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Category: The Liberal Mind

  • The Liberal Mind – Tax Rates Don’t Affect Earnings

    George Rebane According to the progressive worldview, you will work just as hard and take just as much risk when the government takes 80% of your earnings as you will when the government takes only 30% of those same earnings.  That simple proposition is the left’s basis for funding any additional revenues they deem government…

  • The Jobs of Texas

    George Rebane Just a short update on how individual states can still affect their own fortunes as long as they have the brains and will to do so.  After all, allowing the several states to improvise and compete in how they solve their own problems of local governance is part of the genius of our…

  • ‘Meathead’ Majors

    George Rebane Apropos to the lively discussion at ‘True Value of Work and Caring Economics’, Harvard professor of government Harvey Mansfield contributed a telling piece about the “poor choices … students made in selecting their courses and majors.”  In ‘Sociology and Other Meathead Majors’ Dr Mansfield points out the distinction between education based on facts…

  • ‘True Value of Work’ and ‘Caring Economics’

    George Rebane KVMR news director Paul Emery commenting on ‘Right Wing Extremism in Action: Tea Party Houston’ introduced Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics into the wide-ranging discussion in that post’s comment stream.  Paul Emery’s concern there was that Eisler’s ideas are so compelling and, at the same time, revolting to conservatives, that they find it too…

  • An Eerie Feeling re the Great Divide

    George Rebane Is the Great Divide already under way?  RR readers are familiar with the Great Divide discussion in these pages (RR search ‘great divide’).  The basis for the idea of a structural change in these United States is an old one, one that is provided for by our Constitution, and one that was in…

  • ‘Thanksgiving 2022’

    George Rebane [This came in email, and reading it I immediately began looking for some hyperbole.  But given this administration’s stated goals, established direction, and ongoing ‘progress’ thereto, I couldn’t find any.  Perhaps you can dear reader.] "Winston, come into the dining room, it's time to eat," Julia yelled to her husband. "In a minute,…

  • Hardwiring the Right and Left

    George Rebane In my technology newsletters I recently encountered some buzz about clinical evidence differentiating the brainbones of liberals and conservatives – in short, you may be one or the other because that’s the way you’re wired up.  There has been a flurry of articles posted on the original research done on this thesis at…

  • The Liberal Mind – Eat the Rich

    George Rebane Communists and most of today’s union members are persuaded by arguments that the pie is fixed, they are its bakers, and the rich have become so only by taking more than their ‘fair share’. Not only that, but if we can claw back what the rich have unjustly taken, then there will be…

  • The Liberal Mind – Go See for Yourself

    George Rebane The validation of the far left’s violent rage and call for revolution that we have seen with the advent of Wisconsin’s public employee labor unions (PELUs) is everywhere you look today.  While attacking by name those who don’t agree with their ideas about America or its future, these progressives cum communists take what…

  • Community Partnership Banking – Worm Farm 2? (updated 5mar2011)

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular radio commentary that aired tonight 4mar11 on KVMR-FM 89.5.  I have addended some observations from attending the 4mar11 meeting where the described banking concept was presented.] Something called ‘community partnership banking’ is being sold to Nevada City right now as you listen to this commentary.   Helping to…

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