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  • On flat tax Blinder is leading the blind

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 18nov11. Princeton’s progressive economist Alan Blinder is in the national media again (14nov11 WSJ) arguing against the flat tax.  Ignoring all the benefits that flat taxes have brought to post-Soviet eastern European countries, he lambasts America’s reconsideration of the flat tax as…

  • The Liberal Mind – Ridiculous Rules of Engagement (updated 14nov2011)

    George Rebane The political season is in full swing again; actually I don’t think that it has taken a breather since 2008.  The Great Recession and all the government programs designed to bring us back into a fine and fundamentally transformed fettle has highlighted an ideological rift in America of proportions to rival its Grand…

  • The Liberal Mind – How much socialist, before being a ‘Socialist’?

    George Rebane In debates on governance and other issues between what we today call the Right and the Left, we observe an interesting use of semantic camouflage that has been in practice for at least a century in the American public square.  The Right and its various political candidates proudly proclaim their socio-political ideologies under…

  • Right and Left – Right? Wrong!

    George Rebane The one dimensional political spectrum is of great rhetorical convenience, but absolutely worthless when it comes to correctly summarizing the attributes of ideology that the so-called ‘Right’ is supposed hold dear (more here).  The light-minded view is that we start somewhere at the far Left where altruistic collectivism rules the roost under the…

  • Community Unity – Liberal Version (updated 10sep2011)

    George Rebane This Sunday, 11 September 2011, Nevada City hosts Constitution Day with a big parade and a day-long celebration of Americana in its streets, parks, and shops.  This has been a community tradition since 1967, drawing together local organizations, residents, and visitors who come from far and wide to witness a ‘home town classic’…

  • Of Ragheads and Regressives

    George Rebane Mr Mike Thornton, former KVMR news director and current volunteer correspondent for the station, often reads and comments on these pages.  By all counts, Mike holds a firm and far left view of the world and its inhabitants.  He takes exception to being identified by any of the standard collectivist labels like ‘liberal’,…

  • An Evening with the Tea Party Patriots

    George Rebane Mr Paul Emery – KVMR news director, musical personage extraordinaire, bringer of arts, and erudite RR discussant – and I have been invited by the Nevada County TPP to engage in a moderated ‘civil discourse’ on issues of current interest as their featured special program for September.  The event will be held on the…

  • Democracy Bound on the Ship of Fools (updated 28jun2011)

    George Rebane Lately our American ship of state has taken an historical pummeling, and the beating literally goes on as you read this.  The remarkable part is that our country was designed and built so well that it can take a decade (generation?) or two of utter mismanagement, and still provide a world class home…

  • Yes, Liberal Nostalgia

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my bi-weekly KVMR commentary that aired on 24 June 2011.] Many of us small time political philosophers have long maintained that progressives are really not all that progressive.  That most of their ideas are pretty moss-backed, have been around for more than a few centuries, and have been…

  • Keachie Again Misreads Rebane

    George Rebane Mr Douglas Keachie is a loud voice in the community and on local blogs.  A man of progressive persuasion, he is also a sometime commenter on these pages.  In his latest effort he attempts to reveal “three fatal flaws” in my 11jun11 Union column ‘Entrepreneurship 2011’.  His revelation was published as an Other Voices submission…

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