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  • Ruminations – 2sep12

    George Rebane Last year a polarized Congress came up with Satan’s Sequester as the compromise for raising the debt ceiling and not shutting down the government.  That infamous sequester was not a plan anyone expected to execute, it was just to let everyone get on with electioneering in hopes of winning the spending cut and…

  • Why it’s so damn hard to be a Democrat (updated 30aug12)

    George Rebane I have long maintained that I don’t understand why self-proclaimed ‘patriot’ Democrats are doing everything possible to torpedo this fair land, and make it into a shadow of a failed socialist state, or worse.  I’ll start with the worse. Radical Islamists are already entrenched in the US among the non-radicalized silent majority of…

  • Another California Brainfart

    George Rebane “The sages of Sacramento have done such a splendid job of not adequately funding California’s public pensions that now they want to do the same for non-government workers. Their latest brainstorm is to establish state-administered retirement plans for workers in the private economy.  This is not a joke. … .” as reported in…

  • The Liberals’ Intellectually Baseless Ideology

    George Rebane An ideology is a structured and communicable belief system that in its best expression is composed of tenets defendable by reason. I have always wondered why the Left appears to have no intellectual roots or basis for its scattered ideology.  The Right has its social philosophers in people like Locke, Bastiat, von Mises,…

  • Dems Happy Dancing in the Streets (updated 18aug12)

    George Rebane More of same + more time = more of same. Well, if the local lefties are any indication, then there was a lot of Dems dancing in the streets last night after it cooled down a bit.  All the progressive pundits are heralding Obama’s upcoming slam dunk victory.  Might as well not spend…

  • Ruminations – 30jul12

    George Rebane *** Readers know my position on our country’s teachers’ unions.  They are the documented scourge to education and America’s youth.  Now two more examples of these rotten organizations are making headlines in selected news media (forget the lamestream).  In Louisiana the state’s second largest teachers’ union is suing the state for a new…

  • Circling the Barn on Gun Control (Addended)

    George Rebane Comment streams below my posts about other topics often develop threads about Second Amendment rights and, yes, gun control.  This has been a hot thread the last few days in the comments under ‘Obama is a Self-Declared Marxist’.  No doubt the recent murderous rampage in Aurora, Colorado has piqued the national interest in…

  • Taxes Fair Enough Already?

    George Rebane One of the telltale signs that gives away a progressive is that he can’t give you a maximum tax share of your income.   In his mind there is no end to the size of government, and therefore no end to the amount of the national wealth that it should appropriate. And, of course,…

  • Obama is a self-declared Marxist – addended (23jul12 update)

    George Rebane Since Obama opened his mouth during his 2008 candidacy, RR has maintained that the man is a Marxist.  There is little surprise in that conclusion when we consider his grandparents, parents, school years, Chicago brethren, his own words, and deeds as President.  But last Friday in Roanoke, VA he dispelled all residual doubt…

  • The Liberal Mind – The Continuing Conundrum of Conditional Contingencies

    George Rebane In this sector of RR we dedicate our efforts to the eternal pursuit and understanding of the liberal mind.  Awakened this morning by NPR’s segment on the November election, and Obama’s strategy for victory, jogged a stream of thought that may shed light on another important aspect of how our ideological opposites cope…

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