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Month: January 2017

  • Calexit and the Great Divide

    Not all liberals are stupid; many of them just have bad luck when they try to think. George Rebane [An edited and ‘liberally’ criticized version of this post was published (here) in the 4feb17 issue of The Union.  I answer my critics here.] Well, it’s now official – multi-kulti does not work.  There are limits to cultural differences…

  • Sandbox – 28jan17

    [I was perusing RR's hoary past to note the constant torrent of comments predicting the assured and imminent demise of the Republican Party for this or that outrage according to our tireless local progressives.  I also note that no one from the Right has been foolish enough to predict the Democrats' demise for doing some really…

  • Ruminations – 28jan17 (updated)

    George Rebane The progressive media pundits and political cartoonists have gotten a reprieve on creativity.  For at least the next four years they will each get a pass by posting a Trash Trump piece.  I suppose that’s only fair, but while the conservatives didn’t have that latitude with our recently retired Sec8 president, they did…

  • Intelligent Design meets the Singularity

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 25 January 2017.] OK folks, it’s time to take a break from politics and give our Trump trashing muscles a short rest – I’m sure we’ll be back at it soon enough, but in the meantime let’s talk about important things…

  • Sandbox – 24jan17

    [The pro/con outrages in the news about President Trump are filling up sandboxes even faster than usual. And the spate of eagerly published fake news stories that get retracted regularly now are keeping several pots boiling in the intervals. gjr]

  • ‘A High-Tech Rebirth From Higher Ed’s Ruins’

    George Rebane Dr David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale and one of my favorite systems guys, writes the title article (here) in today’s (23jan17) WSJ.  It is an important look into the near future of higher education, and reflects everything we have been talking about in these pages – in short, I agree…

  • An Early Take on Trump (updated 22jan17)

    George Rebane Yesterday’s early snowfall left our rooftop satellite dish glommed up and dysfunctional.  So Jo Ann and I, with our puppy, watched the inaugural doings at our neighbors who also happened to be close friends and more wisely had their dish installed at easily accessible ground level.  What we witnessed was and continues to…

  • Sandbox – 20jan17

    [President Trump made the most populist and unambiguous pro-America inauguration speech in history today.  In many ways it was an 'in your face' indictment of his predecessor.  Now it is time to deliver.  Godspeed to our new President!  gjr]

  • What has Lewis done since then?

    George Rebane Black congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis hasn’t done much if anything for black folks since he joined the legislative gravy train in Washington, so maintains Jason Riley, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute (here).  What Lewis has done lately is become leader of the de facto Democrat Party’s drive to delegitimize…

  • Ruminations – 17jan17 (updated 18jan17)

    The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. – Winston Churchill George Rebane Well, the Dems now have a rip that’s hard to hide – they are a bit fragmented after the election didn’t turn out as bought and paid for, and their intramural shenanigans were exposed to the world, and everyone now…

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