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Category: Agenda 21

  • Vandalism at the Pump

    George Rebane Happy 2013!  Hope that everyone has recovered from New Year’s eve and the bowl games.  I thought it would be proper to waste no time in launching the new year with the latest from from the EPA scumbags who are introducing E15 gasoline to the nation’s pumps (that’s gasoline made from 15% corn…

  • The Fiscal Cliff – just a thought (updated 31dec12)

    George Rebane …, and this is just for the record – no need to respond.  Congress at best will alleviate an immediate problem at hand, one that they themselves created.  Why did they create it?  Why, to finally address the runaway deficits and national debt that is taking us to the real fiscal cliff.  There…

  • 2013, the year of the Progressive Pandemic (updated 23dec12)

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 21 December 2012.] You’ve all heard enough about the Newtown killings, and, no doubt, you will hear a lot more.  I decided to give you a break on the topic, and take one myself since the debate about the response to that…

  • Fire!, Ready, Aim – Panic-driven Public Policy (updated 21dec12)

    “Passion governs.  And she never governs wisely.”  Benjamin Franklin George Rebane The 14dec12 Newtown elementary school massacre again brings out all of our weaknesses as an ignorant and free people.  And the pandering politicians and public media are already at the trough, feeding on and encouraging every imaginable emotion that short circuits reason.  I want…

  • Revealing Obama – the beat goes on (updated 14dec12)

    "The spending will continue until the deficits improve." – Michael McDaniel George Rebane Conservative commentators are beginning to realize and report their discoveries that Obama is actually trying to take America into a level of socialism that would make the Europeans blush.  Rush Limbaugh is the most recent to experience this epiphany.  For RR readers,…

  • The 360 degree Asia Pivot

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 7 December 2012.] Something world-shaking happened in Phnom Penh a couple of weeks ago, and Americans didn’t have a clue because our media either did not understand the event, or were still in their ‘protect Obama’ mode of operation.  But first let’s…

  • Beyond the Tipping Point – Obama’s Third Term? (updated 4dec12)

    George Rebane Two intellectuals and students of the human condition – Harvard’s Harvey Mansfield and Yale’s Charles Hill – lend their considerable weight to the notion that we are beyond the tipping point to the promised “fundamental transformation” of America.  By all accounts we have now failed the Grand Experiment envisioned by the Founders to…

  • Fiscal Cliff Fairness (updated)

    George Rebane Well, it won’t be long now.  On 1 January 2013 most people’s taxes will skyrocket, unless you’re one of the gimmes.  The tax increases have one common denominator, they will bring our still anemic GDP growth to a halt and reverse it, while at the same time increasing unemployment by at least 50%. …

  • Are We More or Less Free?

    The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. Chinese proverb George Rebane This important topic was resurrected in a comment thread under ‘Happy Thanksgiving – 2012’.  Two readers voiced strong opinions (one with cited evidence) that our freedoms have increased.  One reader disputed that, and I join in that dispute.  I…

  • Past the Tipping Point – 16nov12

    George Rebane Did you know that 36 states already regulate speech between private citizens when it may remotely bear on public policy?  Specifically, today “in more than half the country the simple act of speaking to fellow citizens about issues of public importance can be regulated as a form of lobbying.” In ‘Targeting the ‘Lobbyist’…

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