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  • Healthcare Apples, Oranges, and Fruitcakes

    George Rebane The perennial healthcare debate didn’t get any more clear with the latest release of US life expectancy data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the British Medical Journal.  Our life expectancy is 1.5 years lower than the average in OECD countries, and it decreased by another 0.1 year to 78.6…

  • Deep State’s Natural Defenses

    George Rebane Capitalism’s cancer is corporatism, when corporations grow so large that they need government to stifle their competition and in the process kill capitalism. As we witness the massive lamestream and Democrat pushback on the Nunes memo (more here, here, and here), thoughts turn to how Deep State has survived and thrived over the…

  • Cirque du SOTUS (updated 3feb18)

    George Rebane President Trump’s State of the Union speech highlighted the roots of congressional dysfunction and confirmed that we are more polarized than ever in choosing our country’s future.  The Democrats in the audience, in their multiple counter-speeches, and subsequently in the media have demonstrated that they have no intention of either celebrating benefits enjoyed…

  • Nancy Eubanks – Local Devious Demagauge

    George Rebane Ms Nancy Eubanks is one of Nevada County’s prominent progressive voices whose litanies appear regularly in the local press.  In this morning’s (13jan18) Union she assumes her mantel of high dudgeon against the greedy rich, and again champions class warfare and the politics of unrequited envy (here).  Today’s sermon from her mount is…

  • 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…

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