Category archive: Ideology
Smells Like Hypocrisy
By Chuck Roger • December 15th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér Ideology can be and often is a terrible thing. Emotionally-invested dogmatists of all stripes share at least one common behavioral flaw, the propensity to be absolutely sure that whatever the ideology deems true must be true. After reading my article, “The Latest Education Fad Inverts Justice” (June 21, 2011), a government employee [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Win the Meme War or Lose the Culture—Part II
By Chuck Roger • August 23rd, 2011 12:00 am
Today’s post is the second of a two-part series which incorporates one reader’s thoughts in response to ”Did American Military Overinvolvement Hasten Europe’s Cultural Decay?” which ran on American Thinker and on Clear Thinking. The reader offered a fascinating perspective, to which I added my ideas and interpretations. Again, as a reminder, my coauthor wishes to remain anonymous. Enjoy. For Part [...]
Win the Meme War or Lose the Culture—Part I
By Chuck Roger • August 22nd, 2011 12:00 am
A post titled “Did American Military Overinvolvement Hasten Europe’s Cultural Decay?”—which ran on American Thinker as well as Clear Thinking—drew a lot of reaction. Most reactions carried a more libertarian tone than I’d anticipated, possibly indicating an encouraging shift away from a national defense posture dominated by neocons who love military interventionism. One series of [...]
The God Complex vs. I Don’t Really Know Anything
By Chuck Roger • July 26th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér No matter how complex the problem, you have an absolutely overwhelming belief that you are infallibly right in your solution. Imagine feeling this way about world poverty, the illegal drug trade, teen pregnancy, global warming, or the national debt. If you do subscribe to the “God Complex,” as characterized by The Undercover Economist author [...]
Programming Scientists to Perform Social Engineering
By Chuck Roger • June 14th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at National Association of Scholars By Chuck Rogér An Arizona State University professor wants to train physical scientists to be social engineers. Political science professor David Guston contends that “stakeholders” in academia and industry should work with consumers and the feds to manage the “societal implications” of “environmental health and safety issues” surrounding certain technological [...]
Obama’s Symbolic Chevy Volt Folly
By Chuck Roger • June 8th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker, May 31, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Among 116 electric cars that the Obama administration intends to buy with taxpayer money, 101 will be Chevy Volts. The program will also include installing charging stations in San Francisco, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Diego and Washington, D.C. According to USA Today, “The moves are [...]
Ice, Arrogant Ignorance, and Global Warmism
By Chuck Roger • April 29th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker, April 25, 2011 By Chuck Rogér The latest global warming derangement? In order to stop “imperiling the planet,” turn off your refrigerator’s icemaker. To appreciate the depth of madness to which warmists are now routinely sinking, let’s identify the fallacies contained in a sentence lifted from a recent Time magazine post. [...]
E. J. Dionne’s middle class ‘tax burden’ whining: Dishonest? Or blind progressive ideology?
By Chuck Roger • December 13th, 2010 6:04 am
Discussing the lame duck Congress’s tax rate debate, Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne complains, Rather than allow the debate to focus on an old tax measure from the beginning of the decade, Obama and the Democrats should have sought early on to replace the Bush tax cut. Their proposal could have shifted the tax [...]
Pushing Junk Science on Children
By Chuck Roger • October 7th, 2010 2:47 am
Originally in American Thinker, October 6, 2010. Humans have angered Mother Nature. Our species must stop multiplying, give up our addiction to huge-screen HDTVs, stop eating so many steer, and travel on twenty-pound electric tricycles forty miles at a time between charging stations. Otherwise, we are doomed. This is a story about the ruling class [...]
Taking ‘privilege’ for granted
By Chuck Roger • April 20th, 2010 9:42 pm
On getting stuck in Israel due to volcanic ash cloud-induced flight delays, Financial Times writer Gideon Rachman makes some interesting observations. After a while it began to occur to me that my gathering gloom might have less to do with missing my family and several appointments, than with the unfamiliar sensation of being thwarted. Wealth [...]
Perfect illustration of how the ‘progressive’ mind works
By Chuck Roger • April 5th, 2010 9:49 pm
If something sounds too good to be true but makes you feel really good, just pretend that it’s true and accept the feel-good. A CNSNews.com article reports that the Environmental Protection Agency granted “Energy Star” qualification to a “gas-powered clock radio” and 14 other phony products. The clock and 14 other phony products were part of [...]
The curious phenomenon of humans acting human
By Chuck Roger • January 13th, 2010 3:25 am
To most people, a 14-pound stack of statistics interspersed with dry, scientific text might initiate a regurgitation reflex. But not to hard science types. We love data. We seek it out, embrace it, analyze it. Data tell stories. Statistics spice up those stories. Take the well-worn liberal saw that women and men are the same. [...]
Ideological silliness knows no bounds
By Chuck Roger • December 12th, 2009 2:08 am
Ideological nastiness lives at both ends of the sociopolitical spectrum — right and left. North Carolina’s ban on atheists holding public office is an insult to clear thinking and deters clear thinkers from associating with the religious right. North Carolina needs to grow up. Supporters of the constitutional ban on atheists are behaving no differently from [...]
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 [...]
