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Category: The Liberal Mind

  • The Unchanging Left View

    George Rebane [This cartoon by my friend, RR reader, political cartoonist RL ‘Bob’ Crabb appeared in the 5feb11 Union op-ed pages.  You might note that we don’t see eye-to-eye on everything.  Oh well.]   No matter the decades of leftwing legislative control that has brought California to its knees; it seems that as long as there remains…

  • The Liberal Mind – Taxes to Mandated Spending

    George Rebane The recent national debate on socialized healthcare (aka Obamacare) has illuminated the way progressives, and presumably all collectivists, organize their thinking on how the government can determine the allocation of your funds and assets.  The main enlightenment here is that they see no difference in a government's taxing a citizen to obtain revenues…

  • Healthcare on a Leftwing and a Prayer

    George Rebane My email this morning contained an “open letter” by local resident Michael Anderson to the Tea Party Patriot leadership.  It was published in Jeff Pelline’s blog and sent to me by the ‘duty reader’ of Jeff’s output.  Michael excoriates the policies and efforts of the TPP and the Republicans in Congress to roll…

  • The Light from Tucson

    George Rebane People instinctively try to draw some compensating outcomes out of the Tucson massacre.  What they take away and how their ongoing lives are informed by the senseless carnage there illuminates who they are. The reaction of the broad left to this tragedy has been instant and, in my view, maniacal.  I see no…

  • The Liberal Mind – Government Subsidies

    George Rebane Most people consider government subsidies to be the transfer of some form of assets – cash/stuff/services that the government owns - from the government to the subsidized entity.  Not so the liberal of whatever coloration.  In their book the government effectively owns everything, and we the people are allowed to husband and use some…

  • California’s Purple Cargo Cults

    George Rebane CARB met yesterday to establish California’s cap n’ tax carbon trading program.  RR readers are aware of how people who passed Econ 101 feel about this mournful event.  (For details and analysis of its larger impact, see Russ Steele’s report on NCMW.) Meanwhile, the progressives are besides themselves with glee.  Half of them…

  • The Liberal Mind – Censorship

    Accepting a little bit of socialism is the same as taking comfort in that you are a little bit pregnant. George Rebane The 21st century liberal cum progressive retains the same views and definitions of censorship that did their Bolshevik progenitors in the early 20th century.  Specifically, if the dissemination of their ideas are not…

  • Meckler Nailed – the ‘evidence’ is in

    George Rebane Just a rung short of a ladder is the most charitable way I can characterize the attempt by a locally loud leftwinger to proclaim that he has finally found the evidence to nail Mark Meckler, one of the national coordinators of the Tea Party Patriots.  Here’s the cited ‘proof’ in the hard-left Mother Jones article…

  • KVMR Commentary – John Kerry Assesses the Voters

    George Rebane [This piece was recorded as my regular bi-weekly commentary on KVMR-FM 89.5 and broadcast on 1 October 2010.] There is more to be said about John Kerry’s assessment of voters earlier this week.  For openers, it’s rare that Senator Kerry and I agree, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to balance the…

  • The Liberal Mind – On Government Largesse

    George Rebane This week I was at a public meeting with a large concentration of very liberal people.  The topic of the meeting had heavy political and ideological overtones, so many of the conversations around the room involved people opining about the mindsets typical of the ‘other side’.  I overheard one particularly loud snippet that…

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