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Month: September 2010

  • George Rebane ### Three years ago when I noodled some numbers on US workforce and educational trends, the demonstrated illiteracy and innumeracy of our labor, and the acceleration of technology in these pre-Singularity years, an unexpected result stared back at me.  According to my analysis, about 70 million American workers, or almost half of our…

  • George Rebane The more you redistribute,the less you have to redistribute. The very liberal truthout.com is absolutely frantic in its email seeking donations from its readers.  The fear of the conservatives they profess matches or exceeds anything equivalent I have seen coming from the right in reference to the left.  Here’s their opening (original emphasis)…

  • George Rebane Supervisor Ed Scofield adds his name to those of Supervisors John Spencer and Ted Owens in their public support of Proposition 23.  Their corroborating the job killing impact on Nevada County from implementing the remainder of AB32 is a visible show of leadership to their constituents on this super-critical issue.  See also Barry…

  • George Rebane Our President’s lies on the costs and benefits of Obamacare are shredding whatever government credibility remains about the nature of our new national healthcare program.  The chief community organizer (CCO) sold us his bill of goods with lavish promises of lower healthcare costs.  Only the hardcore and terminally left believed that fiction when…

  • George Rebane The 9/11 observances yesterday were not as mixed of a bag as some commentators concluded.  It was evident that both the somber observances at the three memorial venues, and the demonstrations at the proposed Cordoba Mosque were political in nature.  Our leaders are stepping further back from the unifying anger that the attack…

  • George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my monthly column which appears today 11 September 2010 in The Union's print and online editions here.] ‘But that’s just your opinion.’  Have you ever had anyone throw that little bomb into what you thought was a productive discussion?  Today when many people talk about important issues…

  • George Rebane  Amid smoke, rubble, and tears,see that we are still here.And we will remember. 

  • George Rebane Mark Meckler of the Tea Party Patriots sent a National Journal article ‘Group Think’ by Jonathan Rauch of the Brookings Institute that describes the TPP and its (dis)organization.  It is an excellent description of the state of this vast and growing movement by someone from a left-of-center policy analysis organization.  Well written yet…

  • George Rebane While Democrats and local outfits like the cynically named Sierra Business Council hype AB32, and oppose the passage of Proposition 23 to suspend at least a part of that legislative atrocity, long time California businesses with real wealth creating jobs are bailing out.  Nevada County will be taking the remaining hits to its economy…