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  • KVMR Commentary – 5feb2010

    George Rebane Today I returned to doing radio commentaries.  I will be doing a new commentary every other Friday on  KVMR-FM 89.5, Nevada County's public radio station.  This was broadcast today. ==== Contending ideologies and ideologues are very much in the news these days.  When people hear either of those words, they usually come up…

  • Bit by Slow

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  • Meanwhile in More Prudent Quarters

    George Rebane H/T to a regular RR reader who is in the know about such Nevada County doings.

  • Iran – Simmer Coming to Boil?

    George Rebane The Israeli intelligence/news service DebkaFile reports (here) of active preparations for a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities taking place in the offshore waters of that country.  Our ‘friendly’ Arabs are complaining that they have not been apprised.  We recall Ahmadinejad who has been promising that all kinds of hell will break loose around…

  • Public Sector Unions on the March (Updated)

    George Rebane Membership in public sector unions keeps growing, while private industry union membership is declining.  The crossover has occurred and public union membership now dominates.  I am among those who strongly believe that public sector unions are a clear and present danger to a democratic republic.  Early 20th century liberals were of the same mind.  Political…

  • Treasury: ‘TARP tanked’

    George Rebane AP reported that Treasury’s Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky ran some numbers, and has now informed the Administration that TARP has tanked.  The bank bailouts, started under Bush and continued by Obama, have not increased bank lending, nor have they stimulated jobs, and will “almost certainly” result in a loss to taxpayers.  And…

  • “I am not an ideologue” ??!!

    George Rebane This guy gets more unbelievable by the hour.  Obama claims not to have an overarching ideology that informs his decisions??!!  An ideology is a coherent and cohesive set of tenets that comprise the socio-political part of a well-formed belief system.  And according to the dictionary, an ideologue is one who has such an ideology. …

  • How We Are Ruled

    George Rebane These pages, along with my Union columns, have shined a light on the government employee crisis that is already in the oven.  Every time I have reported on the abuses of government employee unions, government employee pay, and the approaching unfunded liabilities train wreck, there arose an obligatory and automatic hew and cry…

  • Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?

    George Rebane   Today President Obama assembled the Republican members of Congress and presented a very reasonable case for the two parties to work together to achieve the Objective Du Jour – jobs.  It was all for the good of the country, no one could deny it.  And then he popped out the “party of…

  • Still in Shock (updated 1feb2010)

    George Rebane It took better men than me to digest Obama’s State of the Union.  All I can do is sit here and shake my head.  While having a filibuster-proof Congress and shoveling payola to his own party’s scumbags, he actually accused Republicans of obstructionism and playing politics with his grand agenda for the ‘American…

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