Category archive: Conservatism
Evangelicals, Take Note: Gingrich, Romney, Howdy Doody—Anybody but Obama
By Chuck Roger • December 6th, 2011 12:01 am
Updated from Original in American Thinker By Chuck Rogér The Daily Caller quotes an evangelical leader, one Richard Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention: “Mr. Speaker, if you want to get large numbers of Evangelicals, particularly women, to vote for you, you must address the issue of [...]
Ruling Class Alchemy
By Chuck Roger • September 27th, 2011 12:00 am
by Chuck Rogér Routing other people’s money through the government alchemy machine is supposed to somehow magnify national wealth and income, while leaving it in the pockets of those who earned it is somehow a drag. This priceless statement by economist/historian Lawrence Reed accurately encapsulates the attitude of big-government money launderers. The most visible of [...]
Conservatism that Assures the Unthinkable: the Reelection of Barack Obama
By Chuck Roger • September 19th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér It is time that someone said, straight up and out loud, “Enough.“ As America flirts with permanent economic decline, certain GOP presidential contenders talk of gay marriage, Charles Darwin, and religiosity. Are we losing our minds? While the current progressive regime is rife with overbearing economic and social [...]
Will Conservatives Embrace Paul Ryan’s Call to End Corporate Welfare?
By Chuck Roger • May 4th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, May 3, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass power. Corn ethanol, embryonic stem cell research, electric and hybrid vehicle development, and “green” technology in general. Education. All are enterprises with highly-criticized government subsidies. And the vast majority of the criticism comes from conservatives But what of oil, gas, [...]
The pernicious influence of a long-dead Italian Marxist on American morals
By Chuck Roger • April 14th, 2010 9:44 pm
From my American Thinker article on cultural Marxism in the education system: What reduced American education to its current state? In part, the answer lies in cultural Marxism, a societal disease spawned by an Italian, Antonio Gramsci, in the 1920s. Gramsci preached that in order to free “oppressed” social groups, the oppressors’ beliefs must be marginalized. [...]
There’s no such thing as overreacting to progressive nonsense
By Chuck Roger • March 10th, 2010 10:03 pm
It’s not my usual practice to paste huge portions of other authors’ work in this blog. But in this case, reproducing a great analysis by David Horowitz is the only way I can show how dead on Horowitz nails the ways of the “progressive.” From “Progressives and Conservatives“: Conservatives look to the past as a [...]
If we could just give enemas to the northeast and the west coast
By Chuck Roger • February 6th, 2010 10:21 pm
A new Gallup poll reveals that half of the top ten most ideologically liberal states are in the northeast: Massachusetts, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Four of the remaining five are in the west: Oregon, Hawaii, Washington, and California. The remaining member of the top ten is Washington, D.C., another upper east coast [...]
Grape apes, wine, and whiners
By Chuck Roger • December 2nd, 2009 3:33 am
Sprawled on the canyon floor, Mog wakens to the sight of two jagged walls of mastodon bones cradling a big blue snake overhead. The brain-fog lifts and he beholds the mid-morning sky meandering between cliff-tops. Head pounding, Mog struggles onto all-fours, lets his head drop, and stares between his arms and legs. Noticing a purplish splotch [...]
No-Catch 22
By Chuck Roger • August 26th, 2009 3:53 am
As fewer and fewer Americans cling to the feel-good which they got from King Hopey-Changey’s ascendancy, more and more people know that we are in deep trouble. How could responsible politicians—if they exist—reverse the damage inflicted by President Obama’s corrupt machine and a suicidal Democrat Congress? Slash tax rates. People will spend more. Phase out [...]
To shrug or not to shrug
By Chuck Roger • March 25th, 2009 4:22 am
I recently heard a radio talk show host call conservatism a doctrine. I’ve also heard conservatism labeled an “ideology.” Okay, but conservatism being an “ideology” does not mean that conservatives should behave as ideologues. True conservatism favors established ways, tradition and social stability, careful progress over risky change. Political conservatism advocates for low taxes, limited government, strong [...]
Ruby red fingers, muddy grey matter
By Chuck Roger • September 24th, 2008 4:47 am
Exactly what is “ideology?” Visionary theorizing, or a worldview distilled from cherry-picked evidence and flawed logic? After a mildly defiant adolescence, I became a mildly liberal adult, later “evolving” to very liberal and eventually associating with fringe-dwelling kooks who prowl the halls of alternative health care. But my education and career in hard science, life experience, [...]
Donkeys and elephants draw flies
By Chuck Roger • August 6th, 2008 4:52 am
Eric whines, “Yeah? You stink!” This is all that he could muster after his mom’s reprimand—which didn’t even involve observations regarding Eric’s odorous properties. Americans are treated to an everyday comedy show. Liberals who are criticized for certain behaviors routinely take pot shots at unrelated Republican behaviors in response. The tactic demonstrates two thought errors. First, that [...]
