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  • Obama Riots – The last full measure of desperation (updated 17oct2011)

    George Rebane As a fresh face in 2008, community organizer, ‘resigned’ lawyer, and sometime senator Barack Obama outspent opponent McCain by $665,000,000 to win the White House.  Most of this advantage was contributed by public service unions.  Given the man’s demonstrated record of incompetence or intention (your pick), stronger medicine is needed for him to…

  • Misunderstanding Job Creation

    George Rebane [This is the submitted version of my October column that appeared in the 8oct11 print and online editions of The Union.] This column has long argued that the American worker is at a distinct disadvantage when compared to workers in emerging economies, and especially when compared to what the American demands as compensation…

  • Wrong Rights (Addended)

    George Rebane [This is the addended and linked transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 30 September 2011] It looks like we’re entering into the season of rights again.  Wisconsin judge Patrick Fiedler has informed the nation that we don’t have and never had any rights to either our cows, our crops, or our…

  • AtPac Suit Cost Update

    [The following reports Nevada County resident and RR reader Bob White’s progress in his investigation into the cost impact of the AtPac suit which the county fought for almost two years and then settled.  The EIA mentioned below is the agent administering the insurance pool for member jurisdictions like counties and municipalities.  RR’s reporting on…

  • Civil Discussion of Issues with Paul Emery (updated 2oct2011)

    George Rebane I want to remind everyone that KVMR News Director Paul Emery and I will be having a “civil discussion of current events that spans the political divide” featured as The Great Dialogue by the Nevada County Tea Party Patriots.  This event will held be at the Nevada County Horseman’s Club in Grass Valley…

  • Klamath Claptrap Continued (updated 26sep2011)

    George Rebane Congressman Tom McClintock has delivered some eloquent and incisive critiques in opposition to the intent of California environmental fanatics’ plan to demolish dams on northern California rivers.  These dams provide critical watershed control, agricultural water supply, recreation, and electrical power generation.  The congressman’s article ‘Klamath Claptrap’ is required reading in order to understand…

  • Ruminations – 25sep2011

    George Rebane Some thoughts on violence and the blind. Harvard psychologist Professor Steven Pinker asks, “Why has violence declined so dramatically for so long? Is it because violence has literally been bred out of us, leaving us more peaceful by nature?”  In his recent book (as reported in the 24sep11 WSJ, ‘Violence Vanquished’) Pinker cites…

  • “… they can only build the gates so high.”

    George Rebane On these pages I have predicted that there will be blood in the gutters when the government destroys the economy (which they insist on characterizing as “the private sector”) to a level where new jobs are non-existent and savings are gone.  The usual liberal response in the attendant comment streams has been that…

  • Klamath Claptrap

    Tom McClintock [On the floor of the House our Congressman delivered an indictment of the current environmental radicalism that is part and parcel of the forces destroying California.  This article summarizes his speech. It is printed with permission.  gjr] This generation is facing spiraling electricity prices and increasingly scarce supplies.  Californians have had to cut back…

  • Ruminations – 20sep2011

    George Rebane Mr Igor Birman, Esq is Congressman Tom McClintock’s chief-of-staff and one of the stars on Capitol Hill.  Igor is also our friend and we have spent many long hours discussing the whys and wheretos of the country’s current travails during his Nevada County visits.  Just recently Igor was honored at Hillsdale College by…

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