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  • Ruminations – 9jan18 (updated 11jan18)

    George Rebane If Oprah runs for president in 2020, I guess our progressives will then label her as a “liar” since she has long maintained that she would not run for public office.  You think that standard has application on both sides of the aisle?  Nah, neither do I. The Dems and their El Salvadorean…

  • Scattershots – 4jan18

    George Rebane The 2018 Tax Reform Act is legislation that I believe will overall reduce taxes for almost all Americans, and with its business-friendly provisions will give a significant boost to GDP growth.  However, its SALT (state and local taxes) provision disturbs me because it is intrinsically flawed both functionally and, yes, ethically.  The latter…

  • Fair and Balanced?

    George Rebane I was going to leave be our little conversation on RL Crabb’s blog (here), but subsequent defenders of Bob’s political art motivate me to ask for someone to fill in the question on the right side of the little ‘fair and balanced’ see-saw below.  Bob has long maintained that he views the world…

  • Ruminations – 4dec17 (updated 7dec17)

    George Rebane California’s land use and housing crisis continues in full swing, and is caused by Sacramento abetted by local loonies in county and city governments.  Here is a piece by some heavy weight economists at the Hoover Institution to give you a measure of the ongoing insanity in our state. IRS scumbag Lois Lerner,…

  • Scattershots – 27nov17 (updated 29nov17)

    George Rebane Norm Sauer presents a more salutary summary of Trump’s tenure in office as a response to the unprecedented campaign of hate the Left has mounted against the president with programs such as ‘The Resistance’, Tom Steyer’s ‘Movement to Impeach’, and Obama’s ‘Organizing for Action’ – a first for a former president who has…

  • Sauer on Trump

    [Norm Sauer, who submits his columns to be concurrently posted on RR, had his latest commentary – ‘Unprecedented adversity doesn’t derail Trump’ – published in the 27nov17 Union.  It appears below.  gjr] Norm Sauer Donald Trump has been our president for nearly a year. He has accomplished much despite unprecedented resistance undermining everything his administration…

  • Our idiots write

    [The letters from two local progressive worthies appeared in the 24nov17 Union.  They are published here as a part of the public service component of RR.  My commentaries on the liberal mind pale when compared to the real things.  You really can’t make this stuff up.  gjr] Trump-Republican gun culture and gun violence When will…

  • Definitions Derby

    Hold to nothing too violently.  Every fool stands convinced: and everyone convinced is a fool; and the faultier a man's judgment, the firmer his conviction; even with the proof on your side, it is well to make concession; for your reasons are known and your gentlemanliness is recognized; … .  Gracian #183 George Rebane In…

  • Democratic Socialists of America (updated 14nov17)

    Lord, give me coffee to change things I can change, wine to accept the things I cannot change, and bourbon to forget about the whole mess. George Rebane DSA candidates running openly as socialists under the Democrat banner now have 35 seats in the country’s state legislatures.  “Tuesday’s election night gains for the group were…

  • Scattershots – 10nov17 (updated 11nov17)

    George Rebane That progressivism is an evil ideology, evil in the sense that it stifles wholesale liberty, individual freedoms, entrepreneurship, grass roots altruism (charity), … .  ‘Stifles’ is too weak of a notion by far if we are to hear the prescriptions for creating their new America (i.e. Obama’s “fundamental transformation”).  Longtime RR discussant Gregory…

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