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  • Big Government, Big Business

    George Rebane Big monopolies and oligopolies are no better in the private sector than they are in the public sector.  Both types of organizations suffer systemic failures in the feedback necessary to keep them on the straight and narrow as far as their customers are concerned.  Of course, big government can do more damage to its…

  • The Republican Alternative to a repealed Obamacare

    George Rebane As we know, and contrary to a constant stream of MSM reports about “the party of NO” and “they have offered no ideas of their own”, the GOP is now bringing together its alternative piece of healthcare legislation that they hope to pass if their fortunes turn this November.  The major features of…

  • We Remain Unstimulated (updated)

    George Rebane The self-serving liars in Washington have attempted for the last two years to convince us that they have injected newly printed and borrowed cash into our economy in order to stimulate it out of the recession that followed the housing bubble.  This has not come to pass.  The economy has struggled to find its…

  • Bipartisan Milestones

    George Rebane   Obamacare is truly a unique event in American governance.  But then, not everyone is worried.  H/T to RR reader for the graphic.

  • Reaping what we have sown

    George Rebane   Mr Steven Frisch of the Sierra Business Council has an explanation for our long wait.  To last week’s NC ARRA report he appended this – I think that the reasons area clear. 1) Republicans are less likely to apply for stimulus funds 2) When they do, they are public critics and private porkers, so…

  • The Great Divide – more are thinking about it (updated)

    George Rebane I have written in these pages about the possibility of America splitting into two sovereign nation states for the last couple of years or so under the heading of The Great Divide.  These were lonely thoughts for some time.  With the election of Obama – the self-declared Great Unifier – the prospect of…

  • Waiting for Gloria Zane

    George Rebane I had lunch the other day with my editor/publisher Jeff Ackerman.  We talked of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings.  And then the topic of Gloria Zane came up.  It turns out that Gloria has been making the rounds of some local blogs lately and taking a very dim…

  • California in extremis

    George Rebane The giant public sector workers retirement fund Calpers is underfunded by at least $500,000,000,000 – yes, that’s a half trillion dollars.  This is from a Stanford University study commissioned by our governor (reported here)  RR readers should not be surprised.  In Nevada County, SESF (sesfoundation.org) reported on the state’s and county’s unfunded liabilities…

  • $100,000 Reward – Easy Money for Progressives

    George Rebane The accusation of the staged Tea Partiers shouting ‘nigger’ at black legislators at the Capitol is coming home to roost for the scumbags who tried to set the whole thing up in Washington DC, and then again in Searchlight, Nevada.  National blogger Andrew Breitbart was falsely accused by shipped-in union thugs of the…

  • We’re the Wrong Kind of District (updated 3apr2010)

    George Rebane   According to a recent study by Cato scholar Veronique de Rugy reported on NRO here – On average, Democratic districts received one-and-a-half times as many awards as Republican ones. Democratic districts also received two-and-a-half times more stimulus dollars than Republican districts ($122,127,186,509 vs. $46,139,592,268). Republican districts also received smaller awards on average.…

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