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  • Politically Endorsed Science (updated 11jan2011)

    George Rebane The newly proposed lecture series ‘What’s Next in Science?’ is causing a dust-up in the local blogs, and as a former scientist who has worked on the frontiers of knowledge, I should weigh in.  At issue is how the Nevada County Board of Supervisors should respond to the lecture series that is being…

  • Keep Your Eye on Europe (updated 9jan2011)

    George Rebane [This is my regular column published in 8jan11 issue of The Union.  Its online edition can be accessed here.] This promises to be the year of fiscal pyrotechnics from Sacramento to Washington to Berlin.  The socialists worldwide are in terminal denial of what earthquakes for the coming months their perennial spending programs have…

  • The Fear Factor of 2011

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of the 7jan11 broadcast of my regular bi-weekly commentary on KVMR-FM 85.9.]  It’s no use pretending, 2011 in California will not be pretty.  The state’s voters bucked fiscal responsibility in November and returned the same gang to Sacramento that got us to the edge of bankruptcy.  And now with a new…

  • The Shrunken Presidency

    George Rebane Syndicated columnist and scholar Victor Davis Hanson is a keen observer of humanity’s foibles and the progressives’ programs now playing on our national stage.  He recently wrote a mid-term assessment of Barack Obama, the man and the President, in a piece titled ‘Our “Pay No attention to that Man Behind the Curtain” Moment’…

  • Contemplating 2011

    George Rebane Here are some thoughts about the coming year that have been cooking for a while.  This is the annual season of prognostications in which pundits, publishers, politicians, and propagandists are bellying up to the bar to be heard. The Economist, venerable ‘newspaper’ of opinion economics, has slid markedly leftward during 2010.  It is…

  • Happy 2011!

    George Rebane Here in Nevada County the new year arrived clad in a light blanket of snow with a few flakes still drifting from a gray but hopeful looking sky.  The nearby photo from our office window says it better.  It will warm up later. Jo Ann and I take this opportunity to wish all…

  • The quiet is deafening

    George Rebane Gold is now comfortably at above $1,400 an ounce and rising.  It has risen over 28% in 2010 and over 170% in the last five years.  The other precious metals – silver, platinum, palladium – have done even better.  The official word is that there is nothing to worry about.  The world economies…

  • Laughing at Laffer Again

    George Rebane Oregon’s sheeple voted to increase taxes on the rich a couple of years back to solve their budget woes.  Their dimwits with the eyeshades figured if nothing changed (the everlasting curse on a mind in stasis), that the higher tax would bring in an additional $180M.  Instead it brought in only $130M, and…

  • Scattershots – 20dec2010 (updated 21dec2010)

    George Rebane FCC commissioner Robert McDowell concludes his 20dec2010 WSJ piece on ‘net neutrality’ with – “On this winter solstice, we will witness jaw-dropping interventionist chutzpah as the FCC bypasses branches of our government in the dogged pursuit of needless and harmful regulation. The darkest day of the year may end up marking the beginning of…

  • Lovers in a Foxhole

    George Rebane Yesterday the Senate passed a bill to revoke the longstanding ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy banning gays serving openly in the military.  Senator and combat veteran John McCain pronounced the passage a “sad day” for the military, adding "I hope that when we pass this legislation that we will understand that we are…

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