Category archive: Liberalism
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 [...]
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 [...]
Education Dep’t Tells Kids: All You Need Is Global Warmism, So Give Peace a Chance
By Chuck Roger • August 5th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Ideologues in our federal government are pushing falsehoods on children in order to spread the doctrine of the Church of Global Warming. CNSNews.com reports that the Department of Education hosted an event in which children were read scientifically baseless claims from books featuring Sponge Bob Square Pants and [...]
Progressives and Their Taxes Kill Cities
By Chuck Roger • August 1st, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér High taxes are bad for cities. Low taxes encourage growth. In fact, between 1980 and 2007, compared to the ten most-taxed metropolitan areas, America’s ten least-taxed metropolitan areas experienced three times faster population growth, 2.7 times faster employment growth, and twice as great an increase in personal income. [...]
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 [...]
Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Naked Liberals
By Chuck Roger • May 31st, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker, May 25, 2011 By Chuck Rogér A piece on Forbes.com recently caught my attention. Editor Michael Noer had the opportunity to peruse the book, La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life. On scanning the pages, Noer ran across a photo of former International Monetary Fund Managing Director and [...]
Planned Parenthood’s Cobalt Blue Sex Education
By Chuck Roger • May 18th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, May 15, 2011 By Chuck Rogér (Click graph for fullsized view.) American philosopher Thomas Sowell wrote that “the vision of the anointed [has] achieved a sacrosanct status, hermetically sealed off from the contaminating influence of facts.”[1] There are few places in America with as dense a concentration of anointed critters as [...]
Michelle Obama’s Evening with a Rapper Who Called for the Burning of George W. Bush
By Chuck Roger • May 11th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér The Daily Caller reports that First Lady Michelle Obama has scheduled a poetry evening for May 11. One of Ms. Obama’s invited guests is Chicago rapper and “poet” Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., commonly known as “Common.” Mr. Common counts among his works a selection titled, “A Letter to the Law.” Let’s enjoy Mr. Common’s [...]
American Indians Putting Faith in Government ‘Help’? (Follow Up)
By Chuck Roger • April 11th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér I previously called attention to a New Mexico state government measure aimed at reducing teen depression and suicide in Indian communities, pointing to two tragic aspects of the situation. First, the high suicide rate attests to social problems endemic in Indian communities. But the second tragedy is even worse, for it compounds the [...]
If it quacks like a liberal…
By Chuck Roger • April 7th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér Only about 20% of Americans see themselves as ideologically “liberal” (1, 2). In recent Rasmussen polls, surveys of likely voters found that: 22% think that tax cuts hurt the economy; 26% believe that less government spending hurts the economy; 23% claim that raising taxes helps the economy; 24% say that government spending helps the [...]
Zombie snails, parasites, and public sector unions… Oh my!
By Chuck Roger • April 6th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér In order to fully appreciate this post, view the video below (hat tip to a subscriber, Nigel) before reading past the sentence in red. As you watch and listen, keep in mind two groups of people: public sector unions (specifically teachers’ unions) and American taxpayers who reject the tenets of big-government liberalism. (CAUTION: If [...]
The Hollywood conservative, Andrew Klavan, nails public sector unions
By Chuck Roger • April 5th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér I have previously discussed an example of the work of Hollywood conservative Andrew Klavan. From that December 16, 2009 post: Andrew Klavan calls leftism a “religion” that forms “an elaborate system for hiding shame behind a cheap mask of virtue.” Liberals “demonize any opposition,” because we, that clear-thinking opposition, are “not just disagreeing [...]
‘Alternative’ Health Care in the Land of Enchantment
By Chuck Roger • April 1st, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, March 31, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Want to have your “aura” read? You could have done just that had you attended last Saturday’s Health and Fitness Extravaganza and Open House in Santa Fe, New Mexico. What is an “aura?” Alternative medicine enthusiasts believe that each person emits a sort of halo [...]
Liberals, taxes, and spending: There are no coincidences
By Chuck Roger • March 24th, 2011 12:00 am
If you are a person who believes in self-reliance, accountability, and facing the consequences for decisions and actions, then you probably believe as 80% of Americans do, that taxpayers should not be penalized for Congress’s irresponsible behavior. But liberals? Liberals are another matter altogether. A recent Rasmussen poll shows that 20% of Americans are willing to [...]
