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Some people thought it inappropriate to make comparisons to the free speech debate relating to the cartoons as that centred around people's beliefs rather than an issue of historical fact.
He noted that everyone in the room likely disagrees with one another on many fundamental issues, but so long as speech is free and debate is open, the world will be better off.
Framing things as a debate between free markets and big government just confuses the issue.
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"Kuwait has a long-standing proud tradition of open debate and free speech with free, transparent and inclusive elections and the most robust parliament in the region, " the ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
Open debate and free speech are important.
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Prior to the smoke-free law much of the debate on the legislation centred on protection of bar workers from passive smoke.
One night there was a debate on whether Internet free speech was good or bad.
In economic policy, we are trapped in a debate between ultra-free-market economics and Krugman-style neo-Keynesianism.
Democrats -- noting that a patients' bill of rights has been a hot issue in Congress for five years and that Republicans will be free to offer amendments during the debate -- contend that Republicans are trying to delay debate not because they need more time but because an alternative GOP measure, backed by the White House, does not have enough votes to pass.
However, when lawmakers return from their summer recess next month, Capitol Hill will be abuzz with a debate over whether to keep the Web indefinitely tax free--and it boils down to a good old-fashioned American debate over states' rights.
The amended agreement, announced on a day when the U.S. unemployment rate ticked higher, sets the stage for a debate in Congress over whether free trade with a major Asian nation can deliver the promised benefits or will instead drain U.S. jobs.
Chief executive Richard Burge said the outbreak was a "crisis" for rural Britain yet ministers had refused to free up time "reserved merely for debate on a bill which will not help a single rural family and which would, if enacted, inflict yet another assault on their communities".
"This forum will include a wide open policy debate that every American can feel free to participate in, " the announcement letter reads.
Mr Miliband's stance has been criticised by Labour MP Graham Stringer who said backbenchers should be free to vote in any way as the debate had been organised by the Commons backbench business committee rather than the government or the opposition leadership.
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And there will also be a short debate on the contribution of academies and free schools to educational provision in the United Kingdom.
"It's going to be a free for all, " Nickles said of the pending debate.
The move was the subject of much debate, but the right-hander is free of any such restriction this year.
Rational debate about economics is harder when even modest free-marketeers, such as Britain's Tony Blair and Mr Barroso, are demonised.
The debate today is not between big government and free market capitalism but rather about how we should structure our mixture of these two systems.
By qualifying for 25 to 30 states but avoiding key battleground states, Nader will have enough legitimacy to garner free media and be a part of the national political debate.
Responding to the debate, Health Minister Lesley Griffiths stressed that "free prescription will not be ditched on my watch".
It was understood that Tory MPs would be whipped to oppose the motion but half-way through the debate Mr Pritchard announced the government had allowed a free vote on the matter.
Further questions saw the panel agree that the UK "wasn't getting a good deal from the EU" while debate almost broke out over whether the North American Free Trade Area was a better thing.
It is a debate about leaving funding decisions about the arts to the free choice of art enthusiasts.
America's free-speech culture may have a better chance of fostering such a debate than European political correctness.
Attendees will debate a wide range of economic and security matters such as free trade, terrorism and corruption.
Forbes.com: It seems the debate over GPLv3 is pushing people to choose between the "free software" camp and the "open source" camp.
However the emotion-riddled debate over Marketplace Fairness ends up, the days of tax-free clicks are probably not long for this world.
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