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Month: December 2011

  • A look at 2012

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary that was broadcast on 30 December 2011.  The KVMR website has podcasts of this and previous editions of these commentaries.] As we prepare to ring in 2012, I am reminded that governments at all levels have been busy taking away more of my freedoms…

  • Ruminations – 28dec2011

    You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out. George Rebane Hope that all RR readers did as well as I did in the book department for Christmas gifts.  I got a passel of real good ones that covered topics ranging from global energy strategy, through ‘how our brains make … feel so good’,…

  • Christmas 2011

    George Rebane [This message was first posted on Christmas Eve 2009.] The two main events in the Christian calendar are celebrations of the Promise and the Fulfillment.  Christmas calls on us to reflect on the Promise delivered – the arrival of Emmanuel, God with us, that made real what had long been promised.  By His…

  • The Civilian National Security Force is a’comin’ (updated 28dec2011)

    George Rebane Candidate Obama promised us a new Civilian National Security Force (CNSF) that is “just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded as the military.” (here)  It sounded Hitleresque then, and was promptly pooh-poohed by progressives and quietly forgotten.  Now it looks like we could be one executive order away from having…

  • Both payroll tax bills stink

    George Rebane On the surface it just looks like more congressional bickering.  But the two current versions of the payroll tax bills have written in things which go beyond the 'kick the can' capers that the Dems are promoting and the Repubs are fighting.  Our congressman Tom McClintock peeled back a bit of the sleaze…

  • A New Capitalism with Blood and Gore

    George Rebane Al Gore and David Blood have written ‘A Manifesto for Sustainable Capitalism’ in the 14dec11 WSJ.  This is a remarkable tour de farce that demonstrates conclusively the gross ignorance that both authors have of human nature and capitalism.  We recall that both are also with Generation Investment Management, a private lobbying and investment…

  • Administrivia – TypePad is sick

    George Rebane Dear Readers – TypePad, the server of RR, is beset with many problems as it has now made some of them known to its subscribers.  They promise that they are diligently working to bring things back to normal.  We shall see. In the interval, some readers notice that there is no comment box…

  • The quiet growth of government guns – par force revisited

    George Rebane One of the supposed attributes of a ‘right wing fascist’ is to celebrate and act as the perennial apologist for government police powers.  It turns out that government agencies, bureaus, administrations, … have been steadily passing more and more criminalizing regulations, and setting up new armed assault teams to do their own enforcements. …

  • Christmas in 1949

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary which was broadcast on 16 December 2011.] ‘Tis the season for Christmas stories, so I’m going to tell you about my first Christmas in America.  The year was 1949.  Dad, mom, and I had arrived here in May on a troopship packed with east…

  • Mark Meckler’s CCW Arrest

    George Rebane By now, most people know that Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler was arrested for an alleged ‘concealed carry weapon’ violation at La Guardia airport in New York.  Mark has a CCW permit valid in 23 states.  He sent this email to his TPP colleagues and friends. Subject: Re: How could this happen?…

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