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Month: May 2013

  • Online Education Promoting More Inequality? (updated 1jun13)

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 31 May 2013.  This and previous commentaries are also available on the KVMR website.] Information systems professor Larry Press of CalState Dominguez Hills recently asked the question ‘Are poor students excluded from online education?’  In this commentary and on my blog the…

  • Travails of our Community Organizer (updated 30may13)

    George Rebane Actually, that should have been ‘… our out-of-depth Community Organizer’; but where to begin? The ongoing and growing scandals – Asleep or fiddling while Benghazi burns, Holder going after Fox News reporter, IRS going after conservative orgs, DOJ tapping into AP, … – are piling up faster than the administration spin doctors can…

  • The Liberal Mind – Ol’ RL nails it, again

    RL Crabb’s cartoon filched from the 28may13 Union.

  • Ode to Deflected Dialogue

    George Rebane

  • Memorial Day – 27 May 2013

    George Rebane [The following was originally posted on 30 May 2011, it applies today more than ever.] Today we remember and honor the military service men and women who died for us, and those who have yet to come home.  We sent them into harm’s way to keep harm away from us and our loved…

  • Singularity Signposts – Just ask Watson

    George Rebane IBM’s Watson will now take your calls.  The progeny of Watson of Jeopardy fame is being introduced into all kinds of new decision support applications from medicine to finance.  One of the new areas for Watson technology is to ‘man’ call centers – you know, those telephone sweat shops where the speaker at…

  • Agenda21 – The Beat Grows Stronger (updated 26may13)

    More than two out of three Americans think that “government is out of control and threatening our basic liberties.”  Fox News poll reported on 21 May 2013. George Rebane Last night we attended the Agenda21 talk at the Grass Valley Veterans Center given by anti-Agenda21 activist and author Rosa Koire.  Her talk was sponsored by…

  • Pipe Dream – Candidates’ Full Disclosure Act

    George Rebane Chatting around the dining table the other night, we reviewed all the laws that require sellers to fully disclose to the buyer the condition and relevant history of what is being sold.  Such full disclosure provisions as apply to real estate, cars, firearm purchases, medicines, and so on. But when it comes to…

  • Fetus + 12 inches = Baby

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 17 May 2013.] OK, if you’ve been habitually glued to the lamestream media, you probably just recently heard of the murder trial of late term abortionist and now convicted hat trick killer Dr Kermit Gosnell.  According to court testimony Gosnell ran a…

  • Ruminations – 16may13 (updated 18may13)

    George Rebane The flowering Obamagate scandals are simply “controversies” as National Propaganda Radio spent a great deal of time this morning assuring its audience.  Nothing special here, the President always comes out to the formally prepared East Room in the evenings to remark on little kerfuffles or differences of opinion.  Everyone go back to sleep.…

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