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Category: The Liberal Mind

  • Nancy Garcia responds to Gratuitous Charge

    George Rebane On 16 December 2013 a local leftwinger and RR reader Mr Joe Koyote threw out the following gratuitous charge of the kind that is not only his hallmark on these pages, but also resonates with most of the deep thinkers on our progressive flank.  He wrote – Outside money in local politics? What…

  • ‘A Future of Failure?’ – A Timely Progressive Lament

    George Rebane ‘A Future of Failure?: The Flow of Technology Talent into Government and Civil Society’ was just published by Freedman Consulting, a progressive policy consultancy run by former staffers of Democrat administrations.  This important report was sponsored by the MacArthur and Ford Foundations, organizations that are much in tune with leftwing causes and central…

  • Baumol’s Effect on Wages and the Liberal Mind

    George Rebane Actually Baumol’s Effect on the liberal mind is exactly nothing, zilch, zero, … .   Self-styled thinkers of the Left are constantly going on about workers not being paid enough as they come forward with all kinds of dodgy arithmetic showing how capitalists are making a greedy killing at the expense of their employees. …

  • The Liberal Mind – Wealth Transfer on Steroids

    George Rebane [This is the linked transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 6 December 2013.] Developed nations around the world are up to their ears in unmanageable debt while facing demographic tsunamis of workers getting ready to retire with un- or underfunded pensions.  In response, more people in governments and finance worldwide are…

  • As our Republic unravels

    George Rebane In general, liberals are not stupid; many of them just have bad luck when they think. This cannot be said of California liberals. •    The Senate’s ‘nuclear option’ has been exercised;•    Obama continues to violate laws and the Constitution by rolling back more of Obamacare;•    Progressives mandate and subsidize windfarms and then sue…

  • Structuring the BIG LIE

    ‘O, what a tangled web we weave when we practice to decieve …’,  Sir Walter Scott George Rebane Yesterday’s House Oversight Committee hearing into Obamacare’s disastrous launch revealed documented evidence that months ago low level code jockeys already told their bosses healthcare.gov would not fly, and could not be made to fly by 1 October…

  • Ruminations – 12nov13

    George Rebane Now the world, including the dyed-in-the-wool econut chorus, should know about the ‘greening of ethanol’, things that the rest of us (those who paid attention and knew arithmetic) have known for years.  The left leaning Associated Press no less has released a long expose – ‘The Secret Dirty Cost of Obama’s Green Power…

  • Ruminations – 5nov13 (updated 6nov13)

    George Rebane ‘Does Environmentalism Cause Amnesia?’ asks WSJ's Bret Stephens in a short piece reprising climate change worries that go back over two centuries.  The latest effluent scheduled to be pumped out by the IPCC is that the world will again face falling crop yields and hunger.  What has been happening is exactly the opposite. …

  • The Liberal Mind – Government Evil Unseen

    George Rebane A couple of weeks ago I sent The Union a letter mostly to see what they would do with it.  It was time sensitive and related to the cynical aspects of the partial shutdown.  Since the letter was not published during the shutdown, I assumed that it was rejected.  But lo and behold,…

  • The Remarkable Noam Chomsky

    George Rebane In a private communication an RR reader brought up Noam Chomsky and his views on the Singularity.  It appears that the world famous linguist does not believe that the Singularity is possible.  I was not aware of that, since in his 60 years at MIT he has been credited with making contributions to…

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