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  • Sen. Chuck Grassley: Health Bill Could Move More "Leftward" -

    WN.com - Articles related to Tea Party "Contract From America" ignores immigration and other key issues 2010

  • An accurate headline would have been "American Opinion Moves Leftward" -- but accuracy was apparently trumped by centrist ideology.

    Jeff Cohen: Americans Move Left, New York Times Misses It 2008

  • Hitch might make moves Leftward on certain issues — maybe on all parochial political issues according to you — but his fundamental ideology, with regard to the big, global, socioeconomic issues and questions, seems to have shifted significantly Rightward.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Islamofascism: 2007

  • Let me put it this way: It is not that the Left and the Right each pick and choose which rights to favor, as you suggest; rather, it is that the Republicans and the Democrats each choose to move Leftward or Rightward, depending on the right in question, or the issue athand.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Islamofascism: 2007

  • “Let me put it this way: It is not that the Left and the Right each pick and choose which rights to favor, as you suggest; rather, it is that the Republicans and the Democrats each choose to move Leftward or Rightward, depending on the right in question, or the issue athand.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Islamofascism: 2007

  • The "compromise" of politics after WWII was a tacit agreement by Labor in the aftermath of major labor unrest, particularly among steel workers and miners, to not move more Leftward.

    Compromise and Co�ptation 2006

  • The influential American media obediently did its part with the January 21, 1947 New York Times proclaiming that, "Some observers here feel that a further Leftward swing in Italy would retard aid."

    The U.S. government hates democracy (lessons from Italy) 2006

  • Thoughts on the Spiritual Condition of America's Leftward Half yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Thoughts on the Spiritual Condition of America\'s Leftward Half'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Following up on a previous discussion question, here are some of my own thoughts.

    Thoughts on the Spiritual Condition of America's Leftward Half 2006

  • I honestly think that the Left is desparate to find a bogie-man on the right now that virtually all real anti-semimitism has migrated Leftward.

    Stick It to Ol’ Joseph Smif | Jewschool 2003

  • Leftward, far away, the ancient aqueduct loops crumbling, dry yellow, out along the Cap, the houses and villas there baked to warm rusts, gentle corrosions all through Earth's colors, pale raw to deeply burnished.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

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