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Month: October 2017

  • Gas tax – Hren answers Boardman

    [NC Republican Party Chairman emailed me this response to George Boardman’s 29oct17 column for publication.  It appears that Mr Boardman missed an important point or two on the new CA gas tax.  gjr] George, Your column yesterday was OK but very incomplete and inflamatory.  You failed to mention why there are no funds for road…

  • Mueller Mining the Russia Collusion Confusion (updated 5nov17)

    George Rebane It may well be that the ongoing ‘Russia collusion’ investigation will turn out to be a bigger affair than was Watergate, even if it doesn’t connect Donald Trump to any culpable act.  Special prosecutors must needs eventually find something to prosecute, and find it they will as Robert Mueller has already demonstrated with…

  • Sandbox – 30oct17

    [Having lived in the LA area most of my life, Jo Ann and I have done our best to get excited about the Dodgers during our annual and singular homage to baseball – the World Series.  We feel that, even if you think the game is terminally boring, all patriotic Americans must submit at least…

  • The Singularity is Nearer

    George Rebane Have you noticed over the years when we have met in these pages to talk about the Singularity, that today finally everyone is talking about it in one fashion or another.  It’s as if suddenly everyone who reads is being introduced to the newest developments in AI and the possible futures it portends…

  • Scattershots – 26oct17 (updated 28oct17)

    Legal US gun owners have 300 million guns, and over a trillion rounds of ammo.  Seriously folks, if we were a problem, you'd know it. – Inconvenient fact. George Rebane News media reports on Americans’ attitudes about paying taxes includes this little bagatelle – only 39% disapprove of the poor not paying any federal taxes,…

  • Introducing Politically Correct Mathematics

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 25 October 2017.  A slightly edited version of this appeared as an op-ed in the 4nov17 Union (here). gjr] In these commentaries we have chronicled the long decline of America’s K-12 education, a decline that has now been joined by our…

  • Sandbox – 25oct17

    [Just because it was time … gjr]

  • Sandbox – 21oct17

    [The last sandbox was a bit overfull, other than that it appears that 'climate change' has again become the perennially misunderstood issue of interest du jour.  I was a bit surprised that Thomas Elias <tdelias@aol.com>, waxing on the evidence for inevitable climate change in the 21oct17 Union, never once mentioned even the existence of credited and…

  • ‘Is Classical Liberalism Conservative?’

    George Rebane The so-titled recent essay (here) by Yoram Hazony, president of the Jerusalem-based Herzl Institute, poses this question and sheds considerable light on the answer.  To prematurely cut to the chase, Hazony argues that modern conservatives and classical liberals have recently drifted apart in many significant ways.  In the sequel I attempt to summarize…

  • Sandbox – 17oct17

    [Lots to talk about, but my attention is still on education which for the average American student is getting dicier by the year.  Here is a bit on the new fad of dual enrollment programs which have high school seniors taking courses also form local community colleges, the longer term benefit of which has yet…

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