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Month: April 2014

  • Common Core Town Hall

    When you have no case, abuse the plaintiff.  Marcus Tullius Cicero George Rebane The well-attended town hall meeting reported in ‘Common Core Unexamined’ took place last night in the GV Elks Lodge featuring speakers Sandra Stotsky, Ed.D., Brad Dacus, and Lydia Gutierrez, M.Ed.  Dr Stotsky served as one of two credentialed education experts on the…

  • Public Pension Punishments in a Progressive Posterchild

    George Rebane Illinois is a one of many states (e.g. California) that highlights the evils of progressivism applied wholesale.  It is worth holding up as an example of the latest problems with the trillions of dollars of unfunded public pension liabilities (much covered on RR) that are plastered over the nation’s fiscal landscape.  Today the…

  • Common Core Unexamined

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 25 April 2014.] Some years back the National Governors Association, realizing that America’s workforce was rapidly losing out in the global job markets, concluded that the country needed a new approach to K-12 education.  Its efforts to that end produced what…

  • Ruminations – 22apr14 (updated 27apr14)

    George Rebane The recent DoS attack on Typepad has made reading and commenting tough on RR and countless other blogs on that service.  In this interval I have had a chance to put some serious effort into one of my other lives – investor in and technical consultant to a rapidly growing financial engineering start-up…

  • Administrivia – 21apr14

    George Rebane TypePad has been under the most intense ‘denial of service’ attack for the last few days, and therefore RR has not been available for either reading for comment. They claim to be making some headway in “stabilizing” their servers, but who knows. Since everything was down, including their system site, they have been…

  • HE IS RISEN!

    George Rebane As Christmas is the promise, Easter is the fulfillment.  Oblivion vanquished, rejoice!

  • A confused op-ed by The Union publisher

    George Rebane The Union’s new publisher, Jim Hemig, gave us his understanding of today’s media landscape.  In his 18apr14 op-ed he compared “the difference between a journalist and a blogger.”  His point was that a journalist, especially if he works for The Union, has available all kinds of sources for reporting news and uses them…

  • Mexico Toughens Stance on Autonomy for Southwest US

    George Rebane Mexico City, 6 May 2024 – Mexico’s president Juan Carlos Echeverria announced in his Cinco de Mayo celebration speech in San Diego that Mexican forces that have staged over the last six months along Mexico’s northern border would be further reinforced.  Tensions have increased since Russia announced that it was providing additional combat…

  • Typhoon Tarnaev – one year on

    George Rebane Today there have been many observances and rembrances of the explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon that killed three, injured over 260, and blew the limbs off 16 of them.  People were gathered at these planned events to celebrate their “show of defiance and resilience” in the face of this tragedy.  NPR this…

  • A Takeaway from Bundy Ranch (updated 19apr14)

    George Rebane When tyrannies make the laws, all opponents of tyranny are then seen and treated as criminals. The ownership and control of our public lands is a mess, both legally and constitutionally.  Save for military bases (an arguably constitutional provision), why does the federal government claim ownership – laughably in the name of ‘the…

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