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Month: April 2010

  • Big Government, Big Business

    George Rebane Big monopolies and oligopolies are no better in the private sector than they are in the public sector.  Both types of organizations suffer systemic failures in the feedback necessary to keep them on the straight and narrow as far as their customers are concerned.  Of course, big government can do more damage to its…

  • The Republican Alternative to a repealed Obamacare

    George Rebane As we know, and contrary to a constant stream of MSM reports about “the party of NO” and “they have offered no ideas of their own”, the GOP is now bringing together its alternative piece of healthcare legislation that they hope to pass if their fortunes turn this November.  The major features of…

  • We Remain Unstimulated (updated)

    George Rebane The self-serving liars in Washington have attempted for the last two years to convince us that they have injected newly printed and borrowed cash into our economy in order to stimulate it out of the recession that followed the housing bubble.  This has not come to pass.  The economy has struggled to find its…

  • Bipartisan Milestones

    George Rebane   Obamacare is truly a unique event in American governance.  But then, not everyone is worried.  H/T to RR reader for the graphic.

  • Singularity? What’s that? (w/appendix)

    George Rebane [This piece is published here in The Union today as my April column.  Coincidentally, today’s (10apr10) WSJ also published an article that expands on the Singularity in its discussion of galactic civilizations.  I have appended the relevant paragraph.] In my past columns I have hinted at the enormous impact that accelerating technology is having on…

  • KVMR commentary – ‘The blue of the grass’

    [This commentary was recorded last week at KVMR FM 85.9 for its postponed airing today 9 April 2010.] ‘The blue of the grass’ is the color green in an African language.  That’s a lot of letters compared to the five letters in the word ‘green’ to get across the same message.  But it’s also getting harder…

  • Reaping what we have sown

    George Rebane   Mr Steven Frisch of the Sierra Business Council has an explanation for our long wait.  To last week’s NC ARRA report he appended this – I think that the reasons area clear. 1) Republicans are less likely to apply for stimulus funds 2) When they do, they are public critics and private porkers, so…

  • The Great Divide – more are thinking about it (updated)

    George Rebane I have written in these pages about the possibility of America splitting into two sovereign nation states for the last couple of years or so under the heading of The Great Divide.  These were lonely thoughts for some time.  With the election of Obama – the self-declared Great Unifier – the prospect of…

  • Waiting for Gloria Zane

    George Rebane I had lunch the other day with my editor/publisher Jeff Ackerman.  We talked of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings.  And then the topic of Gloria Zane came up.  It turns out that Gloria has been making the rounds of some local blogs lately and taking a very dim…

  • MSM Viewership (updated)

    George Rebane MSM nightly news viewership is down 14% in the last year.  But the sad news is that about 20 million Americans are still being fed a steady diet of bull pucky every night.  H/T to RR reader.   [update]  Russ Steele thought that the following March stats really drive home the point.

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