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  • Placebos vs Big Pharma

    George Rebane A recent ’60 Minutes’ surprised me with a segment in which it was reported that placebos worked just as well as drugs like Prozac for fighting depression – well, almost as well.  Prozac did have a tiny edge in really severe cases of depression.  The research was done by Dr Irving Kirsch of…

  • Message to Team Romney

    George Rebane Republican contender Romney is overlooking a key and compelling message to the voters.  He and his are just getting up to speed on, ‘Since Obama did not come close to meeting his first term promises of hope and change, and we are still in economic dire straits; what makes you think that Obama…

  • Ruminations – 16may12

    George Rebane The bad news about Obamacare just keeps getting worse.  In addition to recent reports that colleges are dropping higher costing student health plans prescribed under the law’s provisions, we now discover that Obamacare puts a new excise tax on one of the remaining areas of job creating and innovation in which we still…

  • Dufus Government – why we need to starve it

    Government at its best is a necessary evil, and at its worst, an intolerant one. – Thomas Paine George Rebane The contradictory, self-defeating, and citizen oppressing behavior by government at all levels just added two more battle ribbons of stupidity to their banners. The first is the latest outrage by the feds who deem marijuana…

  • Discrimination by the numbers

      George Rebane Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County is being sued by the Dept of Justice for discrimination through the use of profiling.  When ol’ Sheriff Joe stops a car for some traffic, licensing, or other safety violation, it seems that he puts the occupants through an immigration check nine times more frequently…

  • Prelude to an American Spring?

    George Rebane Last night after supper I spent several hours with a Nevada County high school teacher talking about the state of education here and across the country.  He told of how top students, some of them brilliant, appear directionless with no focus or fire to go and do some definite thing with their lives. …

  • ‘… to shift the burden of hardship to the rich …’

    George Rebane That promise is resounding worldwide as socialist/communist politicians promise to ease the long overdue payments for profligate government spending in countries facing financial ruin.  Today France elected Francois Hollande to be its new president.  How did Hollande beat Sarkozy?  by promising to shift the burden of hardship, naturally. The rich are already paying…

  • edX – ‘a revolution in education’ (addended)

    George Rebane MIT and Harvard have announced the launch of edX, a “disruptive” initiative in worldwide online education that will leverage the best teachers with interactive learning technology.  The promise of this newest of such initiatives that follow in the footsteps of the Kahn Academy is that it could well disrupt the careers of incompetent…

  • Socialism as predicted …

    George Rebane Thousands of businesses are paying their ‘fines’ to opt out of Obamacare as they terminate their healthcare packages and leave their employees to fend for themselves.  Wait until they see how much money they’ll be saving sailing steerage class on this Titanic2. In the meantime, Mercatus Center’s Veronique de Rugby has published the…

  • Ruminations – 1may12 (updated++)

    George Rebane It looks like getting your college education subsidized will now become a new ‘right’ across the land.  Neither party is willing to let student loan interest rates increase automatically as they were supposed to.  As a taxpayer, I want the government out of the student loan business (among many other businesses they are…

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