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Month: August 2018

  • Ruminations – 17aug18 (updated 19aug18)

    George Rebane Obama’s PPD-20 has hamstrung America’s ability to defend and counter cyberattacks against us.  President Trump is recalling that Presidential Policy Directive to “ to push decision-making authority down the chain of command, could empower military officials to launch more frequent and more aggressive cyberattacks against adversaries like Russia and Iran.”  (more here) 2017 saw…

  • Scattershots – 14aug18 (updated 15aug18)

    You can get away with a lot of  illiberal theatrics and demands in a liberal society, and one of the great, eternal challenges for democratic governments is to figure out how much one can tolerate before the forces of illiberalism corrode the liberal order.  Jonah Goldberg (2018) George Rebane ‘Google gives back’ gushes the 13aug18…

  • Sandbox – 13aug18

    [Would you attend a demonstration for something you support if you knew ahead of time that you would be outnumbered and confronted by thousands of counter-demonstrators with a history of fomenting violence and dedicated to silencing your viewpoint?  gjr]

  • The bigotry of the Left

    George Rebane  This post grew out of comments by one of our prominent leftwing readers who hides his identity under the letter M.  This commenter ascribed a quote by white nationalist leader Jason Kessler about the variation in IQ scores between individuals of various population groups. (more here)  M rejects such results (here) and considers…

  • The Liberal Mind Revealed – Example #439 (updated 11aug2018)

    ‘The beatings will stop when morale improves.’ – wall sign in forced labor camp George Rebane “Trained historian” Paul Moore’s piece in the 9aug18 Union argues that ‘Investigation is not done until you have all the evidence’.  I kid you not, this gentleman really has a mind that works out such logic.  And I can…

  • Bar to Employment is Lowered

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 8 August 2018.] Used to be that for most jobs you had to show some serious education and experience in your background in addition to good appearance and character.  And things really got tougher during the depths of our last recession, employers…

  • Sandbox – 8aug18

    [Here is the latest on the real 2016 collusion AND conspiracy with foreigners (British and Russians) that was designed, bought, and paid for by Hillary and the DNC to derail the Trump campaign.  Since there is no evidence of the obverse, why are not Hillary and the DNC being investigated?  gjr]

  • The Ninth Circuit Court on CCW and Open Carry

    George Rebane Recently a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the “U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment guarantees a right to openly carry a gun in public for self-defense, finding that Hawaii overstepped its authority to regulate firearms possession outside the home.” (more here) This ruling brought up questions on how we…

  • Scattershots – 4aug18 (updated 8aug18)

    “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know that just ain't so.”  Mark Twain, et al George Rebane Leftwing columnist Darrell Berkheimer makes his occasional foray into substantive socio-political subjects and blows it again.  In his ‘Will Violence or a Funeral End Incendiary Talk’ (4aug18 Union), the man demonstrates his limited…

  • Sandbox – 3aug18

    [A reader sent me a link that reminds us that the contention that a large fraction of Democrat voters are developmentally challenged is actually a fundamental truth that the Democratic leadership and liberal elites jealously believe in and fight/oppose public policies that will expose its fallacy.  Yes, it is the Dem leadership and elites who…

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