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  • George Rebane Everyone who follows what’s happening in the country knows that Mark Williams and the Republican-owned Tea Party Express was ousted from the Tea Party Federation of which the Tea Party Patriots movement is the largest member.  Mark Williams was accused of racist remarks he wrote in response to the recent NAACP resolution about…

  • George Rebane Hey, it’s the new wave sweeping the country.  More and more cities and counties are hiring out their core services to neighboring jurisdictions and private enterprises.  Most of these measures are driven by runaway public sector compensation packages that the local electeds just let get out of hand, some like Maywood, CA (see…

  • George Rebane You’ve heard of the old custom of hiring mourners to walk behind the hearse loudly wailing their ‘sorrow’ about the dear departed.  Well, the unions have now adopted that approach for putting pickets in front of establishments they don’t like or agree with.  They advertize and hire unemployed non-union people to carry signs,…

  • George Rebane The progressives in Congress keep rolling over the country like a cloud of locusts.  Next week President Obama will sign his ‘finance reform’ bill that just passed Congress.  The legislation will do nothing to secure us against the kind of financial calamity we went through, but will create another very expensive and large…

  • George Rebane If free men and women are allowed to write history in the coming years, this administration will be recorded as the most destructive to American sovereignty and the quality of life of its citizens since independence was declared. At this time over 55% of Americans judge President Barack Hussein Obama to be a…

  • George Rebane   For more on how all this stimulus is working out see here. 

  • George Rebane – Government funded journalism– NAACP’s racist relevance– Taliban’s hidden murder campaign– Hobbes’ Leviathan redux In the 14jul10 WSJ ‘Journalism Needs Government Help’, Dr Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, argues for government funding of our fourth estate.  This would bring our already leftwing news dealers up to par with the similar state sponsored enterprises in the EU…

  • George Rebane It’s always good to see and attempt to understand how the local left views the world and, more importantly, things around our neck of the woods.  This is part and parcel of the RR policy to bring you news from across no-man’s land untrammeled by my views.  Here is the June newsletter of the Nevada…

  • Think losing that leg or eye for your country still counts.  Well, the profligate spenders in Congress have found another way to lower the bar of decency for our new national healthcare system.  Here’s an extract from the Tea Party Patriots newsletter, and another proof of their extremist views.  We really did have to pass…

  • George Rebane NEVER confuse effort with achievement. Watching Obama’s Axelrod on Sunday TV was a real downer.  That guy comes across as a double dummy who is not even a good liar for all the ones he’s been tasked to tell.  On the flood of illegal entrants and Arizona’s new law, all he could come…