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Category: Agenda 21

  • George Rebane The more tightly ANY system is coupled, the more likely its performance is paced by its weakest and/or its most stupid members.  Mother Nature In the 10oct15 Union there is an opinion piece that perfectly, nay, iconically reveals the liberal mind.  ‘Let’s Have a Worthy Debate’ by local politician Heidi Hall and much…

  • George Rebane Liberty is not free, and efforts to make it appear so inevitably lead to tyranny. Mr Steven Frisch, who frequently shares his thoughts on these pages, has written an eloquent opinion piece in the 8oct15 Union in which he argues for compliant submission to California’s carbon cap and trade (C&T) program that became law…

  • George Rebane [Brian Hamilton, editor of The Union, emailed me that this piece was bit too long for their Other Voices columns, and invited me to shorten it.  I felt that a better alternative to abbreviation was to write them a letter-to-editor that cited Mr Paul Berger’s dismissal of my previous OV column, and which…

  • Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.  Oscar Ameringer George Rebane ‘Black Lives Matter – but Reality, Not So Much’.  National columnist and keen observer of the social scene Jason Riley agrees with RR’s long-held position on…

  • George Rebane Our government-media complex is ratcheting up the hysteria about man-made global warming (AGW) to a fever pitch in preparation for this fall’s Paris conference on ‘climate change’.  Obama wants the world to see that the US will lead in reducing CO2 emissions no matter the economic cost, and Moonbeam Brown wants the world…

  • 'What happens in the Middle East doesn’t stay in the Middle East.'  WSJ George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary aired on 2 September 2015.] Here’s a 50,000 foot view of the great cultural divides that will focus our attention in America and also in the European Union.  The EU’s…

  • George Rebane I’ve been away on the NorCal coast where connectivity and even cell phone service ranges between unavailable and being a sometime thing.  With some friends we caravanned up to an RV park near Manchester, and took some day trips up and down the coast to see how folks there were making do.  One…

  • Goerge Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 19 August 2015.] US History is again being revised in our high schools.  The new 2014 Advanced Placement US History ‘framework’ is now replacing the old 2010 AP framework, and its adoption will take students one giant step to the Left. …

  • George Rebane You may fool all of the people only some of the time, but you can fool enough of them all the time. Associated Press published an exclusive report – ‘Lawmakers call for oversight hearings on green jobs measure’ – on the three year aftermath of Prop 39.  California voters were bamboozled by our…