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  • More than two out of three Americans think that “government is out of control and threatening our basic liberties.”  Fox News poll reported on 21 May 2013. George Rebane Last night we attended the Agenda21 talk at the Grass Valley Veterans Center given by anti-Agenda21 activist and author Rosa Koire.  Her talk was sponsored by…

  • George Rebane Our society is covered with plenty of boils and pimples from our attempts to do the ‘right thing’ with all the political correctness we can muster.  A correspondent sent me a piece on the California Teachers Association website in which the union highlights the politically correct sensitivities and behaviors of teachers confronting students…

  • 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 – …

  • 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…

  • “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…

  • George Rebane California’s Prop8 rescinded gay marriage in the state.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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…