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Month: July 2010

  • Who is a Socialist?

    George Rebane “The American People will take Socialism, but they won’t take the label.”  Upton Sinclair [The two short pieces that follow define socialism – the first is mine and the second was penned by RR reader and lifelong Nevada County resident Michael McDaniel.  The timing of these definitions is in response to the question…

  • Ruminations – 14jul2010 (updated)

    George Rebane – Government funded journalism– NAACP’s racist relevance– Taliban’s hidden murder campaign– Hobbes’ Leviathan redux In the 14jul10 WSJ ‘Journalism Needs Government Help’, Dr Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, argues for government funding of our fourth estate.  This would bring our already leftwing news dealers up to par with the similar state sponsored enterprises in the EU…

  • KVMR Conversation – Tea Party Patriots (updated)

    George Rebane Tonight on KVMR FM89.5 during 6:30 to 7:00pm the station’s News Director Paul Emery and I will be talking about the Tea Party movement and the Tea Party Patriots.  The program will also include a listener call-in segment.  To those interested readers, my apologies for any inconvenience that the lateness of this notice…

  • A Peek at Our Local Democrats

    George Rebane It’s always good to see and attempt to understand how the local left views the world and, more importantly, things around our neck of the woods.  This is part and parcel of the RR policy to bring you news from across no-man’s land untrammeled by my views.  Here is the June newsletter of the Nevada…

  • Obamacare’s New Lows

    Think losing that leg or eye for your country still counts.  Well, the profligate spenders in Congress have found another way to lower the bar of decency for our new national healthcare system.  Here’s an extract from the Tea Party Patriots newsletter, and another proof of their extremist views.  We really did have to pass…

  • Political Scattershots – 12jul2010

    George Rebane NEVER confuse effort with achievement. Watching Obama’s Axelrod on Sunday TV was a real downer.  That guy comes across as a double dummy who is not even a good liar for all the ones he’s been tasked to tell.  On the flood of illegal entrants and Arizona’s new law, all he could come…

  • The Liberal Fear of Gaia

    George Rebane Russ Steele and I are a constant thorn in the side of local liberals.  Yesterday Russ addressed the ad hominem vitriol that comes from our neighbors on the left (here and here), and again raised some excellent points on the reception of our writings and ruminations.  As Russ points out, the overwhelming feedback…

  • Even Babies Profile

    George Rebane [This piece appears in the 10jul10 Union as my regular column for this month (here).  It was unfortunately retitled as 'Even babies practice profile'(sic).  This is the submitted version.] Profiling has been an American bugaboo for over a generation now.  Most people don’t really know what it is exactly, but they do know it…

  • Rationing with “Our Eyes Open”

    George Rebane Just a quick one for those for whom the new Chief Rationer made sense with his statement that “The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.”  Dr Berwick’s contention that we already ration healthcare is calculated to impress…

  • Our Problems are Solved

    George Rebane Good news comes again from Europe according to a Reuters and a Guardian.com report from Berlin (thanks to an RR reader for this).  It is of a piece for our socialist leaders in Washington who have had a keen eye on all the advances made by our friends across the pond.  We will simply…

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