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  • The Pelosi Principle Validated

    George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my regular Union column which was published in the newspaper’s 14jul12 print and online editions.] Every morning we wake up to reports of yet more of Europe’s countries foundering on socialist shoals.  Hollande, France’s new president, got into office by promising self-levitating growth, something he has no…

  • The Great Pension Heist is Discovered (updated 17jul12)

    George Rebane Well folks, Scranton’s bankruptcy may have been the cognitive tipping point for the nation, but because of the lamestream cover-up we can’t be certain.  Following yesterday’s announcement by San Bernardino, the Pennsylvania city is now the 12th municipality filing Chapter 9, with 27 more jurisdictions standing in line to be next.  And the…

  • The Liberal Mind – The Continuing Conundrum of Conditional Contingencies

    George Rebane In this sector of RR we dedicate our efforts to the eternal pursuit and understanding of the liberal mind.  Awakened this morning by NPR’s segment on the November election, and Obama’s strategy for victory, jogged a stream of thought that may shed light on another important aspect of how our ideological opposites cope…

  • Dimensions of the Student Loan Catastrophe (Addended)

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR radio commentary broadcast on 6 July 2012.] The amount of federal student loans outstanding today stands at over one trillion dollars – that’s with twelve zeros, or a million million.  And yet we keep pouring taxpayer money into government programs operating under the wrongheaded philosophy…

  • Ruminations – 5jul12 (updated 6jul12)

    George Rebane There’s plenty of reason for celebrating the pretty good likelihood that the Higgs boson has finally been observed by CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.  That massive boson fills in a long-empty part of our understanding how the universe is composed and works.  To be sure, there is a lot more work to be done…

  • Conservatives miss impact of SCOTUS ruling (updated 2jul12)

    George Rebane Taxes for value not received or those that force behaviors are penalties. The last 24 hours has seen a tsunami of tortured analyses by conservatives doing their best to eek out something that resembles a silver lining in the SCOTUS Obamacare ruling.  Unfortunately, considering the scope of what came down, there is none.…

  • Ruminations – 29jun12 (updated)

    George Rebane George Soros funded progressive activist organization Media Matters is again shifting its longstanding campaign to shut down Fox News into high gear.  Their last year’s effort lobbying sponsors to drop Glenn Beck was so successful that they are next targeting Hannity on a fast track to shut down the whole network in this…

  • SCOTUS backs Obamacare (Addended)

    George Rebane The notion that we have a conservative lean to SCOTUS vanished this morning as the high court announced its decision on Obamacare.  The only scrap thrown to conservatives was the ruling that the act’s individual mandate to buy health insurance was really a federal tax, and not the exercise of a federal power…

  • States enforcing federal laws

    George Rebane Today SCOTUS handed down a decision to strike down major provisions of Arizona’s attempt to enforce fallow federal laws against illegal aliens – both illegal immigrants and illegal entrants.  The 25jun12 WSJ reports –  The court backed a section of the Arizona state law that calls for police to check the immigration status…

  • Dream Act Jr = American Nightmare (Addended)

    George Rebane [This the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 22 June 2012.] Our imperial President has announced another scheme to end-run the Congress and the Constitution with what some are calling Dream Act Jr – the senior version ran into a hornets’ nest of anti-amnesty sentiment in Congress.  In case you haven’t…

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