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Month: April 2013

  • Ruminations – 30apr13 (edited)

    George Rebane New York is airing a series of hilarious ads claiming that it is now the best place in the nation to start a new business or find a home for an existing one.  And the basis for the hilarity?  Why, New York’s low taxes for such businesses coming to the Empire State.  Now…

  • ‘Pay for Delay’ – a capitalist quandary

    George Rebane Big pharma has been playing a very dubious game that doesn’t speak well of free markets, and free enterprise.  Over the years its lobbyists have convinced Congress to put in place some pretty dodgy laws that allow it to skirt the legal edges of what most people understand about anti-trust strictures in this…

  • Ruminations – 26apr13 (updated)

    George Rebane Lady Margaret Thatcher’s funeral, I keep coming back to it.  The occasion was one of those rare opportunities to recognize a giant in the pantheon of modern world leaders, and nations sent their most distinguished there to honor her achievements for her country and for demonstrating to the world the art of the…

  • Payday Loans Regulated

    George Rebane There has been a good deal of moralizing and high dudgeon about how those storefronts that make payday loans are ripping off poor people who are denied loans elsewhere.  It is claimed that the interest charged by these establishments is beyond usurious.  Now regulators are beginning to hyperventilate in a similar vein at…

  • CTA on ‘cultural competency’ – a peek into the pus

    George Rebane Our society is covered with plenty of boils and pimples from our attempts to do the ‘right thing’ with all the political correctness we can muster.  A correspondent sent me a piece on the California Teachers Association website in which the union highlights the politically correct sensitivities and behaviors of teachers confronting students…

  • US Murder Rate History [Addended] (updated 27apr13)

      George Rebane In doing some research for the upcoming Breaking Bread episode on the Second Amendment, I found this clear summary of America’s murder rate.  It is compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center using FBI statistics. These numbers and the trend overwhelm the infrequent episodic mass killings that have occurred over the last…

  • Boston and pan-Islamism – some early ruminations

    George Rebane The end of round one in Boston’s latest experience with pan-Islamic jihad brings to mind several observations before round two gets under way.  My working name for round two is ‘Positioning for political justice’.  But here I’d like to put down some thoughts about two aspects – the larger frame of the Boston…

  • Teach them to code (addended)

    [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 19 April 2013.] OK, those of you out there in radio land who want to help a young person find an awesomely interesting and well-paying career, pay close attention to what follows.  The jobs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM areas,…

  • Feds should reimburse visit costs

    George Rebane As presidents before him, President Obama’s flitting around the country raising monies for various political campaigns has hidden costs to the communities where he sets down.  A most recent illustration is the little town of Atherton in the Bay Area where his holiness touched down to raise a few million at a fancy…

  • Frequentists vs Bayesians

    George Rebane One would think that the excellent summary of the decades old debate between the two schools of probabilists would be settled by the following cartoon, but I won’t hold my breath – old ‘science’ dies hard.  (H/T to correspondent)  For more on Bayesian analysis and decision making, search RR with ‘Bayes’. Footnote: This…

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