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  • Ruminations – 15dec2009

    George Rebane • Truthout.com reports on military resistance group March Forward! • 'Whole Foods Republicans' is not a strategy  • Heritage updates on climate change and Copenhagen • Climategate catches Al Gore lying about polar ice melt• CRU temperature datasets and programs were “botched”• Why don’t socialists and leftwingers like those labels? The hard left blog Truthout.com reports (here) on the formation…

  • Ruminations – 13dec2009

    George Rebane North Korea’s currency confiscation ebooks and your gizmo count Associated Press verdict on Climategate Federal employees’ pay explodes during recession  ‘That’s What We Do, We’re Americans’  Last week the dear thugs ruling North Korea pulled a sudden currency exchange issuing new won for the old.  But there was a catch, you could only…

  • Planning on a Miracle

    George Rebane [This editorial appears today (12 December 2009) in The Union’s print and online opinion sections (here).  This is the submitted version. gjr] The news is good, we seem to have bottomed out of our Great Recession – job losses are decreasing, government is hiring, hundreds of thousands of mystery jobs have been “created or…

  • Building Blocks of a Legacy

    George Rebane No matter how Obamacare and cap n’ tax turn out, this administration’s mark on American history will indelibly contain these dents or catastrophic gashes – time will tell how we fared.  Here are two succinct views.

  • Today’s Bookends of American Education

    George Rebane The stretch in approaches to educating our kids is vast, ranging from the pragmatic to the idiotic.  A RR reader from the northwest sent the following words and links to illustrate the point. It is just amazing what $5000/year/kid can do without the interference of public schools and teachers unions (The Harlem Children’s…

  • What is a Job?

    George Rebane In the classic fashion of the Left, Obama’s jobs summit asked dumb questions – “I want to hear from CEOs what’s holding back our business investment.” – and then didn’t understand the answers.  With his top cadre weighing in at fewer than 8% having had any private sector (i.e. wealth creating) experience, what…

  • ‘Comprehensive Open Government Plan’ Launched

    George Rebane Yesterday, with remarkably little fanfare, the Administration issued its Open Government Directive over the signature of OMB director Peter Orszag.  Mr. Orszag said, “The American people know best what their government should do for them. It’s fitting that our open government directive has been significantly shaped by the collective wisdom of the American…

  • Caution – Wrecking Crews at Work

    George Rebane – Obama’s Jobs Summit– Liars Central (aka District of Columbia)– Copenhagen Capers– Public Sector Unions Petition Last week’s White House jobs summit was a special comedy hour sponsored by the gang that couldn’t or wouldn’t get a private sector job.  Now they’re the ones who are putting together programs to create such jobs.  Of course, their recent…

  • What Climategate? (updated 6dec2009)

    George Rebane Just returned from a few days at California’s parallel universe by the sea.  No mention of Climategate there.  But the real noteworthy thing is that almost all the major broadcast networks are ignoring Climategate as the news it is per se (here)  It doesn’t matter whether you believe in the hacked CRU emails and…

  • Is Ours a Defendable Culture?

    George Rebane Last Sunday the Swiss voted to ban the erection of additional minarets on the country’s mosques (here).  The vote was desperate, awkward, and overwhelming.  That small ever-neutral, obstinately independent country was seeking a way to say no to its colonization by Islam.  In every direction the Swiss have seen their neighbors with growing…

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