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  • Ruminations – 8may12

    George Rebane Happy VE Day!  On 8 May 1945 the Rebanes were in Liederberg – a small German farming village that just a few days ago was firmly brought under the control of Patton’s Third Army (more here) – and ready to be carted off to Augsburg and four years of internment in post-war displaced…

  • Education, teacher meritocracy, and our national future

    George Rebane RR has long promoted the idea that education in wealth producing/sustaining fields is the ONLY solution to America’s economic and social problems.  Former SecState and now distinguished senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, George Shultz co-authors ‘Education Is the Key to a Healthy Economy’ with Eric Hanushek in which they acknowledge our broken…

  • Socialism as predicted …

    George Rebane Thousands of businesses are paying their ‘fines’ to opt out of Obamacare as they terminate their healthcare packages and leave their employees to fend for themselves.  Wait until they see how much money they’ll be saving sailing steerage class on this Titanic2. In the meantime, Mercatus Center’s Veronique de Rugby has published the…

  • Ruminations – 1may12 (updated++)

    George Rebane It looks like getting your college education subsidized will now become a new ‘right’ across the land.  Neither party is willing to let student loan interest rates increase automatically as they were supposed to.  As a taxpayer, I want the government out of the student loan business (among many other businesses they are…

  • More Milestones on our Downward Spiral

    George Rebane This week has seen a lot of dilapidation in our ship of state.  For openers, Peggy Noonan takes an overarching survey of events that reflects on our national character.  From other perspectives we see what it is to be on a careening progressive luge as this administration more fully reveals itself, and what…

  • The Eternal Debate with Collectivists (updated 16apr12)

    George Rebane For the benefit of the undecided reader who is truly puzzled as to the nature and fate of collectivist vs (classical) liberal forms of governance, we will take another lap around the barn.  The examination and critique of public policy always circles back to the fundamental arguments between the eternally contending measures of…

  • The Muddled Middle

    George Rebane Surfing Bob Crabb’s blog, I tarried on his 6apr12 post ‘The haunting question’ which invites the reader to abandon their left/right extremes and seek the political middle ground.  Bob is a master cartoonist of the soci-political genre and an astute observer of the Human Foible.  His graphic talents are augmented by his able…

  • Socialism’s trail of tears, long time coming

    George Rebane A reader sent me this little blast from the past, published in the year I first set foot on these shores.  The ode below was composed as it became clear that the nation’s flirtation with communism in the Great Depression had not been fully purged by Truman’s partial efforts to sunset some of…

  • 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,…

  • Misunderstanding mandates, margins, and markets

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 30 March 2012.] The modern liberal finds little fault with the continuing stream of cost increasing mandates that flow out of the country’s bureaucratic regulation mills.  Every such mandate is welcomed by the left as unquestionably promoting health, safety, the environment, equality,…

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