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Month: June 2012

  • The John Henry Law

    George Rebane For several years I have attempted to explain and prognosticate the future of labor in the developed world (e.g. see ‘The Great American Labor Squeeze’).  I will try to simplify the cause of the growing systemic un/der/employment, that is ignored throughout our political spectrum, by introducing what we shall call the John Henry…

  • Conservatives miss impact of SCOTUS ruling (updated 2jul12)

    George Rebane Taxes for value not received or those that force behaviors are penalties. The last 24 hours has seen a tsunami of tortured analyses by conservatives doing their best to eek out something that resembles a silver lining in the SCOTUS Obamacare ruling.  Unfortunately, considering the scope of what came down, there is none.…

  • Ruminations – 29jun12 (updated)

    George Rebane George Soros funded progressive activist organization Media Matters is again shifting its longstanding campaign to shut down Fox News into high gear.  Their last year’s effort lobbying sponsors to drop Glenn Beck was so successful that they are next targeting Hannity on a fast track to shut down the whole network in this…

  • SCOTUS backs Obamacare (Addended)

    George Rebane The notion that we have a conservative lean to SCOTUS vanished this morning as the high court announced its decision on Obamacare.  The only scrap thrown to conservatives was the ruling that the act’s individual mandate to buy health insurance was really a federal tax, and not the exercise of a federal power…

  • New People, New Jobs

    George Rebane The systemic and growing unemployment in these pre-Singularity years is an ongoing topic on RR, and a stringently ignored social phenomenon by our political elites of all stripes.  A graphic that illustrates this unemployment growth is the graphic below showing how manufacturing activity varies over time along with employment in the sector. Note…

  • States enforcing federal laws

    George Rebane Today SCOTUS handed down a decision to strike down major provisions of Arizona’s attempt to enforce fallow federal laws against illegal aliens – both illegal immigrants and illegal entrants.  The 25jun12 WSJ reports –  The court backed a section of the Arizona state law that calls for police to check the immigration status…

  • When you don’t know grammar

    George Rebane In these pages over the years I have taken a gentle jab at the growing gaggle of grammatical gaffes that now rain down on us from every quarter of society.  My own concern was not so much about formalism for the sake of formalism, but promoting formalism for the sake of clear communications. …

  • Wireless Communication Breakthrough

    George Rebane A major breakthrough in wireless communication was announced by the University of Waterloo, Canada.  ACM reports that Dr A.K. Khandani and his team have demonstrated (and patented) a full-duplex, single channel methodology for wireless communication that promises to revolutionize all wireless communications.  Full-duplex means the ability to concurrently transmit and receive at the…

  • Dream Act Jr = American Nightmare (Addended)

    George Rebane [This the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 22 June 2012.] Our imperial President has announced another scheme to end-run the Congress and the Constitution with what some are calling Dream Act Jr – the senior version ran into a hornets’ nest of anti-amnesty sentiment in Congress.  In case you haven’t…

  • NBC – Lamestream’s poster child

    George Rebane NBC (National Bamboozle Company), one of the premier leftwing media outlets, has been a main motivator for the widely used ‘lamestream’ label.  Now it turns out they have achieved a new level of sleazebag journalism.  This week’s Congressional contempt citation to Attorney General Eric Holder has the network presenting extended background coverage as…

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