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  • Scattershots – 23jan21 (updated 27jan21)

    When intellectuals and journalists of the left use the word “democracy,” they typically are not referring to elections and decision-making by popularly elected officials. For the left, “democracy” is another word for progressive policy aims, especially the widening of special political rights and welfare-state provisions to new constituencies. By that definition any Republican president is carrying out…

  • Scattershots – 15jan21 (16jan21)

    George Rebane The Capitol assault reports are getting curiouser and curiouser.  Instead of quickly blaming Trump supporters for the mob action while labeling them ‘seditious insurrectionists’, and then quickly calling the case closed, we keep having reports coming out documenting feds who now admit that they knew in advance that Trump haters were planning to…

  • Covid Related – 26dec20

    George Rebane The evidence against our lunatic lockdowns continues to pour in.  And as fast as it arrives, it is rejected/ignored by our anti-American, pro-control, anti-science Left.  Assemblyman Kevin Kiley writes, “California, with the nation’s most severe lockdowns, now has the most new cases per capita in addition to all the other harms. It’s hard…

  • ‘The Sovietization of California’

    George Rebane We have covered this dreadful progress to autocracy for years from a number of perspectives.  In my lifetime California has descended from its Olympian perch as the planet’s jeweled jurisdiction, to one that today competes with second and third world countries in governance, infrastructure maintenance, husbanding its natural resources, extracting tribute from its…

  • Scattershots – 18dec20 (updated 22dec20)

    George Rebane The recall of Gov Gavin Newsom is making good progress, and petition signatures may be collected until 10 March 2021.  Here is the link to get your signature on a petition to recall this hubristic progressive idiot before he does more damage to our state. Cato’s annual Human Freedom Index just published; it…

  • Misguided Public Safety Power Shutoffs

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 28 October 2020.] Dear Gov Newsom – This is an open letter to you from an old and very disgruntled citizen who has spent the last 63 years of his life in this beautiful state.  During these decades I went to school,…

  • Scattershots – 29sep20 (updated)

    George Rebane AI remains a mystery.  To the overwhelming share of people AI is nothing short of software magic.  Latest evidence of this is how smart gasoline pricing systems formed duopolies and oligopolies in Germany’s gas station sector.  This surprised the so-called experts who had recommended installing such systems in gas stations, so they could…

  • Blackouts Transparency

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 9 September 2020.] Two weeks ago in this commentary I discussed California’s blight of 3rd-world country blackouts, and argued that the Power Shortage Blackouts were unnecessary and caused by incompetence at the highest levels of California’s state government.  The other kind…

  • Scattershots – 4sep20 (updated 9sep20)

    The most important goal of the leftist project is to use the twin 2020 tragedies to alter the very storyline of America. – Mike Gonzales George Rebane The Great Divide draws nigh.  One of our astute readers highlighted ‘The Revolution is Upon Us’ by Mike Gonzales in the comment stream of the last Sandbox.  It…

  • Revolution Diary – 29aug20

    George Rebane How do you talk math with someone who believes 2+2=5? As I scan the morning papers and posts, some inevitable thoughts, idle and maybe not so idle, bubble to the surface. The above tag line is apropos to the total breakdown in America’s public discourse, and I do mean total.  This week ‘Thousands…

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