But the rally may have been most significant as a display of the liberal factions' strength in Egyptian politics.
While the war lasted, it emphasized the political differences within the Liberal Party and consolidated Conservative-Liberal Unionist strength.
However, the Conservatives would be nowhere close to retaining power if the Journal de Montréal projection holds true, because of the Liberals' relative strength.
It's a high price: it drains (liberal) black voting strength from neighboring districts, often tipping them over into the control of politicians indifferent to black interests; it discourages grass-roots interracial coalition-building; and it creates a black political class with a vested interest in patterns of residential segregation.
Should the university, for instance, invest in science programs, which are capital-intensive but also draw grant money, or should it bolster its areas of strength, liberal-arts departments like English and religious studies?
These are a liberal education's strengths and they will help you as you move through your working life.
It may be, rather, that the rise of de Blasio signals the growing strength of liberal forces within the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, a development that may actually work to prevent this wing from leading the entire country to the left.
Mickey Mouse's immense popularity and the strength of liberal democratic ideas is no strange coincidence.
Non-disclosing groups on both sides of the aisle -- including the conservative American Action Network, American Commitment and Chamber of Commerce and the liberal Patriot Majority USA, Citizens for Strength & Security, League of Conservation Voters and Planned Parenthood -- have taken aim at Senate and House races.
This is one of the strengths of liberal financial systems which allocate capital in arm's-length markets as well as through banking relationships.
