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Month: November 2008

  • Debate is Henceforth Forbidden

    George Rebane The following is taken from NCFocus, the blog of Anna Haynes, a local grassroots global warming activist and true believer. Note: Please comment *only* if you share the mainstream view that climate change is happening, the evidence strongly indicates humans are causing it, and it’s urgent that we address it now – comments from…

  • Ruminations – 20nov2008

    George Rebane Millions once moved to California for its boundless promise, but time has not been kind to the Golden State, so starts Joel Kotkin’s ‘Sundown for California’ in the Nov/Dec issue of The American.  He details the history of our beloved state and jewel of the world from its unbelievable beginnings as a land…

  • Multiverses All the Way Down

    George Rebane The existence of an Intelligent Creator (IC), aka God, is so abhorrent to some scientists that they are willing to jump through any number of hoops to avoid satisfying at least one of the pillars – Occam’s razor – on which science claims to rest (the other is Falsifiability).  Instead they are advancing…

  • Political Phollies Phuse with Physics

    George Rebane   Worldwide lunacy is achieving new heights.  The Europeans are launching a major multi-decade project to create a practical energy source using fusion.  This project will cost megatons of money – some will undoubtedly even come from the US – and seek to create energy independence from carbon based fuels.  The story is…

  • A Visit to McCloud

    George Rebane Last Friday Jo Ann and I put the cats in solitary, jumped into the Cherokee, and were on our way to discover McCloud.  This town of about 1,600 sits on Highway 89 less than ten miles east of where it joins I-5.  The dominant landscape feature of the surrounding territory is Mt. Shasta…

  • Election Reflections

    Mike McDaniel In all the election hoopla surrounding the socialists push for our "new hope" my focus was on the first question on the Massachusetts ballot.  "Question 1" as it was described on ads and radio waves would have abolished the MA state income tax (full disclosure; I contributed financially to the cause). The proposition…

  • Progressive Tax Rates Reality Alert

    Progressive tax rates, New York’s fiscal crisis

  • Ruminations – 11nov2008 (updated)

    George Rebane Today we quickly look at two peas in a pod – the ‘we’re from the government, and we’re here to help’ pod. The federal government’s bailout program has failed miserably from the gitgo – it was supposed to be a fast-acting fix that would keep the trouble from spreading across the globe.  Well, it’s…

  • Nevada County’s Power Future?

    George Rebane Hyperion Power Generation, Inc. in New Mexico has developed a small nuclear powerplant that can power 20,000 homes from a unit measuring a couple of meters on a side.  This generator with no moving parts will cost about $25M in place which is about twenty feet underground.  The technology is very mature with…

  • Broken Windows and California’s Greenhouse Gas Plan

    George Rebane The jury is in on California’s syndicated columnist Thomas Elias – his acumen in economics is about a bubble out of plumb.  The man’s 4nov08 piece ‘Greenhouse gas plan might green state economy’ in the San Diego Union (repeated in today’s Onion) was full of the liberal drivel that government funded make-work programs…

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