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  • As SCOTUS tackles Obamacare

    George Rebane Looking at the various reports and coverage of the ongoing oral arguments presented to SCOTUS on the future disposition of Obamacare, I notice a distinct logical disconnect between how the Right argues their case to repeal Obamacare, versus how the Left defends the rationale of maintaining their legislative coup. All the leftwing Obamacare…

  • Ruminations – 26mar12 (updated 27mar12)

    George Rebane Historian Francis Fukuyama recently interviewed technology entrepreneur, philanthropist, venture capitalist, futurist, and PayPal founder Peter Thiel about government and current technology advances.  One of the salient points Thiel made about our government is that “we should debate whether it should be decentralized or centralized, but what the United States has today is an…

  • New Executive Order – Autocracy in the wings?

    George Rebane President Obama signed a new EO a couple of days ago that describes what powers the executive branch will assume during a self-declared national emergency.  The 16mar12 EO references and updates previous EOs that have been in force to handle similar extreme situations in the land, but there are some items in this…

  • Ruminations – 16mar2012

    George Rebane We watched a DVRd recent ’60 Minutes’ piece on a fifty year program by Texas ranchers to conserve over 150 African game species on their own range lands.  Through their own efforts they have taken contributions from the nation’s zoos and built up the herds/flocks, in the process saving many species that were…

  • Why we rage and what we can never condone

    George Rebane Here's a detail that has escaped me about the whole can of worms about the millions of illegal aliens in our country and the thousands more arriving every month.  The US Code dating back to 1940 required all aliens in the US to present proper identification giving evidence of their status when required…

  • The ‘Global One Percent’ Myth

    George Rebane The income inequality issue will not go away.  It is Team Obama’s main causus belli, and underpins all of their re-election strategy.  But the progressive tenets of income inequality are a myth that has again been exposed, most recently using data from a Swedish study that is reported in the 9mar12 WSJ piece…

  • Are we really that dense?

    George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my regular column in The Union that was published in its 10mar12 print and online editions.] This administration has gone into maximum bamboozle mode on the nation’s energy policy.  Their lies and contradictions are coming out so fast and thick that it’s hard to count, let alone…

  • ‘Greece Passes Key Debt Test’, NOT!

    George Rebane The world’s newspapers are heralding the massive haircut taken by Greek sovereign debt holders as some kind of triumphal finesse in international finance.  Specifically – Just over 80% of Greece’s private-sector creditors had agreed by a Thursday evening deadline to turn in their bonds for new ones with less than half the face…

  • The Candyass Republicans (9mar12 update)

    George Rebane The subject of this post is the candyass response of Republican politicians to the Limbaugh/Fluke imbroglio. On ‘The Sad Tale of Sandra Fluke’ and extensive comment stream continues to (finally) air the destructive twists and turns of Obamacare that once more revealed the Left’s intentions on the breadth of entitlements subsidizing personal recreation,…

  • Major cash importers finally discovered (updated 6mar12)

    George Rebane Memo to File: The current Economic Resource Council and its hired analyst Gene Warren have discovered that “retirees could be ticket to better local economy” as reported in the 5mar12 Union (couldn’t find online version).  This little piece of information should be old hat to anyone who has been paying attention for the…

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