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liberal | Definition of liberal in English by Oxford Dictionaries

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1Willing to respect or accept behaviour or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas.

liberal views towards divorce

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unbiased, unprejudiced, prejudice-free, accepting, non-partisan, neutral, non-aligned, non-judgemental, non-discriminatory, anti-discrimination, objective, disinterested, dispassionate, detached

liberal citizenship laws

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tolerant, unprejudiced, unbigoted, broad-minded, open-minded, enlightened, forbearing

a liberal democratic state

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progressive, advanced, modern, forward-looking, forward-thinking, progressivist, go-ahead, enlightened, reformist, radical

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2attributive (of education) concerned with broadening a person's general knowledge and experience, rather than with technical or professional training.

the provision of liberal adult education

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3(especially of an interpretation of a law) broadly construed or understood; not strictly literal.

they could have given the 1968 Act a more liberal interpretation

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flexible, broad, loose, rough, non-restrictive, free, general, non-literal, non-specific, not literal, not strict, not close

4Given, used, or occurring in generous amounts.

liberal amounts of wine had been consumed

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abundant, copious, ample, plentiful, generous, lavish, luxuriant, profuse, considerable, prolific, rich

Sam was too liberal with the wine

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generous, magnanimous, open-handed, unsparing, unstinting, ungrudging, lavish, free, munificent, bountiful, beneficent, benevolent, big-hearted, kind-hearted, kind, philanthropic, charitable, altruistic, unselfish

1A person of liberal views.

a concern among liberals about the relation of the citizen to the state

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Middle English: via Old French from Latin liberalis, from liber free (man). The original sense was suitable for a free man, hence suitable for a gentleman (one not tied to a trade), surviving in liberal arts. Another early sense generous (compare with liberal (sense 4 of the adjective)) gave rise to an obsolete meaning free from restraint, leading to liberal (sense 1 of the adjective) (late 18th century).

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Trump’s Sons Kill a Triceratops on Hunting Safari …

Donald Trump's two sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, have killed a Triceratops, and other Dinosaurs on a hunting trip, liberals believe. Watch what happened when media analyst Mark Dice told San Diegans the Trump kids shot and killed a Triceratops, Sabre-Tooth Tiger, a Woolly Mammoth and a Pterodactyl.

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Urban Dictionary: liberal

U.S.Pejorative and dismissive term used by self titled patriots to collectively refer to all that is wrong with the world and any individual or group who does not agree with them.Uses:1). Euphemism: frequently applied in instances where the user would prefer to use more derogative racial, religious and class slurs but is afraid to reveal their true beliefs publicly.2). Political: Applied to all opposing belief systems that do not priorly qualify for inclusion under the definition of pure evil. (See: Other Nations).3). Religious: applied to groups or individuals that do not demonstratively subscribe to any or all of the holy trinity or Guns, Gold and God. (Refer: Godless Liberals).4). Education: Applied to anyone who uses words such as demonstratively (Refer: Educated Liberal Elite).5). Civil rights: Applied to anyone or organisation seeking to restrict the inalienable conservative right to discriminate against, deny liberty to or restrict personal freedoms of those they dont like, disagree with or fear. (Hist: Afro Americans, Mexicans, Homosexuals).

Rest of World (See: Unamerican)Liberal: Noun: Individual of liberal views.Origin Middle English via old French (see: pure evil) from Latin Liberalis, from Liber meaning Free (man).Mass Noun: Liberality: open to new ideas and free from prejudice.Verb: Liberalise: Loosen or remove restrictions on a society, economy or political system.Adjective: Broaden general knowledge; Generous measure or distribution.

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Liberals dominate Democrats’ 2020 jockeying – POLITICO

Bernie Sanders showed in 2016 that an unabashed liberal with a fervent following could reach the cusp of the Democratic nomination. Now a slew of progressive Democrats are following his lead.

More than two years before the next presidential primaries, roughly a dozen potential candidates pushing liberal economic agendas are making initial moves in preparation for a run. Sanders himself has visited early-voting states. Fellow senators including Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Jeff Merkley of Oregon have been meeting with activists. And governors such as Montanas Steve Bullock are hiring political teams. Even a handful of mayors have started getting into the action.

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Indeed, the lions share of activity among potential 2020 hopefuls so far is on the progressive end of the Democratic spectrum an indication of a broader ideological swing in a party struggling to be seen as more populist.

The maneuvers shed light not only on the contours of Democrats aggressive march toward 2020, but also how fundamentally Sanders 2016 bid reshaped ambitious pols views of what arguments break through in the age of President Donald Trump.

Of the names being talked about [California Sen. Kamala] Harris, [Los Angeles Mayor Eric] Garcetti, [Connecticut Sen. Chris] Murphy, [New York Sen. Kirsten] Gillibrand, and a long list of others almost all have staked out positions on Medicare-for-all, immigration and the economy which are more progressive than any Democratic nominee since 1972, said Howard Dean, a former Vermont governor and Democratic National Committee chairman who ran for president as a liberal insurgent in 2004.

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Its about damn time, added retired Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, the liberal stalwart who ran for president in 1992.

Across the country, Democratic pols have flocked to embrace many of the policy proposals that animated Sanders 2016 campaign, from increasing the minimum wage to lightening college debt loads. And in the Senate, the health care debate has revealed a similar dynamic: potential 2020 hopefuls Harris, Warren, Merkley, Gillibrand and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker have announced they will co-sponsor their Vermont colleagues Medicare-for-all bill, and Murphy has proposed an alternative to a single-payer system while praising Sanders.

Sanders still looms large enough that for Democrats considering presidential runs, the first question they must consider is how a potential Sanders bid would affect their own campaign, said multiple leading Democratic operatives. The Vermont independent has refused to rule out a 2020 run and has made political waves by visiting early voting states Iowa and New Hampshire repeatedly this summer.

Sanders who remains in touch with Harkin, and whose top two 2016 Iowa operatives are back in the state has also made political trips to battleground states including Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

But his presence hasnt stopped other potential presidential hopefuls from moving toward running, even as they are quick to give him partial credit for forcing the party to move left.

The primary electorates expectations have started moving as well, according to party officials in influential states.

Its migrating that way due to the influence of Bernie Sanders and the impact he had of drawing in that group of people, said Linn County, Iowa, Democratic Party Chairman Bret Nilles. That wing of the party is starting to become more vocal and more engaged.

Aside from Sanders, Warren is the most prominent potential progressive contender, much as in the run-up to 2016, when pieces of the apparatus dedicated to drafting her turned into the basis for Sanders campaign. She is holding donor meetings, having sit-downs with influential activists and making speeches to liberal groups like those gathered at last months Netroots Nation conference. In the run-up to her 2018 reelection and possible 2020 bid, she has also brought on new digital staffers in a likely prelude to a grass-roots fundraising and organizing campaign like the one Sanders ran nationwide.

Sanders lone Senate endorser in 2016, Merkley is also taking far more advanced steps toward a potential bid than is widely recognized.

For months, Merkley has been convening liberal outside groups in his Senate office every two weeks to help guide the messaging and tactics of the Trump opposition. Beginning as an effort to talk about pressuring a President Hillary Clinton on Cabinet picks, Merkleys meetings have turned into convening points for senators including Warren, Sanders, Harris, Murphy, Booker and other possible 2020 hopefuls like Ohios Sherrod Brown, in addition to Hawaiis Brian Schatz.

Merkley is also increasing his presence in early voting states. After placing an op-ed in The Des Moines Register just before Labor Day praising Iowas long, proud populist tradition and noting its outsized role in national politics the second-term senator swung through Iowas capital over the weekend for an event hosted by the Progress Iowa group and town hall-style meetings with students at Harkins institute at Drake University.

Merkley who, like Sanders, keeps in touch with Harkin also scheduled roughly half a dozen private weekend meetings with local donors and liberal activists who are central to the nominating process.

But with Democrats viewing Trump as vulnerable, and upstart progressives feeding off grass-roots energy, the list of potential left-leaning contenders goes far beyond the traditional Senate and gubernatorial routes.

Theres a big reset happening in the Democratic Party right now, so you might as well get out there, said Sean Bagniewski, chairman of Iowas Polk County Democratic Party. People who are calling Iowa have three traits: Theyre a new face in some ways, theyre bolder in their message they know were not going to beat Trump by being Trump, but times are drastic and theres a much more economic focus than ever before.

Former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, for one, has told donors he sees room for a possible nationwide run within Sanders political lane. After falling short with a 2016 Senate bid, Kander launched a voting rights group and quickly became a mainstay in the state Democratic Party speaking circuit. Hes made multiple visits to both New Hampshire which he quietly visited last week to have drinks with the board of the Young Democrats group and Iowa.

Activists immediately ascribed presidential intentions to his groups move last month to open field offices in Iowa, New Hampshire and fellow early-voting state Nevada, dispatching his former campaign manager to run the show in Iowa.

And Garcetti, who visited New Hampshire last month, isnt the only mayor making moves.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has talked to political allies and donors about carving out a broader national stature after whats expected to be a wide reelection victory later this year, pitching the idea of doing a speaking tour all over the country.

Even Pete Buttigieg the 35-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who this year ran unsuccessfully to lead the Democratic National Committee is taking a run at it, with four events in central Iowa over the weekend.

Well stand up to a president who cheapens the most respected office in our land with the heart of a miser, the mind of a cheater, and the soul of a schoolyard bully, Buttigieg said there on Sunday.

Centrist Democrats have for months chafed at the notion that Sanders ideas and politics are ascendant within the party.

But so far before the voting process formally starts, the potential left-wing contenders have faced little blowback.

For too long, liberals, progressives, whatever you want to call them, have been following the polls to a deleterious effect. Theyre chasing poll numbers around, said Harkin, embracing the shift.

Politics is essentially winning the hearts and minds of people, and you cant win the hearts and minds of people by telling them that youve lost yours, and could they please point you in the right direction. And thats what weve been doing.

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EXCLUSIVE – Gay Porn Kingpin Michael Lucas: Muslim Homophobia …

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by Aaron Klein9 Oct 20170

Lucas slammed liberals for being largely silent amid increasing reports of gay people being persecuted in the Muslim world. And he said that he has noticed a trend in which theleft-wing focuses on a specific countrys leadership instead of political Islam when attributing blame for anti-gay policies and actions.

Lucas said he is noticing a trend in which more and more gays are leaving their base and the party line because the party line is Islam is a good thing. Islam is our friend.

Lucas is the founder and CEO of Lucas Entertainment, New Yorks largest gay adult film company and one of the biggest gay porn production companies in the world.

He was speaking in an interview Sunday night on this reporters talk radio program, Aaron Klein Investigative Radio, broadcast on New Yorks AM 970 The Answer and NewsTalk 990 AM.

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Fifty-seven people were reportedly arrested by Egyptian authorities in recent days in what the news media have described as the widest crackdown on the countrys gay community.

According to Amnesty International, as well as lawyers for some of those detained, forced anal exams were carried out on some of the individuals accused of having homosexual sex. Egyptian Judicial sources cited by Reuters did not deny the anal examinations, instead defending the procedures as legal and not a form of abuse, as human rights organizations have charged.

Lucas said the liberal world has been struggling to react to the events in Egypt and other recent reports of homophobia across the larger Islamic world.

He stated:

Now that we are talking about Muslim homophobia, it is becoming very inconvenient for liberals because liberals are apologists for Islam. So it is becoming very inconvenient, and that is why they usually tie it to some specific person; specific bad leader. For example, it would be [Egyptian President Abdel Fattah] Sisi, or it would be in Chechnya the leader [Chechen President Ramzan Akhmadovich] Kadyrov, or it would be one individual that is responsible or maybe at the most one political party, but not political Islam. So that is exactly what is happening here in this situation.

This was happening before Sisi. This is happening all over the Muslim world all of those Muslim countries to one degree or another. For example, in Saudi Arabia, it is a daily routine, while in Egypt there are waves.

Gay Media Censorship

Even though Lucas is a celebrity in Western gay culture, he said that most gay publicationswhere he regularly penned articles in the past gradually stopped publishing any of hispiecesrelated to Islam. Hecharged thatthis censorship, as helabeled it,escalatedashe started noticing what he described as a change in theattitude of talkbacks within the U.S gay community toward Islam.

Lucas stated: Gays, no matter how much you brainwash them, it is very difficult in the end to say, No, Islam is not an enemy of gay people. So as public opinion of gay people was changing, gay publications, most of them stopped publishing my articles about Islam.

And that is actually very interesting. I could write about anything but not about Islam because gay people should be in their own box It is becoming dangerous that gays are leaving their base and the party line because the party line is Islam is a good thing. Islam is our friend.

The latest crackdown in Egypt, meanwhile,began on Sept. 22 when a handful of attendees at a concert by the Lebanese alternative rock band Mashrou Leila raised a rainbow flag, and the incident went viral on social media. Authorities arrested at least four people for hoisting the flag at the concert.

Reuters further reported on the timeline of events following the concert:

Almost immediately, local media, dominated by state-aligned television personalities, began a campaign against homosexuals, saying they were receiving foreign funding and hosting callers who compared their threat to Islamic State.

Egypts media regulator then banned homosexuals from appearing in the media unless they were repenting, calling homosexuality a shame and a disease that should be kept under wraps, not promoted in order to protect public morality.

The overwhelming majority of those arrested are not involved in the flag case, however, and have simply been arrested over their perceived sexual orientation in the following days. Police have raided homes, parties, and used online dating apps to lure gay men a common tactic in Egypt to arrest most of them, their lawyers say.

Aaron Klein is Breitbarts Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter. He is a New York Times bestselling author and hosts the popular weekend talk radio program, Aaron Klein Investigative Radio. Follow him onTwitter @AaronKleinShow.Follow him onFacebook.

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