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Month: September 2017

  • Dershowitz Defines Dangers

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 13 September 2017.] Selectively celebrated and nationally prominent attorney and law professor Alan Dershowitz has become a familiar advocate of divers, sometimes conflicting, causes over the last few decades.  The country’s most prominent secular Jew has defended the likes of Patty…

  • Sandbox – 12sep17

    [Hillary's book – What Happened? – published today.  We're going on a short jaunt to a reunion of my old Army outfit, where we again renew ties with all those young lieutenants and captains, and our young pretty and perky wives with their infant fledglings in perambulators, all of whom now look pretty much like…

  • Samples of Snowflakes’ Safespace Sophistries

    George Rebane This Thursday conservative commentator Ben Shapiro is scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley.  To gird the fragile ideological loins of its student body, that campus’s Executive Vice President and Provost, Paul Alivisatos has published this memo for the university’s students and faculty. We are deeply concerned about the impact some speakers may have…

  • Fake News Defined

    George Rebane Since I took some considerable issue with the LWV’s attempt to illuminate the nation’s travails with fake news (here), the definition of which never quite emerged from that conclave, I thought it proper to make my own contribution to the same.  I believe that most people graced with critical thinking skills will more…

  • Scattershots – 6sep17 (updated 10sep17)

    George Rebane The local League of Women Voters presented a get together on ‘Fake News’ at Sierra College last night.  It featured Brooke Binkowski, Managing Editor of snopes.com and Randall ‘Fink’ Finkelstein, NC Scooper editor, both supposed experts on the topic.  It was a real jaw dropper.  Jo Ann and I had never attended a…

  • Great Divide – Yes Virginia, we really are very different

    George Rebane Today’s headline again corroborates what those who have paid attention have known for some years now.  The latest WSJ/NBC poll out today reports the stark differences between the country’s Right and Left as represented by their respective Republican and Democrat party affiliations.  The important part here is that the “WSJ/NBC News survey indicates…

  • Sandbox – 6sep17

    [Subsidies, conspiracies, DACA, DACA, DACA – oh my!  gjr]

  • Scattershots – 3sep17 (updated)

    George Rebane Readers were recently introduced (here) to the sad story of the iGeners.  Professor Twenge of San Diego State expands on the travails of that sensitive, coddled, and brittle generation in her 2sep17 WSJ essay, ‘The Smartphone Generation vs Free Speech’.  Here we learn that the iGeners’ prime concern is “emotional safety”, something that…

  • The Socialists’ Conundrum

    [In his 22sep17 letter to The Union’s editor, my friend Norm Sauer shares the Left’s conundrum in a clear, concise, and complete format originally summarized by L. Poplack of Olympia (where they used to brew my favorite beer).  The only problem remaining – is the Left sharp enough to understand the situation?  From the local…

  • When disaster is certain, who pays? (codas added)

    George Rebane Every time I look at the news of floods, fires, earthquakes, and other large and predictable emergencies, the notion that the rest of us have to pay to make whole those who knowingly take those risks rubs me the wrong way.  I lived most of my life in SoCal, one of the world’s…

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