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Month: November 2017

  • Definitions Derby

    Hold to nothing too violently.  Every fool stands convinced: and everyone convinced is a fool; and the faultier a man's judgment, the firmer his conviction; even with the proof on your side, it is well to make concession; for your reasons are known and your gentlemanliness is recognized; … .  Gracian #183 George Rebane In…

  • Scattershots – 15nov17 (update 18nov17)

    George Rebane Whistling past the jobs graveyard.  Here is an example of highly paid people who don’t know what they are talking about as they attempt to convince us that AI will create more jobs for humans than the number it will destroy.  An inane example assures us that “In retailing, store jobs lost to…

  • Sandbox – 15nov17

    [Begrudgingly many are now acknowledging that Trump had a good trip to the Far East.  More people now understand that America has its own interests topmost, and considers it a good thing if everyone recognizes and admits that they too have their countries' interest come first.  It cuts out a lot of the bullshit when…

  • Democratic Socialists of America (updated 14nov17)

    Lord, give me coffee to change things I can change, wine to accept the things I cannot change, and bourbon to forget about the whole mess. George Rebane DSA candidates running openly as socialists under the Democrat banner now have 35 seats in the country’s state legislatures.  “Tuesday’s election night gains for the group were…

  • Sandbox – 11nov17

    [Will Mueller follow all the Russian collusion clues, or just the ones in sync with his political preferences?  gjr]

  • Scattershots – 10nov17 (updated 11nov17)

    George Rebane That progressivism is an evil ideology, evil in the sense that it stifles wholesale liberty, individual freedoms, entrepreneurship, grass roots altruism (charity), … .  ‘Stifles’ is too weak of a notion by far if we are to hear the prescriptions for creating their new America (i.e. Obama’s “fundamental transformation”).  Longtime RR discussant Gregory…

  • An Innumerate SCOTUS, oh my!

    A nation ignorant and free, that never was and never shall be.  Thomas Jefferson George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 8 November 2017.] Numeracy is the name given to a set of math oriented skills that an educated lay person is supposed to have in order to…

  • Texas Massacre and Gun Control (updated 11nov17)

    George Rebane When some dysfunction or disaster occurs in our land, first look to government as the cause or guilty party until proven innocent. In various forms this aphorism has been a Rebane Doctrine tenet in these pages and the recent Texas killings by a deranged military outcast is again the latest case in point. …

  • ‘Communism’s Bloody Century’ (Addended)

    George Rebane The titled essay (here) by Princeton historian Dr Stephen Kotkin provides an important critical review of the system of governance under which many still live and many more actively promote.  Under autocratic governments socialism’s logical terminus has been communism, as the attempt to fix socialism’s indigenous failures is always through ratcheting up the…

  • Sandbox – 5nov17

    [I think I'll start this sandbox off with another confirmation of the 'two separate worlds' notion that abets our progress toward the Great Divide.  It is always good to climb up the taxonomical tree to see under which branch these individual dust-ups we dissect belong.   A futile exchange on Bob Crabb’s blog (here).  Mr Crabb…

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