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Day: September 25, 2011

  • George Rebane Congressman Tom McClintock has delivered some eloquent and incisive critiques in opposition to the intent of California environmental fanatics’ plan to demolish dams on northern California rivers.  These dams provide critical watershed control, agricultural water supply, recreation, and electrical power generation.  The congressman’s article ‘Klamath Claptrap’ is required reading in order to understand…

  • George Rebane Some thoughts on violence and the blind. Harvard psychologist Professor Steven Pinker asks, “Why has violence declined so dramatically for so long? Is it because violence has literally been bred out of us, leaving us more peaceful by nature?”  In his recent book (as reported in the 24sep11 WSJ, ‘Violence Vanquished’) Pinker cites…