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Month: June 2017

  • George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 14 June 2017.] With all the anti-Trump furor going on, there is a more important national pot that is slowly coming to a boil, and it brings together a number of issues and recent happenings ranging from safe spaces, free speech,…

  • [Lots of stuff happening – members of Congress shot on baseball diamond, public housing fire in London, old basketball player negotiating with young idiot in NK, Dylan accused of plagiarism, … .  What’s the world coming to, or is it already there?  gjr]

  • George Rebane Investigations will cease only after all allegations have been proven – Dictum from The Swamp The ‘Robot-Human Alliance’ is a hopeful promotion by Dr Kenneth Goldberg, a UC Berkeley engineering professor (here).  He sees little to worry about human job markets with the advance of ever more intelligent machines, and bases his sanguinity…

  • [This commentary was submitted by Mr Norm Sauer – regular byline contributor, columnist, and member of the The Union's editorial board – to be published on RR concurrently with its appearance (here) in today's 10jun17 edition of the newspaper.  As always, it is posted as received.  gjr] Norm Sauer One doesn’t have to look too…

  • George Rebane Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is charged with investigating the Russian affair with last year’s election.  Specifically, allegations that Russia interfered and/or impacted our election, and more allegations that person or persons on Team Trump criminally colluded with Russia to achieve God knows what.  There is no evidence of a crime having been committed…

  • [Well, there you have it.  Former FBI director Comey is a politician for all seasons.  Where else can you find a man who can deliver to both sides of a terminally divided Washington a smorgasbord version of events that can concurrently bring pleasure if not outright glee to both sides of the aisle?  Everyone found…

  • George Rebane Hey, let’s rag on the millennials a bit more.  Every peek under the collective kimono of that celebrated cohort reveals another shortcoming.  Now we hear that a prime reason why their critical thinking skills need a little tweaking is that they’re not learning much of that in the college careers.  The revealing report…

  • George Rebane Progressives embrace any science only to the extent of how many other progressives embrace that science.  That is sometimes called consensus science, auto-repressive science, or simply circle-jerk science. The copy progressives, and the Left in general, have put out for over a century is that they want to transform society into its new…

  • [Looks like President Trump nailed it in Europe when he took fellow NATO members to task about their defense spending.  Besides Merkel’s epiphany, other countries are starting to realize that they’re pretty much incapable of doing sh!t when comes to defending themselves.  Now that's presidential leadership.  More here.  gjr]

  • George Rebane Last night at the Nevada Union High School awards celebration Ms Barbara Ross of the Nevada Joint Union High School District presented scholarship checks to the top scoring seniors on TechTest2017 which was given on 1 April 2017.   The 1st prize of $6,000 went to Jack Devlin, the 2nd prize of $4,000 went…