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  • Tax Policy Noodlings

    George Rebane The newly proposed GOP tax cut has everyone talking.  A couple of its main features are supposed to include switching from sequential taxing to concurrent taxing of earnings.  Also discussed is the removal of certain deductions like mortgage interest paid from taxable earnings.  I was interested in the impact of these two policy…

  • Deflected Dialogue Redux

    George Rebane Gentle reader, we again return to RR’s department of poetry.  For the new to these pages, this is part of our cultural outreach that emphasizes the ‘rhyme’ part of our overall Rhyme and Reason offerings.  Actually, today we sample a reprise of an earlier poem for an earlier time entitled Deflected Dialogue –Upon…

  • Scattershots – 21aug17 (updated)

    George Rebane Remember how all the country got gruberized on Obamacare into such a state of dependancy that to this day no one has been able extract them from that calamitous benefit?  Well, turns out that ol’ John got caught doing some fraudulent billing for consulting work he was doing for Vermont.  But not to…

  • Estonia 2017 (updated)

    George Rebane Yesterday we returned home from a two-week visit to Estonia with our grown daughters.  The trip was a long-anticipated odyssey to introduce them to the other half of their heritage, to let them see and walk in the places about which they have heard from their grandparents and me.  For Jo Ann and…

  • Happy INDEPENDENCE (sic) Day!

  • SummerFest2017

    George Rebane This year the annual Music in the Mountains SummerFest returns to the Nevada County fairgrounds.  It features the six concerts shown below assembled by MIM Artistic Director Peter Nowlen and Executive Director Mieko Hatano.  Except for the 25jun17 chamber music concert at St Joseph’s, the remainder will be performed out of doors.  Four…

  • Memorial Day – 29 May 2017

    George Rebane We again gratefully contemplate the terrible price paid by those who gave their all so that America may remain the land of opportunity and the home of the free.  The words and photo from Memorial Day – 30 May 2011 still apply, and this video will explain the cost.

  • The Sandbox Quandary

    George Rebane The new home for the Sandbox announced in ‘Sandbox Sayonara’ did not stick. Mr Todd Juvinall has asked me to take it back. In the interval since its departure RR readers have done a yeoman’s job of keeping their comments relevant to my posted commentaries, and have strayed only through reasonably connected threads.…

  • “THE LAST ONES”

    [This little essay on the children of 1930s and 40s was sent by a RR reader and correspondent.  He shared it with a number of us who join in an ongoing dialogue about the times and events.  It is posted as received.  gjr] By Denise Eyherabide Born in the 1930s and early 1940s, we exist…

  • He Is Risen!

    George Rebane Hearing that strong assertion, the Christian answers joyfully, ‘He is risen indeed!’ For us, Christmas is the promise, and Easter its fulfillment.  The summation of all Christianity is Christ’s covenant in the promised transcendence of Man, all concentrated into one simple declaration – ‘He is risen!’  Without this, our faith is a fraud;…

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