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Month: January 2014

  • Those Unedjicated Conservatives

    O wad some Power the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us!  Robert Burns George Rebane RR reader and indefatigable champion of all things progressive, Mr Ben Emery, posted a link under ‘So You Wanna College Degree?’ to a video that he advises is the progressives’ viewpoint on the dumbing down of…

  • Farm Bill Gutted, Compromised, and Castrated (updated 30jan14)

    George Rebane I don’t even want think about Obama’s SOTU speech last night, it was a five star non-starter that served only one purpose, to act as cover for the Republicans’ caving on the 2014 farm bill that will soon become law of the land for the next five years.  The bill came out of…

  • State of the Union – we wait with trepidation

    George Rebane NPR woke us up this morning with another cheery report of California’s progress in education and unfunded public employees’ pension liabilitities.  We are now told that latest testing shows three out of four fourth graders are reading below grade level.  And the solution to that is, …, wait for it, more of the…

  • Bookends to Income Inequality (Addended)(updated 27jan14)

    George Rebane [This is the transcript to my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 24 January 2014.] The class warfare drums have been dusted off and are again starting to pound ever more loudly across our land.  It is time to put Obamacare and the economy behind us, and focus on the nation’s real problem –…

  • Why wouldn’t China …?

    George Rebane It occurred to me that given China’s expressed geo-strategic goals and its relationship with the US, were I in charge of China’s foreign policy, why wouldn’t I want to fund every progressive cause and liberal politician at work in America.  Doing so would leverage all of China’s other domestic and international initiatives in…

  • Did you know? – 18jan2014 (updated 20jan14)

    George Rebane This launches the sometime series of things that I did not know, or was not fully aware of the details. The censoring of free speech on college campuses is much more pervasive than the lamestream has led us believe.  It turns out that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has been…

  • ‘Humanity in Jeopardy’ (updated 29jan14)

    George Rebane I was going to report on the just released results from the Index of Economic Freedom that celebrates its 20th year.  In it the dire news is that the US has dropped out of the top 10 of the 186 countries rated – we are now 12th and continuing to go down (more…

  • Scattershots – 12jan2014 (updated 15jan14)

    George Rebane NID Rate Increase.  Our local water utility, Nevada Irrigation District, has decided to boost its water rates over 33%, or over a third in the next five years.  We are NID customers, and we protested the rate increase in writing before the hearing on the matter last Wednesday.  Niether fish nor fowl, NID…

  • So You Wanna College Degree?

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 10 January 2014.] Did you know that college enrollments in the country are dropping?  For all the hullabaloo about American students placing well down on the list in the world’s youth smarts, it turns out that today fewer of our high school…

  • Ruminations – 8jan2014 (updated 9jan14)

    George Rebane Another one of my errors in judgment has been exposed.  According to former SecDef Gates in his forthcoming Duty, I am remiss in having been overly kind to Obama in assessing his dedication to his job and the duty of his office.  Gates knows better, and his views are being well publicized in…

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