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Month: June 2018

  • Our Declining IQ Numbers

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 20 June 2018.] Listeners to these commentaries over the years have heard me report on the advance of America’s national dumbth – a term coined by the late Steve Allen to describe the overall state of our understanding, interests, and intellectual acumen. …

  • Separating kids from parents

    George Rebane Now that the just released IG report about Russian collusion and Hillary’s emails took the wind out of Democrats’ sail, their next bag of hot air is blowing across the land from a timely pivot to blaming the Trump administration for separating illegal alien kids snuck over the border by their illegal alien…

  • ‘A copernican answers Fermi’ (updated 21nov18)

    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – A.C. Clarke’s Third Law George Rebane Last month we were encamped with two other couples at Hat Creek in northern California.  It was a delightful trip – the weather was fine, the food, drink, and the friends superb.  Actually, we’re all experienced “road warriors” having traveled…

  • Sandbox – 17jun18

    [Apologies again for that last sandbox getting a bit long of tooth.  Here's some fresh sand in which to continue those ever engaging discussions about the local scene – as we are told, 'All politics is local' (but let's not get carried away). ;-)  gjr]

  • Ruminations – 15jun2018 (updated 20jun18)

    George Rebane Headline, ‘Growth in US Leaves World Behind’ while the ECB continues to keep the ‘fragile economies’ of the EU on crutches with low interest rates.  Wonder why our lamestream considers this too insignificant to report?  One might almost think that they're afraid people will credit President Trump with some of this good news.…

  • Scattershots – 13jun18 (updated 14jun18)

    George Rebane Cal-3 is going to be on the November ballot. WaPo reports that “On Tuesday, the California secretary of state confirmed in a memo that Draper’s Cal-3 campaign attained enough valid signatures to earn a spot on the ballot Nov. 6. After more than 150 years of failed partition proposals, California voters will finally go to…

  • Monopsony and the travails of capitalism (updated)

    George Rebane Monopsony – the market condition that exists when there is one buyer. Nobody has said that capitalism is the perfect way to organize society and commerce; it has just beat the bejeezus out competitors since King Louis XVI lost his head in 1793.  But capitalism does have its inevitable warts.  I was reminded…

  • Sandbox – 11jun18

    [A left-leaning friend, and no friend of Trump, cites the WaPo's latest dire prediction of a coming debt-crash, what with all these companies buying back their stock, returning money to shareholders, and paying additional compensation to their employees.  Anyone else hunkering down?  gjr]

  • Kalifornia’s new service tax

    George Rebane State Senator Ted Gaines reports in the 9jun18 Union – ‘New bill slaps Californians with tax on services’ – of a piece of surreptitious legislation (SB993) quietly wending through Sacramento that will install yet one more layer of taxes that the people must add to the tribute that they already submit to succor…

  • Scattershots – 8jun18 (updated 9jun18)

    George Rebane That Ted Cruz is a strong anti-abortionist was claimed by a liberal friend and RR reader.  Moreover, the Texas Republican believes that “the continuum of human life begins at the moment of fertilization”, which means at conception.  By reasonable extension, this also means that Cruz is against any and all post-coitus contraception, since…

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