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  • A look at 2012

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary that was broadcast on 30 December 2011.  The KVMR website has podcasts of this and previous editions of these commentaries.] As we prepare to ring in 2012, I am reminded that governments at all levels have been busy taking away more of my freedoms…

  • Ruminations – 28dec2011

    You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out. George Rebane Hope that all RR readers did as well as I did in the book department for Christmas gifts.  I got a passel of real good ones that covered topics ranging from global energy strategy, through ‘how our brains make … feel so good’,…

  • Christmas 2011

    George Rebane [This message was first posted on Christmas Eve 2009.] The two main events in the Christian calendar are celebrations of the Promise and the Fulfillment.  Christmas calls on us to reflect on the Promise delivered – the arrival of Emmanuel, God with us, that made real what had long been promised.  By His…

  • The quiet growth of government guns – par force revisited

    George Rebane One of the supposed attributes of a ‘right wing fascist’ is to celebrate and act as the perennial apologist for government police powers.  It turns out that government agencies, bureaus, administrations, … have been steadily passing more and more criminalizing regulations, and setting up new armed assault teams to do their own enforcements. …

  • Christmas in 1949

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary which was broadcast on 16 December 2011.] ‘Tis the season for Christmas stories, so I’m going to tell you about my first Christmas in America.  The year was 1949.  Dad, mom, and I had arrived here in May on a troopship packed with east…

  • Pay Gaps and System D

    George Rebane Frankly, it’s a bit eerie how the events long predicted on RR are ticking off as recently having happened, or about to happen.  Here I want to focus on the infamous pay gap of the American worker, and an economic activity that is hard to track, but globally significant. Income comes in two…

  • Bob Crabb Nails Christmas

    [This cartoon by Nevada County’s irreverent interpreter of all things human and RR regular, RL ‘Bob’ Crabb, appears in its usual slot on the Tuesday opinion page in the 13dec11 Union (here).  I just had to filch it for readers who might otherwise have missed this precise pique through the heart of the perennial political…

  • The Systemic Train Wreck of the American Middle Class

    George Rebane “The truth is that we don’t know how to fix the US labor market – we are in uncharted territory,” says Peter Orszag, Mr Obama’s former budget director, now a vice-chairman of Citi. “It would help to spend more on retraining and on infrastructure and to have a more rational immigration system. But…

  • ‘Tis the politically directed shopping season

    George Rebane A correspondent sent me the following information about which retailers support which political parties in the country.  You wouldn’t want to shop in the wrong place now would you?  Brought to you in the spirit of the season as a dispute-free and modest public service. With the holidays upon us, we might wish…

  • Ruminations – 11dec2011

    George Rebane People are asking whether Obama has become irrelevant.  My answer is an emphatic NO.  As long as he is in office, President Obama will remain a loose cannon impacting the fate of our country with his jaundiced ideology of an America destined to disappear into the woodwork of a new global order.  I…

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