Category archive: Ruling Class Elitists
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 [...]
What Will Happen When the People Realize that the Constitution Is No More?
By Chuck Roger • September 29th, 2011 12:00 am
by Chuck Rogér What can we expect when a majority of Americans finally comes to terms with a disgusting reality that H.L. Mencken exposed 71 years ago? In an article titled “The Suicide of Democracy,”1 Mencken wrote: In an ideal democracy, [the citizen] learns, property is at the disposal, not of its owners, but 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 [...]
Food Totalitarians on Parade – Part Deux
By Chuck Roger • July 29th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Well that didn’t take long. Yesterday, in a post discussing a New York Times op-ed that called for heavy taxation on “unhealthy” foods, I asked, “How long before some starry-eyed but angry-faced Democrat proposes legislation to force ‘healthy food’ advertising?” Now The Daily Caller reports that food producers [...]
Food Totalitarians on Parade
By Chuck Roger • July 28th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Within the last few years, we have been treated to attempts by government to control our food intake with regulatory “nudges” and legislative edicts. Sugar, salt, trans-fats, fats in general, fast foods, and school lunches are just a few ingredients and food types which have come under assault [...]
Bernanke’s Posturing Ignores Inflation Reality and Hurts Americans
By Chuck Roger • June 10th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker By Chuck Rogér In a recent article discussing the effects of “quantitative easing,” I remarked that the “Federal Reserve has laid the charges, connected the leads, and now stands ready at the detonator.” From the article: In QE, a nation’s central bank buys financial instruments, such as Treasury bonds, with money decreed into existence through [...]
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 [...]
Bernanke’s Economic Time Bomb
By Chuck Roger • May 26th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, May 20, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Ben Bernanke’s Federal Reserve has laid the charges, connected the leads, and now stands ready at the detonator. America waits. We wait for the economic effects of “quantitative easing” (QE). In QE, a nation’s central bank buys financial instruments, such as Treasury bonds, with money decreed into existence through [...]
Charles Schumer’s Call for Government Censorship
By Chuck Roger • May 20th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér At a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Democrat Senator Charles Schumer badgered witnesses from Apple and Google to comply with his demand to censor cellphone software that the Senator considers objectionable because those apps warn users of DUI checkpoints. Schumer’s official demand is that “Apple, Android, Blackberry, and others… remove smart-phone apps that [...]
Obi-Wan Berwick Rears His Head Again
By Chuck Roger • April 20th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, April 19, 2011 By Chuck Rogér “These are not the droids you’re looking for” With those words and a barely perceptible rippling of the fingers, in Star Wars: A New Hope, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi convinces two Empire Stormtroopers to overlook the obvious. R2-D2 and C-3PO, the androids in question, sit [...]
Of Joseph Stiglitz, by Joseph Stiglitz, for Joseph Stiglitz
By Chuck Roger • April 19th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally titled “The Spreading of Economic Fallacy” in American Thinker, April 15, 2011 By Chuck Rogér The world of academia provides a comfy home to progressives. And when one of the critters writes in Vanity Fair magazine, gems of “thought” tend to emerge. In a new Vanity Fair article, “Of the 1%, by the 1%, [...]
Progressive Fallacy Number 667: Wealth Redistribution Creates Societal ‘Harmony’
By Chuck Roger • April 4th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally in American Thinker, March 30, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Is wealth envy a serious problem in a technologically advanced country like America? Economist Tyler Cowen observes that economic indignation is mostly felt toward: …the guy down the hall who got a bigger raise … [or toward] the husband of your wife’s sister, because the [...]
Obama’s head of Medicare and Medicaid again flaunts his ruling-class arrogance
By Chuck Roger • March 31st, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér President Obama’s head of Medicare and Medicaid, the contemptible Dr. Donald Berwick, crawled out of his Beltway cave a few weeks ago to testify at a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee. My hearing coverage notes got buried in a stack of stuff during the recent Clear Thinking website redesign. So [...]
Knocking the Constitution: an exercise in enlightened, academic arrogance
By Chuck Roger • February 2nd, 2011 12:30 am
Calling the U.S. Constitution “The Commandments” may seem like something that an overly enthusiastic, strict interpretationist might do. And that’s exactly what Harvard history professor Jill Lepore implies in an article in The New Yorker, titled “The Commandments.” Lepore makes much of the allegedly shoddy treatment dealt the actual document in the decades after ratification. [...]
‘Leader with a Plan’ Invites a Health Care Nightmare
By Chuck Roger • June 23rd, 2010 3:25 am
Originally in American Thinker, June 6, 2010. The American people are too simple to choose from “an array of products” in “a system as massive and complex as health care. That is for leaders to do.” Behold the words of Donald Berwick — doctor, Harvard professor, and Obama’s nominee to run the Centers for Medicare [...]
Hypocrites R us
By Chuck Roger • March 30th, 2010 9:49 pm
One of my international readers (South Africa) assures me that the crap produced by Hollywood left-zealots like Michael Moore is precisely the sort of tripe that people around the world have come to believe about America. In a BigHollywood.com post, Christian Toto discusses one of Moore’s fellow Michiganites’ new documentary (Shooting Michael Moore) aimed at [...]
Nanny scolds us for using too much salt
By Chuck Roger • January 11th, 2010 12:05 am
From the New York Times: First New York City required restaurants to cut out trans fat. Then it made restaurant chains post calorie counts on their menus. Now it wants to protect people from another health scourge: salt. NYC is pushing a “plan,” which officials claim has backing from “health agencies” across the country, to [...]
Control mongering, totalitarian-minded, know-it-all, pseudo-enlightened, pseudo-smart, smarmy, smug, arrogant, corrupt, derelict scumbags!
By Chuck Roger • December 10th, 2009 2:09 am
Sorry, I had to get that off my chest. Democrats and Republicans are worthless to Americans. In fact, they are worse than worthless. When our representatives take time away from truly important problems to govern how college football determines its champions, it is a sign of impending Armageddon.
