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Month: November 2012

  • The Liberal Mind – Diminishing Diminishing Returns

    George Rebane Another large impediment to making progress when attempting to reason with progressives is that their world lacks the reality of diminishing returns that accrue when any enterprise is taken past its optimum operating point, let alone being taken to an extreme.  Most certainly the concept is no longer taught in schools as a…

  • Owing $100T+, STEM Jobs Bill, Workplace Harassment (updated 12dec12)

    George Rebane Now how do I pull all those together into one cohesive topic?  Two former congressmen, Chris Cox and Bill Archer, just informed the country of our real debt problem, ‘Why $16T Only Hints at the True US Debt’ – something of which you fortunate RR readers were apprised of years ago.  It’s more…

  • Fiscal Cliff Fairness (updated)

    George Rebane Well, it won’t be long now.  On 1 January 2013 most people’s taxes will skyrocket, unless you’re one of the gimmes.  The tax increases have one common denominator, they will bring our still anemic GDP growth to a halt and reverse it, while at the same time increasing unemployment by at least 50%. …

  • Are We More or Less Free?

    The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. Chinese proverb George Rebane This important topic was resurrected in a comment thread under ‘Happy Thanksgiving – 2012’.  Two readers voiced strong opinions (one with cited evidence) that our freedoms have increased.  One reader disputed that, and I join in that dispute.  I…

  • Consolidated Confabulation

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary that was broadcast on 23 November 2012.] Listeners to these commentaries have rightfully come to expect the discussion of important national, international, and even cosmological issues.  This evening I wish to reduce considerably the scope of such perspectives, and focus on what should become…

  • Happy Thanksgiving 2012

    George Rebane Today our beloved country has an even rougher road ahead as recent events have now confirmed.  Yet, we still live in a land where possibilities for a better tomorrow abound because not all of us have begun looking for other pockets from which to line our own.  That is the real hope that…

  • Singularity Signposts – IBM’s TrueNorth advances cognitive computing

    George Rebane A few days ago IBM published a very short paper titled simply 1014.  It summarized the first successful testing of TrueNorth, IBM’s cognitive computing testbed funded under DARPA’s SyNAPSE.  That program “calls for developing electronic neuromorphic (brain-simulation) machine technology that scales to biological levels, using a cognitive computing architecture with 1010 neurons (10…

  • RL Crabb, Heeeelp!!

    George Rebane Well, my cover is finally blown.  RR has often been accused by our Lefties as trying to pass itself off as an ‘oh so smart’ blog.  But no more.  My nemesis came this morning when I opened the Tuesday Union to its op-ed page to enjoy Bob’s regular ‘It Takes a Village Idiot’…

  • The Liberal Mind – A Recent Potpourri of Revelations

    George Rebane In general, liberals are not stupid; many of them just have bad luck when they think.  This cannot be said of California liberals. Recently I have encountered a literal flood of observations and events that provide more insight into the workings of the now-dominant national liberal mind.  This small compilation is by no…

  • Past the Tipping Point – 16nov12

    George Rebane Did you know that 36 states already regulate speech between private citizens when it may remotely bear on public policy?  Specifically, today “in more than half the country the simple act of speaking to fellow citizens about issues of public importance can be regulated as a form of lobbying.” In ‘Targeting the ‘Lobbyist’…

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