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  • Single-Payer Siren Song

    George Rebane If you don’t do numbers, the numbers will inevitably do you. [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 31 May 2017.] With Obamacare crashing and burning everywhere across the land except in the leftwing media, the Republicans are still tangled up with their promised ‘repeal and replace’ legislation. …

  • Scattershots – 28may17 (updated 31may17)

    George Rebane Keep hearing about CBO’s assessment of the Trump budget and healthcare reform among other things.  The lamestream is reporting the office’s assessments as coming down from the mountain on stone tablets.  No one seems to remember that the CBO has an abysmal record in forecasting anything, especially if it has to do with…

  • The pot pot keeps boiling

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 17 May 2017.] We live in confusing times when much of what we hear is manufactured or fake news that overwhelmingly serves to polarize us.  It’s hard to tell whether the late-night comedy hours or the news programs are leading the…

  • The Global Warming Religion Revisited

    George Rebane We are told the Internet is forever.  So this is another missive I want to put in that time capsule to inform both my progeny and future cyber-archaeologists that George Rebane lived in the Post-Intellectual Age of Ignorance and was not party to, but merely an observer of, the hysterics camouflaged as science…

  • Laffer’s Logic Laughs Last

    George Rebane President Trump’s tax reform proposals have reignited debate over the curve made famous by economist Art Laffer.  The nearby figure illustrates its most popular version, although as a more thorough discussion reveals (here), there are more sophisticated versions that reveal the variation of the state’s tax revenues as a function of increasing taxes…

  • Calling all California’s Closeted Communists

    George Rebane The insanity of permitting/inviting people known to believe in the abrogation of the US Constitution and the government upon which it is founded is now beyond doubt.  The Democrats in Sacramento are either terminally stupid or no longer seek to hide the existential truth that they want to do away with America –…

  • Scattershots – 6may17 (updated 8may17)

    George Rebane CA’s coming RMJ market.  As has long been proclaimed here, California’s recreational marijuana market will be dominated by the big guys.  And the remaining question is whether it will be oligopolized by the big guys, or will there also be room for the small (‘mom& pop’) operators under the RMJ laws Sacramento is…

  • California’s Cacophony of Calamities (updated 20apr17)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 19 April 2017.] California is, and has been for decades where it matters, a one-party state – the state’s legislature has been dominated by the Democratic Party since 1959.  The Democrats have called the tune and run things pretty much as…

  • The Still Muddled Middle (updated)

    George Rebane Recently consideration of America’s political landscape has resurfaced in these pages, motivated by Nevada County’s self-declared middle roader RL Bob Crabb who published a powerful condemnation of both the Left and Right upon which I expanded in ‘Oh, were it only that simple’.  From that Bob took umbrage at me, RR, and our…

  • Oh, were it only that simple (updated 13apr17)

    George Rebane Our local graphical commentator RL (Bob) Crabb posted one of his most powerful and well-crafted offerings filched here from the 11apr17 Union.  In it he joins with deep thinkers like (also local commentator) Hilary Hodge and Rodney King to convincingly communicate the ‘Why can’t we all just get along?’ message. Unfortunately, such effective…

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