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Month: January 2012

  • Responding to Mr Fred Perry (updated 24jan2012)

    George Rebane Too bad that The Union has erected a paywall around its online edition that also includes their op-ed pages.  Usually newspapers going to that source of revenue leave their op-ed pieces as free content so that it will attract more eyeballs, and in the process help sell 'premium content' that’s behind the paywall. …

  • Our Mobile Politicians

    George Rebane Our California Assemblyman Dan Logue just announced that he “changed his mind” and will no longer represent us.  He is moving out of our community – into which he moved just last year – to another city in another assembly district.  This makes sense for him when he considers his longer term prospects…

  • Log entry on the road to ruin (aka fundamental transformation)

    George Rebane As usual I woke up to National Propaganda Radio and heard a mind-numbing hit piece on income inequality that for openers confused tax fraction, tax rate, paid taxes beyond any means of recovery.  But they did manage not to mangle the message that rich people should not make so much money, and most…

  • Ruminations – 17jan2012 [updated]

    George Rebane We have long heard that ‘stupid is forever’, and now we have indelible proof of that proposition.  Moonbeam has no clue that California has a systemic fiscal disaster on its hands.  His proposed budget for FY2013 is $95.4B when he adds up all the transfers to the general fund from raiding every other…

  • Science still says, ‘Creation occurred.’

    George Rebane The best brains in cosmology ranging from Stephen Hawking of Cambridge to Alan Guth of MIT have been trying to munge the equations and the data to come up with some/any kind of support for the proposition that the universe did not have a beginning. NewScientist.com reports in ‘Why physicists can’t avoid a…

  • The Devil in Democracy

    George Rebane [This is the linked form of my regular Union column which is published in the newspaper’s 14jan12 edition.] When progressives start to talk about democracy again, it is time to get a real firm grip on your wallet and your liberties.  Democracy is now the watchword that echoes across the occupied streets, and…

  • Taxing Your Assets Off

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 13 January 2012.] Most people know that governments fund themselves by taxing income, profits, consumption, and assets.  The first three we have become used to at least to a degree where we now debate how much higher or lower such taxes should…

  • The World’s Economic Freedom Stats for 2012 – America’s slide continues

    George Rebane On our way to a socialist state we are leaving stark signposts of economic decline.  Among the most important is our relative ratings and rankings over the years.  Such data explain away why jobs are leaving these shores, and why they will not come back. In the meanwhile, we are proud to announce…

  • Mark Meckler’s CCW “Disorderly Conduct” (updated 13jan2012)

    George Rebane Mark Meckler's gun charge at La Guardia airport was disposed of as a "disorderly conduct" today.  He had to pay a small fine and his gun was confiscated.  The story made national headlines a few weeks ago when NYC applied its widely-acknowledged insane CCW law on a citizen exercising his 2nd Amendment rights…

  • Ruminations – 10jan2012

    George Rebane Barry Pruett reports that Doug LaMalfa will run for retiring Wally Herger’s seat.  I never got to know Rep Herger, but I do know and am a long time supporter of Senator LaMalfa.  California’s legislature is a notorious socialist railroad where Republicans have had scant influence in stopping the economic and social destruction…

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