fringe issue

In the big scheme of things, many things are fringe issues.

Before that, it was something that the left and liberals talked about as a fringe issue.

School prayer excites some passion but it's a fringe issue compared with preschool education.

Still, his comment to Huckabee places him on the extremist side of a fringe issue that could be toxic in a general election.

This isn't a fringe issue anymore.

The tricky question is what are the core values that really define you and what are the fringe issues on which differences are not crucial.

Paradoxically, what is evidently a fringe issue for the Scottish Law Society is becoming quite fraught within the profession.

Largely gone are the disorderly rallies, colonial-era costumes and fixations on fringe issues, such as the provenance of the president's birth certificate.

Richard Perle, who shares Mr. Wolfowitz's view that the Iraqi regime should be overthrown quickly with military force, said, "This has never been a fringe issue."

From the day Ronald Reagan arrived in Washington until just before Saddam Hussein's troops reached Kuwait City, energy policy was a fringe issue in the United States.

He lashed out this week at "the daffies" -local Labor officials he blamed for creating a public image of Labor as having an "obsession" with homosexual rights and other fringe issues.

The presentation of candidates on national television is customarily a contentious issue, with minor candidates complaining of lack of coverage and the major candidates complaining about dilution of campaign on fringe issues.

On his first day in New York City as Schools Chancellor, Dr. Richard R. Green, displayed confidence, flashes of humor and a certain no-nonsense attitude toward what he clearly thought were fringe issues.

But what had for years been a fringe issue in many schools - where parents who urged carrot sticks and carob brownies as treats had sometimes been regarded as slightly offbeat - has moved emphatically into the mainstream.

"The environmental issue has always been a fringe issue, and commercializing it may be the only way to reach the public," said Joseph Daniel, the editor of Buzzworm, an environmental magazine published in Boulder, Colo.

It is far easier to talk about some fringe issues than the substance of tax reform, regulatory reform, Audting the Fed and the role of the Federal government that is now the mainstream Republican position isn't it??

But it is hardly edifying to watch Democrats hanging the fate of America's foreign trade policy on the fringe issue of Alaska's oil, in response to the President's hanging it on the fringe issue of plant closings.

The LibDem obsession with Europe, legalisation of cannabis, civil partnerships, AV etc. represents their ongoing delusion that fringe issues are more important than those which affect our daily lifves and wellbeing, not to mention their disdain for social justice vs. the greedy and corrupt liberalization of schools and health.