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Month: January 2010

  • Treasury: ‘TARP tanked’

    George Rebane AP reported that Treasury’s Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky ran some numbers, and has now informed the Administration that TARP has tanked.  The bank bailouts, started under Bush and continued by Obama, have not increased bank lending, nor have they stimulated jobs, and will “almost certainly” result in a loss to taxpayers.  And…

  • “I am not an ideologue” ??!!

    George Rebane This guy gets more unbelievable by the hour.  Obama claims not to have an overarching ideology that informs his decisions??!!  An ideology is a coherent and cohesive set of tenets that comprise the socio-political part of a well-formed belief system.  And according to the dictionary, an ideologue is one who has such an ideology. …

  • How We Are Ruled

    George Rebane These pages, along with my Union columns, have shined a light on the government employee crisis that is already in the oven.  Every time I have reported on the abuses of government employee unions, government employee pay, and the approaching unfunded liabilities train wreck, there arose an obligatory and automatic hew and cry…

  • Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?

    George Rebane   Today President Obama assembled the Republican members of Congress and presented a very reasonable case for the two parties to work together to achieve the Objective Du Jour – jobs.  It was all for the good of the country, no one could deny it.  And then he popped out the “party of…

  • Still in Shock (updated 1feb2010)

    George Rebane It took better men than me to digest Obama’s State of the Union.  All I can do is sit here and shake my head.  While having a filibuster-proof Congress and shoveling payola to his own party’s scumbags, he actually accused Republicans of obstructionism and playing politics with his grand agenda for the ‘American…

  • Steve Enos Files Brown Act Complaint

    George Rebane RR reader, critic, and former Grass Valley city councilman Steve Enos has filed a complaint against the City of Grass Valley citing violations of the Brown Act.  Steve’s email to me this morning summarized his concerns and the nature of his complaint.  With his permission, the following is extracted from his email and…

  • ‘From P-books to E-books’ to iPad

    George Rebane Today Steve Jobs of Apple brought out the long-awaited iPad.  It is the gizmo that Apple hopes will become the way we will do most of our information gathering and online communications.  Well actually, the iPad does even more as you can read from their brag sheet here. I have been predicting the…

  • At the Birth of Pork

    George Rebane Did you ever stand on the bank of a mighty river like the Missouri and contemplate its majestic and massive flow?  There it appears mighty and unstoppable in its progress to the ocean where it is swallowed up without a trace.  And then your thoughts turn to how such a behemoth starts from…

  • Ex Plures Duos (updated 28jan2010)

    George Rebane For the last thirty years or so we have been awakened by NPR’s morning program.  Locally that means listening to KXJZ 90.9 from Sacramento.  The format starts with inter/national news and then California news slanted toward our part of the state.  Both news programs seem to be politically pretty vanilla.  Oh, every once…

  • The Moral Economy of Scale in Murder

    George Rebane   RR reader, critic, and contributor Steven Frisch has a well developed and worthy of debate world view.  He posted a comment to some statements I made here regarding the history of death by government and, by implication, its portents for America.  Steve took my brief explication of 20th century state sponsored/executed mass murders…

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