CONSERVATIVE popularity and CONSERVATIVE trends

ONE WEEK into the campaign for the second Greek general election, to be held on June 17th, a poll shows the country’s main anti-bailout leftist party has overtaken its principal promemorandum conservative rival.

Kansas lawmakers may have worked through the weekend with no nap breaks, but the state remains the only one in the nation without a redistricting plan for Congress or the state legislature, and now must leave the decision to a federal court. Lawmakers left Topeka Sunday night -- nine days after the scheduled end of session -- failing to pass the new maps required every decade after the Census. ...

I wrote this morning about Rick Perry's involvement in the Texas Senate primary on behalf of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, and now the Statesman reports on another prominent Texas jumping into the crossfire to defend Dewhurst's chief opponent: Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz on Friday pushed back against a radio ad released yesterday by Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst that portrays Cruz as a sup...

France's Left will comfortably beat the conservative UMP party in next month's parliamentary election, a new poll has shown, as rivalries triggered by Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential defeat splitting the Right-wing vote.

In GOP activist circles it is known simply as the pledge, and over the last generation it has become the essential conservative credential for Republicans seeking elective office. Of the 242 Republicans in the House today, all but six have signed the pledge Read full article >>

Amazon's traditionally quiet shareholders meeting in Seattle was disrupted by protesters Thursday who questioned the company's support of a conservative group, the American Legislative Exchange Council, and its treatment of workers, the Seattle Times reports. Responding to criticism of poor working conditions in its warehouses, Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos showed an aerial photograph of a...

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) -- For Egypt's most conservative Islamists, the country's first competitive presidential election has been a test of their political savvy as they try to plant the seeds for turning the country into an Islamic state....

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The story line on the Republican Senate race in Texas is a now familiar one: A veteran politician supported by the GOP establishment is challenged by a young insurgent backed by national conservative groups....

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. is dropping its affiliation with a conservative political group, in part because of some of the positions the American Legislative Exchange Council has taken, a spokeswoman said Thursday....

Popular Party deal with nationalists will mean that trial-period rule will elapse when jobless rate falls

I’ve been posting quite a bit recently on the disastrous record of the current Conservative government here in Canada, especially in regards to how they treat information, science and the environment. Sadly, I have way too many posts in the works along these lines. The other day a post I saw on the Deciphering Science…

Pre-diamond jubilee surge in royalism hides bad news for Prince Charles, with almost half wanting succession to jump to WilliamAs the Queen prepares to celebrate her diamond jubilee, the royal family is enjoying record popularity, but things could get a good deal more complicated after she leaves the scene, according to a new Guardian/ICM poll.Britain would be worse off without the monarchy say...

Senior Conservative sources say the party's MPs will be allowed a free vote on legalising marriage for same-sex couples.

Elections Canada investigators tried, but failed, in a bid to use allegations levelled by Conservative insiders as a means of coaxing more evidence from a former Tory staffer thrust in the spotlight over the Guelph robo-calls scandal.

It’s a historic day in Egyptian history: voters are headed to the polls to vote for the country’s first president since the ousting of Hos…

TALIQAN- More than 120 schoolgirls and three teachers have been poisoned in the second attack in as many months blamed on conservative radicals in the country’s north, Afghan police and education officials said on Wednesday. The attack occurred in Takhar province where police said that radicals opposed to education of women and girls had used an unidentified toxic powder to contaminate ...

Buy-and-hold fund pro Dan Morris deconstructs the thinking behind some recent picks.

Dan Liljenquist, a conservative Republican, is studying Senator Orrin G. Hatch’s 1976 campaign for tips on how to defeat him.

A group of Conservative MPs elected in 2010 call for "principled conservatism" and more power to be given to individuals and businesses.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration arranged for two Hollywood filmmakers to get special access to government officials involved in the commando operation that killed Osama bin Laden, according to a conservative legal group that posted internal government documents on its website Tuesday.

A disgraced Conservative treasurer gave the party over £200,000 just days before he quit after boasting that 'Premier League' donations would get them meetings with Prime Minister David Cameron.

Publicly traded new TLD company has a solid market value. Top Level Domain Holdings, a pure play company focused on new top level domains, has a market cap of around £ 39 million. That’s over $60 million USD. We’re talking about a company that basically has no revenue. So far it has just been spending [...]

A partnership between conservative and liberal politicians seeks to displace the ascendant Coalition of the Radical Left in coming elections that could determine Greece’s future in the eurozone.

A partnership between conservative and liberal politicians seeks to displace the ascendant Coalition of the Radical Left in upcoming elections that could determine Greece’s future in the eurozone.

The appointment of Guto Harri, pictured, will raise questions about continuing close links between Rupert Murdoch's News International and the Conservative Party.

Crunch talks between the PM and president, at the G8 Summit in Maryland, came as a group of influential Conservative MPs unveiled dramatic emergency proposals to be taken in the event of a currency meltdown.

Conservative ministers have held meetings with executives from Google once a month on average since the General Election, it has been disclosed.

The House beat back an unusual coalition of liberal and conservative lawmakers and approved a contentious $642 billion Pentagon policy bill.

With a sizeable same-sex community and a strong conservative base, it's anyone's guess how Minnesota will vote on a same-sex marriage ban.

A Filipino Christian group wants to block Lady Gaga concerts in Manila, saying she promotes immorality. Conservative Muslims already have forced cancellation of her sold-out gig in Jakarta.

The tension between her conservative upbringing and the unbridled sexuality of the disco era echoed the faith vs. secularity conflicts of artists such as Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye.

Greece's conservative New Democracy party, which backs the country's international bailout, has retaken the lead from the anti-bailout radical leftist SYRIZA, a poll showed on Thursday, the first published since a new election was called for June 17.

The ANC met with conservative Afrikaners last week - an event one critic labelled as 'dangerous'. Charles Leonard reports.

Q: Will President Obama’s lack of leadership on foreign policy be a deciding factor in your vote this November? A: Just take out “lack of” and the answer is yes.

OVER THE past few days, the 12 bishops of the Church of Ireland must have thought long and hard about the fallout from the divisive votes in the General Synod last weekend, and the catastrophic effects of a debate that leaves them sorely divided. The voting has shown the Church of Ireland is deeply divided between North and South, between evangelicals and liberals, and even between conservative...

Manny Pacquiao says he DOES NOT believe gay people should be put to death ... and claims he was horribly misquoted in a recent interview. Manny has been under fire ever since the National Conservative Examiner published an interview in which…

Indonesian police said yesterday they had refused to issue a concert permit for US pop star Lady Gaga, citing objections from conservative Muslim groups.

A new study suggests that the guidelines governments use to determine when to evacuate people following a nuclear accident may be too conservative.

JSBiff sends this quote from MITnews: "A new study from MIT scientists suggests that the guidelines governments use to determine when to evacuate people following a nuclear accident may be too conservative. The study (abstract), led by Bevin Engelward and Jacquelyn Yanch and published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, found that when mice were exposed to radiation doses about 40...

Lady Gaga will have to cancel a June 3rd show in Jakarta Indonesia after she was denied a permit due to protests from religious and political leaders the Associated Press reports  Islamic hard-liners and leaders along with conservative politicians spoke vehemently against the suggestiveness of Gaga's performance – from her clothes...

Citing privacy and $1.5-million in savings, Service Canada will phase out low-tech plastic cards as part of Conservative government’s budget bill

Conservative Texas Republicans are most likely to use electronic technology in voter outreach, according to a new study from researchers at Rice and the Universidad de Monterrey.

Henry Macrory, the veteran Conservative communications adviser, is to leave his post as head of the party's press office.

SOLD-OUT show in doubt after Indonesia's Islamic hardliners and conservative politicians object to singer's provocative clothing.

Progressive Conservative leader striving for ‘non-political’ tone in a series of documents aimed at fixing Ontario’s shortcomings

Evangelical leaders praised Romney over the weekend after he sought to reassure Christians who harbor doubts about his Mormon faith and the depth of his conservative convictions.

Antonis Samaras, the conservative leader, said the radical left coalition Syriza had blocked a last-ditch effort to break the deadlock

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has dismissed a controversial ultraconservative adviser after he publicly criticized reforms aimed at easing restrictions on women, the kingdom's state media reports.

JPMorgan Chase, the biggest US bank, has revealed a surprise trading loss of at least $2bn (�1.2bn) on complex investments made by its traders. Mike Mayo, US banking analyst at investment firm CLSA, told the Today programme that 'thought investments were conservative'

The French left will trounce the conservative UMP party of outgoing president Nicolas Sarkozy in parliamentary elections next month after Francois Hollande won a presidential runoff vote at the weekend, two polls indicated on Friday.

US president Barack Obama said today he believes same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, taking a stand on a divisive issue that is likely to please his political base and upset conservative voters.

By David LjunggrenOTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is acting too slowly to combat climate change and has little chance of achieving its modest 2020 target for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, Parliament's environmental watchdog said on Tuesday.The report by Environment Commissioner Scott Vaughan is awkward for the right-of-center Conservative government, which green activists say is more interested i...

Investors appeared to have shrugged off concerns about European politics on Monday, as stocks rallied out of an early deficit. But U.S. stock futures were trading lower on Tuesday morning, and Greece appears to be the source of the market’s uneasiness. In another sign that the recession in Europe is hurting American companies, watch maker [...]

Muzzling a spokesman because he's gay wasn't the way to quell criticism from the religious right."If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to stand up to Putin?" So asked Bryan Fischer, a radio host with the American Family Assn., after claiming c...

The leader of the Greek conservative party that gained the most votes in parliamentary elections said Monday his efforts to form a coalition government with other parties had failed, raising the possibility of a new election next month.

Ruling marks 15th time Conservative government has been criticized for not allowing a Canadian held in foreign jail to serve sentence at home

Greece's president has handed conservative leader Antonis Samaras the mandate to start coalition-building talks, a day after a national election resulted in a hung parliament.

In Greece, where elections have been held in the shadow of five years of recession, the two mainstream conservative and socialist parties have suffered big defeats.

PARIS — Francois Hollande, a moderate Socialist with an easy smile, was elected president of France on Sunday, exit polls showed, narrowly defeating the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, a conservative whose five-year term was undermined by Europe’s economic crisis and his combative personality. Read full article >>

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron could be removed as leader of the Conservatives to prevent the party losing power in the next national election, a maverick lawmaker from his party warned on Sunday after a humiliating defeat in local elections.

British Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party suffered heavy losses in local elections around the country, adding pressure on a coalition government that has had a series of policy mishaps over the past month.

KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - American industrialist David Koch, a major supporter of conservative causes, said on Thursday his lifelong fascination with dinosaurs drove his $35 million donation to...

Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande will clash in their only television debate, seen as the conservative incumbent's last chance to turn the odds.

Shoe maestro Nicholas Kirkwood has slammed The Duchess of Cambridge for her conservative taste in footwear.

Tim Allen’s sitcom “Last Man Standing," which aired the penultimate episode of its first season last night,  is winding up with far less braggadocio than it began. The show began as part of a triumvirate of ABC sitcoms about masculinity in crisis, men being besieged and bettered women at every turn (the other two were the hapless-if-sweet dad sitcom “Man Up” and the all-time cross-dressing horr...

Despite an elitist reputation, London's Mayor Boris Johnson appears poised for re-election and leadership of the Conservative Party.

Buried within James Risen's interesting New York Times front-pager about the easing of Iran tensions is an even more interesting story about the deep weirdness that is going on within Israel's national security establishment on Iran:  At the same time in Israel, the conservative government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been rocked by a series of public comments from c...

Rock musician and conservative activist Ted Nugent has pleaded guilty to a federal wildlife violation after he failed to track down and kill a black bear he wounded with bow and arrow in Alaska during filming for his reality television show three years ago.  

Fethullah Gulen has long advocated a moderate, tolerant brand of Islam, but critics say his movement is persecuting opponents and working toward a conservative Islamic Turkey.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Rock musician and conservative activist Ted Nugent pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a federal wildlife violation after he failed to track down and kill a black bear he wounded with bow and arrow in Alaska during filming for his reality television show three years ago.

Schechter Rabbinical Seminary announces accept gay and lesbian students for ordination, bringing a bitter feud to an end.

Former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe has made her debut at London's Royal Opera House in La Fille Du Regiment.

Ted Nugent can't resist shooting his mouth off—especially when it comes to his feelings about Barack Obama and his administration. Appearing on conservative Dana Loesch's...

The goalkeeper defended his team's conservative strategy in the latter stages of the game and is confident that Los Blancos can win the return game to progress

As you?d expect, the universe of political blogs is largely split in two, with conservative and liberal blogs rarely covering the same stories or linking to the same sites. But it can be very challenging to tell their political leanings at a glance, especially with names like 'Balloon Juice,' 'Weasel Zippers,' or 'The Volokh Conspiracy.' So, four years ago, I launched a project with Delicious/T...

Calculate your budget using your take-home pay, and stay conservative, a credit counsellor advises

Infosys Technologies suffered an unexpected decline in revenue and net profit in the fourth quarter ended March, compared to the preceding quarter, pushing the IT bellwether to give a very conservative revenue forecast for the new fiscal.

THE Opposition Leader is a modern man, not a conservative from central casting.

Companies looking for vanity domains can hold onto their $185,000 a wee bit longer.

Although it has been described as 'conservative', Transnet's mooted infrastructure upgrade will create jobs, increase exports and meet local demands.

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- Police in this staunchly conservative West Texas city are keeping close tabs on a young entrepreneur's recently opened cleaning service that offers nude maids....

Jonathan Liew: fans across the world feel the impact of a club governed by profoundly conservative impulses.

ORLANDO, Fla./NEW YORK (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co is dropping its membership in a conservative national advocacy group that supports "Stand Your Ground" laws such as the one being used as a defense in the Florida killing of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - During three days of arguments over the Obama healthcare plan, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan put on a display of rhetorical firepower, reinforcing predictions that the newest liberal justice is best equipped to take on the conservative, five-man majority controlling the bench.

Coca-Cola has ended its membership in a conservative group seen as the incubator for laws like Florida's "Stand Your Ground" statute.

Chinese listed insurers, which are also major players in the capital market, are being conservative about their investment strategies this year in light of an uncertain global economy and a domestic slowdown.

To save money for the government and businesses, Canada's conservative government plans to stop minting pennies in April.

Few surprised by Michael Queen’s departure, after a lossmaking year at the private equity group in which his conservative strategy came under fire

The Supreme Court closed an extraordinary three-day review of President Obama’s health-care law Wednesday with its conservative majority signaling that it may be on the brink of a redefinition of the federal government’s power. Read full article >>

With President Obama’s health care law hanging in the balance, a lawyer for the administration faced skeptical questions from the Supreme Court’s more conservative members.

Top-level CAG sources have indicated that the draft estimate on allocation of coal blocks was "conservative".

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- A Saudi Arabian newspaper says Crown Prince Nayef has approved plans for the ultra conservative Muslim country to send female athletes to the Olympics for the first time at the London Games....

Chris Rock and his team are keeping quiet about the actor’s attack on a camera man when conservative author Jason Mattera asked him about his views on the Tea Party being racist. 

THE CONSERVATIVE mayor of London Boris Johnson came to Trafalgar Square yesterday for the St Patrick’s Day festival, but he did not conquer.

(Reuters) - Most of the largest banks passed their annual stress test, according to the Federal Reserve, in a conservative report card that underscored the recovery of the financial sector but called...

A quiet revolution is sweeping across socially conservative Tamil Nadu. The state is witnessing an increase in remarriages of widowed and divorced women. Society also appears to have become more tolerant of what was once considered taboo.

Republicans Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney battled today for conservative support in Mississippi and Alabama ahead of presidential primaries that polls showed have turned into tense three-way ties.

NEWCASTLE  - Britain's Liberal Democrats proposed targeting the rich with a "tycoon tax" only days before they and their Conservative Party coalition partner present an annual budget, in a high stakes gamble to revive the party's flatlining poll ratings. The last-minute proposal is one of several levies on the rich the Lib Dems want included in the budget to pay for the party's key policy ...

NEWCASTLE  - Britain's Liberal Democrats proposed targeting the rich with a "tycoon tax" only days before they and their Conservative Party coalition partner present an annual budget, in a high stakes gamble to revive the party's flatlining poll ratings. The last-minute proposal is one of several levies on the rich the Lib Dems want included in the budget to pay for the party's key policy ...

NEWCASTLE  - Britain's Liberal Democrats proposed targeting the rich with a "tycoon tax" only days before they and their Conservative Party coalition partner present an annual budget, in a high stakes gamble to revive the party's flatlining poll ratings. The last-minute proposal is one of several levies on the rich the Lib Dems want included in the budget to pay for the party's key policy ...

Rush—the Canadian rock group—is pissed at Rush Limbaugh. Rush (the band) realized that the conservative radio host was playing their epic anthems on air and sent Limbaugh's show a cease-and-desist letter demanding their music no longer be used on the air. More »

The lack of incentive to win this year likely led to the conservative approach to treating Andrea Bargnani's calf injury

ROME (Reuters) - The Italian branch of the hackers group Anonymous took down the Vatican's website on Wednesday, saying it was an attack on the Roman Catholic Church's scandals and conservative doctrine.

When greenie blogs posted leaked internal documents saying that the nonprofit Heartland Institute, funded by the conservative Koch brothers, had a program to teach global-warming skepticism in the classroom, few were more surprised than Microsoft. That's because the leaks also revealed that the software giant, which has strong corporate policies to combat climate change, was a donor too, giving...

“Game Change,” an HBO movie to be shown on Saturday, has sparked conspiracy theories among conservative allies of Sarah Palin. The film’s creators deny any political agenda.

Tatas used to be conservative about liberalisation but changed themselves after India globalised its economy and opened up the market in 1991, performing better than other companies, Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata has said.

 INSIDE EDITION reports on the sudden passing of controversial conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, best-known for breaking the Anthony Weiner scandal.

SOCCER ANALYST:The chance to try something different was there last night - Trappatoni refused to take that opportunity

Tony Raines' strategy for the Daytona 500? Conservative, of course. Just check his hood.

Today�s young HRs comes with the latest management thinking, high level of energy, vigor and risk taking ability. But the experienced ones are conservative, slow and cautious.

Guidelines for establishing Irish citizenship for children born abroad to surrogate mothers “badly overlook” ethical concerns surrounding the issue, conservative think tank the Iona Institute has said.

The French telecom operator’s conservative stance on 2012 could leave investors confused

In England, the light illuminating the controversial Health and Social Care Bill is becoming brighter. Despite growing opposition—first from health institutions, and now from Conservative Cabinet ministers—the UK Prime Minister David Cameron and his wounded Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, appear more determined than ever to push the Bill through parliament and onto the statute book in the spr...

MSNBC dropped conservative commentator Pat Buchanan on Thursday, four months after suspending him following the publication of his book.

NEW YORK (AP) -- MSNBC dropped conservative commentator Pat Buchanan on Thursday, four months after suspending him following the publication of his latest book....

As of Wednesday morning Morgan Stanley's and Oppenheimer's were under water Most sell-side Apple (AAPL) analysts are conservative in their earnings estimates but bullish in their price targets. According to Thomson/First Call, the Street high target this week is $700 and the median is a dollar short of $600. (The independent analysts are even more optimistic; the biggest number we've seen is Ro...

Even by conservative measures, the Dow Jones Industrials could top 15,000 in two years. Dow 17,000 is a 50-50 bet.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Three Indian politicians from a morally conservative party, including a women's affairs minister, resigned on Wednesday after being caught watching pornography on a mobile phone during a session of state parliament.

With interest rates likely stuck near zero for nearly three more years, conservative investors—from retirees and college savers to banks and insurance companies—face a tough choice: move into riskier investments or continue coming up short from low-risk investments that aren't even keeping pace with inflation.

Prime Minister David Cameron has responded to the resignation of Energy Secretary Chris Huhne

People with low childhood intelligence tend to grow up to have racist and anti-gay views, says a new study from Brock University, Canada - and right-wing politics play a crucial role.

IT was a year in the markets when boring turned out to be best. Super funds with a conservative focus outperformed growth funds.

CONSERVATIVE broadcaster speaks out on homosexuality, saying young people better understand their sexuality.

In June 2009 we mused in these columns about Long Term Evolution standing for Short Term Evolution as wireless networks started to drown in a data deluge. It is January 2012 and we keep our heads above the mobile data deluge, even if barely, thanks to a gathering avalanche of LTE networks. Even the wildest prognoses proved conservative as the GSMA was betting on a more 'managed' progression...

The fund with the most conservative risk profile (fund E) registered the highest return among the five funds in Chile's private pension system in 2011 at 4.32%, according to statistics published by lo...

MELBOURNE Renegades captain Andrew McDonald shelved his conservative reputation and smashed his team to an emphatic win over the Sydney Sixers.

Artist Tracey Emin says she has been abused and made to feel like an "outsider" by fellow artists because of her decision to vote Conservative.

But financial stake in Twitter may lose billionaire prince favour among more conservative elements in Saudi kingdom

ANKARA (Reuters) - Twenty-two Turks charged with terrorism offences after being arrested at an anti-government protest have been freed on bail after six months in jail in a case that rights activists say highlights the government's growing intolerance toward dissent. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his pious, conservative AK party… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

According to a story in MediaPost.com,  Citigroup estimates online advertising will grow 21% this year, up from 15% in 2010. Citibank estimates online advertising will grow 17% in 2012 and 14% in 2013. “Search will grow more rapidly than online advertising, taking share during the next few years, he said. Growth in display will follow [...]

British Conservative backbench MP Zac Goldsmith tells HARDtalk's Zeinab Badawi that some in the Treasury still see green policy as a 'burden'.

What did Spain do wrong? It is days away from a general election likely to hand the conservative Partido Popular a landslide win. Spanish 10-year government-bond yields hit 6.34% Tuesday, close to the year's high. But there isn't much PP leader Mariano Rajoy can do about it.

ANALYSIS:HEALTHCARE IN the United States is remarkably diverse. In terms of how care is paid for and delivered, many of us effectively live in Canada, some live in Switzerland, some live in Britain, and some live in the unregulated market of conservative dreams.

NEW YORK - Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says nuclear-armed Pakistan is the one place in the world “I worry a lot about,” but believes that the country's military is "quite in control" of its atomic weapons.“It’s well known that we have talked with the Pakistanis about nuclear safety,” she told Newsmax TV, a conservative channel, when asked about the possibility of extremists se...

Early morning in a nearly filled corporate ballroom at the Cobb Energy Centre a second-tier event stadium on the outskirts of Atlanta It's late September and a local conservative think tank is hosting a get-together with Rick Perry whose front-runner comet at the time is still just slightly visible in...

The Conservative Party’s resounding majority in federal elections on Tuesday should be a big plus for Canadian assets and the economy as corporate tax cuts — the backbone of the party’s platform — remain safe. But Bay Street will want to see real progress on cutting the deficit