, the big mantra of ecologists from the developed countries, as an ideological myth based on the idea of self-enclosed circulation where nothing is wasted.
Although Mr. Caine's critique of recent Supreme Court decisions as more political and ideological than based on legal principles or precedent hits the mark, his proposal to give each newly elected president the opportunity to add a justice, with the consent of the Senate, would make the court only more political.
