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Month: December 2013

  • Ruminations – 13dec2013

    George Rebane The new budget compromise – Dems 1; Repubs 0.  Let’s see if I got this one right.  The sequester is out, new taxes, er fees, are in.  Obamacare has unlimited drawing rights on the federal fisc and the liberal agenda is again in full force.  The deficit will continue to increase for the…

  • ‘A Future of Failure?’ – A Timely Progressive Lament

    George Rebane ‘A Future of Failure?: The Flow of Technology Talent into Government and Civil Society’ was just published by Freedman Consulting, a progressive policy consultancy run by former staffers of Democrat administrations.  This important report was sponsored by the MacArthur and Ford Foundations, organizations that are much in tune with leftwing causes and central…

  • Left’s Assault on Free Speech Unabated

    "When I use a word, it means precisely what i say it means, nothing more nor less", Humpty Dumpty George Rebane One of RR’s major tenets describing America’s political scene has been that the Left constantly and asymmetrically continues their attempts to silence conservative and libertarian political speech.  Even with recent disclosures like the IRS’…

  • Baumol’s Effect on Wages and the Liberal Mind

    George Rebane Actually Baumol’s Effect on the liberal mind is exactly nothing, zilch, zero, … .   Self-styled thinkers of the Left are constantly going on about workers not being paid enough as they come forward with all kinds of dodgy arithmetic showing how capitalists are making a greedy killing at the expense of their employees. …

  • The Liberal Mind – Wealth Transfer on Steroids

    George Rebane [This is the linked transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 6 December 2013.] Developed nations around the world are up to their ears in unmanageable debt while facing demographic tsunamis of workers getting ready to retire with un- or underfunded pensions.  In response, more people in governments and finance worldwide are…

  • US Students ‘Slip’ in Global Tests

    George Rebane RR has been preaching for years the importance of education for our country’s continued prosperity, security, and its envied quality of life.  Researchers and academics like Niall Ferguson  have warned us that our public education system long ago reverted from operating for the benefit of the student to the benefit of education workers,…

  • Scattershots – 1dec13 (updated 2dec13)

    George Rebane Obama, astute politician with global aspirations or functional idiot (who are his handlers)?  In these last months he has my pendulum swinging again, literally from day to day.  Obamacare’s healthcare.gov predictably blew through its 1dec13 deadline as an ongoing dysfunctional front end for the next phase of socialized medicine.  His legion of lackeys…

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