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Category: The Liberal Mind

  • The Devil in Democracy

    George Rebane [This is the linked form of my regular Union column which is published in the newspaper’s 14jan12 edition.] When progressives start to talk about democracy again, it is time to get a real firm grip on your wallet and your liberties.  Democracy is now the watchword that echoes across the occupied streets, and…

  • The Liberal Mind – It afflicts all levels

    George Rebane The guiles of socialism should never be discounted or ascribed to only this class/intellect or that.  As many others since then, the Bolshevik Revolution probably ate many of its own children when it applied overly simple rules for liquidating classes that were the designated enemies of the people.  For example, during the Russian…

  • The Liberal Mind – A culture-free universal morality

    George Rebane In discussions on these pages during the last months a new aspect of the liberal mind has revealed itself.  It has always been there, but those of us not blessed with the thinking abilities of the liberal mind seem to overlook this strong characteristic of progressive thought.  And this is that there exists…

  • A New Capitalism with Blood and Gore

    George Rebane Al Gore and David Blood have written ‘A Manifesto for Sustainable Capitalism’ in the 14dec11 WSJ.  This is a remarkable tour de farce that demonstrates conclusively the gross ignorance that both authors have of human nature and capitalism.  We recall that both are also with Generation Investment Management, a private lobbying and investment…

  • Ruminations – 11dec2011

    George Rebane People are asking whether Obama has become irrelevant.  My answer is an emphatic NO.  As long as he is in office, President Obama will remain a loose cannon impacting the fate of our country with his jaundiced ideology of an America destined to disappear into the woodwork of a new global order.  I…

  • Kakistocracy Rising (updated 10dec2011)

    “Fathom the stupidity of a Government that will require every citizen to prove they are insured……but not prove they are a citizen” George Rebane Today we are reminded again that there are legally sane people out there among and even ruling us who believe that doing the same stupid thing which caused their problems in…

  • How We Got Here – Looking at the Bush2 Record

    George Rebane On these pages I have argued long and hard that the permissive environment in which mortgage lenders made subprime loans was carefully constructed and energetically promoted by the congressional social engineering programs of the Democratic Party augmented by a klatch of RINOs. Yesterday’s announced retirement by Rep Barney Frank (D-MA), one of the…

  • Ruminations – 27nov2011 (updated 28nov2011)

    George Rebane Communist spying and influence on our national policies have long been denied/diminished by our Left.  The public experience in uncovering these activities within our government was not sufficient to change any minds in our unions, mainstream media, or the halls of academe.  Things should have changed when the USSR collapsed in 1991, and…

  • The Views of a Rightwing “Extremist” – Indictment without Evidence (updated 29nov2011)

    George Rebane Many readers of RR, me included, are continually labeled as holding “extreme” Rightwing views.  Yet, when examining the record on these pages, those on the Left, and even some of the self-declared middle-roaders, skip the evidentiary phase, and proceed directly from indictment to punishment.  When asked to delineate, to spell out what brings…

  • Ruminations – 21nov2011

    George Rebane Two prominent Democrat pollsters argue for ‘The Hillary Moment’ in 2012.  They make a compelling case for Reid and Pelosi to pick up the phone and call Obama to ask him to take the Truman/Johnson moral high ground and bow out.  Their well-stated arguments revolve around The Community Organizer’s horrible record in office,…

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