So some liberals voted for Ralph Nader, and George W. Bush moved into the White House.
That is a useful qualification for a politician, but less so for building a successful liberal economy.Despite all this, the Berlusconi government has done some things right, and not only in labour-market and pension reform.
So much for the liberal elite's belief that it's primarily non-New Yorkers and/or bigots who are uneasy with the project's location.
So much for the "liberal bias" in American's newspapers.
Some retailers, such as the sporting and camping gear outfitter REI, are so famous for their liberal return policies that you can find Internet comment threads brimming with one-upmanship: A commenter on a backpacking blog observed that you could feed an item to a bear and REI would still take it back.
During the 15th century, Vlad III ("Dracula"), Prince of Wallachia, is credited as the first notable figure to prefer this method of execution during the late medieval period, and became so notorious for its liberal employment that among his several nicknames he was known as Vlad the Impaler.
I got involved in reconciliation work over a decade ago when a member of one of my former parishes deemed it a "scandal" that it was so easy for our liberal parish to reach out to Jews, Muslims and persons of every other faith or even no faith, provided they were also liberal, yet we had never reached out to Christians worshiping just across the freeway from us at an Evangelical church.
By refusing to engage with them for so long, liberal politicians and governments have left the field to the right, which has been able to mark the boundaries of the argument.
It may not be so easy for liberals in 2015 to understand why many conservatives regard George W. as a sellout.
What made the decision so galling for liberals and moderates, however, was that its reasoning was so sketchy and unconvincing that it seemed like a transparent mask for a predetermined political result.
