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Category: The Liberal Mind

  • Scott Adams ‘endorses’ Hillary

    George Rebane The evidence for asymmetrical socialist thuggery just keeps pouring in.  Having long gone bankrupt in the arena of ideas, the Left continues to resort to violence in order to silence their opponents.  The spate of riots and attacks on Trump supporters continues to grow both at his rallies and elsewhere where people publicly…

  • Scattershots – 3jun16

    George Rebane When the country has a problem, it is prudent to consider government guilty until proven innocent. Today we hear of banks being squeezed by regulatory mandates that require them to lend to a broader category of borrowers (e.g. car buyers), and at the same time reduce risk.  Such strictures can only issue from…

  • Berkheimer and Bernie – birds of a feather (updated)

    George Rebane Last Saturday’s (28may16) newspapers offered up dollops of leftwing wisdom from the great and the small, both issuing from what to me and mine has always been a Neverland of cogent thought.  From Hiroshima (pronounced Hiroshma, not Hero-shiima) we heard once more the words of our leader pleading for an Earth that never…

  • The ‘Blessings’ of the Ferguson Effect (updated 27may16)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 25 May 2016.] Amid this two-year election season we have ignored the alarming rise in crime rates across the nation.  Violent crime in big cities has begun rocketing upward over the last couple of years since the August 2014 police shooting…

  • Ruminations – 23may16 (updated 27may16)

    George Rebane Yesterday we returned from a couple of weeks in Europe with friends visiting Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary.  Somewhere I picked up massive cold augmented by the Hungarian Hack that I brought home on a miserable return from Budapest to SFO in three draining hops.  Air travel (we traveled first and biz…

  • They sure ain’t like us (updated 5may16)

    George Rebane A continuing narrative on these pages has been the grossly asymmetric way that the Right (conservatives, libertarians) and Left (socialists, liberals) treat each other’s expression of ideas and beliefs in the public fora.  A corollary to this narrative is how narrow and broad are the spectra of news sources and commentaries that each…

  • Scattershots – 22apr16

    George Rebane Supes Miller and Weston gave their “rationale” for floating Measure W on the 7jun16 ballot (op-ed in 22apr16 Union). They tell us that W is “strictly about controlling nuisance, environmental and public safety impacts from outdoor (MJ) grows.”  Well maybe.  Now don’t get me wrong, I’m on record for sharing these concerns voiced…

  • The Liberal Mind – there are so many of them

    George Rebane On Saturday mornings I cook a big breakfast centered around a multi-layered frittata (dubbed Eggs Rebane in the family) and sautéed vegetables all served with toasted slices from one of my artisan breads (have baked all our bread since 1998).  Jo Ann makes the coffee, cuts my vegetables, and then gets to sit…

  • The Liberal Mind – Hilary Hodge can’t connect the dots (updated 21apr16)

    George Rebane Liberals, in the footsteps of Bernie in this election year, have worked themselves into a white heat denigrating business, employers, profit, entrepreneurship, …, in short all the trappings of free market capitalism.  Our local outlets for such sentiments include the neighborhood progressives whose commentaries decorate The Union’s op-ed pages.  Among them is the…

  • A burning election year question for Americans (updated)

    George Rebane In this year of 2016AD, is not the disjunction of our communal knowledge remarkable when it informs a goodly portion of us that capitalism and free enterprise are evil and the prime causes of misery and suffering wherever they are practiced; when in reality these are and continue to be the ONLY social…

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