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  • The really supreme Supreme Court (updated 27jun15)

    George Rebane Another dark day in the history of our Republic.  Obamacare (aka ACA) has survived its second encounter with SCOTUS.  In spite of the clear intent of Congress to goad states to get into the healthcare business; in spite of progressives in Congress intending the secretly composed and hastily passed healthcare law to promote…

  • Caudaphobia – The Tragedy of the Tails

    George Rebane [This post is long overdue, and was motivated by a discussion with a reader in the ‘Sandbox – 17jun15’ comment stream.  These ideas date from the mid-nineties and were included in my lecture series on Numeracy delivered in 2005-6 at the Nevada County's Madelyn Helling Library.  A more portable (readable?) version of this…

  • Scattershots – 14jun15 (updated 16jun15)

    George Rebane The general circulation models (GCMs) still aren’t worth a crap.  For most of us able to read the literature, that fact has been known for well over a decade.  And looking at how GCM errors have remained large and unchanged, the models haven’t gotten any better.  But that makes no never mind to…

  • America’s Sinister Security Circus

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 3 June 2015.] For weeks now we have been hearing about the need to renew the Patriot Act that has authorized the federal government to collect data on literally every phone call made in the United States.  No probable cause was needed. …

  • Ruminations – 30may15 (updated 2jun15)

    George Rebane Lowell Robinson RIP.  A sad email from a friend this morning reported the passing last night of Lowell Robinson, one of the giants of our community.  Lowell was the founder of what today we know as Robinson Enterprises, a multi-faceted business that has served Nevada County for decades.  He also put his money…

  • ‘Just Say NO!’ gets national creds (updated)

    George Rebane For some years now RR has proffered a solution to government’s overreach in hog-tying us with laws, regulations, and codes which are “pointless, stupid, and tyrannical”.  When I have attempted to explain to our elected betters – at least to those who agree that the current regulatory morass painfully afflicts our Republic – how…

  • The Rising Tide of Civil Asset Forfeiture

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 6 May 2015.] “Civil asset forfeiture is a decades-old tool that gives law enforcement the power to seize property if it’s suspected of being related to a crime. … California has safeguards in place to protect innocent people from the harmful practices…

  • The Liberal Mind – ‘You didn’t create anything, the government did.’

    George Rebane The lamestream has been extra silent about the Raisin Takings.  You do, of course, know about Horne v. USDA that started wending its way through SCOTUS last week?  This is where the government trucks pull onto your farm and demand that you fork over a percentage of your harvested crop for which they…

  • California’s Drought and Moonbeam Madness

    George Rebane Governor Moonbeam’s latest dicta about how Californians should now take showers underlines the years long insane policies under which the Left has governed our state.  The most recently mandated 25% (of what) reduction of consumer water use is the direct result of “decades of environmental excess”. Since 2000 alone the public has expressed its…

  • Ruminations – 3apr15 (updated 4apr15)

    George Rebane We’re back from a three week trip that took us and two other couples down to Scottsdale in our RVs to attend the annual Mercatus Center conference.  Connectivity was iffy in the various RV parks we stayed on our travels, so apologies for the less than meticulous attention – ha! – I could…

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