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Month: October 2013

  • ‘Obama was unaware…’ again? (updated 3nov13)

    George Rebane Forget the latest Obamacare website fiasco for a bit.  A very surprising piece of news is making the headlines this morning about Obama’s reported ignorance that NSA was tapping the phones of certain world leaders.  (more here)  My surprise is not of the kind reported, and perhaps I’m the only one who is…

  • The Liberal Mind – Government Evil Unseen

    George Rebane A couple of weeks ago I sent The Union a letter mostly to see what they would do with it.  It was time sensitive and related to the cynical aspects of the partial shutdown.  Since the letter was not published during the shutdown, I assumed that it was rejected.  But lo and behold,…

  • Obamacare – legis horriblis (updated 26oct13)

    George Rebane This piece of legislation is turning out to be horrible beyond prediction and measure, and we are nowhere near discovering or experiencing the full extent of the damage that it will do to our republic.  I just want this dated post to become a matter of record on RR, one that joins its…

  • Sheriff Mack in Nevada County – Reflections

    George Rebane The Nevada County Republican Women Federated should feel justifiably proud for putting on one of the best organized and attended public speaking events in recent memory.  More than 600 people showed up last night in the Grass Valley Veterans Hall to hear Sheriff Richard Mack deliver a rousing defense of local governance against…

  • Scattershots – 18oct13 (updated 19oct13)

    George Rebane *** Busy day today; Sheriff Mack is in town to speak tonight at the GV Vets Hall.  My sweetie and the Nevada County Republican Women Federated have been busy for months on this major speaker event, and now I and a few other husbands have been put in harness to help out.  I’m…

  • Can Kicked, Crisis Calmed (updated)

    George Rebane The House will accept the Senate’s version of jacking up the debt ceiling and resolving to continue spending like drunken teenagers with their parents’ credit card.  You can follow streaming coverage of the fiscal cliff dance here. But the Ponzi scheme that is our Federal Reserve system continues unabated.  Faith based money is…

  • ‘Gravity’ – from implausible via improbable to impossible

    George Rebane Fair warning, this little critique of the hit movie ‘Gravity’ will greatly reduce your enjoyment of it, especially if you recall your high school physics.  Based on the rave reviews it has been getting (I read Joe Morgenstern in the WSJ), we and another couple went to see it last Sunday.  The saving…

  • Stratfor’s Friedman on the Government Shutdown

    George Rebane Dr George Friedman, founder and chairman of the global intelligence outfit Stratfor, writes a workmanlike and useful analysis, ‘Roots of the Government Shutdown’.  Therein he traces the roots of the current shutdown and its surrounding political environment to the transformation of our political system from one of patronage run by political bosses, to…

  • Ruminations – 13oct13 (updated)

    George Rebane NSA strikes deeper into our lives.  The IEEE reported last week that NIST has compromised its random number algorithm to our nation’s electronic spymasters.  Specifically – The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has an image problem. Last month, revelations surfaced indicating that the National Security Agency (NSA) may have planted a…

  • Manmade Global Warming – The Smoking Gun

    George Rebane I recently looked at the most revealing graphic on global warming that I have seen.  The link to it was sent to me by a regular RR reader who was equally amazed by what he saw.  It was assembled by Nir Shaviv of sciencebits.com and is reproduced below. The figure illustrates the uncertainty…

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