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Month: March 2017

  • Norm Sauer replies to Rich Howell

    [Mr Sauer submitted the following response to Mr Howell’s 11mar17 critique of Mr Sauer’s Union column on renewing America’s public education system.  My own response to Mr Howell is found here.  gjr] Norm Sauer Rich Howell, a retired union member educator, attacked my column “Making Education Great” wherein I demonstrated by factual examples Democrat senators…

  • Mr Boardman’s Apples and Oranges

    George Rebane “Did you know that the moon is 1/49 the size of the earth, even though it is further away?” was a memorable entry in an early issue of Mad Magazine many years ago.  I was reminded of it when reading George Boardman’s regular column in the 13mar17 Union this morning (here).  For readers…

  • The Wikileaks Conundrum Resolved

    George Rebane Bankable stereotypes:  Government regulators are imperious, hubristic, and unbelievably ignorant in proportion to the power they wield. Recently friends and colleagues have asked for my takes on the Wikileaks phenomenon, especially as it applies to its release of classified information and data that our government claims will compromise our national security.  The problems…

  • Scattershots – 11mar2017 (updated 14mar17)

    Of all the Trump conundra, "for now, only one thing remains certain: the candidate whom the Republican establishment most disliked has the greatest potential in a generation to stop the progressive project and enact the agendas that the Republican establishment most wants. And that paradox has become a source of both great wonderment—and fear." Victor…

  • The Progressive Swamp of Washington D.C.

    [This article was submitted by Norm Sauer, member of The Union Editorial Board, who shares his writings with RR from time to time.  This piece also appears as an op-ed column in the 11mar17 edition of the newspaper (here).  It is printed below as received.  gjr] Norm Sauer “The competent leader of men cares little for the…

  • Hatred Institutionalized

    George Rebane That our country has passed the tipping point from a democratic republic has been maintained and recorded in these pages for some years now.  Since the election of Donald Trump as our 45th president there has been a sea change in the national regression.  Never before have major national institutions turned so virulently…

  • AI Will Change Everything

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regularly scheduled KVMR commentary broadcast on 8 March 2017.] For those who have been paying attention, you know that AI or artificial intelligence will change everything.  And the word here you want to wrap your head around is ‘everything’.  I’m a lifelong professional computer systems geek who…

  • Sandbox – 8mar17

    [Does anyone remember the last time that the Congressional Budget Office, or for that matter the WH’s Office of Management and Budget, got any projection, estimate, or prediction right?  And by ‘right’ I mean literally ‘close enough for government work’.  Now people are hyperventilating that Trumpcare may go forward without anyone knowing its vaunted ‘CBO…

  • No Plausible Means in the Lamestream’s Inflated Russian Bubble

    George Rebane This morning NPR again alerted the nation to the manufactured Russian threat, still very much a work in process.  They devoted the major segment of their Morning Edition to “reviewing” Russia’s impact on last year’s election by interviewing two ‘experts’ who turned out to be another pair of pot boiling reporters. We were…

  • A Sea Change at MIM

    George Rebane Last night Jo Ann and I attended an all-Beethoven concert at the Amaral Center.  It was the launch concert of a new series put on by Music in the Mountains that featured the Sacramento Philharmonic and violin virtuoso Chee-Yun Kim.  Those who arrived early got to hear MIM Artistic Director Pete Nowlen detail…

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