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  • Vote! but only IF …

    George Rebane Election Day.  Everyone in the country is exhorting everyone else to vote regardless of whether they are informed on the issues and candidates or not.  I thought I would continue on the road less travelled by asking you to vote only on ballot items about which you feel informed – leave the others. …

  • Prop 25 – A Poster Child of Sleaze

    George Rebane This election season has seen more than its share of voter pandering and false advertizing.  My vote for the winner of sleaze in that department are the proponents of California’s Proposition 25.  I was again reminded of this as we watched the last game of the World Series this evening.  The ads promoting…

  • Paul Emery on Proposition 19

    [The following commentary on California's Proposition 19 – 'the new marijuana law' - was submitted via email by RR reader Paul Emery, News Director at KVMR-FM 89.5 who often comments on these pages.  My own views on Prop19 are available here.] Paul Emery Thanks George for giving me the opportunity to express my opinion of Proposition 19.  Here…

  • Ruminations – 29oct2010

    George Rebane The chronicle of the young but mighty Tea Party Movement (TPM) has been started and is being presented as a multi-part series starting in today’s 29oct10 WSJ (here).  Because the TPM is truly an American grass roots phenomenon, the recounting of its birth and today’s adolescence is a bit of a mish-mash.  The…

  • Prop19 – They smoked it when they wrote it (updated)

    George Rebane It’s hard to take seriously California’s Proposition 19 that would make law the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010.  This law would allow all the would be happy people in the state to grow up to 25 square feet of maryjane for fun and profit.  Well, the fun part has been…

  • A Peek Into a Cozy Nest

    George Rebane Yesterday afternoon the Northern Sierra Air Quality Management District held its scheduled Board of Directors meeting at the Helling Library.  I attended as the only representative of ‘the public’.  Actually, I went there to witness our local AQMD’s deliberation on CARB’s AB32 new diesel regulations that threaten to and probably will drive out…

  • Stiff ‘em or Serve ‘em

    George Rebane Hard to come up with another alternative.  Do we stiff the Chinese and then fight them?  Or do we stick by our obligations to them as our prime creditor, and become an economic colony of China to pay off our debt?  You know, sort of like we were in the 18th century to…

  • Is CARB Simply Incompetent?

    George Rebane Evidence is mounting daily that the California Air Resources Board is grossly incompetent – this in addition to having all the other diseases and ailments that normally infect big powerful government bureaucracies.  The SF Chronicle reported (here) over two weeks ago that – California grossly miscalculated pollution levels in a scientific analysis used…

  • Multikulti and ‘… people like me’ (updated 24oct2010)

    George Rebane Chancellor Merkel’s very public admission that Germany’s multiculturalism experiment has “utterly failed” is an opportunity, widely taken, to reconsider the various meanings and functions of culture and multiculturalism.  Over the last week the thoughtful and thoughtless media have covered the subject from its many sides with the possible exception of what I will…

  • Merkel: ‘Mulitkulti Doesn’t Work’

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular bi-weekly radio commentary broadcast tonight 22 Oct 2010 on KVMR-FM 85.9.] This week Germany’s Angela Merkel made an historic pronouncement that will ‘restart German history’ and set the rest of Europe on a new and unknown course.  Chancellor Merkel pronounced that in Germany “the approach to…

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