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Category: Agenda 21

  • The Senate’s Amnesty Bill (updated 10apr13)

    George Rebane The Senate will “mark up” and pass their version of immigration reform, probably tomorrow.  What is turning out to be an amnesty bill has drawn a lot of fire from the Right for a lot of reasons, not all of them flying in tight formation.  For example, the Heritage Foundation has published a…

  • Breaking Bread – ‘2nd Amendment and Gun Control’ (updated 10may13)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 3 May 2013.  I have included an extensive addendum to memorialize the structure of the current gun control debate in our country’s widening ideological schism, and to illustrate key factors in the asymmetric understanding and approach taken by the Left and…

  • Ruminations – 26apr13 (updated)

    George Rebane Lady Margaret Thatcher’s funeral, I keep coming back to it.  The occasion was one of those rare opportunities to recognize a giant in the pantheon of modern world leaders, and nations sent their most distinguished there to honor her achievements for her country and for demonstrating to the world the art of the…

  • CTA on ‘cultural competency’ – a peek into the pus

    George Rebane Our society is covered with plenty of boils and pimples from our attempts to do the ‘right thing’ with all the political correctness we can muster.  A correspondent sent me a piece on the California Teachers Association website in which the union highlights the politically correct sensitivities and behaviors of teachers confronting students…

  • US Murder Rate History [Addended] (updated 27apr13)

      George Rebane In doing some research for the upcoming Breaking Bread episode on the Second Amendment, I found this clear summary of America’s murder rate.  It is compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center using FBI statistics. These numbers and the trend overwhelm the infrequent episodic mass killings that have occurred over the last…

  • Ruminations – 4apr13 (updated 5apr13)

    Have just a touch of the commercial in you.  Do not merely shop, but trade a little.  Gracian #232 George Rebane Been on travel with some friends for the last couple of weeks.  We attended the Mercatus Institute’s annual retreat in Scottsdale.  The big issue discussed was socialism’s onslaught on capitalism – ‘Can American Capitalism…

  • The Liberal Mind on Choices and Fortune

    George Rebane Capitalism works best when corporations must woo their customers instead of government. There is something in the liberal mindset that does not understand ‘choice’ when applied to individual responsibility.  In a recent comment stream one such reader stated – “Do people actually choose to be poor? How many poor people would refuse a…

  • Ruminations – 8mar13 (updated 11mar13)

    George Rebane This is TechTest season, and we're in the middle of the preparatory seminars for this year's test to be given on 23 March.  In an ongoing discussion about Nevada County schools' performance in preparing students for STEM careers, I received a succinct summary (below) from a respected Nevada Union teacher about the problem…

  • California’s Middle and Poor Driven to Greener Pastures

    George Rebane As we have noted for some years, California’s progressives now ensconced in Democrat super-majorities are continuing policies that are harmful to the economic health of those they claim to help, and whom they regularly bamboozle with their election year rhetoric.  Those folks are not all that bright since they keep voting for the…

  • Productivity – A new perspective

    George Rebane [This piece continues the RR series on the US economy and the factors taking it into new regions – unknown unknowns – during these pre-Singularity years.  As usual, the frail and the young should be spared from these deliberations.] Productivity of a nation’s workforce is an important metric in understanding its prospects for…

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