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  • Even Babies Profile

    George Rebane [This piece appears in the 10jul10 Union as my regular column for this month (here).  It was unfortunately retitled as 'Even babies practice profile'(sic).  This is the submitted version.] Profiling has been an American bugaboo for over a generation now.  Most people don’t really know what it is exactly, but they do know it…

  • Rationing with “Our Eyes Open”

    George Rebane Just a quick one for those for whom the new Chief Rationer made sense with his statement that “The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.”  Dr Berwick’s contention that we already ration healthcare is calculated to impress…

  • Our Problems are Solved

    George Rebane Good news comes again from Europe according to a Reuters and a Guardian.com report from Berlin (thanks to an RR reader for this).  It is of a piece for our socialist leaders in Washington who have had a keen eye on all the advances made by our friends across the pond.  We will simply…

  • KVMR Commentary – Recess Exposing Obamacare

    George Rebane Dr Donald Berwick is a radical socialist physician whose recess appointment and background is being hidden by the lame stream media, while the White House today is spinning lies by the bundle about the process that finally made him the functional head of Obamacare.  ‘Radical Socialist’??  Well yes, you get that from his…

  • Counting the Collateral Damage (7jul2010 update)

    George Rebane That the feds are extending and deepening the recession is becoming more visible by the day.  You have to have your head where the sun don’t shine to miss the stream of news recounting this snail-paced recovery.  And I agree with the commentators who predict that we will ‘discover’ after November that the…

  • Pork and More Pork (updated 4 July 2010)

    George Rebane Why is it that the House is trying to pack the latest mid-east war funding bill with added pork and other issues?  There would be instant bi-partisan support for a ‘clean bill’, but the progressives are willing to spend whatever time it takes to pass a padded bill, and get it through Congress…

  • Why doesn’t this go away?

    George Rebane The media calls people ‘Birthers’ who are in doubt as to Barack Obama’s place of birth.  The official White House story is that our President was born in Honolulu on 4 August 1961.  For the country this statement rests on evidence reported in media sources like USA Today (here). Yet no previous US…

  • The Charade of Supremes

    George Rebane Does anyone know of any Supreme Court justice who didn’t vote their ideology because of something they said or promised during their Senate confirmation hearing?  Is there any record of any justice being so restricted or constrained?  I know of no such event or ruling that history records. Then how are we to…

  • The ‘Rebane Ratio’ Lives ;-)

    George Rebane For quite some time now (most recently here) I have been a lonely voice from the hills of Nevada County trying to convince people that our country’s financial crisis is not measured or reported properly.  Hyperventilation on the impending disasters of debt and deficits are presented as debt to GDP and deficit to federal…

  • Ruminations – 26jun2010 (updated)

    George Rebane “Never seek justice, only mercy.” Coach Dick Beede - NRA’s deal with the devil- Secular Islam censoring ‘anti-Islam’ search engines- McChrystal’s substance starting to seep- Barry Pruett starts blogging The latest progressive assault on First Amendment rights is in full swing with Charlie Schumer et al leading the way with the ‘Disclose Act’ that would require advocacy…

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