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Month: April 2010

  • George Rebane The giant public sector workers retirement fund Calpers is underfunded by at least $500,000,000,000 – yes, that’s a half trillion dollars.  This is from a Stanford University study commissioned by our governor (reported here)  RR readers should not be surprised.  In Nevada County, SESF (sesfoundation.org) reported on the state’s and county’s unfunded liabilities…

  • George Rebane [This is another in a continuing series of autobiographical sketches that I have been asked to write by friends and family.  I share it with you, my readers, in the hope that these little vignettes of history and the American immigrant experience are of interest.  But most of all, I hope it may…

  •   Happy Easter from our family to you and yours. George and Jo Ann

  • George Rebane The accusation of the staged Tea Partiers shouting ‘nigger’ at black legislators at the Capitol is coming home to roost for the scumbags who tried to set the whole thing up in Washington DC, and then again in Searchlight, Nevada.  National blogger Andrew Breitbart was falsely accused by shipped-in union thugs of the…

  • George Rebane   According to a recent study by Cato scholar Veronique de Rugy reported on NRO here – On average, Democratic districts received one-and-a-half times as many awards as Republican ones. Democratic districts also received two-and-a-half times more stimulus dollars than Republican districts ($122,127,186,509 vs. $46,139,592,268). Republican districts also received smaller awards on average.…

  • George Rebane – Public service unions are bankrupting cities– Pelosi’s shameful conduct– Obamacare’s mindbending apologetics– iPad is a good start– Profiling and air travel security– Obama’s job at Harvard The evidence that public service unions are a public menace has been clear and abundant for years as I have reported on RR and in The Union.  Now this evidence has become…