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Month: September 2010

  • The Liberal Mind – Messing with the Messenger

    George Rebane The fascinating facets of the progressive/liberal mind are popping up all over the place.  Have you noticed how a liberal invariably responds to a message that s/he can’t handle?  It’s a simple four step procedure that almost always works with an audience that has trouble following conversations. 1. Ignore the Merits of the Message;2. Posit…

  • Headline – ‘French Unions Protest Pension Overhaul’

    George Rebane We need have no worries since these are only unions in the European Union. The protest, accompanied by strikes that have caused significant disruptions to the country's public services and transport, is a major test of the government's resolve to push through structural changes meant to bring down the public deficit. France is…

  • The Liberal Mind – Giving and Receiving

    George Rebane This marks the start of a new series on Ruminations which will seek to shed light on the profound differences between the conservative and liberal views of the world, reasoning about human behavior, and prescriptions on how we should best live together.  Specifically we will examine the liberal mind to understand its wonders…

  • Happy Labor Union Day

    George Rebane This is the first Labor Day in which we celebrate/mourn that membership in public service employee unions now exceeds that in the private sector.  The Heritage Foundation reports here that – Collective bargaining, the anti-trust exemption at the heart the labor movement’s power, was created to help workers seize their “fair share” of business…

  • Evicting God – The Latest Attempt (updated 18sep2010)

    George Rebane From multiple sources we hear that The Grand Design, the latest offering from Professors Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, will appear a few days from now on 7 September 2010.  This is an essay on their most current theory of the cosmos – we recall that cosmology is science in the large about…

  • AB32/Prop23 is Very Relevant to Nevada County

    George Rebane This was to be my bi-weekly KVMR commentary to be aired last night.  After recording it, I have asked Paul Emery to pull it because its inclusion of Steve Frisch by name could launch another round of ‘equal time’ broadcasts that threaten to subsume the important Prop23 issue into a seeming personal matter between…

  • Once More into the Breech

    George Rebane My less than brilliant performance Wednesday night on KVMR should not be misconstrued as giving up on the attempt to delay if not defeat AB32, which I and many others believe to be the coup de grace to California’s economy.  The fight to promote passage of Prop23 will go on in these pages and…

  • The Local News Just Gets Worse

    George Rebane There is no visible improvement in the economy of Nevada County as a result of any of the stimulus packages that Washington is supposed to be redistributing to us.  Our left wing continues to cite all kinds of millions that are cascading into the county’s economy.  Their invisibility to the rest of us…

  • Knife at a Gunfight

    George Rebane Tonight I ‘discussed’ Prop23 with Steven Frisch on KVMR-FM 89.5.  News director Paul Emery did his best to moderate the forty minute discussion which turned out to be something else.  Steve was in his element and smooth as silk.  I felt like I was pushing a car with three flat tires up a…

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