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Category: Current Affairs

  • George Rebane Most of us watched some of the political theater from the Blair House yesterday.  As predicted, at least by those who took a day off from lying, the event didn’t go anywhere.  It might have made some of the slow students think that Obamacare is just starting out from somewhere in the ideological…

  • George Rebane Judicial Watch has assembled the backgrounders for its selection of “Washington’s ten most wanted corrupt politicians” of 2009.  It’s not clear to me who ‘wants’ them for what, but then I’m just a voter and not a special prosecutor.  Nevertheless, reading the litanies on these jokers is eye-opening for those whose eyes have started…

  • George Rebane The well-respected Pew Research Center published a report on its recent survey of the political attitudes of the so-called millennial voters (young people who came of age in the first decade of this millennium).  Pew noted that “their attachment to the Democratic Party weakened markedly over the course of 2009”, although a majority…

  • George Rebane   Only lightly camouflaged conspiracy theories come to mind when I hear the latest reports of the government abetting efforts to again minimize the role of English as the prime unifying force in this wonderful polyglot that has always been America.  The disunity and political strife in multilingual countries has been the norm…

  • George Rebane I have commiserated about corporations falling for the climate change hoax because they see themselves in favored positions with regard to cap n’ tax (Waxman – Markey) subsidies and suppressed competitors.  Recall Rebane’s Rule of Corporations – the good part is that they will game the system, the bad part is that they…

  • George Rebane [Yesterday KVMR broadcast my bi-weekly commentary which I recorded as posted below.  I was informed by KVMR that they may need to edit out the solicitation for contributions for TechTest2010 scholarships due to some very specific FCC rules.  The commentary was in fact broadcast without the solicitation which I do retain here in…

  • George Rebane Douglas Schoen was President Clinton’s pollster and continues his astute observations of America’s body politic.  Today he writes a piece advising fellow Democrats on some major policy shifts to get them through 2010.  Among his pearls – – Democrats “need pro-growth, fiscally conservative policies.”– The tea party movement “is not a Republican movement, and anyone who…