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  • When laws become lawless

    George Rebane Last Tuesday night almost 300 Nevada County residents gathered to hear a report from our Congressman Doug LaMalfa, and a presentation by Stewart Rhodes of Oathkeepers in the Grass Valley Veterans Hall presented by CABPRO.  The very stark presentation by Mr Rhodes was on the progress of government overreach and focused much on…

  • Armen Alchian on Property Rights

    George Rebane Man reaches his fullest potential when he lives in a society whose organization is based on the seminal structure of rights – security in your person, individual liberty, private property – embodied in the Bastiat Triangle.  The exceptionalism of America was launched on such a structure of rights. Perhaps the link most difficult…

  • Progressive Radio – the Dangerfield of the airwaves

    George Rebane Peter Collins on truthout.com (my favorite socialist cum communist website) laments about progressive talk radio not getting any traction over the years.  In ‘An Insider’s View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution’ talk show host Collins goes through a litany of liberal radio’s travails during recent years, and concludes – As someone who…

  • Boy Scouts and Homosexuality

    George Rebane The latest progressive dust devil on the landscape is the campaign to force a private organization to accept its mores and values regarding homosexuals in society.  Ruminating a bit on the topic, some thoughts came to mind I have not seen discussed. For eons pubescent boys and girls have been separated in uncountable…

  • ‘They Can’t Take That Away from Me’ – 2013 style

    George Rebane [I’m not sure that much of this is comprehensible to younger generations, but many of us older people do hearken back to some grand years in the good old US of A.  Granted, time has worn off some of the rough edges.  Nevertheless, here’re some ramblings to mark another milestone that we pass…

  • Happy Thanksgiving 2012

    George Rebane Today our beloved country has an even rougher road ahead as recent events have now confirmed.  Yet, we still live in a land where possibilities for a better tomorrow abound because not all of us have begun looking for other pockets from which to line our own.  That is the real hope that…

  • Ruminations – 13nov12 (updated 17nov12)

    George Rebane Mitt Romney is definitely being disposed of under the traditional bus.  Conservative sage Thomas Sowell joins with his ‘Nice Losers’ that begins – Mitt Romney now joins the long list of the kinds of presidential candidates favored by the Republican establishment— nice, moderate losers, people with no coherently articulated vision, despite how many…

  • Does Multikulti require Multiparty?

    George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my November column published in the 10nov12 print and (pay-walled) online editions of The Union.] Last year Germany’s Angela Merkel made an audacious pronouncement – she said that ‘multikulti’ or multi-culturalism was not working to keep her country a cohesive nation-state with shared values that support needed…

  • Dems Supermajority – there’s no stopping them now (updated 9nov12)

    George Rebane Not that there was any chance of doing that during the last thirty years or so.  Huffingtonpost.com summarizes it – State Democrats have won a supermajority in the legislature (at least 54 Assembly seats and 27 Senate seats), which means they can now reach the two-thirds majority vote needed to overcome filibusters and…

  • Autocracy in our future (updated 1nov12)

    The lesson for Americans is clear enough.  Our growing size and diversity make republican government, whether democratic or oligarchic, impossible.  Thomas Fleming George Rebane Wholesale democracy across a diverse nation is an enduring goal for collectivists, and the bane of those conservatives and libertarians who understand the functions of a republic.  Long have I lamented…

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