Category archive: Victimhood

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 [...]

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 [...]

Three flavors of fun and one bummer

By Chuck Roger • June 24th, 2011 12:00 am

The Clear Thinking blog is on hiatus and will return with new post on July 18 2011. Meanwhile, here’s an oldie originally posted July 23, 2008. By Chuck Rogér Most people move from left to right throughout life, away from feel-good idealism toward coherent thought. But if one wants to be a liberal, one must use [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Obamas Host a Rapper Who Validated a Cop Killer

By Chuck Roger • May 13th, 2011 12:00 am

By Chuck Rogér Barack and Michelle Obama ignored Americans’ outrage over the appearance of a rapper/”poet” known as “Common” at a White House gathering. The Daily Caller reports that the usual lefty media suspects such as Politico and the New York Times essentially ignored the controversy. Besides the heady garbage already discussed in my previous post, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The ‘war on poverty’ makes people irresponsible… and poorer

By Chuck Roger • March 22nd, 2011 12:00 am

In 1964, federal handouts to needy Americans constituted a mere 1.2% of our gross domestic product. Only 7% of babies were born into broken families. Then LBJ decided to “lift” the poor out of poverty. Thus began the precipitous downhill slide of people who need not have been “poor,” but who succumbed to the victimhood [...]

Cobalt blue ignorance, anger, and victimhood

By Chuck Roger • March 16th, 2011 12:01 am

(Photo credit,  Jane Phillips/The Santa Fe New Mexican) ______________ The deep blue skies over Santa Fe, New Mexico are legendary for their almost surreal appearance. But the sky wasn’t the only thing exhibiting an otherworldliness in Santa Fe last Saturday. About 300 labor union activists gathered outside the New Mexico state capitol building to show support [...]

Defeating Progressives, Starting Now

By Chuck Roger • December 21st, 2010 5:30 am

The purge started in November. But after a hundred years of off-and-on success and establishing nearly complete control over Americans’ lives, the progressive ideologues that run our government will not go quietly. A diverse coalition has formed against President Obama’s radical agenda. The Tea Party has mounted what J.R. Dunn at American Thinker dubbed, “the [...]

Eighteenth-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham talks about twenty-first-century America

By Chuck Roger • December 9th, 2010 6:11 am

I was doing a little light reading last weekend: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, by philosopher Jeremy Bentham. There’s an online version of the original 1780 work here. Something familiar struck me when I read the chapter titled, “Of Principles Averse to that of Utility.” But first, some background. Bentham was [...]

Behold the audacity of dishonesty: bipartisan biofuel insanity

By Chuck Roger • November 29th, 2010 1:39 am

Truth means nothing to ideologues. For instance, people that hate guns are aware that study after study prove that gun ownership and right-to-carry laws decrease violent crime. But most gun haters would still like to see guns confiscated from law-abiding Americans. When confronted with real-world data, gun alarmists opt for dead victims littered across areas [...]

The positive power of ‘income inequality’

By Chuck Roger • November 17th, 2010 1:51 am

Income inequality is critical to everyone’s prosperity. Too much sameness would be a really bad thing. Why? Facts from U.S. Census Bureau’s 2009 database on household income distribution: There are more than 4X the number of earners per household in the top fifth compared to bottom fifth. More than 3X the percentage of married couples [...]

Ideologue-in-Chief Obama Will Continue to Be Bad for Business

By Chuck Roger • November 15th, 2010 2:51 am

Originally in American Thinker, November 13, 2010. President Obama called the Democrats’ November 2 loss of sixty-one House seats a “shellacking.” Yet in a day-after press conference, Obama sported a self-absorbed manner, contrived reflection, and a basic misread of the American people. In a “60 Minutes” interview aired four days later, he denied that voters [...]

Erasing America: Barack Obama’s Motivation and Method

By Chuck Roger • October 8th, 2010 4:26 am

Originally in American Thinker, October 7, 2010. “It took time to free the slaves,” proclaimed Barack Obama during a recent speech aimed at salvaging support for his fundamental transformation of America. Our president, a man who views the world through an oppressed-versus-oppressor lens, puts an agenda of economic destruction on moral par with the emancipation [...]

Barack Obama’s Desperate Search

By Chuck Roger • October 4th, 2010 12:30 am

In the beginning, Barack Obama assigned himself the mission of saving people that he saw as beaten down by capitalism and the modern world. Method was obvious to Obama. Americans must be pitted against one another, preferably along lines of race and class. The wealthy must be portrayed as villains who gather riches for the [...]

Ivy League economic nonsense

By Chuck Roger • August 24th, 2010 3:14 am

The arrogant liberal intellect has a knack for putting on a show. Columbia University economist Joseph Stiglitz is a showman. I have dissected Stiglitz’s illogic once before, in an early 2009 column titled “Clowns behaving badly.” Presently, we treat the matter of Stiglitz’s recent proclamation in Financial Times that: The blame game continues over who [...]

Who will speak honestly on the racial bias in Obama’s approval rating?

By Chuck Roger • August 12th, 2010 3:35 am

Consider. Two different people read the following facts about the performance of the hypothetical leader of a hypothetical country. The leader: ●  Created the most gargantuan peacetime debt burden on taxpayers in history. ● Spent over $400 billion in “stimulus” in only 18 months on radical leftwing programs dishonestly sold as being aimed at “creating jobs.” [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to the Machine: Cultural Marxism in Education

By Chuck Roger • March 31st, 2010 4:15 am

Originally in American Thinker, March 27, 2010. Welcome to the machine. What did you dream? It’s alright, we told you what to dream. – Roger Waters  The education machine that keeps churning out newbies conditioned in mind-blunting nonjudgmentalism has laid the groundwork for a left-wing takeover.  What reduced American education to its current state?  In [...]

The fraud of progressive nobility

By Chuck Roger • February 24th, 2010 3:49 am

Originally in American Thinker, February 21, 2010. Barack Obama has admitted the need to break his most celebrated campaign promise. Suddenly he is “agnostic” on increasing taxes for people earning less than $250,000. Nine years ago, as an Illinois state senator, Obama criticized the Supreme Court for not removing a roadblock that forbids Washington to [...]

Debbie does Dallas–and wrecks the Gulf Coast in the process

By Chuck Roger • December 28th, 2009 11:10 pm

The ‘climate change’ wealth redistribution zealots are lawyering up. Know any lawyers? Ask them how they feel about warmists’ latest abuse of the legal system. The Wall Street Journal calls it “The New Climate Litigation.” Against a backdrop characterized by blind dogmatic zeal, zero proof for any influence by human activity on global climate trends, [...]

The disappearing doctrine of the Church of Global Warming

By Chuck Roger • December 9th, 2009 11:23 pm

Emails stored on a server at England’s University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit expose a trail of bad science, dishonesty, and disintegrating doctrine — the doctrine of human-caused “global warming.” Michael Mann, then of the University of Massachusetts, is prominently featured in the damning emails. He and two other climate “scientists” authored 1998 and [...]

Here and now

By Chuck Roger • November 25th, 2009 3:33 am

Angela Cazorla was born around 1775 in the Canary Islands. She was my fifth great-grandmother. Angela’s ancestors lived near Cazorla, Spain, 190 miles northwest of Gibraltar. The town sprang up in Roman times as Carcacena, a silver and lead mining center where Roman aristocrats profited from the slave labor of Angela’s — my — ancestors. [...]

Let’s begin again

By Chuck Roger • October 28th, 2009 3:41 am

The whole Barrack Obama thing isn’t working. We need change. We’ll write a document—the law of the land. We can call it, “The Document.” The golden rule will be to minimize rules and leave people and businesses to their own wits. We can hire employees to meet occasionally for the purpose of making key decisions as [...]

Bear skins and stone knives

By Chuck Roger • August 12th, 2009 3:56 am

Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided to every human being. Spoken by King Hopey-Changey? Close—written by John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Obama science adviser, a man who influences climate change and health care [...]

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 [...]

Government of the people, by the enlightened, for the enlightened… déjà vu all over again

By Chuck Roger • April 22nd, 2009 12:30 am

“Visionary leaders” have arisen at tumultuous times in nations’ histories, each leader sensing opportunity in the crisis of the day. Many of these leaders blamed capitalists for creating class conflict. The leaders then strengthened conflict in order to fuel demand for change. To achieve that change, the visionary ones deemphasized the individual and promoted the “common [...]

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