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Category: The Liberal Mind

  • ‘The Giver’ – A progressive nirvana

    George Rebane I just finished reading The Giver (1993) by Lois Lowry, and then sat there staring into space, letting the ending wash over me again, reviewing how the author brought me there, and of the many ways one could interpret the book’s conclusion.  This is a story written primarily for teen-agers, and I would…

  • ‘The Divided States of America’

    As democracy is perfected, the office of the  President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron. –…

  • Public Service Unions, the VA scandal, and Zombie Agencies (updated)

    George Rebane People who have trouble connecting the dots are often missing some dots. WSJ’s Kimberley Strassel has shined a light on ‘Big Labor’s VA Choke Hold’ – an aspect of the scandal not yet exposed.  She lists a series of audacious malpractices that have become embedded in the VA, and presumably across the federal bureaucratic terrain…

  • The Liberal Mind – Hillary’s new logic on Benghazi

    George Rebane Hillary Clinton’s public copy on Benghazi is that she will not respond to any more queries about her involvement in that tragedy on her watch because that would be playing politics “on the backs of our dead.”  This by any reading is, of course, playing politics to the maximum on the subject, especially…

  • The VA Fiasco – some thoughts

    Big government is good, and bigger government is even better – A progressive rubric George Rebane This year’s concurrence of Memorial Day and Obama’s latest scandal involving VA healthcare invited a lot of discussion about the latter under RR’s posting on the former.  Perhaps we can continue the exchange under its own banner, so to…

  • Ruminations – 23may14 (updated 30may14)

    George Rebane TechTest2014 examinees were feted at its annual Survivors’ Breakfast at Tofanelli’s this morning.  The pictured six top scorers – David Bernadett, Lars Montagnaro, Patric Wells, Grant Clove, Sean Anderson, Alex Vobiril – received their scholarship checks that ranged in amounts from $6,000 to $300.  Attending also were junior year students taking the test…

  • 36,000 illegal alien criminals released in 2013 (updated 15may14)

    George Rebane Under Obama administration orders the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau released over 36,000 illegal alien criminals (who were convicted of over 87,000 criminal acts, see ICE data below) onto American streets last year while they were awaiting deportation.  ICE did this in addition to the 68,000 similar releases it reported earlier.  These…

  • Scattershots – 12may14 (updated 14may14)

    George Rebane Associated Press again puts the ‘lame’ into lamestream media in its ‘A look at all that Benghazi stands for’.  In this extended article the leftwing news organization presents its summary of the Benghazi Bamboozle, news developments that it has studiously ignored or minimized since the 2012 terrorist attack took place.  But even a…

  • Ruminations – 7may14 (updated 10may14)

    George Rebane The lying season is in full swing.  Yesterday the Obama administration released the latest assessment on the progress of global warming, climate change, or whatever their nom du jour for what’s happening with the weather (‘Third National Assessment on Climate Change’).  The bottom line of this latest issue of climategate is that the…

  • The Great Escape

    George Rebane It gives little pleasure to remind us all that progressives are socio-economically ignorant, incorrigible, and unrepentant.  The great escape of companies from the once Golden State continues unabated.  From Nevada County we see the next stage departure of our formerly iconic Grass Valley Group as its remnants are merged with Miranda Technologies.  It…

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