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Month: January 2015

  • More Pabulum for the Devoutly Ignorant

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 21 January 2015.] Last night President Obama gave a well-delivered yet futile State of the Union speech.  It contained a list of shibboleths of the kind that the Democrats have long pilloried congressional Republicans during the last six years.  All of…

  • Sandbox – 19jan15

    [OK, it's that time of the year again for the major entertainment event of winter (and here you thought it was SuperBowl) when President Obama tells us again how the country's ills will be cured by taxing the rich and redistributing to the poor, er, middle class.  Tomorrow night's the night, brace yourself with an…

  • Things are getting “curiouser and curiouser”

    George Rebane What price glory?  I’ve watched presidential press secretaries for decades pitch with a serious face the world according to their boss.  But something that Josh Earnest, the current Chief Lackey to our twice elected Liar-in-Chief, said rang a special bell.  The whole country is talking about Obama’s prevarication about the ISLAMIST jihad and…

  • The Sad Tale of Lakeview, OR

    George Rebane Traveling with some friends, we just returned from a visit to Lakeview – at 4,798 feet ‘The Tallest Town in Oregon’.  Lakeview sits at the north end of Goose Lake, a huge drainage basin shared by California and Oregon.  It also advertises itself as the ‘Gateway to the Oregon Outback’ which is the sparsely…

  • A Tale of Two Progressives

    George Rebane Two Nevada County progressives have claimed to receive different receptions from local folks and the established mover and shaker networks.  In yesterday’s (12jan15) Union we had a long lament by Jim Firth, a leader of the Democrat Party hereabouts.  Upon arriving, Mr Firth quickly jumped into local politics and came away a bit…

  • Reflections on Islam (updated 12jan15)

    George Rebane The pen is mightier than the sword only to the extent that it can evoke more powerful swords. As millions of others on this planet, my thoughts have turned to Islam and its role in the ongoing global reign of terror exemplified again by the slaughter in Paris last week.  These reflections have…

  • Sandbox – 9jan15

    [It seems that I just blink, and the last sandbox is overflowing.  Again apologies for the delay in opening a new one.  The comment stream of 'Scattershots – 4jan15' was beginning to bear too many extra-curricular burdens.]

  • Police and Blacks – numbers that sustain their fears (addended)

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 7 January 2015.] The recent police killings of two black men, and the revenge murders of two NYC police officers highlight legitimate fears that have now been brought to a fever pitch by grandstanding politicians and activist demagogues.  In New York Mayor…

  • Scattershots – 4jan15 (updated 8jan15)

    George Rebane Legalization of marijuana (MJ).  Now that California begins its statewide march toward legalizing MJ, it is noteworthy to look at the path such initiatives have forged for our forebears Washington and Colorado.  In both states the ‘leakage’ of medical MJ (MMJ) into recreational MJ (RMJ) markets is now rampant.  Both states’ taxes on…

  • Sandbox – 1jan15

    [Happy 2015 to one and all, may this year's discussions and debates be equally energetic and stimulating as the jousting that took place in 2014.  I promise to do my part by trying to serve up as many ideological and current events hot buttons as possible.  For this sandbox I throw out 'The New Wave…

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