Posts tagged with 'left'

Evangelicals Going Left?

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, FEBRUARY 29 2008 07:53 AM | PERMALINK

Could this election cause some evangelicals to move back towards the Left, there once-upon-a-time political home? The Southern Baptist Convention's Richard Land fears just that, and is trying to remind the value voters that, all other values aside, the abortion issue is their biggest one.

Land says he's working to convince evangelicals that they should not abandon "the prioritization of the sanctity of human life and ... the sanctity of marriage."

"It seems to me that when you say to someone, 'Well,...
Ten Things Better Left Unsaid

POSTED BY MALCOLM RAY, FEBRUARY 22 2008 03:24 PM | PERMALINK

The newest column at Veracifier - a friday afternoon installment the weekly stupid: Ten Things Better Left Unsaid. A little something extra to carry you through the weekend.

#10: Kirk Watson (D-TX) unable to name any of Barack Obama's legislative accomplishments.

#9: "Change you can Xerox." - Hillary Clinton on Obama's "verbal plagiarism" in a memorable sound bite in Thursday's debate.

#8 "If [Vicki Iseman] had been hanging around the back of the bus in a thong, I...
It is verified: the right and left live in different worlds

POSTED BY KRISTIN LINDER, SEPTEMBER 13 2007 03:05 PM | PERMALINK

In a simple experiment reported today in the journal Nature Neuroscience, scientists at New York University and UCLA show that political orientation is related to differences in how the brain processes information.

That is right. There is a reason political opponents find each other completely incompetent - they literally process information differently. Oh, the irony of the terms left and right.

From this report it becomes apparent that liberals are more comfortable with 'ambiguity and...