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  • George Rebane Yesterday morning, while waiting on PG&E’s ‘extended outage’ line listening to elevator music, I received an email from Russ Steele that contained a copy of the latest effluent directed at me personally by Jeff Pelline and his friend Steven Frisch.  For your edification you can read the original and its comment stream on…

  • George Rebane The nationally syndicated conservative commentator John Stossel reminds us of the deeper history behind America’s first Thanksgiving celebrated by the Pilgrims and their Indian neighbors.   This piece was published yesterday and it is presented here in its entirety.  Stossel’s reminder adds a needed dimension to all the things with which we Americans have…

  • Accepting a little bit of socialism is the same as taking comfort in that you are a little bit pregnant. George Rebane The 21st century liberal cum progressive retains the same views and definitions of censorship that did their Bolshevik progenitors in the early 20th century.  Specifically, if the dissemination of their ideas are not…

  • George Rebane [This is a transcript of my bi-weekly KVMR-FM commentary broadcast on 5 November 2010.] Two years ago California voters approved Proposition 8 that made marriage, as a union between a man and a woman, a part of the state’s constitution.  According to the people, the debate about ‘marriage’ was over.  But this was…

  • George Rebane Election Day.  Everyone in the country is exhorting everyone else to vote regardless of whether they are informed on the issues and candidates or not.  I thought I would continue on the road less travelled by asking you to vote only on ballot items about which you feel informed – leave the others. …

  • George Rebane Chancellor Merkel’s very public admission that Germany’s multiculturalism experiment has “utterly failed” is an opportunity, widely taken, to reconsider the various meanings and functions of culture and multiculturalism.  Over the last week the thoughtful and thoughtless media have covered the subject from its many sides with the possible exception of what I will…

  • George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular bi-weekly radio commentary broadcast tonight 22 Oct 2010 on KVMR-FM 85.9.] This week Germany’s Angela Merkel made an historic pronouncement that will ‘restart German history’ and set the rest of Europe on a new and unknown course.  Chancellor Merkel pronounced that in Germany “the approach to…

  • George Rebane Liberal websites like TriplePundit.com tout the “cleantech” investments by venture capitalists (VCs) as the proof in the pudding that a vote against Prop23 is good for California’s economy.  There are a couple of serious questions you need to ask before you use this promotional information to decide your vote on the proposition to…

  • George Rebane The following talk, purportedly by a high school principal, came via email.  I have no idea whether it was actually delivered; there was no citation attached.  But that doesn’t matter.  What matters to me is that so many of us harbor the hope that there are still principals and schools in America that…