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  • Congress, the Hurdle to Recovery

    George Rebane   Rahm Emmanuel is not the only one who does not want to waste a good crisis.  Businesses across the country have attempted to use this recession like no other one to get rid of deadwood employees and reconfigure themselves to be more competitive in the marketplace.  With galloping technology allowing fewer people…

  • Friday’s Federal Fiscal Follies

    George Rebane The growth of central government is now at a gallop.  Anti-capitalism that was rampant is accelerating even more.  Some of us are quietly observing the anniversary of the arbitrary abrogation of contract law when Obama took over Chrysler and gave all its corporate bondholders a haircut.  For those not familiar with lending money…

  • A New Socialist Manifesto

    George Rebane If one doubts the separation between the American conservative and progressive, then doubt no more.  Henry A. Giroux lays it all out in no uncertain terms as to where the country is today and where it should be heading.  He does not do it on some backwater channel, but as the leading essay…

  • Scattershots – 2jun2010

    George Rebane Minimum wage and American Samoa bailout; Taxpayers bailing out union pensions; David Crane (Arnold’s adviser) – diversify energy sources by diktat; And more … All conservatives and the progressive elite know that the minimum wage is a populist ploy for buying the votes of the ignorant.  Them that use it, get elected.  And them that…

  • Incompetent Teflon

    George Rebane We begin to see more and more commentators ascribe the national nostrums coming from the White House to sheer incompetence (for example ‘He Was Supposed to be Competent’).   Remember when Ronald Reagan was called the Teflon President by the Left.  But his legacy is such an enduring testament to conservative governance that the…

  • Ruminations – 29may2010

    George Rebane – Countywide election of BoS and Planning Commission– Sestak imbroglio– Markey on NPR blames Bush for Oil Spill– US Money Supply, Constitution and the Dollar This morning’s emails contained a heads-up that the blinding light of morality and justice has again been shined on my bald noggin – well actually on Jo Ann, but then we fly…

  • KVMR commentary – Our Porous Border

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my bi-weekly commentary broadcast on KVMR FM85.9 today 28 May 2010.] Mexican President Calderon’s lecture to America was a reprehensible piece of hypocritical grandstanding.  Arizona is desperately trying to defend itself against enemies for which it is not supposed to be the first line of defense.  But because…

  • The Price of Pork – Fewer Jobs

    George Rebane A new Harvard study paints a pretty grim picture of what we really pay for all those earmarks that political naifs have been using to measure the effectiveness of their members of Congress.  As with all government activities, pork projects impact the private sector in both how much money it has to spend,…

  • Solyndra cum Soylent Green

    George Rebane President Obama’s visit to Fremont’s solar panel maker Solyndra caused a lot of confusion.  Union construction workers at the site were told to take the day off without pay.  And then there are reports that inside the plant non-union workers were similarly told to take the day off.  Apparently this was so as…

  • ‘Cap and Flee’

    George Rebane That is the title of today’s (25may10) WSJ editorial summarizing how California’s AB32 act will ravage the state, and drive us deeper into an economic morass.  The piece begins – California, that former land of opportunity, was one of the first states to pass its own version of "cap and trade" to reduce…

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