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Month: August 2016

  • ‘Misreading the Nordic Model’

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 31 August 2016.] For quite some time now Americans have heard the siren song of Nordic socialism performed consistently by our country’s Left from which more and more are actually outing themselves as socialists.  In this election season we have heard…

  • Dump Trump and Pillory Hillary – 29aug16 (updated 1sep16)

    George Rebane OK, Donald Trump is beginning to sound more presidential as he sticks to the pillory Hillary script.  But I’m not sure of his new campaign leadership duo of Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway.  Today on Fox News Sunday Ms Conway was given an opportunity to showcase The New Donald while interviewed by Fox’s stealth liberal…

  • Sandbox – 28aug16

    [Just got back from a little RV trip with friends and family.  We did the Bend, OR to coast, down the coast to CA, and back home again on good ol’ Hwy 20 circuit.  Connectivity still sucks in most of the RV parks, even the ones near bigger towns.  In the evening when everyone is…

  • Buying Votes and Voters

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 17 August 2016.] Student debt and college costs are out of control.  Under the passionate paeans of progressives over the last decades, we have been taught that we’re equal enough so that everyone will benefit from a college education and therefore everyone…

  • Sandbox – 17aug16

    [Putin is making nice with Iran and Turkey, two competitors for the new Mideast hegemon.  That sure looks like the latest, and possibly the worst, Foxtrot Uniform of Obama's foreign policy, leaving Russia as the new 'go-to power' if you want to get anything done in the region.  When you decide to lead from behind,…

  • Dump Trump and Pillory Hillary – 13aug16

    George Rebane Democracies are stable only to the extent that they enjoy a cohesive ideological spectrum and in which questions are decided with close votes.  In such jurisdictions the alternatives decided are not inimical to each other, and everyone knows their vote on the matter counts.  In lopsided democracies the minority’s vote no longer counts, which then…

  • Congressional Reform Act of 2017 a la Buffett

    George Rebane A correspondent sent me this transcription from a Warren Buffett interview in which he assembled the whole list of things we have all heard piecemeal here and there.  This is something that I believe most Americans can get behind, and as history shows, when we overwhelmingly vote for something, it can come to…

  • Sandbox – 9aug16

    [Many apologies for my delinquency.  I (we?) got so caught up in analyzing the conventions and candidate bloopers, that the last sandbox just faded away in the rear view mirror. gjr] 

  • Scattershots – 7aug16 (updated 12aug16)

    George Rebane More evidence that our Great Experiment has failed.  Great Experiment?  – self-governance, the raison d’etre the Founders nominated for our Republic, ‘Is common man capable of governing himself?’  Today we have finally ‘educated’ our dumbest generation ever – the Millennials.  These young people are now overwhelmingly ignorant of history, modes of governance, economics,…

  • Bayes sans equations and tears

    George Rebane This little monograph is the most recent in the series to explain Bayesian reasoning to the non-technical (but otherwise intelligent) reader, and will serve as a reference for future posts.  Some previous efforts in this direction can be found here and here.   In the sequel we repeat the exercise graphically without resorting to…

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