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  • Pincer Movement (updated 15aug2010)

    George Rebane The news outlets today are buzzing with the latest report from the Pew Hispanic Center that one out of twelve births in America are to fugitive illegal entrants.  According to the now established interpretation of the 14th Amendment, these babies automatically become bona fide American citizens upon post-partum.  Achieving 21 years of age…

  • Time to Soak the Cannons?

    George Rebane Today we break bread and hoist a glass with friends to celebrate the anniversaries of a number of auspicious events that happened on August 8th.  Among these was America’s signing the UN charter in 1945, and Richard Nixon resigning the Presidency in 1974.  Perhaps not so well known is the Estonian tribes’ victory…

  • Tragedy of the Commons, Etc

    George Rebane [This bi-weekly commentary aired tonight on KVMR FM89.5.  Dr Hardin has been one of my lifelong teachers of social thought, the good fortune of which I had to run into him while still in my twenties.  I highly recommend him to your attention; today his ideas are more important than ever.  This piece is…

  • Liberty’s Twilight

    George Rebane We are living in dangerous times.  Among the countries that used to be known as the ‘free world’, America is the leading jailer and the world’s title holder as the country that imprisons the largest fraction of its citizens.  The rate of criminalization and incarceration has been quietly mushrooming in the US, and is…

  • Why the White Gold Standard?

    George Rebane Race and racism is again very much in the news.  Obama had a white mother and a black father which makes him a mulatto who draws equally from the gene pools of at least two races and continents.  Then why is he automatically called a ‘black President’, our first black President? Not too…

  • Buying Votes

    George Rebane Tis the election season when we all become aware of how candidates buy our votes.  Nevada County’s iconic cartoonist Bob Crabb published this little piece of thought provoking wit in The Union this week (used with his permission).   Looking at Meg sitting there, and all the various stimulus and spending programs that…

  • Our Cuban Future?

    George Rebane I recently finished reading two important essays.  The first was “America’s Ruling Class—And the Perils of Revolution,” by Angelo M. Codevilla.  This essay was an eye-opener in how it summarized and knit together the things that we have all witnessed happening to our country over the last several decades.  I filled the margins of…

  • Who is a Racist?

    George Rebane We recently took a look at an operational definition of Socialist; this is an attempt to serve up the same treatment for ‘Racist’.   The notions of racism and racists have been bandied about in the public forum with ever increasing frequency since the Civil Rights Act of 1957.  Had we been playing racist…

  • Reconquista Preview

    George Rebane Maywood, California – please start with this report from the LA Times. Now read this more fully detailed report below by syndicated radio commentator Roger Hedgecock.  The Hispanic promoters of Reconquista (here and here) still believe that America and Mexico are separated by an easily crossed chain link fence instead of a cultural chasm…

  • Who is a Socialist?

    George Rebane “The American People will take Socialism, but they won’t take the label.”  Upton Sinclair [The two short pieces that follow define socialism – the first is mine and the second was penned by RR reader and lifelong Nevada County resident Michael McDaniel.  The timing of these definitions is in response to the question…

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