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Month: March 2012

  • North Korea saves planet (again)

    George Rebane Shown below, we and our neighbors once more had our traditional annual celebration of ‘Save the Earth’ done a wee bit differently than the poor wretches in North Korea under the heel of their celebrated Good/Dear/Beloved/…/Bullshit Leader.  Those poor schlubs are forced to celebrate Earth Hour every night, while year after year we…

  • Misunderstanding mandates, margins, and markets

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 30 March 2012.] The modern liberal finds little fault with the continuing stream of cost increasing mandates that flow out of the country’s bureaucratic regulation mills.  Every such mandate is welcomed by the left as unquestionably promoting health, safety, the environment, equality,…

  • The Liberal Mind – Yes Virginia, we really are different (updated 10apr12)

    George Rebane The curious and inexplicable course of our polarized public discourse has been examined for some time in these pages, even to the extent that ‘The Liberal Mind’ is an RR category of collected posts on this issue.  To a reasonable person on the so-called Right, the reasoning processes of the so-called Left are…

  • As SCOTUS tackles Obamacare

    George Rebane Looking at the various reports and coverage of the ongoing oral arguments presented to SCOTUS on the future disposition of Obamacare, I notice a distinct logical disconnect between how the Right argues their case to repeal Obamacare, versus how the Left defends the rationale of maintaining their legislative coup. All the leftwing Obamacare…

  • Ruminations – 26mar12 (updated 27mar12)

    George Rebane Historian Francis Fukuyama recently interviewed technology entrepreneur, philanthropist, venture capitalist, futurist, and PayPal founder Peter Thiel about government and current technology advances.  One of the salient points Thiel made about our government is that “we should debate whether it should be decentralized or centralized, but what the United States has today is an…

  • Administrivia – 25mar12

    George Rebane Dear Readers, I have returned from a two week sojourn to warmer climes.  Great times, many insights, and good conversations with new people, but lousy connectivity in the RV parks where we parked our little trailer – reliable wi-fi seems to be climbing the same slow ladder of availability that phones experienced a…

  • Ruminations – 20mar12

    George Rebane A regular correspondent reminds us that the drumbeat for Agenda21’s one-size government suits everyone is continuing apace.  The formerly prestigious, now leftwing Scientific American, laments that none of its prescriptions from green energy, through gun confiscation, to man-made global warming can be implemented without the much stronger arm of a much bigger brother. …

  • New Executive Order – Autocracy in the wings?

    George Rebane President Obama signed a new EO a couple of days ago that describes what powers the executive branch will assume during a self-declared national emergency.  The 16mar12 EO references and updates previous EOs that have been in force to handle similar extreme situations in the land, but there are some items in this…

  • Ruminations – 16mar2012

    George Rebane We watched a DVRd recent ’60 Minutes’ piece on a fifty year program by Texas ranchers to conserve over 150 African game species on their own range lands.  Through their own efforts they have taken contributions from the nation’s zoos and built up the herds/flocks, in the process saving many species that were…

  • Judea Pearl wins 2011 Turing Award

    George Rebane The Association for Computing Machinery announced today that it has named Dr Judea Pearl of the University of California, Los Angeles as the recipient of the A.M. Turing Award for 2011.  The announcement itself begins – NEW YORK, March 15, 2012—ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery today named Judea Pearl of the University…

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