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  • More Now Than Ever

  • Workers and Work – The Coming Crisis (updated)

    [This is the full length piece the first part of which was published today in the 12sep09 Union print edition. The full length version also appears in the newspaper’s online edition.  gjr] George Rebane In this recession over six million jobs have disappeared so far in the last year or so.  Out of approximately 150 million American jobs…

  • National Propaganda Radio

    George Rebane Like all politically correct people in the country, at our house every morning we wake up to NPR news and commentary (locally KXJZ 90.9FM).  We get our snoot full of the day’s leftwing litany right from the gitgo; don’t mess with us, we’re up to date in Kansas City.  Besides, it’s always good…

  • Nevada County Does a Town Hall

    George Rebane Tonight Jo Ann and I joined a lot of neighbors from these parts in the Grass Valley Veterans Hall to meet with our Representative Tom McClintock in the town hall format that is now sweeping the country.  On this warm summer evening more than 1,500 people showed up, many with signs of all persuasions, and…

  • The Great American Labor Squeeze (updated)

    George Rebane [This piece is a continuation of a series that explores the large currents shaking our country and the world.  Here we look at the labor shock from which America today has no plan to recover.  No one wants to talk about it.]   Let’s start by recalling the fate of John Henry, America’s…

  • Schooling – Where to Send Your Kids?

    George Rebane Here are some local school ratings done within the context of California.  Not sure how these can be interpreted in a national context.  And here is a compilation of state public school rankings.  So at 46 out of 50, California is pretty much near the bottom of the pile.  Does that mean that…

  • Social Engineering Scattershots

    George Rebane Since we’re heading for the ‘European Model’, we should look at some of its practices.  In Great Britain the government is expanding its program of putting CCTV cameras in the homes of the country’s “worst families”.  These will be monitored by government agencies to make sure that they are raising their kids properly…

  • The Descent of Obama

    George Rebane The White House announced yesterday that it will withhold from Congress key economic information that it generates and distributes in the normal course of affairs.  The Heritage Foundation reports that – The White House … would be delaying release of updated financial and economic forecasts until the middle of August. In other words,…

  • Walter Cronkite, RIP

    George Rebane Walter Cronkite defined the television journalism of my youth.  All this after he educated me with the ‘You Are There’ series that was “filled with the events that alter and illuminate our times.”  I was maximally impressed by Uncle Walter, he was reliability, goodness, and truth embodied. And then came the dark days…

  • Michael Jackson, RIP

    George Rebane I was not a fan of Michael Jackson, but I celebrated his rise from lower middle-class beginnings to international stardom and fame – the former because I am not able to understand his music or its performance; the latter, because his life is yet another testimony to the unique magnificence of this land of…

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