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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: LIBERALS USE DOCTRINE OF MORAL EQUIVALENCE TO VILIFY AMERICA AND CHRISTIANS

The liberal or "progressive" dogma of moral equivalence produces some of the most absurd comparisons imaginable. Let's briefly analyze questions asked recently by Michel Martin, who works for the taxpayer-funded…...

Monday, August 30, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: READY OR NOT, HERE’S THE TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA’S ECONOMIC PROSPECTS

We've got to stop beating around the bush. Economically, America may be in a life-threatening situation and getting out of trouble is going to be not so fun.Monty, of Monty…...

Thursday, August 26, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: IVY LEAGUE ECONOMIC NONSENSE

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…...

Monday, August 23, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: LIBERTARIAN INTERDEPENDENCE VERSUS PROGRESSIVE SHACKLES

Which approach draws out the best in the human organism? 1) Allow people the freedom to think, produce, earn and interact in ways that benefit everyone who chooses to think,…...

Thursday, August 19, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: SUNRISE IN AMERICA

The American people have trusted tyrants.  In 2008, Democrats campaigned on promises to change the way Washington conducts business. But now amid the worst economic times since the Great Depression,…...

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: STUPID IS AS STUPID SAYS

People say some dumb things. I've said my share. But when it comes to sounding truly clueless, over-the-top, shrill, or hyperbolic, liberals win hands down. For instance, take something that…...

Friday, August 13, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: THROW THE BUMS OUT AND WATCH THE NEW BUMS VERY, VERY CLOSELY

  The Obama Presidency crowned a century of progressivism that drove America far away from traditional social and economic values. So far away that Obama was elected partly because of…...

Thursday, August 12, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: PUBLIC EDUCATION, LYING LIARS, WASTED MONEY, AND TEACHERS’ UNIONS

There are few better places to find nonsensical "thought" than in the education arena. A myth that captures a lot of attention is the falsehood that more money buys better…...

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: PRIVATE SECTOR CAN BEST “REHABILITATE” CRIMINALS

How to stop criminals from re-offending? Manhattan Institute's Howard Husock recently testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee as to the effectiveness of a recidivism reduction approach that engages the private…...

Friday, July 30, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: NEWSFLASH FOR GREENIES: WIND IS UNPREDICTABLE

First the unsurprising fact: In Scotland, wind turbines are yielding far less than the "expected" levels of electrical power--about half. Now the government's comical response: Blame "unusually calm weather." But…...

Friday, July 23, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: DEMOCRATS CAN BE TRUSTED TO BEHAVE MORALLY?

Rasmussen recently conducted a poll to see which political party the voters trust more. Here is a table summarizing the results, which indicate the percentage of voters who trust the…...

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: THE COBALT BLUE LEFT

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…...

Friday, July 02, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: THE FCC’S COVERT MISSION TO ‘BALANCE’ BROADCAST MEDIA OWNERSHIP

Should Americans be concerned about a Federal Communications Commission official having once suggested that if government doesn't help minorities reduprint\fcc-covert-print.htmce white ownership of broadcast media, then only violence would assure…...

Thursday, June 24, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: THUGGISH TEACHERS’ UNIONS AND YOUR TAX DOLLARS

Let's do a little exercise. Your employer pays you. With part of the income, you pay your property, sales, and income taxes. Part of the taxes go to pay teachers'…...

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: AMERICAN HEALTH CARE, BRITISH STYLE

Tomorrow's post will bring to you an article of mine that originally appeared on American Thinker. The piece sums up how Harvard Professor Donald Berwick, if confirmed as Obama's appointee…...

Monday, June 21, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: BY NATURAL LAW, OBAMA MUST AND WILL FAIL

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.…...

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: DUMB LIBERALS? NO, JUST INCAPABLE OF GETTING PAST A DUMB WORLDVIEW

Take a gander at the opening line from a New York Times story. Blacks and Latinos were nine times as likely as whites to be stopped by the police in…...

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: BEWARE ‘LEADERS WITH PLANS’

How should the American people feel about a Harvard professor telling the UK's National Health Service (NHS) to ignore the free market when setting health care "policy?" Ho-hum, right? Okay,…...

Thursday, May 27, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SIENCES LOSES ALL CREDIBILITY ON GLOBAL WARMING

No "global warming" in a decade-and-a-half and cooling for seven to nine years? Oh, and CO2 increases only after the atmosphere warms? Yes, in six studies covering 650,000 years of…...

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: LIBERAL’S ECONOMIC CLUELESSNESS AND OBAMACARE PROSPERITY DESTRUCTION

If someone had set out to devise a scheme to kill small businesses, then the Dems' massive health care takeover would be the perfect creation. Please take care to read…...

Monday, May 24, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: BIG GOVERNMENT IDEOLOGUE DEMOCRATS ATTACK FIRST AMENDMENT

Imagine bloggers being prohibited by law from publishing opinions or analysis on political issues during a time period close to elections. Can't happen in America? If the Democrat proponents of…...

Saturday, May 22, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: OBESE POLICE? REQUIRING YOUR WEIGHT RECORDS? FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT?

Federal Obese Police want to collect data, that's all....yeah, that's it, just collect data...... If passed by Congress, a new bill would require private health care providers to measure the…...

Friday, May 21, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: THE HARVARD ELITIST WHO WILL RATION YOUR HEALTH CARE

President Obama has nominated Harvard professor Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In 2008, Berwick said, "Cynics beware, I am romantic about the National Health…...

Thursday, May 20, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: BARACK OBAMA’S FCC INFORMATION POLICE

The President warns us that Americans must beware of "the craziest claims" and "arguments" in which "information becomes a distraction" that puts "pressures" on "our democracy." What was behind Barack…...

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: JUNK SCIENCE, DECEIT, AND DESTRUCTION

Time again for me to ask a question that I've asked before: "How are your horse and buggy skills?" Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman have come up with an…...

Monday, May 17, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: AMERICA’S POSSIBLE GREEK TRAGEDY

America's exceptionalism and spirit of liberty may bolster us against turning into Greece, but will not prevent us from becoming very Greek indeed. Writing at the American Enterprise Institute for…...

Thursday, May 13, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: OBAMA’S REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH… TO BIG BUSINESS

In a recent Pajamas Media post, Victor Davis Hanson offered keen insight on the real effects of Obamanomics. I went to two banks the other day. The interest rates on…...

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: WILL AMERICA REALLY RERUN HISTORY’S DEADLIEST EXPERIMENT?

There is a striking divide among the American people. Clear thinkers stand on one side, naïve pie-in-the-sky brainiacs on the other. A February Gallup poll found that 61 percent of…...

CHUCK ROGÉR: THE IMPOSSIBLY IDEALISTIC ‘LIBERAL’ VIEW OF GOVERNMENT

At The Freeman Online, William Anderson tells of a university political science department made up of "liberal Democrats." The political scientists view "good government" as... …a government that regulates every…...

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

CHUCK ROGÉR: NANNY GOVERNMENT = ‘RESPONSIBLE’ GOVERNMENT?

Behold the first paragraph of an article by one Paul Starr. Something feels wrong about the state of American politics. With millions unemployed and home foreclosures at record levels, the…...

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