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  • ‘Providing Intellectual Ammunition …’

    George Rebane In the latest package of materials from the Mercatus Center of George Mason University there was an exhortation to today’s conservatives (the classical liberals) to man the intellectual ramparts against the onslaught of socialism.  Their opening argument was from a post-war essay by F.A. Hayek – We must make the building of a…

  • The Unchanging Left View

    George Rebane [This cartoon by my friend, RR reader, political cartoonist RL ‘Bob’ Crabb appeared in the 5feb11 Union op-ed pages.  You might note that we don’t see eye-to-eye on everything.  Oh well.]   No matter the decades of leftwing legislative control that has brought California to its knees; it seems that as long as there remains…

  • Siren Song of Norway

    George Rebane American progressives cum socialists frequently wax eloquent about the Scandinavian forms of governance, and pointedly ask ‘why can’t we be like that?’.  What is the ‘that’ that so enamors them to countries like Denmark and Norway?  Norway especially is the oft-cited posterchild of “socialist capitalism”.  Perhaps this is because we recall the beauty…

  • The Liberal Mind – Taxes to Mandated Spending

    George Rebane The recent national debate on socialized healthcare (aka Obamacare) has illuminated the way progressives, and presumably all collectivists, organize their thinking on how the government can determine the allocation of your funds and assets.  The main enlightenment here is that they see no difference in a government's taxing a citizen to obtain revenues…

  • On the Equality of All Cultures

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  • Ruminations – 21jan2011

    George Rebane – New Muslim threat, offensive Jihad – American GIs killed by their trainees and combat ‘comrades’– Dog training – Pelline on Rebane and KVMR– Denial of pension problems – New Mexico pulls out of capntax– Prevalent illegal alien attitude? Offensive Jihad.  The latest development on the terrorist front, unreported in the lamestream media,…

  • Our Elected Dummies

    George Rebane RR and its conservative commenters are constantly taken to task by the left for their disdain of the intellectual level of our elected officials.  By their work product they are known.  But that is not enough for our progressive brethren who dismiss that criticism of government to be an attribute of (far?) right…

  • Bob Crabb Paints With a Broad Brush

    George Rebane RL ‘Bob’ Crabb, Nevada County’s keen observer of foibles and follies, has taken the local blogosphere to task.  His cartoon below appeared in the 15jan11 issue of The Union where he holds the chair as the newspaper’s regular apolitical cartoonist.  A compendium of his work was recently published in Once Upon a Village…

  • The Light from Tucson

    George Rebane People instinctively try to draw some compensating outcomes out of the Tucson massacre.  What they take away and how their ongoing lives are informed by the senseless carnage there illuminates who they are. The reaction of the broad left to this tragedy has been instant and, in my view, maniacal.  I see no…

  • Ruminations – 12jan2011

    George Rebane China has announced that it is on the path to making the yuan (aka renminbi) a global currency (more here).  In short, the yuan will then take its place beside the euro and the dollar as a currency in which international accounts may be settled – in other words the yuan will become…

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