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  • Scattershots – 17apr12

    George Rebane The Financial Times reports (here) that Spain’s central government is looking to federalize financially distressed regions of the country.  (Greece essentially succumbed to such central control early on so as to avoid the rush.)  RR has anticipated a similar fate for California and states like Illinois, New Jersey, … under equally astute financial…

  • On the sorry road to Stockton (updated 16apr12)

    George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my April column that appeared in the online (with figure omitted) and printed versions of the 14apr12 Union.] By now most of us have heard of Stockton, the next California city teetering on the edge of bankruptcy as a result of a fiscal history that “has eerie…

  • The President’s gullible base re-acknowledged (#2 update 3apr12)

    George Rebane Memo to file:  The President again denigrated his base constituencies today when he lectured them on how SCOTUS must deal with Obamacare.  The former Harvard constitutional law professor solemnly informed his supporters that it would be unprecedented and the worst form of judicial activism for SCOTUS to overturn Obamcare’s individual mandate.  After all,…

  • North Korea saves planet (again)

    George Rebane Shown below, we and our neighbors once more had our traditional annual celebration of ‘Save the Earth’ done a wee bit differently than the poor wretches in North Korea under the heel of their celebrated Good/Dear/Beloved/…/Bullshit Leader.  Those poor schlubs are forced to celebrate Earth Hour every night, while year after year we…

  • As SCOTUS tackles Obamacare

    George Rebane Looking at the various reports and coverage of the ongoing oral arguments presented to SCOTUS on the future disposition of Obamacare, I notice a distinct logical disconnect between how the Right argues their case to repeal Obamacare, versus how the Left defends the rationale of maintaining their legislative coup. All the leftwing Obamacare…

  • Judea Pearl wins 2011 Turing Award

    George Rebane The Association for Computing Machinery announced today that it has named Dr Judea Pearl of the University of California, Los Angeles as the recipient of the A.M. Turing Award for 2011.  The announcement itself begins – NEW YORK, March 15, 2012—ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery today named Judea Pearl of the University…

  • ‘Greece Passes Key Debt Test’, NOT!

    George Rebane The world’s newspapers are heralding the massive haircut taken by Greek sovereign debt holders as some kind of triumphal finesse in international finance.  Specifically – Just over 80% of Greece’s private-sector creditors had agreed by a Thursday evening deadline to turn in their bonds for new ones with less than half the face…

  • The Candyass Republicans (9mar12 update)

    George Rebane The subject of this post is the candyass response of Republican politicians to the Limbaugh/Fluke imbroglio. On ‘The Sad Tale of Sandra Fluke’ and extensive comment stream continues to (finally) air the destructive twists and turns of Obamacare that once more revealed the Left’s intentions on the breadth of entitlements subsidizing personal recreation,…

  • Major cash importers finally discovered (updated 6mar12)

    George Rebane Memo to File: The current Economic Resource Council and its hired analyst Gene Warren have discovered that “retirees could be ticket to better local economy” as reported in the 5mar12 Union (couldn’t find online version).  This little piece of information should be old hat to anyone who has been paying attention for the…

  • The Sad Tale of Sandra Fluke (updated 6mar12)

    George Rebane That Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a slut is a debate for other fora, but I do want to reflect on the broader ramifications of having the state pay for the prophylactics used in sexual intercourse.  The practice is hugely supported by the left because it underwrites another cut to the traditional cultural…

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