http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:00:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/08/obama%e2%80%99s-drone-wars-strain-the-liberal-principles-he-espoused-in-2008/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/08/obama%e2%80%99s-drone-wars-strain-the-liberal-principles-he-espoused-in-2008/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2012 02:57:00 +0000 Clara Cullen http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25016 Clara Cullen thinks Obama’s drone strategy is a betrayal of all who supported him. In turn, the silence of all those who voted for “hope” and “change” is worrying; it suggests that the US liberal electorate would rather support Obama, who they perceive as a lesser political evil than his Republican adversaries, than actually questioning the political hypocrisy his foreign policy entails.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/08/obama%e2%80%99s-drone-wars-strain-the-liberal-principles-he-espoused-in-2008/feed/ 83 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/30/when-will-us-republicans-realise-gay-marriage-is-their-natural-bedfellow/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/30/when-will-us-republicans-realise-gay-marriage-is-their-natural-bedfellow/#comments Wed, 30 May 2012 13:00:17 +0000 Clara Cullen http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=24766 Clara Cullen argues that giving government the constitutional power to define what, or more importantly what does not constitute a marriage infringes upon traditional small government values at the heart of US Republican ideology. If they continue to insist on staunchly adhering to socially conservative values, she argues, they will become increasingly out of touch electorally.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/30/when-will-us-republicans-realise-gay-marriage-is-their-natural-bedfellow/feed/ 137