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Month: February 2010

  • George Rebane [Yesterday KVMR broadcast my bi-weekly commentary which I recorded as posted below.  I was informed by KVMR that they may need to edit out the solicitation for contributions for TechTest2010 scholarships due to some very specific FCC rules.  The commentary was in fact broadcast without the solicitation which I do retain here in…

  • George Rebane Douglas Schoen was President Clinton’s pollster and continues his astute observations of America’s body politic.  Today he writes a piece advising fellow Democrats on some major policy shifts to get them through 2010.  Among his pearls – – Democrats “need pro-growth, fiscally conservative policies.”– The tea party movement “is not a Republican movement, and anyone who…

  • George Rebane – Cities contemplating Chapter 9 bankruptcy– Small nuclear reactors– States sinking under weight of public unions– Government spending outpaces all– Tea parties successfully keep distance from major political parties– Joe Biden takes credit for Iraq More and more cities across the land are now contemplating going into Chapter 9 bankruptcy, the kind reserved for municipalities and government institutions.  The…

  • George Rebane For the last several weeks we have been watching Greece sliding down the same chute that we are on.  The symptoms and the disease appear to be identical, only their progress is a lot faster since they are a smaller economy and their mistakes are quickly amplified.  The disease, of course, is big…

  • George Rebane   Fred Buhler stepped down as the fearless leader of Friends of the Nevada County Military after serving as its co-founder, hardest worker, and chief promoter for 6 years.  It was Fred who told so many of us of the FNCM and the fine work it was doing to support our troops in the…

  • (H/T to RR reader.) 

  • George Rebane Anthropogenic (manmade) Global Warming is the Sword of Damocles hanging over all of us.  Its primitive logic argues that since we caused global warming (now hiding under the ‘climate change’ label), we can fix it by some progressive (cap n’ tax) legislation that will destroy our economies.  Saner heads – I modestly count…

  • George Rebane ** A reader sent this unfortunate yet revealing picture from the Oval Office.   ** The progressive readers of my 13feb2010 Union column demonstrate again the two worlds we live in.  From their media sources they reveal a total ignorance of and rage against the relevant debt numbers that impact our daily lives while…