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  • Journalism’s New Lows or just SOP?

    George Rebane The low cognitive reach of today’s journalists in intellect, knowledge base, and command of English is well recognized.  But more and more of their deficits in reasoning and research are making themselves felt as they fall behind in their role as our society’s watchdogs.  Three examples will illustrate. Gov Christie’s ‘Bridgegate’ is not…

  • Farm Bill Gutted, Compromised, and Castrated (updated 30jan14)

    George Rebane I don’t even want think about Obama’s SOTU speech last night, it was a five star non-starter that served only one purpose, to act as cover for the Republicans’ caving on the 2014 farm bill that will soon become law of the land for the next five years.  The bill came out of…

  • State of the Union – we wait with trepidation

    George Rebane NPR woke us up this morning with another cheery report of California’s progress in education and unfunded public employees’ pension liabilitities.  We are now told that latest testing shows three out of four fourth graders are reading below grade level.  And the solution to that is, …, wait for it, more of the…

  • Bookends to Income Inequality (Addended)(updated 27jan14)

    George Rebane [This is the transcript to my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 24 January 2014.] The class warfare drums have been dusted off and are again starting to pound ever more loudly across our land.  It is time to put Obamacare and the economy behind us, and focus on the nation’s real problem –…

  • Why wouldn’t China …?

    George Rebane It occurred to me that given China’s expressed geo-strategic goals and its relationship with the US, were I in charge of China’s foreign policy, why wouldn’t I want to fund every progressive cause and liberal politician at work in America.  Doing so would leverage all of China’s other domestic and international initiatives in…

  • Scattershots – 12jan2014 (updated 15jan14)

    George Rebane NID Rate Increase.  Our local water utility, Nevada Irrigation District, has decided to boost its water rates over 33%, or over a third in the next five years.  We are NID customers, and we protested the rate increase in writing before the hearing on the matter last Wednesday.  Niether fish nor fowl, NID…

  • Ruminations – 8jan2014 (updated 9jan14)

    George Rebane Another one of my errors in judgment has been exposed.  According to former SecDef Gates in his forthcoming Duty, I am remiss in having been overly kind to Obama in assessing his dedication to his job and the duty of his office.  Gates knows better, and his views are being well publicized in…

  • Socialists’ Welfare Merry-go-round (updated)

    George Rebane Government can improve our lives only if it takes more of our money and liberties.  Collectivist tenet We woke up this morning to NPR’s dutiful support of the Dems’ initiative to extend unemployment benefits beyond their current 99 weeks limit.  The network devoted a supportive segment of its news for that legislation, and…

  • Ruminations – 22dec2013

    “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”  Mark Twain George Rebane In ‘The End of the Beginning’ Bill Whittle spells out the overall impact of Obamacare and the pack of Washington’s lying scumbags that continue to foist this atrocity on America.  It can viewed as Exhibit A confirming…

  • Nancy Garcia responds to Gratuitous Charge

    George Rebane On 16 December 2013 a local leftwinger and RR reader Mr Joe Koyote threw out the following gratuitous charge of the kind that is not only his hallmark on these pages, but also resonates with most of the deep thinkers on our progressive flank.  He wrote – Outside money in local politics? What…

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