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  • Professor Jay P. Greene, a professor at the University of Arkansas, has this to say about the standards from a conservative dissenter's perspective:

    Alan Gottlieb: Hold the Center 2010

  • Professor Jay P. Greene, a professor at the University of Arkansas, has this to say about the standards from a conservative dissenter's perspective:

    Alan Gottlieb: Hold the Center 2010

  • It's a straw man, because most of the time the writer never explores what the logic of the dissenter's moral system is.

    Balkinization 2007

  • So the lesson here is that the neo standard operating procedure of taking any dissenter's words out of context, and projecting meanings that were obviously not intended, actually works.

    Where's a DSM-IV when you really need one? CC 2009

  • As apologies that do not spring from changed minds mean nothing, this must be seen for what it is: the kind of recantation squeezed by an inquisition from some unfortunate, a denial of conscience for the sole purpose of grinding the dissenter's face into the dust, the better that he may eat his words.

    Friday updates -- and a look ahead to my own show trial - Ezra Levant 2008

  • As apologies that do not spring from changed minds mean nothing, this must be seen for what it is: the kind of recantation squeezed by an inquisition from some unfortunate, a denial of conscience for the sole purpose of grinding the dissenter's face into the dust, the better that he may eat his words.

    Ezra Levant: June 2008 Archives 2008

  • He sued in Canada, exercising his so-called dissenter's rights to seek a higher price from a court.

    Cash Is King 2008

  • George Bush has brought these very same ideas into actuality with his war on Iraq, his disregard for the deaths of innocent Iraqis and US soldiers, and with his latest dictatorial decree that a dissenter's property can be seized without due process of law.

    From Nazism to Neo-cons to Bushism 2007

  • Conscientious Objection: This kind of protest may be understood as a violation of the law motivated by the dissenter's belief that she is morally prohibited to follow the law because the law is either bad or wrong, totally or in part.

    Civil Disobedience Brownlee, Kimberley 2007

  • However, although sometimes advance warning may be essential to a dissenter's strategy, this is not always the case.

    Civil Disobedience Brownlee, Kimberley 2007

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