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  • Central Planning Fest – preparing our minds

    George Rebane To control a modern society, gain control of its connectivity. The upcoming Paris conference on preventable global warming (PGW) would be laughable if it didn’t serve as a cover for some pretty draconian public policy plans.  I was reminded of this by yesterday morning’s emails and some contributions to The Union’s op-ed pages. …

  • ‘Can California be Saved?’ (updated 24oct15)

    George Rebane We have long pointed to the travesty of governance that has totally engulfed California over the past decades, and called out its failures which now have become a tidal wave of destruction.  The Left has identified this effort as the misbegotten complaints of an ignorant clutch living isolated from the glorious realities that…

  • Scattershots – 22oct15

    George Rebane Hillary told the House Benghazi hearing that 1) Chris Stevens should have known better than to expect the security he requested, and also that being a diplomat was a dangerous profession; 2) she never saw the Stevens’ urgent security requests – “they didn’t rise to my level”; and 3) as SecState, if she…

  • Understanding Wealth Inequality

    George Rebane Without a formalized utility, making public policy is guided by topical and anecdotal outliers.  [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 14 October 2015.] Wealth inequality has been a topic of keen interest and agitation, and concerns about it seem to be increasing, especially with our left-leaning neighbors.  Today…

  • Scattershots – 12oct15

    George Rebane The government is corrupt.  It’s always a tickle to note the protestations of liberals on these pages who howl when we conservetarians point out that our government is too big, inept beyond belief, costs too much, overreaches into our lives, and is hopelessly corrupt in literally all that it does.  The local leftwing…

  • Ruminations – 28sep15 (updated 2oct15)

    George Rebane The short term market is certifiably insane.  Yellen will not be able to avoid a rate raise forever, we all know that.  And yes, the centrally planned Chinese economy has predictably blown a tire (progressives call your office), but some people still believe that they are smart/lucky enough to bail just before Yellen…

  • The ‘Climate Change’ pot bubbles

    George Rebane This little update is primarily to continue the record of recent columns, commentraries, comments, and other contributions to the bubbling pot of preventable global warming (PGW).  As documented in these pages, I wrote a response to a Union piece by a couple of physicians making the usual outlandish claims for the existence of PGW,…

  • Scattershots – 25sep15 (updated)

    George Rebane Cheri West, senior aide of Assemblyman Brian Dahle, has declared her candidacy for the District #1 supervisorial slot that will be vacated by Nate Beason next year.  Jo Ann and I only know of her, but don’t know her personally.  She sounds like a worthy candidate to oppose Heidi Hall, her very progressive…

  • Ruminations – 9sep15 (updated 13sep15)

    Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.  Oscar Ameringer George Rebane ‘Black Lives Matter – but Reality, Not So Much’.  National columnist and keen observer of the social scene Jason Riley agrees with RR’s long-held position on…

  • Man did it, and is still doing it! (updated 8sep15)

    George Rebane Our government-media complex is ratcheting up the hysteria about man-made global warming (AGW) to a fever pitch in preparation for this fall’s Paris conference on ‘climate change’.  Obama wants the world to see that the US will lead in reducing CO2 emissions no matter the economic cost, and Moonbeam Brown wants the world…

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