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Thursday, January 26, 2012

CHUCK ROGÉR: CONSERVATISM THAT ASSURES THE UNTHINKABLE - THE REELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA

It is time that someone said, straight up and out loud, “Enough.“ As America flirts with permanent economic decline, certain GOP presidential contenders talk of gay marriage, Charles Darwin, and…...

Thursday, December 15, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: SMELLS LIKE HYPOCRISY

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…...

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: EVANGELICALS, TAKE NOTE — ANYBODY BUT OBAMA

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…...

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: PUSHING SOCIAL AGENDAS WILL NOT DEFEAT OBAMA IN 2012

Reactions to my article, “Conservatism that Assures the Unthinkable: the Reelection of Barack Obama,” continue to roll in. I received an email from a woman asking me to consider the “high costs…...

CHUCK ROGÉR: PUSHING SOCIAL AGENDAS WILL NOT DEFEAT OBAMA IN 2012

Reactions to my article, “Conservatism that Assures the Unthinkable: the Reelection of Barack Obama,” continue to roll in. I received an email from a woman asking me to consider the “high costs…...

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: BIG SISTER IN THE WORKPLACE

Originally at American Thinker   Today there are twice as many women in the American workforce as there were four decades ago, three times as many women getting college degrees.…...

Friday, September 02, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: A BRIDGE TOO FAR FOR THE NANNY STATE

Originally at American Thinker Suicide is tragic from any perspective. It is saddening to think that someone’s emotional state could decay to the point where death appears preferable to life.…...

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: UNDERLYING REASONS FOR A DECAY IN MORAL INTEGRITY

Recently, I engaged in a thought-provoking email exchange with a Clear Thinking subscriber on the topic of the decay in scientific integrity. The reader observed that a “lack of ethics…...

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: ‘CLIMATE VOTE PROJECT’ WANTS NATIONS HELD TO ‘LEGALLY BINDING CLIMATE PROTECTION

A few weeks ago in a post titled, “Education Dep’t Tells Kids: All You Need Is Global Warmism, So Give Peace a Chance” (originally ran as “Education Department indoctrinates kids…...

Monday, August 29, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: THAT WHICH WE CALL ETHANOL SUBSIDIES, BY ANY OTHER NAME, WOULD STILL STINK

Our federal government continues to run a con that hands six billion taxpayer dollars a year to companies involved in producing ethanol-doped gasoline that damages engines, increases carbon emissions over…...

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR AND ANONYMOUS: WIN THE MEME WAR OR LOSE THE CULTURE—PART I

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…...

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: TAXPAYERS AND TAX SPENDERS

Taxpayers and Tax Spenders Posted: 17 Aug 2011 12:00 AM PDT By Chuck Rogér Let’s examine a stunning facet of human nature: When people get something free, they want more…...

Monday, August 22, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: LABOR DEPARTMENT DECLARES WAR ON PHANTOM DISCRIMINATION

Originally at American Thinker “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…...

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: DID AMERICAN MILITARY OVERINVOLVEMENT HASTEN EUROPE’S CULTURAL DECAY?

  Originally atAmerican Thinker It has always seemed to me that the argument for American military intervention in other nations rests on shaky ground. Contending that the United States must “police” the…...

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

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…...

Thursday, August 04, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: COBALT BLUE ARROGANCE

  Originally at American Thinker   From a state capitol that basks under surreally blue skies comes a consummate example of progressive smugness. In an installment of his Santa Fe…...

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: PROGRESSIVES AND THEIR TAXES KILL CITIES

Originally at American Thinker 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…...

Friday, July 29, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: FOOD TOTALITARIANS ON PARADE – PART DEUX

  Originally at American Thinker   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…...

Thursday, July 28, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: FOOD TOTALITARIANS ON PARADE

Originally at American Thinker 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,…...

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: LIBERTARIANISM IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR ‘PUBLIC POLICY’ ON POVERTY

Originally at American Thinker   By exaggerating the severity of poverty in America, progressives attempt to justify higher levels of wealth redistribution. By over-classifying people as “poor,” progressive politicians further…...

Monday, July 25, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: OBAMA’S DECEIT ON THE DEBT DEFAULT DEADLINE

Originally at American Thinker   Knowingly stating a falsehood constitutes lying. Unintentionally misrepresenting reality displays a careless lack of knowledge. Our President appears to be engaged in a curious combination…...

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: WAY-EARLY OBAMA ENDORSEMENT PUTS NEA’S LEFT-WING ZEALOTRY ON GRAND DISPLAY

NEA President Dennis Van Roekel (left) with AFL-CIO Head Thug Richard Trumka (center) and Syracuse University “social work” professor Eric Kingson   America is a year away from learning the…...

Monday, July 18, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: OBAMA IDEOLOGY ALL THE WAY DOWN

Originally at American Thinker When your relatives publicly expose your horrifically indefensible thinking, it may be time to rethink your thinking. Milton Wolf, a cousin of Barack Obama, writes: The…...

Thursday, June 23, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: 7 HANG-UPS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE LIBERALS

CHUCK ROGÉR: 7 HANG-UPS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE LIBERALS The Clear Thinking blog is on hiatus and will return with new posts on July 18, 2011. Meanwhile, here’s an oldie originally…...

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: THE LATEST EDUCATION FAD INVERTS JUSTICE

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…...

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

DON ROSS: SOCIALISM DOESN’T WORK—NEVER HAS, NEVER WILL

  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…...

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: PROGRAMMING SCIENTISTS TO PERFORM SOCIAL ENGINEERING

An Arizona State University professor wants to train physical scientists to be social engineers. Political science professor David Guston contends that “stakeholders” in academia and industry should work with consumers and…...

Friday, June 10, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: OBAMA’S COMMERCE NOMINEE - LIMIT ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND REDISTRIBUTE WEALTH

  The wise man smiled and proclaimed that government should use “regulatory steps” as well as market forces to intervene in the power generation sector. The man also told his…...

Thursday, June 09, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: CAIR WANTS HOMELAND SECURITY TO SILENCE ‘FEAR-MONGERS’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a May 24 joint meeting of Congress, “Militant Islam threatens the world. It threatens Islam.” Netanyahu was specifically referring to Iran’s potential use and…...

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

CHUCK ROGÉR: DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN AND NAKED LIBERALS

  Originally at American Thinker, May 25, 2011 A piece on Forbes.com recently caught my attention. Editor Michael Noer had the opportunity to peruse the book, La Seduction: How the…...

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