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Month: March 2011

  • Pursuing Prediction

    George Rebane The latest global catastrophes – natural and manmade – again make us re-examine our ability to predict future events and what we are doing to improve those skills.  A current discussion of this is going on at Edge – The Third Culture.  Edge is one of those exclusive foundation think tanks for intellectuals…

  • A Truce Among Us?

    George Rebane Sierra Business Council President Steven Frisch has proposed a “truce” in the local blogosphere – essentially between what is written on Jeff Pelline’s liberal blog, and on the conservative NC Media Watch and Rebane’s Ruminations.  The main thrust of his proposal is to focus our posted commentaries and comments on the topics of…

  • Lucy, the Trump of Hope

    George Rebane Tonight Jo Ann and I became great-grandparents when granddaughter Claire gave birth to Lucy, a healthy and ready for the world bundle of joy.  Lucy weighed in at 8lbs 15oz and stretched out to 20 inches long.  Mama and baby both did real well and are glad that the hard part of the…

  • Bungling the Budget

    George Rebane Republicans have their undies in a bundle about how to go forward on demanding spending cuts to reduce our astronomical deficits, and ultimately getting to a balanced budget.  As you no doubt have read here, there and every other place, nickel and diming the cuts along the current process of continuing resolutions will…

  • Socialist Wisdom on Parade

    George Rebane The 26mar11 WSJ has a comprehensive analysis for states’ policies that emphasize the socialist ideal of redistribution – just tax the rich.  Combine that with the other side of their coin of wisdom – buy votes through the unions – and you have the perfect storm in which the country is now writhing. …

  • Shrugging Atlas is back

    George Rebane Many Americans, I among them, are witnessing our country well along its way into the dystopian nightmare Ayn Rand described in her Atlas Shrugged that came out in 1957.  The book is being reprised in a three part movie, the first of which is slated to open across the country on the auspicious…

  • Occam Observes Obama

    George Rebane The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency.  It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have…

  • Post-Singularity Science Has Arrived – sort of

    George Rebane Machines are being developed that can analyze realworld observables (think of it as data from experiments with real things) and come up with not only the mathematics that describes the data, but also the mathematics that describes the underlying principles at work.  By ‘underlying principles’ I mean things like conservation laws (energy, momentum,…

  • Congressman McClintock in Colfax (updated 24mar2011)

    George Rebane About 170 of us gathered in the theater of Colfax High School last night for a townhall with Congressman Tom McClintock.  The Congressman started the evening with a PowerPoint detailing the fiscal crisis the country will experience “within five years” unless a radically different course is taken starting now.  There is no more…

  • California’s New Illegal Alien Benefits

    George Rebane We are more than broke, we are almost $30 billion in the hole.  Yet the la-la land left is now pushing through Assemblyman Cedillo's bills AB130 and 131 to mandate that the taxpayers of California guarantee more benefits for the state’s illegal aliens.  With their passage, these fugitives from American justice would receive…

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