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  • The Jobs of Texas

    George Rebane Just a short update on how individual states can still affect their own fortunes as long as they have the brains and will to do so.  After all, allowing the several states to improvise and compete in how they solve their own problems of local governance is part of the genius of our…

  • Ruminations – 7jun2011

    George Rebane The ‘birther’ pot continues to boil.  In ‘The Birth Certificate from Hell’ I reviewed the response to the White House posting of President Obama’s long form birth certificate.  The pdf image of the certificate, available from the WH website, indicated clearly that it had been ‘photoshopped’.  For more recent developments, please read Russ…

  • Competence vs Criminality in Nevada County (updated 14jun2011)

    George Rebane My email has been running torrid over the last day or so with everyone telling me, and everyone else, about the Sac Bee article on ‘hard money’ lending shenanigans in the state, and especially in Nevada County.  “NC Clerk/Recorder Diaz has company regarding questionable dealings while in office.” is a typical message line…

  • AtPac’s Nuclear Option

    George Rebane Word from the litigation front is that former Nevada County software provider AtPac is filing for summary judgment in its intellectual property suit that names the county, Clerk-Recorder Greg Diaz, and Aptitude Solutions, the county’s new software provider, as defendants.  (Ref Case 2:10-cv-00294-WBS -JFM Document 172 Filed 06/01/11) Filing for summary judgment is an…

  • Elizabeth & Lucas: Grandpa’s Bragging Rights

    George Rebane   Grandkids Lucas and Elizabeth, of our Northern Tribe in Washington, went to Spokane this weekend for the state’s high school track championships.  They attend Bear Creek School in Woodinville, and their track team qualified for the championships in several events.  Both kids and the team did well as you can tell from…

  • California – Failed and Federalized

    George Rebane About two years ago in these pages I introduced the notion of California rapidly becoming federalized (here) because it was successfully pursuing many concurrent avenues to failure.  A federalized state must first be a failed state, and that we have become as William Russell Mead explains in a tightly written piece on his…

  • Rood Center Bumblings

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular bi-weekly KVMR-FM commentary broadcast earlier this (27may11) evening.] Going into its second year now is a ballooning lawsuit that names Nevada County, its Clerk-Recorder Mr Greg Diaz, and Aptitude Solutions, a Florida software company as defendants.  The suit is brought by AtPac, the county’s longtime records…

  • TechTest2011 Survivors’ Breakfast

    George Rebane Tofanelli’s in Grass Valley was again the venue for the annual TechTest Survivors’ Breakfast.  2011 is the fifth anniversary of TechTest (‘Where the Elite Compete’), the merit scholarship examination taken by a teacher-nominated group of select Nevada County high school seniors headed for careers in science and technology.  TT is written and sponsored…

  • Tea Party – “Deaf, deluded, deceptive”?

    George Rebane   The cartoon by friend and RR reader RL ‘Balanced Bob’ Crabb appears in today’s (24may11) Union.  Balanced Bob is a self-proclaimed down-the-middle observer of our partisan puffings and pitfalls.  Here he administers a well-worn leftwing swipe at the tea party movement by taking it to task for being too focused as an…

  • May Day in LA

    George Rebane The 2011 May Day celebrations in Los Angeles were not covered as thoroughly by the lamestream as one might wish.  Our progressive cadres continue to lay a thick smokescreen on the notion that today’s labor movement, led by public service unions, have again picked up the theme of a new communist revolution.  Moreover,…

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