Category archive: Liberal Feel-Good
Labor Department Declares War on Phantom Discrimination
By Chuck Roger • August 19th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér “Pay discrimination continues to plague women and people of color in the workforce,” claims Patricia A. Shiu, a member of President Obama’s National Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force. There is some difficulty with the claim: an utter absence of data proving that the stated problem is an actual [...]
Dissecting progressive arrogance, Part V: Soaking the rich
By Chuck Roger • July 13th, 2011 12:00 am
The Clear Thinking blog is on hiatus and will return with new posts on July 18, 2011. Meanwhile, please enjoy this re-post of the “Dissecting progressive arrogance” series. More “Dissecting Progressive Arrogance” I, II, III, IV, VI, VII By Chuck Rogér Behold the progressive wise man who claims that confiscating rich people’s money is justified because [...]
Belief in rubbish
By Chuck Roger • July 6th, 2011 12:00 am
The Clear Thinking blog is on hiatus and will return with new posts on July 18, 2011. Meanwhile, here’s an oldie originally posted December 16, 2009. By Chuck Rogér America is besieged from within, our libertarian values under attack from “progressives” in government, education, and media. Do we focus on the attack and do what [...]
7 hang-ups of highly effective liberals
By Chuck Roger • June 23rd, 2011 12:00 am
The Clear Thinking blog is on hiatus and will return with new posts on July 18, 2011. Meanwhile, here’s an oldie originally posted July 16, 2008. By Chuck Rogér The modern-day sociopolitical term, “progressive,” describes that which comforts people while defying rationality. “Progressives” are the elite, bristling with ideas on how to run government and [...]
The Latest Education Fad Inverts Justice
By Chuck Roger • June 21st, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Something subtle and disturbing is happening under parents’ radar. Growing numbers of progressive educators are twisting a four-thousand-year-old concept in order to induce schoolchildren to adopt amoral worldviews. A trend gathering steam nationwide teaches conflict resolution based on “restorative justice.” Though traditionally applied in criminal situations, progressives are adapting [...]
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 [...]
Protecting a Protected Class within the Most Protected Class—Government
By Chuck Roger • May 13th, 2011 12:01 am
Guest Post By Don Ross When our small business gets requests for donations from local charities, youth sports teams, and relief agencies, most requests are readily approved. Other requests are just as quickly denied if the group holds beliefs with which we strongly disagree. For example, if the request comes from a group that directly [...]
Straw Man Environmental Alarmism 101, California Style
By Chuck Roger • April 15th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, April 14, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Course Description: Learn to craft false statements that appear factual and to justify “fixes” for imaginary problems. The student learns how to apply said fixes to an agenda which addresses environmentalists’ most precious issue: human-caused global warming. Course Instructor: An associate transportation planner with the [...]
American Indians Putting Faith in Government ‘Help’?
By Chuck Roger • March 30th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér Originally in American Thinker, March 29, 2011 In New Mexico’s state capitol, a local newspaper reports that Santa Fe Indian School students are “watching with bated breath” for Governor Susana Martinez to sign a bill that would create “culturally sensitive programs” designed “to help Native American communities deal with teen suicides.” The [...]
Dissecting progressive arrogance, Part V: Soaking the rich
By Chuck Roger • November 9th, 2010 2:08 am
More “Dissecting Progressive Arrogance” I, II, III, IV, VI, VII Behold the progressive wise man who claims that confiscating rich people’s money is justified because rich people gather wealth through “the power of luck” and “owe” a “debt” to “society.” For insight into this dumb argument, I reproduce here for your amusement a chunk of a [...]
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 [...]
Wind power fanatics are the Smart Car drivers of the ‘renewable energy’ universe
By Chuck Roger • August 26th, 2010 3:14 am
Time to make fun of green weenies again. This time, we head to Texas. Writing in Slate magazine, Manhattan Institute senior fellow Robert Bryce reports that Texas electricity demand hit a record high 63,594 megawatts on August 4, 2010. Good thing the state has more wind turbine capacity than any other state, huh? In fact, [...]
The Cobalt Blue Left
By Chuck Roger • July 21st, 2010 3:09 am
Originally in American Thinker, July 17, 2010. One morning, twenty-seven years ago, I saw daybreak. It seemed as though a crazy painter had stretched a crazy canvas across my window, for an impossibly intense backdrop framed the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Then the sun floated higher, Santa Fe’s sky ignited, and I was hooked on [...]
Can’t make this stuff up: the ‘Office of Minority and Women Inclusion’
By Chuck Roger • July 19th, 2010 8:50 pm
Thought that the federal agencies aimed at legislating “fairness” in Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged, were far-fetched? Well how about the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion? According to CNSNews.com, the financial regulation package passed by the House calls for the OMWI to perform “diversity” oversight at major federal financial regulatory agencies. The new office [...]
Gun-fearing liberals with screwed-on crooked heads
By Chuck Roger • June 28th, 2010 8:54 pm
More guns, more crime, right? Emphatically, no! Economist John Lott reports that …all the multiple-victim public shootings in Western Europe have occurred in places where civilians are not permitted to carry guns. The same is true in the United States: All the public shootings in which more than three people have been killed have occurred [...]
Dumb liberals? No, just incapable of getting past a dumb worldview
By Chuck Roger • May 28th, 2010 9:02 pm
Take a gander at the opening line from a New York Times story. Blacks and Latinos were nine times as likely as whites to be stopped by the police in New York City in 2009, but, once stopped, were no more likely to be arrested. The story proceeds to characterize the facts in the opening [...]
America’s possible Greek tragedy
By Chuck Roger • May 17th, 2010 9:08 pm
America’s exceptionalism and spirit of liberty may bolster us against turning into Greece, but will not prevent us from becoming very Greek indeed. Writing at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Vincent and Carmen Reinhart explain “Five Myths about the European Debt Crisis.” First, Greece’s predicament is no new phenomenon. It’s easy to [...]
The impossibly idealistic ‘liberal’ view of government
By Chuck Roger • May 11th, 2010 9:31 pm
At The Freeman Online, William Anderson tells of a university political science department made up of “liberal Democrats.” The political scientists view “good government” as… …a government that regulates every area of our lives… [and] …provides cradle-to-grave care and “protects” us from the “ravages of private enterprise.” What about the liberals’ thoughts on “the market?” [...]
Planned Parenthood, a Social Disease
By Chuck Roger • May 5th, 2010 3:57 am
Originally in American Thinker, April 29, 2010. ____________________________________ Planned Parenthood. The sensible-sounding name distracts from what the organization helps achieve: the cheapening of society. The mission of Planned Parenthood has changed since the days of founder Margaret Sanger. Among the eugenicist’s progressive efforts, in 1939, Sanger conceived the “Negro Project” to reduce the population of [...]
Leaving Liberalism
By Chuck Roger • April 28th, 2010 4:06 am
Originally in American Thinker, April 21, 2010. With the classroom lights down low, our teacher Julie asked, “Feel that?” I looked at my empty hands and, echoing the class, I responded, “Oh…yeah.” Julie whispered, “Move your hands closer together. Feels like you’re squishing a ball.” Yep, an invisible purple ball. Assuming the I-know-this-to-be-true look common [...]
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 [...]
