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Month: June 2014

  • Sandbox – 15jun14

    [Time for a fresh sandbox.  The inaugural sandbox appears to have been a success.  My own special interest for this one is to include a discussion of the Bergdahl case, specifically what impact readers believe it will have on future foreign policy in the mideast.  And fold into that discussion the impact of ISIS' gains…

  • Healthcare Sleaze – The VA template for Obamacare

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast early on 11 June 2014 due to this weekend’s bluegrass festival which will dominate this Friday's air time.] As the VA healthcare scandal builds, it is putting on exhibit the disaster that Obamacare will deliver to the doorstep of every American.  As with…

  • Public Education – A ray of hope

    George Rebane RR has long maintained that an alarmingly large fraction of K-12 teachers are incompetent and care little for the young people they are charged and compensated to teach.  The aggregate of that profession is already drawn from the bottom quintile of college graduates (I didn’t want to sully the use of ‘academics’).  While…

  • Comment Sandbox?

    George Rebane Been doing more noodling on how to keep the comment threads more relevant to my posted commentaries.  I appreciate very much that RR has come to serve as an open forum for whatever readers wish to discuss or cuss.  Yet at the same time I’d like to start constraining the comments to expansions,…

  • Scattershots – 9jun14 (updated 10jun14, twice!)

    George Rebane Two sides claiming that 2+2 equals four and five can always find common ground at 4.5 …, which would still be wrong. Another strong piece of evidence that the ‘consensus science’ behind manmade (anthropogenic) global warming (AGW) continues to be institutionalized fraud is revealed by the National Association of Scholars.  NAS takes no…

  • ‘Nuff said

    George Rebane The Republicans were nowhere nearly as bad off as the national lamestream and the local lefties have been making out.  Yes, they did hold the funeral after the 2012 election, and even assured all that the casket had enough room for the tea parties as they lowered it with some glee eighteen months…

  • Yes, we really have become polarized

    George Rebane The Left in recent years has intensified the narrative that the Right has shrunk in numbers while becoming more extreme in its ideology.  The Left sees its own collectivist approaches to organizing society as having become the ideological lingua franca of most Americans.  As evidence of this, the growth of the country’s self-declared…

  • Ruminations – 3jun14

    George Rebane On this election day I remind you to vote, and am also reminded by all that is going on in a Washington that now sidesteps what I have voted for over the decades – the imperial presidency ascendant. We just heard about EPA’s new initiative to cite a little-known, otherwise-purposed Section 111(d) of the 1970 Clean…

  • Public Service Unions, the VA scandal, and Zombie Agencies (updated)

    George Rebane People who have trouble connecting the dots are often missing some dots. WSJ’s Kimberley Strassel has shined a light on ‘Big Labor’s VA Choke Hold’ – an aspect of the scandal not yet exposed.  She lists a series of audacious malpractices that have become embedded in the VA, and presumably across the federal bureaucratic terrain…

  • The Liberal Mind – Hillary’s new logic on Benghazi

    George Rebane Hillary Clinton’s public copy on Benghazi is that she will not respond to any more queries about her involvement in that tragedy on her watch because that would be playing politics “on the backs of our dead.”  This by any reading is, of course, playing politics to the maximum on the subject, especially…

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