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  • There Must Be Some Mistake …

    George Rebane Historically American presidents have been vetted to the nth degree by the media and opponents who have pointed out some of the most intimate details in the backgrounds of those who seek to lead us.  Barack Hussein Obama arrived on the scene to tearful, cheering throngs who saw in him the long-awaited arrival…

  • Billions and billions and billions and …

    George Rebane And we in California thought we’d be only forty or fifty billion in the hole by next year.  Well, it turns out that there are more bumblings coming out of the woodwork.  The state unemployment fund, already on life support from the feds, will be almost twenty more billion in the hole next…

  • Busting the Prop 13 Myth

    George Rebane For years Prop 13 has been blamed for California’s financial woes by our liberal friends.  Their main point is that, given population growth and inflation, somehow the state has lost out over the years in bringing in revenues from property taxes.  A correspondent pointed me to a recent piece by Chris Reed in…

  • Tea Party Time Again!

    George Rebane Hundreds of thousands of us were designated “right wing extremists” by our federal government on 15 April 2009.  If you missed out, tomorrow is your chance to join your friends and neighbors at the Nevada County Fairgrounds and set the matter right once and for all.  The appellation was bestowed on us by…

  • The Great National Boondangle

    George Rebane Our local response to the Obama stimulus package paints a picture of the new national stupidity that will be repeated in thousands of communities.  When the government dangles cash in any form (subsidies, stimulus, rebates, …) to push us in the direction they want, it always turns out not quite as the political…

  • Who Speaks for Islam? (updated)

    George Rebane There are a lot of people talking past each other today about Islam and the west.  A major book on the subject seems to miss the point completely – see Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think by J.L. Esposito and D. Mogahed.  The authors document and analyze the results…

  • Ruminations – 3jun2009

    George Rebane Silly me, and here I thought only the feds could tap my cell phone with a court’s permission.  It turns out that literally anyone can do that and more to you and yours.  Check out this YouTube video and then you can google (or bing) ‘cell phone intercept’ to a get a snoot…

  • Creative Destruction of Manufacturing Jobs

    George Rebane Yesterday’s demise of GM bodes ill for low end manufacturing workers, and the service industries that have supported them.  Stratfor’s ‘The Significance of GM’s Bankruptcy’ is illuminating in the statistics it presents.  It turns out that total US employment by carmakers is now about a million workers.  And its parts industry has employed just…

  • Of Horsepower and Deficits

    George Rebane P.J. O’Rourke wrote a wonderful reprise of America’s love affair with the automobile in yesterday’s (30may09) WSJ – ‘The End of Our Affair’.  The WSJ and our local Union are our morning papers that get us through breakfast in the comfortable, old-fashioned format.  Jo Ann and I divvy up the various sections of…

  • Again We Lead

    George Rebane Harbingers of the coming wave of city bankruptcies just keep popping up.  No one will have an excuse when we all march into the sunset merrily singing ‘On the Way to Vallejo’.  A recent three-way email exchange with two local leading and knowledgeable citizens – who prefer to remain nameless – started with highlighting…

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