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  • George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 3 August 2012.] One way morally malfunctioning politicians play both sides of the street and bamboozle the voters is by passing a law, ordnance, or regulation that satisfies one faction of their supporters, and then tell the other faction punished by such…

  • George Rebane Well folks, Scranton’s bankruptcy may have been the cognitive tipping point for the nation, but because of the lamestream cover-up we can’t be certain.  Following yesterday’s announcement by San Bernardino, the Pennsylvania city is now the 12th municipality filing Chapter 9, with 27 more jurisdictions standing in line to be next.  And the…

  • George Rebane Reading this morning’s Union I couldn’t help but notice the front page piece (paywalled here) on Sierra Roots and the Common Ground Homeless Garden.  The project is the handiwork of former Nevada City mayor Reinette Senum.  Its objective is to help down and out people in the county to have “a safe place…

  • George Rebane There’s plenty of reason for celebrating the pretty good likelihood that the Higgs boson has finally been observed by CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.  That massive boson fills in a long-empty part of our understanding how the universe is composed and works.  To be sure, there is a lot more work to be done…

  • George Rebane Taxes for value not received or those that force behaviors are penalties. The last 24 hours has seen a tsunami of tortured analyses by conservatives doing their best to eek out something that resembles a silver lining in the SCOTUS Obamacare ruling.  Unfortunately, considering the scope of what came down, there is none.…

  • George Rebane The notion that we have a conservative lean to SCOTUS vanished this morning as the high court announced its decision on Obamacare.  The only scrap thrown to conservatives was the ruling that the act’s individual mandate to buy health insurance was really a federal tax, and not the exercise of a federal power…

  • George Rebane Today SCOTUS handed down a decision to strike down major provisions of Arizona’s attempt to enforce fallow federal laws against illegal aliens – both illegal immigrants and illegal entrants.  The 25jun12 WSJ reports –  The court backed a section of the Arizona state law that calls for police to check the immigration status…

  • George Rebane A major breakthrough in wireless communication was announced by the University of Waterloo, Canada.  ACM reports that Dr A.K. Khandani and his team have demonstrated (and patented) a full-duplex, single channel methodology for wireless communication that promises to revolutionize all wireless communications.  Full-duplex means the ability to concurrently transmit and receive at the…

  • George Rebane NBC (National Bamboozle Company), one of the premier leftwing media outlets, has been a main motivator for the widely used ‘lamestream’ label.  Now it turns out they have achieved a new level of sleazebag journalism.  This week’s Congressional contempt citation to Attorney General Eric Holder has the network presenting extended background coverage as…

  • George Rebane I was surprised to read this in the 20jun12 online paywalled edition of The Union.  H/T to RR reader. Jeff Ackerman, publisher of The Union, announced today that he will be leaving the newspaper after 10 years of serving the western Nevada County community. Ackerman will be taking an expanded scope of responsibilities…