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Category: Agenda 21

  • The Existential Abrogation of Sovereignty

    George Rebane Across this land we are debating the wrong thing.  There is no contention about separating kids from parents.  No one want to do that gratuitously.  But as a society, we do it when we must.  And we do it daily with American kids by the thousands when their parents are jailed or otherwise…

  • George Boardman’s California

    George Rebane Intrepid left-of-center columnist George Boardman is one of our county’s recognized students of the human condition who regularly shares his observations and interpretations in the op-ed pages of The Union.  RR is proud to also number him among our regular readers and commenters.  In his 14may18 column – ‘California shines again, much to…

  • It’s ALL in the label (updated)

    "A rose/skunk by any other name would smell as sweet/foul", Wm Shakespeare expanded. George Rebane Watching the recent California gubernatorial candidates’ debate, it again became clear that the labels we both carefully, and sometimes carelessly, attach to important issues determine the direction and nature of the subsequent debate on and the final resolution of an issue. …

  • California’s Common Core Catastrophe

    George Rebane In these pages we have long lamented California’s adoption of the Common Core curriculum standards, especially in the teaching of math in K-12.  H/T to longtime RR reader and discussant Greg Goodknight, who points us to an important just-published essay on Common Core performance in California since the standards were adopted in 2010…

  • The 21st Century Progressive Dating Game (updated 9may18)

    Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.  Mark Twain George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 2 May 2018.] For millennia females in all cultures were shielded by their families.  Marriages were arranged for commercial or political benefit,…

  • Our Constitution – capricious or a constant?

    George Rebane America’s Constitution is one of its prime founding documents.  Founding documents of any social order – nation-state, kingdom, tribe, … – are written and disseminated to define the durable component of that order to its members.  Even monarchs and dictators who rule by force and at their whim have issued decrees that define…

  • Scattershots – 1apr2018 (updated 4apr18)

    George Rebane Democrats admit to using illegal aliens to boost their receipt of fed funds and stacking Congress with their representatives.  Today on Fox News Sunday we saw videos of both CA AG Xavier Becerra and Rep Brad Sherman (D-CA) admit and argue for illegal aliens being counted in the upcoming census so that CA…

  • “Biased Algorithms” – Advent of Politically Correct AI

    George Rebane [9apr18 – An edited version of this commentary appeared (here) in the 9apr18 edition of The Union.] Do you want to see the latest on how the progressives plan to take down our lead in one of the few remaining areas of technology in which we are still the world’s gold standard?  Tolerated…

  • Climate Industry’s Shameful Science

    George Rebane A correspondent alerted me to an important new report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation titled ‘Global Warming – A Case Study in Groupthink’ by Christopher Booker.  This extensive report examines the now institutionalized global hysteria embracing the belief that humanity is in the grip of catastrophic yet heroically preventable manmade global warming. …

  • Those Who Can, Can’t, or Won’t

    George Rebane Colleges and universities will “soon begin to divide into two entities—the STEM fields and related practical subjects (i.e., business and economics), and the social sciences and humanities, which would start to shrivel under the weight of the degradations the left has inflicted over the last 40 years.”  So writes Steven Hayward in ‘The…

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