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  • KVMR Commentary – Competence, Complexity, or Complicity

    George Rebane [This is a transcript of my most recent KVMR 89.5FM commentary that was broadcast earlier this evening.] Competence, complexity, or complicity.  Earlier this week President Obama fired his commander of the Afghanistan war, General Stanley McChrystal.  The president had every right to fire his general, and in this case the general gave the president…

  • Economic Enlightenment

    George Rebane A lot of the ideological dust ups, both locally and nationally, involve understanding and interpreting some pretty fundamental economic factors.  Zeljka Buturovic and Daniel B. Klein published research (‘Economic Enlightenment in Relation to College-going, Ideology, and Other Variables: A Zogby Survey’) of Americans based on a survey of over four thousand American adults…

  • Obama fires his general

    George Rebane President Obama fired General McChrystal this morning for allowing his staff to be frank with at least one Rolling Stone reporter embedded in McChrystal’s headquarters in Kabul.  Apparently it was also no secret that the general did not think highly of Obama’s civilian national security team, nor Obama’s leadership of the entire military…

  • Ruminations – 22jun2010

    George Rebane Lamphier and Diaz victories Smart meters and robots Overseas Contingency Operations Time to blow the well from hell? I guess if The Union says it’s so, it must be so.  Terry Lamphier’s victory over incumbent John Spencer for District #3 county supervisor was a most curious display of self-interest by the voters.  It wasn’t…

  • AWOL Afghans – not an immigration case

    George Rebane Another major lapse in government competence is demonstrated almost daily.  We, of course, know that what we hear about is just the very tip of the iceberg of incompetence.  It is for this reason RR argues that we should minimize the role of government wherever we can. Now we hear that over the…

  • The Secrecy of Unnatural Gas Reserves

    George Rebane Every once in a while we hear a peep about huge reserves of natural gas opening up because of new extraction technologies like ‘fracking’.  The US and Canada have reserves that will serve us for over a century.  It is simply political will or its lack that keeps us from reducing, or even…

  • Green Jobs are like Obscenities

    George Rebane Over a year ago when the left started lathering about cap and tax legislation that was supposed to reduce our need for imported oil and create green jobs, certain observers on the right dared to ask ‘what is a green job?’.  It was not an idle question since the government was going to…

  • Peter and Paul working on their Principle (updated 21jun2010)

    George Rebane When you promise to rob Peter to pay Paul, you will have Paul’s full support. The latest Gallup poll confirms that only the very poor and young give Obama a slim majority (52%) in his job approval rating.  The remaining demographic classes are all well below majority levels (46%).  More here and here.…

  • Are the Primaries Over Yet?

    George Rebane Terry Lamphier’s supervisorial victory, announced yesterday, anticipates the closing bell for Round One in this mid-term election year.  We supported Terry’s opponent, incumbent John Spencer.  We also supported Barry Pruett for Clerk-Recorder who lost to incumbent Greg Diaz.  And there’s probably more to be said about that race.  I hope all the irregularities…

  • Ruminations – 15jun2010

    George rebane – Bob Crabb’s new book– Republican Women’s luncheon – Sheriff Royal– WSJ Lieberaman article – war on terror– The old guys celebrate the young     Nevada County’s own socio-political cartoonist extraordinaire and author, RL ‘Bob’ Crabb is coming out with a brand new book of his cartoons.  An example of gentle persuasion in an horticultural format is…

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