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Month: July 2010

  • Liberty’s Twilight

    George Rebane We are living in dangerous times.  Among the countries that used to be known as the ‘free world’, America is the leading jailer and the world’s title holder as the country that imprisons the largest fraction of its citizens.  The rate of criminalization and incarceration has been quietly mushrooming in the US, and is…

  • Dumb and Dumber 2 (updated 1aug2010)

    George Rebane We really have the dynamic duo of dummies in the White House.  Ol’ Joe Biden has been taking a lot of solo heat for way too long on being the fastest blank shooting lip in Washington.  As RR, other conservative sites, media programs, and published pieces have pointed out for almost two years…

  • Ruminations – 29jul2010 (updated)

    George Rebane Man Bites Dog Story – Of all places, in San Francisco we find Democratic Supervisor Sean Elsbernd challenging the city’s powerful mass transit workers’ union to back off on their contract with the city that is doing its share to wreak financial havoc (here).  This kind of conduct, especially with Mayor Gavin Newsom’s…

  • Tea Party Patriots Update

    George Rebane My spies in the TP movement inform me that the nationwide number of organized local TPP groups now number in excess of 2,200 and growing at a rate of approximately 50 per week.  More good news rolls in from the left in that it appears the progressives are discounting the TPP as nothing…

  • The Barack Obama Show (updated 28jul2010)

    George Rebane President Obama made a televised White House appearance today to announce that the 20K+ Wikileak emails of raw field operations reports from Afghanistan and Pakistani aid to the Taliban were no big revelation, in fact they were “old news”.  Meanwhile all those dummies at The New York Times, The Washington Times, The Guardian…

  • Why the White Gold Standard?

    George Rebane Race and racism is again very much in the news.  Obama had a white mother and a black father which makes him a mulatto who draws equally from the gene pools of at least two races and continents.  Then why is he automatically called a ‘black President’, our first black President? Not too…

  • Getting the Balance Right

    George Rebane [This aired last night on KVMR-FM 89.5 as my bi-weekly commentary.  It continues on the recent thread of how our journalistic industry is changing in an environment of ever rapidly evolving events, ideological polarization, propaganda, government's desire to control content, and the availability of new technologies.] Dr Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University,…

  • Buying Votes

    George Rebane Tis the election season when we all become aware of how candidates buy our votes.  Nevada County’s iconic cartoonist Bob Crabb published this little piece of thought provoking wit in The Union this week (used with his permission).   Looking at Meg sitting there, and all the various stimulus and spending programs that…

  • Our Cuban Future?

    George Rebane I recently finished reading two important essays.  The first was “America’s Ruling Class—And the Perils of Revolution,” by Angelo M. Codevilla.  This essay was an eye-opener in how it summarized and knit together the things that we have all witnessed happening to our country over the last several decades.  I filled the margins of…

  • Fox News, Oh My!! (updated 23jul2010)

    George Rebane The Shirley Sherrod saga has reached the silly season.  On RR, and probably many other blogs, the howls of how Fox News “snookered” the country and its government into an unjustified termination of the woman from her Dept of Ag job has reached hysteric heights.  The comment threads stand as a permanent witness.…

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