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  • The Value of Stereotyping

    George Rebane Stereotyping is the use of a template of characteristics that are thought to belong to members of a particular class more frequently than members of the general population of which the class is a subset.  The template of characteristics is also known as the stereotypical characteristics like, say, a plastic pocket protector full…

  • Our Mobile Politicians

    George Rebane Our California Assemblyman Dan Logue just announced that he “changed his mind” and will no longer represent us.  He is moving out of our community – into which he moved just last year – to another city in another assembly district.  This makes sense for him when he considers his longer term prospects…

  • Log entry on the road to ruin (aka fundamental transformation)

    George Rebane As usual I woke up to National Propaganda Radio and heard a mind-numbing hit piece on income inequality that for openers confused tax fraction, tax rate, paid taxes beyond any means of recovery.  But they did manage not to mangle the message that rich people should not make so much money, and most…

  • The Devil in Democracy

    George Rebane [This is the linked form of my regular Union column which is published in the newspaper’s 14jan12 edition.] When progressives start to talk about democracy again, it is time to get a real firm grip on your wallet and your liberties.  Democracy is now the watchword that echoes across the occupied streets, and…

  • The World’s Economic Freedom Stats for 2012 – America’s slide continues

    George Rebane On our way to a socialist state we are leaving stark signposts of economic decline.  Among the most important is our relative ratings and rankings over the years.  Such data explain away why jobs are leaving these shores, and why they will not come back. In the meanwhile, we are proud to announce…

  • Mark Meckler’s CCW “Disorderly Conduct” (updated 13jan2012)

    George Rebane Mark Meckler's gun charge at La Guardia airport was disposed of as a "disorderly conduct" today.  He had to pay a small fine and his gun was confiscated.  The story made national headlines a few weeks ago when NYC applied its widely-acknowledged insane CCW law on a citizen exercising his 2nd Amendment rights…

  • Republican Candidates – a desperate bunch indeed (updated 13jan2012)

    George Rebane On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, they’re all chucking mudballs at the pack leader Romney no matter how many principles they have to discard or sully.  Romney was once in the business of restructuring failing and/or underutilized companies.  This required at times for him to downsize and restructure business units which…

  • The Liberal Mind – It afflicts all levels

    George Rebane The guiles of socialism should never be discounted or ascribed to only this class/intellect or that.  As many others since then, the Bolshevik Revolution probably ate many of its own children when it applied overly simple rules for liquidating classes that were the designated enemies of the people.  For example, during the Russian…

  • Wood fires (updated 29sep16)

    George Rebane We have always had lots of firewood and kept a fire going in the fireplace most of the year.  As a camper and backpacker, I have made a fire or two in the woods over the decades.  And I've often been asked about how I build and maintain a reliable and long-burning wood…

  • The Liberal Mind – A culture-free universal morality

    George Rebane In discussions on these pages during the last months a new aspect of the liberal mind has revealed itself.  It has always been there, but those of us not blessed with the thinking abilities of the liberal mind seem to overlook this strong characteristic of progressive thought.  And this is that there exists…

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