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Month: December 2010

  • RR joins Sacramento Connect

    George Rebane Last week I received a kind invitation from Sacramento Connect (logo nearby) to have Ruminations join Sacramento Bee’s network of northern California blogs.  After making sure I understood the agreement that goes with such a relationship, I accepted and got busy doing all the ‘paperwork’ and installing the little pop-up toolbar that the member…

  • What is Art?

    George Rebane [For a change of pace from the heated discussions of our country’s future and the fate of Man, I ran into this little vignette from a past correspondence, and thought that I would share it to see what kind of a response it would draw from the eclectic intellects I am grateful to…

  • High unemployment – the new normal

    George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my monthly column published in this morning’s (11 December 2010) print edition of The Union.  The online version of it can be found here.] This week another batch of economists got surprised.  What they didn’t understand again, let alone predict, was the nation’s unemployment rate – it…

  • Ruminations – 10dec2010

    George Rebane Yes, the ‘rich’ can pay more taxes.  But when you make them do that, they will make fewer wealth generating decisions and take the attendant risks that make those increased government revenues possible. - British students riot for more OPM- The religious give more than the irreligious- Nevada City protects its downtown businesses- Where to put the…

  • Republicans Bamboozled?

    George Rebane I’m not sure that the tax deal announced by President Obama is all that much of a ‘victory’ for the Republicans.  In fact, I think that the GOP may come out bamboozled by the progressives when this piece of sausage finally emerges from Congress. Backing off a bit, it is beyond clear now…

  • ‘The 70 Online Databases that Define Our Planet’

    George Rebane Well, maybe not, but here’s a compendium of databases and knowledge engines from the MIT Technology Review which everyone should consider putting into their online reference folder.  Enjoy.

  • An Invitation to More Artful Polemics

    George Rebane "Marx and Engels never tried to refute their opponents with argument. They insulted, ridiculed, derided, slandered, and traduced them, and in the use of these methods their followers are not less expert. Their polemic is directed never against the argument of the opponent, but always against his person."  Socialism (1951), Ludwig von Mises…

  • Senator Doug LaMalfa is sworn in

    George Rebane The Steeles and the Rebanes were among those invited to the state capitol today to witness the swearing in of the senators newly elected to the California Legislature.  We bundled into Jo Ann’s van and drove through a clearing rain that turned into a beautiful day as we arrived in Sacramento.  We went…

  • Surviving Augsburg Once More – 1945

    George Rebane [This autobiographical sketch recounts the Rebane family’s entrance into the post-war world of displaced persons just after the war ended in Germany, and before the ‘final disposition’ of the east European refugees would stabilize.  We and thousands like us were still in mortal danger of being forcefully ‘repatriated’.  This was to be our…

  • California’s Cleantech Road to the Cleaners

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my bi-weekly KVMR-FM 89.5 commentary that was broadcast on 3 December 2010.] The news just keeps pouring in about the wrong track that California has taken, and on which it is now doubling down.  The state continues to be led by the gang that can’t think straight, and…

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