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  • The Civilian National Security Force is a’comin’ (updated 28dec2011)

    George Rebane Candidate Obama promised us a new Civilian National Security Force (CNSF) that is “just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded as the military.” (here)  It sounded Hitleresque then, and was promptly pooh-poohed by progressives and quietly forgotten.  Now it looks like we could be one executive order away from having…

  • Both payroll tax bills stink

    George Rebane On the surface it just looks like more congressional bickering.  But the two current versions of the payroll tax bills have written in things which go beyond the 'kick the can' capers that the Dems are promoting and the Repubs are fighting.  Our congressman Tom McClintock peeled back a bit of the sleaze…

  • The quiet growth of government guns – par force revisited

    George Rebane One of the supposed attributes of a ‘right wing fascist’ is to celebrate and act as the perennial apologist for government police powers.  It turns out that government agencies, bureaus, administrations, … have been steadily passing more and more criminalizing regulations, and setting up new armed assault teams to do their own enforcements. …

  • Mark Meckler’s CCW Arrest

    George Rebane By now, most people know that Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler was arrested for an alleged ‘concealed carry weapon’ violation at La Guardia airport in New York.  Mark has a CCW permit valid in 23 states.  He sent this email to his TPP colleagues and friends. Subject: Re: How could this happen?…

  • Pay Gaps and System D

    George Rebane Frankly, it’s a bit eerie how the events long predicted on RR are ticking off as recently having happened, or about to happen.  Here I want to focus on the infamous pay gap of the American worker, and an economic activity that is hard to track, but globally significant. Income comes in two…

  • The Systemic Train Wreck of the American Middle Class

    George Rebane “The truth is that we don’t know how to fix the US labor market – we are in uncharted territory,” says Peter Orszag, Mr Obama’s former budget director, now a vice-chairman of Citi. “It would help to spend more on retraining and on infrastructure and to have a more rational immigration system. But…

  • Ruminations – 11dec2011

    George Rebane People are asking whether Obama has become irrelevant.  My answer is an emphatic NO.  As long as he is in office, President Obama will remain a loose cannon impacting the fate of our country with his jaundiced ideology of an America destined to disappear into the woodwork of a new global order.  I…

  • On the wrong side of the tipping point

    George Rebane [This is the submitted version of my regular Union column that appears in the 10dec11 edition of the newspaper’s print edition and here in its online edition.] Our leadership has committed to take the country down the Hugo Chavez path.  Last week Venezuela’s portly leader shouted “Socialism, socialism, and more socialism!” as the…

  • Taxing the 1%

    George Rebane We wake up every morning to National Progressive Radio.  Listening to NPR is one of the many outlets we monitor so as to avoid the echo chamber effect of having others just adding to our confirmation bias (q.v.).  In the last couple of weeks NPR seems to have turned the heat on the…

  • Say what??!! – Slick Willie Strikes Again

    George Rebane Former President Bill Clinton has it all figured out.  We’re putting all the laid off contractors back to work across the country doing “green upgrades” to every building that will stand still for it, and that will solve the jobs problem.  All it takes is a little money, and we’re gonna get it…

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