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  • The Dangerous Sleaze Runneth Over

    George Rebane President Obama is now going after private citizens in a manner not seen since Nixon attempted something that was just a shade of what’s going on right now.  Kimberly Strassel in the 28apr12 WSJ writes in ‘The President has a List’ that  – He’s targeted insurers, oil firms and Wall Street—letting it be…

  • Sacramento vs California (updated 28apr12)

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary which was broadcast on 27 April 2012.  I have annotated it with notes and links as appropriate.] One of the nation’s premier demographers Democrat Joel Kotkin was recently interviewed by the WSJ on his study of ‘The Great California Exodus’, that has been vehemently…

  • Courtroom Evidence – the Z/M case (updated 28apr12)

    George Rebane Reason and logic have always had a low survival rate in courtrooms, especially where poorly understood evidence of a technical nature is presented by self-serving lawyers to innumerate juries.  In recent memory, the OJ Simpson murder trial may serve as a nationally prominent Exhibit A for this proposition. Today we have the much…

  • Agenda21 – drones overhead, black boxes in cars, …

    George Rebane Unmanned surveillance aircraft come in a range of sizes that fit in the palm of your hand to big ones the size of airliners.  The 21apr12 WSJ reports that the smaller ones are being snapped up by stateside governmental agencies ranging from federal bureaus to local police.  Their manifold uses should be obvious…

  • Stand Your Ground – Some Thoughts

    George Rebane The shooting of Trayvor Martin has raised a fundamental rights issue that most of us have for long thought was a done deal in a free society – namely, whether a law-abiding citizen is still allowed to defend himself with deadly force should he be the victim of an attack that may leave…

  • More Milestones on our Downward Spiral

    George Rebane This week has seen a lot of dilapidation in our ship of state.  For openers, Peggy Noonan takes an overarching survey of events that reflects on our national character.  From other perspectives we see what it is to be on a careening progressive luge as this administration more fully reveals itself, and what…

  • Scattershots – 17apr12

    George Rebane The Financial Times reports (here) that Spain’s central government is looking to federalize financially distressed regions of the country.  (Greece essentially succumbed to such central control early on so as to avoid the rush.)  RR has anticipated a similar fate for California and states like Illinois, New Jersey, … under equally astute financial…

  • On the sorry road to Stockton (updated 16apr12)

    George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my April column that appeared in the online (with figure omitted) and printed versions of the 14apr12 Union.] By now most of us have heard of Stockton, the next California city teetering on the edge of bankruptcy as a result of a fiscal history that “has eerie…

  • The Muddled Middle

    George Rebane Surfing Bob Crabb’s blog, I tarried on his 6apr12 post ‘The haunting question’ which invites the reader to abandon their left/right extremes and seek the political middle ground.  Bob is a master cartoonist of the soci-political genre and an astute observer of the Human Foible.  His graphic talents are augmented by his able…

  • The President’s gullible base re-acknowledged (#2 update 3apr12)

    George Rebane Memo to file:  The President again denigrated his base constituencies today when he lectured them on how SCOTUS must deal with Obamacare.  The former Harvard constitutional law professor solemnly informed his supporters that it would be unprecedented and the worst form of judicial activism for SCOTUS to overturn Obamcare’s individual mandate.  After all,…

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