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  • SCOTUS backs Obamacare (Addended)

    George Rebane The notion that we have a conservative lean to SCOTUS vanished this morning as the high court announced its decision on Obamacare.  The only scrap thrown to conservatives was the ruling that the act’s individual mandate to buy health insurance was really a federal tax, and not the exercise of a federal power…

  • That droning you hear …

    George Rebane These pages have long covered the advances and uses of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or ‘drones’ for surveillance and interdiction.  My usual examination of new technology in such areas includes its portent as a tool to install and maintain tyranny.  I suppose that suspicion is built into my double helix.  Well, apparently that…

  • ‘Whose fault?’ and ‘market morality’

    George Rebane On Russ Steele’s NC2012 there is a comment stream in which people are groping for some middle ground.  I have contributed to it by asking what would one do with such a middle ground, were one to be discovered.  The point being that it’s highly likely that there is no profitable middle ground…

  • Lamestream in the Limelight (updated 6jun12)

    George Rebane Ramirez nails the latest.  And did you hear – well, actually it was hard to do that – how the those self-adulating lamestream journalists all went silent the instant that the district attorney released evidence supporting Zimmerman against the hooligan who was pounding his head into the concrete.  Then all the spigots opened…

  • GMC = General Motors China

    George Rebane President Obama bailed out GMC to the tune of billions in order to make sure his union votes stayed bought and paid for.  While doing that he stiffed GMC's bond holders (along with your pension fund?) and lambasted American corporations doing business overseas as part of the overall globalization of trade.  Now we…

  • The Great Divide – the debate continues

    George Rebane RL ‘Bob’ Crabb posted ‘Inept vs Insane: The National Feud’ on his blog which by its title alone invited a heated discussion in its comment stream.  I put in my two cents and started a thread that had Bob worrying that people would “put holes in (his) new blog”.  Points were raised and…

  • Ruminations – 31may12

    George Rebane As a continuous lament on these pages, the country’s lack of technical talent is now reaching new lows.  We hear that “On college campuses these days, the top nerds are getting a taste of what it's like to be star jocks.  Companies big and small are going on school campuses to hire undergraduate…

  • Agenda21 on cat’s feet (updated 24may12)

    George Rebane I just returned from the Nevada County Board of Supervisors meeting at the Rood Center.  I went there to hear the report on establishing a 2005 county baseline for CO2 emissions presented by the Sierra Business Council with some mysterious connection to ICLEI.  (You can check the details on the county’s website.)  The…

  • Conspiracy Theories by the Dozen, Oh My! (updated 21may12)

    George Rebane [Correction: This is the submitted form of my column that appeared belatedly in the print edition of the 25may12 Union.  I was informed of the delay due to a rush of political columns and articles on the new marijuana ordnance.] In this election year all the weird stuff we’ve been hearing about seems…

  • Prelude to an American Spring?

    George Rebane Last night after supper I spent several hours with a Nevada County high school teacher talking about the state of education here and across the country.  He told of how top students, some of them brilliant, appear directionless with no focus or fire to go and do some definite thing with their lives. …

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