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Month: April 2012

  • Scattershots – 17apr12

    George Rebane The Financial Times reports (here) that Spain’s central government is looking to federalize financially distressed regions of the country.  (Greece essentially succumbed to such central control early on so as to avoid the rush.)  RR has anticipated a similar fate for California and states like Illinois, New Jersey, … under equally astute financial…

  • The Eternal Debate with Collectivists (updated 16apr12)

    George Rebane For the benefit of the undecided reader who is truly puzzled as to the nature and fate of collectivist vs (classical) liberal forms of governance, we will take another lap around the barn.  The examination and critique of public policy always circles back to the fundamental arguments between the eternally contending measures of…

  • On the sorry road to Stockton (updated 16apr12)

    George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my April column that appeared in the online (with figure omitted) and printed versions of the 14apr12 Union.] By now most of us have heard of Stockton, the next California city teetering on the edge of bankruptcy as a result of a fiscal history that “has eerie…

  • Every Commons ends in Tragedy

    "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."  Winston Churchill George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular bi-weekly KVMR radio commentary broadcast on 13 April 2012.] Years ago when our kids were in early grade school, mom…

  • A Cut at ‘Rational Optimism’

    George Rebane A friend and correspondent who shares many of my worldviews sent me a link to science writer Matt Ridley's hopeful piece on "seventeen reasons to be cheerful".  RR readers of these pages know that I am of the opinion that the western world is now beyond the tipping point, that we are headed…

  • Ruminations – 10apr12

    “In a truly free society, public affairs are not confined to the affairs of government.”  F.A. Hayek George Rebane Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler will be on Fox Business’ John Stossel at 6pm PDT on 12 April.  No doubt he will be talking about the new structure of the tea party movement, and how…

  • Super-Turing Computation is Coming

    George Rebane Kurzweil reports that computer scientist Dr Hava Siegelmann (Univ of Mass, Amherst) “is translating her 1993 discovery of what she has dubbed 'super-Turing' computation into an adaptable computational system that learns and evolves, using input from the environment in a way much more like our brains do than classic Turing-type computers." "This model…

  • HE IS RISEN!

    George Rebane Hearing that strong assertion, the Christian answers joyfully, ‘He is risen indeed!’ For us, Christmas is the promise, and Easter its fulfillment.  The summation of all Christianity is Christ’s covenant in the promised transcendence of Man, all concentrated into one simple declaration – ‘He is risen!’  Without this, our faith is a fraud;…

  • The Muddled Middle

    George Rebane Surfing Bob Crabb’s blog, I tarried on his 6apr12 post ‘The haunting question’ which invites the reader to abandon their left/right extremes and seek the political middle ground.  Bob is a master cartoonist of the soci-political genre and an astute observer of the Human Foible.  His graphic talents are augmented by his able…

  • A Postscript for the IRS

    George Rebane In my long career I have experienced uncounted communications with the IRS in the corporate world, through the non-profits seeking to do good, and on personal tax matters.  Now, it’s no secret that the IRS is populated with some of the dimmest and nastiest bulbs in the federal firmament who have no idea…

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