Category archive: Socialism
Decades of Big Government Sickening the American Mind
By Chuck Roger • August 15th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér The mind is a terrible thing. And it must be stopped. At a minimum, thoughts occurring in the minds of many Americans give clear thinkers reason for concern. A new Rasmussen poll finds that 24 percent of American adults think that government should hire long-term jobless people. Twenty-three percent believe that government [...]
A Secret Admirer
By Chuck Roger • August 11th, 2011 12:00 am
Guest Post By Don Ross Recently, our small business received a snail mail letter with no name or return address. Inside the envelope was a scanned image of an advertisement which we placed in the local newspaper. All of our ads include the following statement at the bottom: As pro-life business owners who believe in [...]
Why Bother? Let It Fall
By Chuck Roger • August 8th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér America is fading, and the ruling class lacks the courage to stop it. Courage was more abundant in 1776 when a pompous monarch was confiscating the people’s wealth in order to live like a pompous monarch. The people revolted. Today, hundreds of arrogant elitists in three branches of [...]
The ‘Gimme Mine’ mentality and the American Spirit
By Chuck Roger • July 21st, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér No emotionally stable person viscerally likes inequality. Within both conservatives and liberals lives a strong distaste for what poverty does to people. Recognizing this universal revulsion, in The Quest for Cosmic Justice, Thomas Sowell wonders “why do… inequalities persist? Why are we not all united in our determination [...]
Socialism Doesn’t Work—Never Has, Never Will
By Chuck Roger • June 20th, 2011 12:00 am
Guest Post By Don Ross Historical facts rarely make a dent in the bulwarks of prejudice, ideology and pomposity surrounding the elites in academia, Hollywood, and the mainstream media. A case in point is the battle between socialism and free market capitalism. Milton Friedman, in Capitalism and Freedom, explains the difference this way: Fundamentally, there [...]
John and His Property Are Soon Parted
By Chuck Roger • May 24th, 2011 12:00 am
Guest Post By Don Ross The following parable was written after reading Jeffrey Tucker’s When Capital Is Nowhere in View. Mr. Tucker’s article references a segment from Anthony Bourdain’s program, No Reservations, recorded in Haiti for the Travel Channel. Tucker concludes that Haiti’s “regime, no matter who is in charge, is like a voracious dog [...]
By natural law, Obama must and will fail
By Chuck Roger • June 21st, 2010 8:57 pm
Why does the big government control mentality of statists like Barack Obama always create misery? Economist Steven Horowitz provides a partial answer in a thought-provoking piece in The Freeman Online. The bottom line is that socialist planners attempting to abolish markets, but interested in efficiency, would have no way of knowing what people value, so [...]
310 million boiling frogs
By Chuck Roger • May 6th, 2010 9:33 pm
Jonah Goldberg’s article, “What Kind of Socialist Is Barack Obama?” appears in the May issue of Commentary magazine. Goldberg captures the essence of the “progressive” approach to evolving America into a pseudo-socialist paradise. With a few exceptions, the progressive political agenda has always been to argue for piecemeal reforms, not instant transformative change—but reforms that [...]
America needs more capitalism
By Chuck Roger • April 29th, 2010 9:37 pm
Jonah Goldberg quotes the late Austrian analyst Willi Schlamm. The trouble with socialism is socialism. The trouble with capitalism is capitalists. And though Goldberg beats around the bush for six paragraphs, he eventually gets to the meat of the claim. The problem with socialism is socialism, because there are no socialists. Socialism is a system [...]
The statist thug in the White House
By Chuck Roger • April 4th, 2010 9:50 pm
Classicist and Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson has written a good synopsis of what America faces in a future wrought by Obama. The president promises a state fix for health care; then student loans; and next energy. There are to be subsidies, credits, and always new entitlements for every problem, all requiring hordes of [...]
Is America turning into Greece?
By Chuck Roger • February 9th, 2010 10:20 pm
In this spot-on post by Victor Davis-Hanson, he characterizes the national “feel” in a country consumed from below by European style democratic socialism. Repressed anger is the national creed: those who work the hardest and pay the most for others less industrious or gifted barely constrain a seething resentment; those on the receiving end constantly [...]
The progressive worldview: looking at diamonds and seeing coal dust
By Chuck Roger • September 30th, 2009 12:30 am
Sometimes you have to wade through a bit of bog before finding solid ground. That boggy feeling struck as I began to read Columbia Professor Edmund Phelps’s recent article, “Economic Justice and the Spirit of Innovation,” in which the professor claims that “the prevailing view on the left” tolerates “inequalities of income” as long as [...]
Seven red flags for the United Socialist States of America
By Chuck Roger • July 15th, 2009 4:00 am
The first article in this series can be found here. Last time we touched on the ideas of two clear thinkers, 20th century Austrian-born economist Friedrich Hayek and 19th century French philosopher and historian Alexis de Tocqueville. Both predicted the temptations to which fairness mongers would succumb if loosed on a democracy receptive to their [...]
America’s descent into socialism–predictable, and still avoidable
By Chuck Roger • July 8th, 2009 12:30 am
…the most important change which extensive government control produces is a psychological change, an alteration in the character of the people. …the political ideals of a people and its attitude toward authority are as much the effect as the cause of the political institutions under which it lives. …even a strong tradition of political liberty [...]
All mimsy are the rieberschnockens
By Chuck Roger • March 4th, 2009 4:25 am
Humanity will be forever relieved from the fear of destitution and want. The seeming need for sharp practices and greedy accumulation will disappear. Benevolence and kindly consideration for others will displace suspicion and avarice, brotherly love and tolerance will blossom into full flower and the genial sun of human happiness will dissipate the dark clouds [...]
Slip-sliding away
By Chuck Roger • February 11th, 2009 4:28 am
President Obama believes that government should stop executives from being “rewarded for failure.” This from he who will “spread” successful people’s money to failure addicts. Obama tells us, “There will be time for [Wall Street] to make profits, and there will be time for them to get bonuses. Now is not that time.” Messiahs know [...]
Jumbo shrimp, hairless cats, and other nonsense
By Chuck Roger • December 31st, 2008 4:36 am
“People act weird during a full Moon because that’s when its gravity is strongest. It tugs on people’s brains and changes their behavior.” I explain to this student of mine that our Moon has all of its mass and gravity regardless of how much of it we see. Briefly dazed, he recovers his smug self-assurance. “That’s [...]
Pages from the liberal playbook
By Chuck Roger • July 9th, 2008 4:56 am
Reality can only distract. The liberal’s job is to do whatever it takes to feel good inside. (Playbook, page 1.) Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton blast Republican inertia during the current economic downturn and call for strong government control of Wall Street. Clinton criticizes John McCain for not wanting to intervene. This is instructive. The [...]
