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Month: July 2012

  • Ruminations – 30jul12

    George Rebane *** Readers know my position on our country’s teachers’ unions.  They are the documented scourge to education and America’s youth.  Now two more examples of these rotten organizations are making headlines in selected news media (forget the lamestream).  In Louisiana the state’s second largest teachers’ union is suing the state for a new…

  • Circling the Barn on Gun Control (Addended)

    George Rebane Comment streams below my posts about other topics often develop threads about Second Amendment rights and, yes, gun control.  This has been a hot thread the last few days in the comments under ‘Obama is a Self-Declared Marxist’.  No doubt the recent murderous rampage in Aurora, Colorado has piqued the national interest in…

  • Taxes Fair Enough Already?

    George Rebane One of the telltale signs that gives away a progressive is that he can’t give you a maximum tax share of your income.   In his mind there is no end to the size of government, and therefore no end to the amount of the national wealth that it should appropriate. And, of course,…

  • Calpers’ Predicted Predicament (Addended)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 20 July 2012.] The economy’s downward spiral goes on while the lamestream media continues to paper over the fiscal bombs that explode daily.  The latest report is about the disastrous year that Calpers just finished in June.  You recall that Calpers…

  • Obama’s true colors unfurling (updated 8aug12)

    You see, as the Enlightenment fades, so will its diamond shaped social structure – dominated by a large and vigorous middle class.  That pattern fostered vibrancy and creativity, but also brittle flightiness.  The kitschy culture and fickle habits that infested your forever-adolescent America. … That kind of social order is unstable.  Too dependent on high…

  • Obama is a self-declared Marxist – addended (23jul12 update)

    George Rebane Since Obama opened his mouth during his 2008 candidacy, RR has maintained that the man is a Marxist.  There is little surprise in that conclusion when we consider his grandparents, parents, school years, Chicago brethren, his own words, and deeds as President.  But last Friday in Roanoke, VA he dispelled all residual doubt…

  • Transhumanism, Cosmism, and the Singularity

    George Rebane Last week my son-in-law sent me David Brin’s latest great sci-fi novel, Existence.   I couldn’t help but immediately put it into my reading stack.  Like most of you who frequent RR, I read several books concurrently, and Brin’s description of the state of the world in mid-century was something I had to know…

  • The Pelosi Principle Validated

    George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my regular Union column which was published in the newspaper’s 14jul12 print and online editions.] Every morning we wake up to reports of yet more of Europe’s countries foundering on socialist shoals.  Hollande, France’s new president, got into office by promising self-levitating growth, something he has no…

  • The Great Pension Heist is Discovered (updated 17jul12)

    George Rebane Well folks, Scranton’s bankruptcy may have been the cognitive tipping point for the nation, but because of the lamestream cover-up we can’t be certain.  Following yesterday’s announcement by San Bernardino, the Pennsylvania city is now the 12th municipality filing Chapter 9, with 27 more jurisdictions standing in line to be next.  And the…

  • The Liberal Mind – The Continuing Conundrum of Conditional Contingencies

    George Rebane In this sector of RR we dedicate our efforts to the eternal pursuit and understanding of the liberal mind.  Awakened this morning by NPR’s segment on the November election, and Obama’s strategy for victory, jogged a stream of thought that may shed light on another important aspect of how our ideological opposites cope…

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