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  • Where Now Democrats? (updated 10feb17)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 8 February 2017.] A lot has happened on both sides of the aisle in the last couple of weeks.  President Trump is off to a determined if not bumpy start to deliver on his campaign promises, and the Democrats …?  Well,…

  • The Democrats are blocking the way to make education great

    [Mr Norm Sauer, a retired attorney who lives in Nevada City, is a member of The Union Editorial Board and  a contributor to these pages.  This submitted piece also appears in the 8feb17 issue of the newspaper (here) and has garnered its expected vituperation from the usual suspects.] Norm Sauer A topsy-turvy upheaval characterized the…

  • Scattershots – 2feb2017 (updated 5feb17))

    George Rebane More signs of our times.  SESF Executive Director Russ Steele and I along with our brides attended a robotics competition last Sunday at the Folsom campus of Intel Corporation.  One of the teams competing was from Nevada Union HS, and we were there to root for the home team.  They did quite well,…

  • Ruminations – 28jan17 (updated)

    George Rebane The progressive media pundits and political cartoonists have gotten a reprieve on creativity.  For at least the next four years they will each get a pass by posting a Trash Trump piece.  I suppose that’s only fair, but while the conservatives didn’t have that latitude with our recently retired Sec8 president, they did…

  • An Early Take on Trump (updated 22jan17)

    George Rebane Yesterday’s early snowfall left our rooftop satellite dish glommed up and dysfunctional.  So Jo Ann and I, with our puppy, watched the inaugural doings at our neighbors who also happened to be close friends and more wisely had their dish installed at easily accessible ground level.  What we witnessed was and continues to…

  • What has Lewis done since then?

    George Rebane Black congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis hasn’t done much if anything for black folks since he joined the legislative gravy train in Washington, so maintains Jason Riley, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute (here).  What Lewis has done lately is become leader of the de facto Democrat Party’s drive to delegitimize…

  • Ruminations – 17jan17 (updated 18jan17)

    The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. – Winston Churchill George Rebane Well, the Dems now have a rip that’s hard to hide – they are a bit fragmented after the election didn’t turn out as bought and paid for, and their intramural shenanigans were exposed to the world, and everyone now…

  • Exactly how did the Russkies do it??

    George Rebane Well now that Congressman John Lewis has declared the Trump presidency “illegitimate”, that icon of civil rights and registration-free voting has attracted more Democrat politicians to join him on the leftwing’s bandwagon to oppose our new president.  Lewis’ contention is that the election is illegitimate due to Russia’s “conspiracy” to oppose Clinton, thereby…

  • Scattershots – 12jan17

    George Rebane In the aggregate, Millennials lack social skills.  So conclude a number of studies as reported by NPR this morning.  This adds to the list of significant deficits that our new generation has demonstrated (also reported here, here, here, and here).  Most noteworthy are the problems that social services agencies, the military, and law…

  • ‘The Russians did it.’ (updated 9jan17)

    George Rebane It turns out that you can fool most of the people, most of the time – a truth long known to politicians, lawyers, and journalists. Yesterday DNI James R Clapper released ‘Assessing Russian Activity and Intentions in Recent US Elections’ dated 6 January 2017.  This 25-page report was supposed to supply the long-awaited…

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