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Month: August 2012

  • The Liberals’ Intellectually Baseless Ideology

    George Rebane An ideology is a structured and communicable belief system that in its best expression is composed of tenets defendable by reason. I have always wondered why the Left appears to have no intellectual roots or basis for its scattered ideology.  The Right has its social philosophers in people like Locke, Bastiat, von Mises,…

  • Spreading the Non-existent Wealth

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR radio commentary broadcast on 17 August 2012.] The Obama administration is notorious for its initiatives – legal and extra-legal – to enlarge and lock in a dependent constituency that will reliably deliver it votes during elections.  The latest vote buying initiatives involve expansion of major…

  • Ruminations – 14aug12 (updated)

    George Rebane The National Weather Service is buying tens of thousands of rounds of jacketed hollow point 40 caliber bullets as reported by infowars.com.  It is the latest government department to start packing heat, and joins a disconcerting number of other government units (e.g. Dept of Education) that have no obvious use for deadly force…

  • National Issues – connecting the factors that affect us (Addended)

    George Rebane When thinking about the upcoming election in the context of national issues and all that is going on which affects America, things get complicated pretty quickly.  An established tool for representing, sorting out, and communicating such factors and their interaction is called the Influence Factors Diagram (IFD).  An IFD is usually involved in…

  • Dems Happy Dancing in the Streets (updated 18aug12)

    George Rebane More of same + more time = more of same. Well, if the local lefties are any indication, then there was a lot of Dems dancing in the streets last night after it cooled down a bit.  All the progressive pundits are heralding Obama’s upcoming slam dunk victory.  Might as well not spend…

  • Government Achieving New Lows – Addended (updated 12aug12)

    George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my regular Union column that was scheduled to appear the 11aug12 print and online editions of the newspaper.  Due to some administrivia at The Union, the column was published in print and online in their 18aug12 editions.  The addendum was appended on 10 August 2012.] To remind…

  • Does Economics Deserve Federal Funding?

    As Marxist despots and tribal socialists from Cuba to Greece have discovered to their huge disappointment, governments can neither create wealth nor effectively redistribute it.  They can only expropriate and watch it dissipate.  George Gilder George Rebane My considered opinion is NO.  Economics nobelists Gary Becker and James Heckman argue YES in their 10aug12 piece…

  • Hockeystick Hansen Strikes Again (updated 7aug12)

    “In fact, [climate change] has now driven our climate outside the range that has existed the last 10,000 years…” — Dr. James Hansen (from NPR) George Rebane There’s a coordinated blitz to recover ground lost to climate change skeptics in the past couple of years.  The lost ground is uneven – in fact, in California…

  • Singularity Scattershots – 5aug12

    George Rebane The report of the latest employment numbers underlines our deep and abiding national innumeracy.  So-called balanced reports of ‘on this hand, but on the other hand’ completely miss the amassing evidence for the systemic labor problem in these pre-Singularity years.  Here there is no ‘on the other hand’ – the creation of 163,000…

  • Cliff Notes on Arbitrary Law Enforcement (Addended)

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 3 August 2012.] One way morally malfunctioning politicians play both sides of the street and bamboozle the voters is by passing a law, ordnance, or regulation that satisfies one faction of their supporters, and then tell the other faction punished by such…

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