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Month: May 2011

  • ‘True Value of Work’ and ‘Caring Economics’

    George Rebane KVMR news director Paul Emery commenting on ‘Right Wing Extremism in Action: Tea Party Houston’ introduced Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics into the wide-ranging discussion in that post’s comment stream.  Paul Emery’s concern there was that Eisler’s ideas are so compelling and, at the same time, revolting to conservatives, that they find it too…

  • ‘All Political Violence is Wrong’

    George Rebane That is a thesis put forward in the comment stream of ‘Rightwing Extremism in Action: Tea Party Houston’.  And I believe this strong and important statement deserves an examination in its own right.  First, let us understand political violence to be the use of force in the pursuit of a political end.  What’s…

  • Elizabeth & Lucas: Grandpa’s Bragging Rights

    George Rebane   Grandkids Lucas and Elizabeth, of our Northern Tribe in Washington, went to Spokane this weekend for the state’s high school track championships.  They attend Bear Creek School in Woodinville, and their track team qualified for the championships in several events.  Both kids and the team did well as you can tell from…

  • Remembering and Providing for Sacrifice

    George Rebane Today we remember and honor the military service men and women who died for us, and those who have yet to come home.  We sent them into harm’s way to keep harm away from us and our loved ones.  They went willingly again and again to do the work of war with the…

  • California – Failed and Federalized

    George Rebane About two years ago in these pages I introduced the notion of California rapidly becoming federalized (here) because it was successfully pursuing many concurrent avenues to failure.  A federalized state must first be a failed state, and that we have become as William Russell Mead explains in a tightly written piece on his…

  • Orthogonality – Semantic and Otherwise

    George Rebane These pages see a lot of debate between commenters of widely varying ideological stripe.  One of the problems often encountered by the reader of comment threads, embedded in a posted article's comment stream, is that one debater suddenly posts a comment that somehow does not follow what went on before – it seems…

  • Rood Center Bumblings

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular bi-weekly KVMR-FM commentary broadcast earlier this (27may11) evening.] Going into its second year now is a ballooning lawsuit that names Nevada County, its Clerk-Recorder Mr Greg Diaz, and Aptitude Solutions, a Florida software company as defendants.  The suit is brought by AtPac, the county’s longtime records…

  • ‘Rightwing Extremism in Action: Tea Party Houston’

    George Rebane Here's an example of the asymmetry in the violent rhetoric and revolutionary fervor between the left and the right.  This video makes clear the palpable violence and hatred of the right.  Take a look at these rabid rightwingers; and check out the music that sets the mood.  Is this their best shot? And then check…

  • TechTest2011 Survivors’ Breakfast

    George Rebane Tofanelli’s in Grass Valley was again the venue for the annual TechTest Survivors’ Breakfast.  2011 is the fifth anniversary of TechTest (‘Where the Elite Compete’), the merit scholarship examination taken by a teacher-nominated group of select Nevada County high school seniors headed for careers in science and technology.  TT is written and sponsored…

  • Tea Party – “Deaf, deluded, deceptive”?

    George Rebane   The cartoon by friend and RR reader RL ‘Balanced Bob’ Crabb appears in today’s (24may11) Union.  Balanced Bob is a self-proclaimed down-the-middle observer of our partisan puffings and pitfalls.  Here he administers a well-worn leftwing swipe at the tea party movement by taking it to task for being too focused as an…

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