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Category: Current Affairs

  • George Rebane The very liberal truthout.com is definitely worth a read as we attempt to understand the sparse reasoning behind their collectivist nostrums.  The latest edition contains an article – Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy – on how to create two million “green jobs” by four economists(??)…

  • George Rebane The past week is now folded into the pages of history.  Iran pre-empted Obama’s revelation that it had another major facility for producing nuclear materials for “peaceful uses”.  In response, our National Naif assembled his counterparts from Britain and France to dutifully scribble yet one more line in the sand, while the imams…

  • George Rebane First Fibber and Nobel Al are still telling everyone within earshot that Waxman-Markey is going to be a big boost to the economy as taxes and fees are slapped on every imagined and imaginable emission of CO2 into the atmosphere.  I mean, like aren’t we excited about all the green jobs coming to…

  • George Rebane The recent spate of social engineering and economic stimulus programs issuing from Washington again motivates communities that hope to get some federal funding to propose and plan local projects that may catch the eye of an appropriate czar in the current administration.  All things ‘green’ seem to garnering most favor, and now everyone…

  • George Rebane – The collateral damage from Obamacare.– Where is Obama’s plan for healthcare?– Michelle demonstrates low carbon, organic shopping. When you see Obamacare costs going up in lockstep with your taxes, you start looking at your neighbors a little differently.  The fat guy is no longer just a fat guy waddling down the sidewalk.  You know he’s…

  • George Rebane Scientists tell us North America today has more trees than ever before.  This is doubly so in the west where entire mountain ranges are matted with thick forests and dense underbrush.  A little more than a century ago these same mountains were covered with copses and sparse stands of trees separated by cleared…

  • George Rebane The Missing Millions March was held in Washington DC last Saturday, a day that the ‘progressive’ MSM decided to tightly blinder its eyes and see only “sixty to seventy-five thousand” Tea Party protesters converge on the Capitol.  Actually, Washington was shut down by the throngs conservatively numbered in the 1.2 to 2 million…