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Month: August 2009

  • Healthcare ‘Myths and Mantras’

    George Rebane The national healthcare debate will again kick into high gear as Congress reconvenes in a week or so.  Both sides have been accusing each other of lying about what Obamacare will entail.  The Left’s argument is the standard ‘that is a lie/misrepresentation/myth’, and then they leave it there as if denials and counter-charges…

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    George Rebane

  • Obama’s Legacy Grows

    George Rebane Historians take years to dissect and reassemble the achievements of most American presidents into a legacy that will characterize and summarize their years in office.  President Obama appears to be simplifying that task.  Former CIA field operative and highly decorated national security official Herbert Meyer starts ‘What the President’s Attack on the CIA…

  • A Tea Party in Sacramento (updated)

    George Rebane Today the much ballyhooed cross-country Tea Party Express started off on the west steps of the State Capitol in Sacramento.  Jo Ann and I were up early to get our puppy settled for the day, pick up our neighbor, and drive down to Bethel Church where three busses were lined up and waiting…

  • The Great American Labor Squeeze (updated)

    George Rebane [This piece is a continuation of a series that explores the large currents shaking our country and the world.  Here we look at the labor shock from which America today has no plan to recover.  No one wants to talk about it.]   Let’s start by recalling the fate of John Henry, America’s…

  • Pay Close Attention Democrats

    George Rebane Fouad Ajami is an American academic of Lebanese descent who writes regularly about our body politic.  In today’s WSJ Ajami offers us a reasoned and penetrating analysis of the first six months of Obama’s presidency that contains one of the clearest assessments of how we got to where we are, and where Obama…

  • Dollar Takes Latest Hit (updated 23aug2009)

    George Rebane Ruminations readers are aware that inflation is a tax on all of our dollar-denominated assets (here).  Now that we are staring a Weimar-like inflation in the face with all the dollars that the Fed generates out of thin air, our government is beginning to worry that too many people will catch on in…

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    George Rebane

  • Our New Puppy

    George Rebane Two or so weeks ago we got our new puppy as we arrived home from our granddaughter’s wedding in Denver.  We are dog people and we have been without a puppy since our noble Neiu went to her reward over two years ago.  It was an ordeal getting this mutt since we don’t…

  • The Muslim Street Revealed (Again)

    George Rebane The Libyan welcome of the Lockerbie mass murderer released on “humanitarian grounds” should again educate the soft-headed among us who believe that Islamo-fascists are a small minority of the overseas Arab Muslim populations.  That they hate the west and dream of the global caliphate should not surprise any student of history and current…

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