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Month: September 2010

  • Skylon – there but not here

    George Rebane   Reaction Engines of Great Britain is developing Skylon – a new spaceplane to introduce the next generation of ships that will take humans outward from earth.  The machine will be able to take off like an airplane and again land like one.   The engineer.co.uk reports – In the quiet suburbs of Oxfordshire,…

  • Green Ignorance

    George Rebane It’s hard to tell whether those who tout tax-and-regulate AB32 are evil and betting on voter ignorance, or are themselves ignorant about the nature of California’s ‘lead in private sector investment in clean-tech industries’.  (Clean-tech is the progressive’s new hide-and-seek semantic with anything ‘green’.  Newspeak requires constant management.)  These pages have long pointed…

  • ‘Assessing the Terrorist Threat’

    George Rebane That’s the title of the just released 10sep10 report of The Bipartisan Policy Center’s National Security Preparedness Group.  These are the people reporting to the Obama administration on what we should expect and be prepared for in terms of future terrorist attacks on America.  To illustrate the politically correct mindset this administration has demanded…

  • Scattershots – 20sep2010

    George Rebane • Sweden’s drift to right• Global Warming, more curiouser than ever• ‘Counterfactuals’ among Cars for Clunkers Sweden has long been the American progressive’s poster child for successful socialism.  Conservative libertarians like me have had limited success in pointing out the obvious to the leftwingers and ho-hummers that none of that form of governance is sustainable.  Now…

  • Lessons from Longitude

    George Rebane We recently watched the somewhat flawed A&E production of ‘Longitude’, the story of John Harrison’s invention of the marine chronometer in 18th century England.  In the early 1700s global trade and commerce were exploding along with European conquests of newly discovered lands.  The big problem at the time was that it was not…

  • Prop23 – Some (Private Sector) Unions Get It

    George Rebane A heartening and well written op-ed piece ‘Like Having a Job? You’ll love Proposition 23’ appeared in 18sep10 The Union by James Kellogg, an official with the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry.  These people, who organize workers in profit making private firms, have taken a look…

  • God Gets to Stay

    George Rebane This week I finished reading The Grand Design by Drs Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow.  I posted earlier on a review of their new book at ‘Evicting God – The Latest Attempt’ which generated an interesting comment thread.   Hawking and Mlodinow have a best seller on their hands (it’s already number one in…

  • Global Warming – Missing of the Minds

    George Rebane [This commentary was broadcast tonight on KVMR-FM 89.5 as the latest offering of my bi-weekly series that is gratefully tolerated by the station's management.] We have spent at least the last ten years talking past each other about global warming.  The combatants divide themselves mostly into two camps, each with provocative names for the…

  • TEA Party Down Under

    George Rebane An RR reader sent a little notice from Australia.  It seems that there are folks down under who are also getting a little tired of the country’s recent leftward swings.  Having had no one dump tea into one of their harbors, they have labeled their version the TEA Party movement for ‘taxed enough…

  • The Progressive Green Heart Revealed (Again)

    George Rebane The most recent $30B stimulus bill in Congress just had its only beneficial organ removed by the Democrats.  President Obama’s draft of the bill included a permanent corporate tax credit for R&D expenses.  This was a recognition of America’s historical lead in technology development and technology supported workplace productivity, and during the recession it…

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