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  • Federal Overreach at Local Level Grows Unabated

    George Rebane [This is the linked transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 11 October 2013 with an addended video Sheriff Mack made specifically for his upcoming 18oct13 talk in Grass Valley.] It turns out there is a considerable benefit to having a government shutdown every now and then, for it exposes the belly…

  • National Park Service – American Brown Shirts (updated 10oct13)

    George Rebane It will be harder than ever for our progressive neighbors to deny that platoons of federal agency workers are just a phone call away from reverting to local units of government goons.  Recall that these people are in jobs of last resort, they would not be hired by anyone in the private sector. …

  • Ruminations – 3oct13 (updated 6oct13)

    George Rebane Dr Tyler Cowen is professor of monetary theory, financial economics, and welfare economics at George Mason University and Mercatus Center .  He joins a growing list of academics and authors (cf Charles Murray’s Coming Apart) who have now concluded that systemic unemployment and permanent class divisions all will become entrenched features of our…

  • National Ignorance – Proof of Concept Working (updated 6oct13)

    George Rebane The Grand Experiment of America is nothing less than to test the historical question – Can man govern himself?  Our Founders repeatedly asked that question of themselves as they labored to give the new nation the appropriate tools of governance so as to stack the deck in favor of a ‘Yes!’ answer.  Jefferson’s…

  • Rep McClintock on Resolving the Healthcare and Fiscal Dilemmas

    [Representaive McClintock made the following speech on the floor of the House today 28 September 2013.  It is here reproduced in its entirety.  gjr] Tom McClintock (R-CA4) Mr. Speaker:             A crisis is not a good time for inflammatory rhetoric and ad hominem attacks.  I will simply say that yesterday, the President missed an opportunity…

  • The Dawn of Perennial Easing

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 27 September 2013.] Something happened this week that will change the course of our country and our lives, something that few people noticed.  It happened while we were all in a lather about defunding Obamacare and funding government; while we worried about…

  • Change Climate! Change dammit! (updated 27sep13)

    George Rebane Well, another six years has passed since 2007 when the IPCC issued its last load of hooey piled high and dry.  In Stockholm they are now putting the finishing edits on this year’s hernia pack that updates the latest “peer reviewed science” on the earth’s climate.  And on Friday they will release the…

  • Ruminations – 20sep13 (updated)

    George Rebane The pressure from the local Left mounts on Sheriff Keith Royal who is slated to introduce Sheriff Mack during a major speaking event in Nevada County on 18 October next.  While Sheriff Royal has given no explicit support to the constitutional sheriffs movement, of which Sheriff Mack is a founder, just that he…

  • Sheriff Mack to speak, Left’s undies knotting up (updated 18sep13)

    George Rebane The NC Republican Women Federated have been working hard to bring Sheriff Richard Mack to speak in Nevada County.  Today The Union ran a piece on the 18oct13 affair to be held in the GV Vets Hall.  Sheriff Mack is the founder of the nation’s constitutional sheriffs movement and a celebrated public servant…

  • Ruminations – 11sep13

    George Rebane 9/11 – Today some of us remember that we are at war with a civilization whose belief system – evil by our standards – cannot survive along ours in an open and inter-connected international community.  And yet others believe that 11 September 2001 happened because of some fundamental misunderstanding between two peer cultures…

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