Word: leftist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mean, we are who we are, folks, and human nature is what it is,” Limbaugh said in remarks that, if he heard them, would have undoubtedly made Summers cringe. “And when you have these extreme leftist movements like militant feminism come along and try to change basic human nature, they may even get away with the illusion of success for a while, but it always comes back and catches up with them...
...France's iconic postmodern intellectual. A writer, director, philosopher and humanitarian activist, he has been called everything but shy. Since he burst into public view in 1977 as a founding member of the "new philosopher" movement - which urged action over purely conceptual thought, and broke leftist ranks by denouncing Soviet communism as fascism - the mediagenic BHL (as he's usually known) has been relentless. He has published countless essays and more than 30 books, including his 2003 "investi-novel" Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, a partly fictionalized investigation of the people and places that led to the Wall Street Journal reporter...
...received strong backing not only from the Fatah rank and file, but also from Hamas, which is formally staying out of the presidential race. The margin of Abbas's victory - he won 62 percent of the vote, compared with some 20 percent for the only significant challenger, the independent leftist human rights campaigner Mustafa Barghouti (no relation) - hewed pretty much to the predictions of the leading Palestinian polling organization. But the same polls found that, had Marwan Barghouti remained in the race, the jailed militant would have beaten Abbas by a four-point margin...
...group, was relieved that she was not seated next to Trager—seating a notorious activist next to a notorious conservative would have been a little too sadistic, she thought. Red Stater Dell didn’t mind when Menendez, Mackinnon and a host of leftist FM editors started talking about who had cried the hardest after election...
...News’s America, of course, Cambridge, Mass., is definitively blue. In the last election, Cambridge gave George W. Bush less than 13 percent of the vote. The city has long been seen as a beacon of leftist thought—but just how leftist is it? A couple of The Crimson’s most ideologically impervious reporters embarked on a tour of some of the local establishments that earned the city the moniker “the People’s Republic of Cambridge...