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Month: June 2010

  • ‘You Are Not a Gadget’

    George Rebane Thus argues secular humanist author, musician, and self-educated techie Jaron Lanier.  His cleverly titled book came out earlier this year, and I received it as a birthday present from old friends in soCal who are of a similar philosophical vein.  The book is a fascinating cobble of various articles and pieces Lanier has written…

  • Why doesn’t this go away?

    George Rebane The media calls people ‘Birthers’ who are in doubt as to Barack Obama’s place of birth.  The official White House story is that our President was born in Honolulu on 4 August 1961.  For the country this statement rests on evidence reported in media sources like USA Today (here). Yet no previous US…

  • The Charade of Supremes

    George Rebane Does anyone know of any Supreme Court justice who didn’t vote their ideology because of something they said or promised during their Senate confirmation hearing?  Is there any record of any justice being so restricted or constrained?  I know of no such event or ruling that history records. Then how are we to…

  • The ‘Rebane Ratio’ Lives ;-)

    George Rebane For quite some time now (most recently here) I have been a lonely voice from the hills of Nevada County trying to convince people that our country’s financial crisis is not measured or reported properly.  Hyperventilation on the impending disasters of debt and deficits are presented as debt to GDP and deficit to federal…

  • Gun Rights Staunch the Tide

    George Rebane The Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 ruling declaring that private ownership of guns is indeed a constitutionally guaranteed right (here).  Again, the courts have let the total control collectivists know that the “well regulated militia” phrase in the Second Amendment is not the comprehensive gun ban that they have been working towards…

  • The Khan Academy

    George Rebane The significance of EVERY social problem/issue is due ONLY to the numbers that describe it – i.e. its dimensions and magnitude, rates of change, incidences, likelihoods of occurrence, relation to & impact on other things, and the alternatives, costs, and social utility of solutions. In response to the deplorable government statistics on the…

  • A Uniquely Internet Colloquium

    George Rebane Here’s something that came with the explosion of weblogs, street corners and soap boxes of opportunity that people can take advantage of as a matter of convenience.  Last March I posted a piece – ‘The Sad Tale of Anna Haynes’ – on the unseemly in-your-face tactics of our local advocate of man-made global…

  • Ruminations – 26jun2010 (updated)

    George Rebane “Never seek justice, only mercy.” Coach Dick Beede - NRA’s deal with the devil- Secular Islam censoring ‘anti-Islam’ search engines- McChrystal’s substance starting to seep- Barry Pruett starts blogging The latest progressive assault on First Amendment rights is in full swing with Charlie Schumer et al leading the way with the ‘Disclose Act’ that would require advocacy…

  • KVMR Commentary – Competence, Complexity, or Complicity

    George Rebane [This is a transcript of my most recent KVMR 89.5FM commentary that was broadcast earlier this evening.] Competence, complexity, or complicity.  Earlier this week President Obama fired his commander of the Afghanistan war, General Stanley McChrystal.  The president had every right to fire his general, and in this case the general gave the president…

  • Economic Enlightenment

    George Rebane A lot of the ideological dust ups, both locally and nationally, involve understanding and interpreting some pretty fundamental economic factors.  Zeljka Buturovic and Daniel B. Klein published research (‘Economic Enlightenment in Relation to College-going, Ideology, and Other Variables: A Zogby Survey’) of Americans based on a survey of over four thousand American adults…

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