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  • Scattershots – 25may17 (updated 26may17)

    George Rebane Former President Obama willfully violated Americans’ 4th Amendment rights for years by authorizing and executing large-scale surveillance on all electronic communications by our intelligence agencies (primarily NSA). He did this in the face of protests from the FISA court from which by law he is supposed to seek authorization before conducting such ‘wiretaps’.…

  • The War is On (updated 20may17)

    George Rebane The War on Trump – yes, I believe that it’s now a full-fledged war in which the objective is to remove a duly elected sitting president – is steaming full speed ahead.  Yesterday’s clarion claim that the president had “shared sensitive intelligence” (supposedly the name of a middle east city) was modified today…

  • Compelling Camouflaged Corporatism

    George Rebane Corporatism is the classical scourge of capitalism wherein privately held corporations, either alone or within associations, join with government to create business environments (e.g. markets) that reduce their risks from competition, natural anomalies, and economic turbulence through enactment and enforcement (by the government gun) of favorable laws, regulations, codes, fees, etc that serve…

  • Scattershots – 6may17 (updated 8may17)

    George Rebane CA’s coming RMJ market.  As has long been proclaimed here, California’s recreational marijuana market will be dominated by the big guys.  And the remaining question is whether it will be oligopolized by the big guys, or will there also be room for the small (‘mom& pop’) operators under the RMJ laws Sacramento is…

  • Delegitimizing Trump

    [This commentary was submitted by Norm Sauer who is on the editorial board of The Union and often contributes his views to these pages.  The same piece appeared in the 26apr17 edition of the newspaper's op-ed section.  It appears below as received.  gjr] Norm Sauer In my column last month (http://www.theunion.com/opinion/norm-sauer-the-progressive-swamp-of-washington-d-c/), I predicted the surveillance…

  • The Still Muddled Middle (updated)

    George Rebane Recently consideration of America’s political landscape has resurfaced in these pages, motivated by Nevada County’s self-declared middle roader RL Bob Crabb who published a powerful condemnation of both the Left and Right upon which I expanded in ‘Oh, were it only that simple’.  From that Bob took umbrage at me, RR, and our…

  • Ruminations – 7apr17 (updated 13apr17)

    George Rebane Hallelujah!  Judge Neil Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate and will now fill the ‘Scalia seat’ on SCOTUS.  This brilliant constitutional jurist is just what the country needs to slow our headlong rush to socialism, and assure us all that the high court will fulfill its constitutional role without encroaching on Congress or…

  • Questions Unasked and Unanswered (updated 28mar17)

    [This is the appended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 22 March 2017.] George Rebane This week FBI Director James Comey testified before Congress about ongoing investigations concerning Russia influencing last year’s election, and the alleged ‘wiretapping’ of Trump’s campaign.  There were a lot of questions to ask about what happened, and almost…

  • Nationalist Reflections (updated 20mar17)

    Nationalism is a complex, multidimensional concept involving a shared communal identification with one’s nation. It is a political ideology oriented towards gaining and maintaining self-governance, or full sovereignty, over a territory of historical significance to the group (such as its homeland). – Wikipedia George Rebane The Dutch voted yesterday in high numbers to determine which…

  • Mr Boardman’s Apples and Oranges

    George Rebane “Did you know that the moon is 1/49 the size of the earth, even though it is further away?” was a memorable entry in an early issue of Mad Magazine many years ago.  I was reminded of it when reading George Boardman’s regular column in the 13mar17 Union this morning (here).  For readers…

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