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  • The Great Cultural Divides of 2016 (updated 7sep15)

    'What happens in the Middle East doesn’t stay in the Middle East.'  WSJ George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary aired on 2 September 2015.] Here’s a 50,000 foot view of the great cultural divides that will focus our attention in America and also in the European Union.  The EU’s…

  • The Muslim question is not going away (updated 20jul15)

    George Rebane That we have a politically dysfunctional government is now beyond debate.  That it is approaching operational dysfunction is open for reasonable debate.  After the latest Islamic terror attack within our borders – ninth during the last six years involving a military facility – our national debate has crossed the border between imbecilic to…

  • The Millennials have Sustainably Tipped Us (updated 16jul15)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary aired on 15 July 2015.] You’ve all heard of generational groupings like the so-called Greatest Generation, Baby Boomers, and Gen Xers.  Well, the latest are the Millennials, those born between 1980 and 1997.  This cohort is now in their young adult years, and…

  • Scattershots – 14jul15 (updated 15jul15)

    George Rebane Heidi Hall is running for District 1 county supervisor, so think a lot of folks in Nevada County.  She is a well-spoken woman and a trained leftwing ideologue who currently has an unopposed soapbox provided by The Union newspaper.  Her weekly column keeps her in the public eye, and allows Union readers to…

  • A Look at Externalities

    George Rebane ‘We know best what’s good for the people.’ –  from the Central Planning Bible Lately several readers have been discussing the whys and wherefores of (economic) externalities.   It’s a slippery concept to apply as may be deduced from its definition. An externality is “a consequence of an economic activity that is experienced by…

  • Incest is Best?

    George Rebane Berlin – the German Ethics Council recommends that the Bundestag remove the legal prohibition of incest between siblings, citing that “in the case of consensual incest among adult siblings, neither the fear of negative consequences for the family, nor the possibility of the birth of children from such incestuous relationships can justify a…

  • Scattershots – 29jun15 (updated 30jun15)

    George Rebane Pot-based tourism in Nevada County is the topic of this week’s Union column by George Boardman whose comments are also often read on these pages.  This is a column full of thought provoking ideas, some obviously with tongue firmly planted in cheek.  But the gist of a TV series (‘High Country’) concerns local…

  • The Tangled Threads of Our Times

    George Rebane Given the 25jun15 SCOTUS ruling on ACA, I had to rush off a post on it since RR's readership will not sit idly by and let an occasion like this pass without extensive discussion and debate.  And this happening may even fit into these thoughts that I’ll try to weave together on equally…

  • Scattershots – 18may15 (updated 20may15)

    “Islam was never the religion of peace.  Islam is the religion of fighting.”  Abu Bahr Al-Baghdadi, ISIS Leader George Rebane Indeed Islam has never been the religion of peace.  History and ongoing worldwide Islamist terror attest to that.  The above quote from a recent ISIS online video is just the latest testimony to a truth…

  • Scattershots – 3may15 (updated 8may15)

    George Rebane Fed vs Reality.  America’s financial mavens extend their record of missing the mark on predicting our GDP growth.  Why is this important?  Well, it’s their prognostications that not only drive their own policies on things like setting short term interest rates and managing their considerable assets, but these somewhat worthless predictions are still…

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