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Introduction. I. Classical Liberalism and the Problem of Boundless Autonomy. A. The Value of Autonomy. B. Autonomy and School-Sponsored Prayer. C. Autonomy, the Self, and Society. D. Coercion and Political Ideology. E. The Anatomy of Coercion. F. Are All Religious Ideas that Are Supported by the State "Coercive "?. G. Brief Summary. II. De Facto Establishmentarianism and National Community Values. A. Definitions. B. Historical Perspective. 1. Separationism Versus Disestablishment. 2. Religious Themes in Early American History. 3. The Role of Religion as Conceived in Eighteenth Century America. 4. Connecting the Analyses of Bellah and Mead. C. "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. D. Analysis. 1. "Sidestep and Avoid". 2. Distinguishing Between the Religious and the Patr...
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Other vignettes in Going Rogue also don't completely check out, ranging from details of her famous gas pipeline negotiations through aspects of how she described her appearance on Saturday Night Live- not to mention her breezy portrayal of her peripatetic college years that mentioned a transfer from a university in Hawaii to her graduation from the University of Idaho without noting or explaining her stops at North Idaho College or Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna College. All of which takes on added importance because her record in public office really is quite short. [...] Palin's brilliant ad-lib (she truthfully says it was not part of the written text) in her national convention speech about a hockey mom being a pit bull with lipstick. [...] her incredibly potent warning against "death ...
... is an attitudinal anti-establishmentarianism combined with a virtue uncorrupted but also comple...
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The left is aghast at today's Tea Party movement. How could Americans of any stripe be so appalled at the exercise of the constitutional right to speak out against big, intrusive - yet unresponsive - government? Our Founders would no doubt be amused at the irony. It was after all, those same issues that provoked them in the first place. Of course, today's liberals would have hated that Tea Party, too.
Lumped together, the left's real criticism of the Tea Party movement is that it is "politically incorrect." That is hardly surprising, considering the source. To liberals, the height of incorrect politics is someone who doesn't share theirs.
... course, this act of anti- establishmentarianism was negated by Benjamin Franklin's effort to have ...
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... over and above mere anti-establishmentarianism. The account undercuts the status of separation as...
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..., on the one hand, Catholic establishmentarianism (Spain) and totalitarian oppression (Poland), and ...
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... what might be called his establishmentarianism. As the studied bonhomie of his public style sugge...
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Unmade Beds Directed by Alexis Dos Santos IFCFilms Opens September 2, IFC Center Alexis Dos Santos shows promise and pitfalls in youth in Unmade Beds A youthful movie made by, about and largely for youdiful hipsters, Alexis Dos Santos's Unmade Beds is an ambitious neo-new wave portrait of wayfaring Europeans looking for love and identity in die bohemian nooks of East London. Widi its inventive mix of freeze frames, eclectic music, and soft-focus gos- samer images- beautifully shot in HD and SuDer 8 film- Unmade Beds revels in its art-pop sensibility, bursting with die spirit of Jean-Luc Godard and Wong Kar-wai.
... characters take dieir anti-establishmentarianism as a given. Both AxI and Vera end up sleeping (sep...
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... into a denominational establishmentarianism comparable to the role of Catholicism in some Euro...
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... salutary ecclesiastical establishmentarianism, and a robust exercise of religious freedom is met...
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... it indicate a strong anti-establishmentarianism on the part of certain people, a willingness and e...