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  • George Rebane – Public service unions are bankrupting cities– Pelosi’s shameful conduct– Obamacare’s mindbending apologetics– iPad is a good start– Profiling and air travel security– Obama’s job at Harvard The evidence that public service unions are a public menace has been clear and abundant for years as I have reported on RR and in The Union.  Now this evidence has become…

  • George Rebane Taxing fewer people more is the socialist’s stock answer to all of his plans to control and spend.  Fortunately history does not confirm such plans to be correct.  In America today we have two major problems now joining forces to threaten our republic – make the rich pay more, and make them also…

  • George Rebane Dr Anna Haynes is a True Believer in Anthropogenic Global Warming and its dire consequences for all Mankind.  She has taken great exception to my being an AGW skeptic, and has recorded her distress – • On her personal website NC Focus,• On her community information website NC Voices,• During her requested meetings with me,• During an…

  • George Rebane Many people were enticed to support Obamacare over the past year by the examples of socialized healthcare in England and Canada.  Recently UN’s International Health Organization has contributed its information to the ongoing debate.  Now that Obamacare is the law of the land, we may yet hope to achieve parity with our role…

  • George Rebane Some of our local environmentally sensitive and concerned voices were disappointed in the level of participation in last night’s politically correct Earth Hour.  As a public service for those folks, RR is publishing a space photo of one of several nations around the globe that take saving energy real seriously.  As you can…

  • George Rebane Today the fourth annual merit scholarship TechTest was given in the Science Lecture Hall of Nevada Union High School.  The test was administered by NUHS physics teacher Mr John McDaniel who also heads the TechTest academic committee.   I visited the lecture hall this morning and took the nearby pictures.  Mr McDaniel told me that…

  • George Rebane Socialists and communists the world over are overjoyed with America taking a major step in their direction, and away from individual liberty and free markets.   Our ‘Shining City on a Hill’ has been the perennial burr under the blanket for collectivist states ranging over the entire authoritarian spectrum from the EU to North Korea. …

  • George Rebane They have owed us about $5.5 million from the beginning of the year.  What game are they playing now, wasn’t everything supposed to “pivot” to jobs creation about two months ago?  Are they waiting for the arrival of the new Democratic import from Florida who will run against Congressman Tom McClintock?  Will they release the funds if we also throw in…

  • George Rebane - Has political speech threatened violence?- Consequential voting in democracies- The Gospel of Peer Review- Penn & Teller’s survey of environmentalists All Americans get concerned when political speech threatens violence.  The current charges that the right stepped over the line with threatening phone calls, tossing bricks through windows, snipping gas lines, calling a black legislator “nigger”, and…