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Month: January 2011

  • New Robots in Manufacturing

    George Rebane This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas featured advances in robotics.  They are now coming out of the R&D pipeline in droves showing all kinds of capabilities in vision, manipulation, mobility, smarts, and even emotion.  One of the featured robots was the ‘Little Helper’ robot that is designed to work in manufacturing…

  • The War of the ‘Tax Eaters’

    George Rebane It has now been several years since an early few of us identified and spoke out against the fiscal travesty of the public service unions (please search RR with ‘public service union’ and ‘public sector union’).  We were immediately castigated by the progressive left whose comments, on these pages and under the online…

  • Where Were the Law Abiding Guns?

    George Rebane While the looney left is having problems coordinating its fabrication of rightwing guilt for the Tucson atrocity as they play defense against the emerging facts about the shooter’s politics, there is another aspect about this tragedy that has yet to be discussed.  In an open public gathering involving political figures and a large…

  • The Loss of Form

    George Rebane Back in the stone age when we were young, a lot of emphasis was put on teaching children how to behave in various social situations.  And we were taught that there existed different kinds of social settings in which this behavior was OK, that behavior was required, and those behaviors were definitely ‘out…

  • The Vitriol Verdict is In (updated 11jan2011)

    George Rebane The response of the left to the tragic shooting in Tucson yesterday has been swift and sure.  The whole thing was the product of right wing “vitriol”.  Starting with the local sheriff, through the mainstream media, and into the blogs, it was too much political speech from the conservatives, especially those in the…

  • Politically Endorsed Science (updated 11jan2011)

    George Rebane The newly proposed lecture series ‘What’s Next in Science?’ is causing a dust-up in the local blogs, and as a former scientist who has worked on the frontiers of knowledge, I should weigh in.  At issue is how the Nevada County Board of Supervisors should respond to the lecture series that is being…

  • Keep Your Eye on Europe (updated 9jan2011)

    George Rebane [This is my regular column published in 8jan11 issue of The Union.  Its online edition can be accessed here.] This promises to be the year of fiscal pyrotechnics from Sacramento to Washington to Berlin.  The socialists worldwide are in terminal denial of what earthquakes for the coming months their perennial spending programs have…

  • The Fear Factor of 2011

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of the 7jan11 broadcast of my regular bi-weekly commentary on KVMR-FM 85.9.]  It’s no use pretending, 2011 in California will not be pretty.  The state’s voters bucked fiscal responsibility in November and returned the same gang to Sacramento that got us to the edge of bankruptcy.  And now with a new…

  • The Shrunken Presidency

    George Rebane Syndicated columnist and scholar Victor Davis Hanson is a keen observer of humanity’s foibles and the progressives’ programs now playing on our national stage.  He recently wrote a mid-term assessment of Barack Obama, the man and the President, in a piece titled ‘Our “Pay No attention to that Man Behind the Curtain” Moment’…

  • And they still don’t know jack –

    George Rebane My career as a markets watcher and investor goes back to 1970 when I started tracking stocks and mutual funds along with my aerospace company engineering peers.  We heard the pundits, analysts, and economists make their sage assessments and predictions, and pooled our resources to subscribe to some pricey financial and investment newsletters. …

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