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Month: September 2009

  • George Rebane The recent spate of social engineering and economic stimulus programs issuing from Washington again motivates communities that hope to get some federal funding to propose and plan local projects that may catch the eye of an appropriate czar in the current administration.  All things ‘green’ seem to garnering most favor, and now everyone…

  • George Rebane Irving Kristol, the father of neo-conservatism and celebrated observer of our political progress, died yesterday at the age of 89.  His legacy has informed many of us and focused the ire of many more over six decades of public punditry and wordsmithing.  The following excerpt is from one of his regular articles – Income Inequality…

  • George Rebane – The collateral damage from Obamacare.– Where is Obama’s plan for healthcare?– Michelle demonstrates low carbon, organic shopping. When you see Obamacare costs going up in lockstep with your taxes, you start looking at your neighbors a little differently.  The fat guy is no longer just a fat guy waddling down the sidewalk.  You know he’s…

  • George Rebane Scientists tell us North America today has more trees than ever before.  This is doubly so in the west where entire mountain ranges are matted with thick forests and dense underbrush.  A little more than a century ago these same mountains were covered with copses and sparse stands of trees separated by cleared…

  • George Rebane The Missing Millions March was held in Washington DC last Saturday, a day that the ‘progressive’ MSM decided to tightly blinder its eyes and see only “sixty to seventy-five thousand” Tea Party protesters converge on the Capitol.  Actually, Washington was shut down by the throngs conservatively numbered in the 1.2 to 2 million…

  • [This is the full length piece the first part of which was published today in the 12sep09 Union print edition. The full length version also appears in the newspaper’s online edition.  gjr] George Rebane In this recession over six million jobs have disappeared so far in the last year or so.  Out of approximately 150 million American jobs…