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Month: February 2013

  • Two greats take their leave

    George Rebane Contemplate your god or oblivion, for it will reveal that you will never experience mortality, and at least in that sense you are indeed immortal. Concert pianist Van Cliburn is dead at 78.  Cliburn won world fame in 1958 by taking first prize at the first International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow at…

  • Ideologies and Governance – a structured look

    Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country’s Constitution be labeled as “extremists”. George Rebane Hereabouts and in more distinguished forums the governance debate continues as to which types belong to the Left or the Right.  The confusion from the Left’s academics seems to be with…

  • The Status of America’s K-12 Public Education

    George Rebane Education is the key to a strong democracy, economic competitiveness and a world-class standard of living. In recent decades, however, America has lost its place as a global leader in educational attainment in ways that will lead to a decline in living standards for millions of our children and the loss of trillions…

  • When laws become lawless

    George Rebane Last Tuesday night almost 300 Nevada County residents gathered to hear a report from our Congressman Doug LaMalfa, and a presentation by Stewart Rhodes of Oathkeepers in the Grass Valley Veterans Hall presented by CABPRO.  The very stark presentation by Mr Rhodes was on the progress of government overreach and focused much on…

  • Armen Alchian on Property Rights

    George Rebane Man reaches his fullest potential when he lives in a society whose organization is based on the seminal structure of rights – security in your person, individual liberty, private property – embodied in the Bastiat Triangle.  The exceptionalism of America was launched on such a structure of rights. Perhaps the link most difficult…

  • Ruminations – 19feb13

    George Rebane TV weathercasters will soon need AGW certification if they want to talk about climate change on the air, according to a new initiative started by a South Carolina meteorologist.  On National Propaganda Radio this morning was a segment on climate change lamenting that it’s not getting much traction in the public mind lately. …

  • Scattershots and Asteroids

    George Rebane In my scratch file for blog topics, items on the flood of government lies are overflowing.  I was going to do an update post on the most egregious ones.  There are so many ––    The new $9 minimum wage is going to boost the economy.  If so, why stop at $9?  Instead it…

  • A Growing Worry in the Land (updated 18feb13)

    George Rebane [This is the linked transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 15 February 2013.] Today everyone knows that we are a polarized nation and becoming more so by the day.  I want to talk about the reaction of a large segment of Americans who see their country slipping away.  This perception did…

  • Wealth Creation & Distribution – A Progressive’s View

    Ben Emery [Editor:  This piece by Mr Ben Emery evolved from a thread in the comment stream to ‘Progressive Radio – the Dangerfield of the airwaves’.  There Mr Emery posted and extended response to my 909pm comment which appears below. BenE 807pm – It reappears that you and yours believe that the amount of wealth…

  • Conservatives – How We Fool Ourselves

    A rose by any other name … .  W. Shakespeare George Rebane Polls on Americans’ ideological preferences have long reported a more or less 40% conservatives, 40% moderates, 20% liberals mix.  From this conservatives conclude that we remain a conservative, or at least a center-right nation.  Given how volatile public preferences are, I’m not so…

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