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  • Ruminations – 9apr13 (updated 10apr13)

    George Rebane California 2013 Job Killer Legislation.  The state’s chamber of commerce released a list of bills that would continue California’s economic misery as the Democrats pander to the dimwit cohort of their constituency.  All of these pile on to the mother of idiotic job killer laws already on the books and wreaking havoc – …

  • Ruminations – 4apr13 (updated 5apr13)

    Have just a touch of the commercial in you.  Do not merely shop, but trade a little.  Gracian #232 George Rebane Been on travel with some friends for the last couple of weeks.  We attended the Mercatus Institute’s annual retreat in Scottsdale.  The big issue discussed was socialism’s onslaught on capitalism – ‘Can American Capitalism…

  • Blue State Blues (updated 30mar13)

    “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.”  Sir Winston Churchill George Rebane There’s good news and bad news about liberal states going to hell in a handcart.  The good news is that the faster they implode, the more chance there is for even the most minimally informed…

  • Marriage by any other name (updated 5apr13)

    George Rebane California’s Prop8 rescinded gay marriage in the state.  The will of the people may now be overturned by the Supreme Court which is hearing the appeal to uphold Prop8 that in the interval was overturned as unconstitutional by lower courts.  In this debate we recall that under California law, gay couples can already…

  • Ruminations – 8mar13 (updated 11mar13)

    George Rebane This is TechTest season, and we're in the middle of the preparatory seminars for this year's test to be given on 23 March.  In an ongoing discussion about Nevada County schools' performance in preparing students for STEM careers, I received a succinct summary (below) from a respected Nevada Union teacher about the problem…

  • California’s Middle and Poor Driven to Greener Pastures

    George Rebane As we have noted for some years, California’s progressives now ensconced in Democrat super-majorities are continuing policies that are harmful to the economic health of those they claim to help, and whom they regularly bamboozle with their election year rhetoric.  Those folks are not all that bright since they keep voting for the…

  • Detroit – Collectivism’s Latest Poster Child

    George Rebane Detroit is cueing up as the nation’s latest testimony to collective mismanagement.  It is truly the poster child for what happens when you mix capitalist hubris, progressive pap, unions (public and private), and politically correct ignorance with generous dollops of corruption.  The result is a city that is now on the last stages…

  • Taxes, taxes, and more taxes

    George Rebane [This is the linked transcript of my regular KVMR commentary which was broadcast on 18 January 2013.] OK, the so-called New Year’s fiscal cliff has been avoided, and now it seems that the national hysteria over the Newtown shootings is on the ebb.  We may be able to return our attention to the…

  • Takers vs Makers

    George Rebane Debt is an injustice imposed on borrowers by greedy lenders who do not deserve to be repaid – from the liberal mind. Forbes has identified eleven states that are in an economic “death spiral”.  These are the pictured states whose taker/maker ratios equal or exceed 1.00, states where takers are the government employees…

  • Cirino’s Nevada City, RIP

    George Rebane The Progressive Plague that has ravaged California for some years, and with every passing day is becoming even more virulent, struck down a local landmark establishment.  In Nevada City Cirino’s Bar & Grill is shutting its doors according to owner Jerry Cirino because “The state and federal government has taken the most valuable…

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