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  • A Reader’s Complaint Answered

    George Rebane Mr Ben Emery is a regular RR reader who vigorously defends his Left/liberal ideology in these pages.  He recently issued a complaint about the content, viewpoint, and perhaps the form of this weblog.  His general lament is that RR’s scope of topics is too narrow and doesn’t cover the substance of the ideas…

  • Greece in freefall

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 4 Novemeber 2011.] Greece is the latest socialist country to illustrate the results of not living within its means.  There is a long line of other European countries right behind Greece, ready to follow it off the cliff.  And then there are…

  • Greece and the 100% haircut (updated 5oct2011)

    George Rebane We hear that Greece’s financial situation is so dicey that they now have to pay over 270% yearly interest on their bonds.  The ten-year US Treasury today closed at 4.88% per annum.  Everyone who reads RR knows that Greece is teetering on the edge of default and pulling out of the eurozone.  Being…

  • Ruminations – 1nov2011 (updated)

    George Rebane California’s carbon calamity is cranking up to full speed, destroying jobs and driving companies to other lands and states.  CARB is now the loose cannon in the state’s economy, putting into full force the dictates of AB32 (q.v.).  Even the unions are screaming about job losses and arguing that California’s carbon tax n’…

  • Obama now ‘The Divider’

    George Rebane The Great Divide (and search RR) has been a subject of interest and debate among readers.  Our friends from the Left honor me with accusations of being a lone rogue in shining a light on the path that appears to be tearing the country apart.  Unfortunately as thinkers and commentators across the country…

  • Ruminations – 26oct2011 (29oct2011 update)

    George Rebane •    New Army rifle, a truly fearsome weapon•    Obama uses FDR’s re-election model•    Local left concerned about govt regs on food Army’s new “rifle” is game changer – The Army has released the specs on its new XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System (love that name) that is really a shoulder-fired 25mm cannon…

  • ‘Employers, unemployment is your fault’

    George Rebane In the 24oct11 WSJ, Wharton School academic Peter Cappelli posits that employers are putting too much blame on schools for not turning out educated workers who can do the available jobs (here).  Employers should instead take in the unqualified, and educate them in the skills needed as, he claims, they did in the…

  • Oh Say Can You See the Difference Yet? (updated 24oct2011)

    George Rebane Now the smelly, pierced, and entrenched ‘Occupy people’ (as described by Andy Kessler and others) will not move from their rancid encampments in San Francisco, Oakland, and other places.  They dare the local authorities to remove them, and promise to resist when the attempt is made.  When questioned about their protests, all their…

  • Nevada City Occupied

    George Rebane On a mild October late afternoon with fall colors in the air, about 150 good-hearted but misguided people gathered to express their opposition to …, well, it was hard to say.  But a theme that tried to surface was that ‘Corporations are bad, peace is good’.  A couple of Nevada City’s finest stayed…

  • Ruminations – 16oct2011 (updated)

    George Rebane New Scientist, always politically correct, has discovered the possibility that if Greece goes under and reduces its GDP by the predicted 50%, then it will not only leave the eurozone but also the EU.  The real Greek tragedy is that this could well start the dominoes falling, resulting in beggaring half the EU…

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