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  • ‘Critical Ethnic Studies’, say whaat??!!

    George Rebane California’s public education system has been dysfunctional for years, and now in the age of riots and the growing socialist revolution, it is ready to take its final turns around the drain.  You will not read any of this in the lamestream, because the new curriculum to be adopted by Sacramento next spring…

  • California’s Blackout Blight

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 26 August 2020.] California’s irregular power blackouts remind us of visits to third world countries.  As with our state’s recent and still ongoing water shortages, these power blackouts are totally manmade.  We are needlessly doing it to ourselves to achieve political…

  • Letters from the Revolution – 24jul20 (updated 26jul20)

    George Rebane No one’s interests, objectives, values, … will exactly match yours.  The best you can ever do is support those with whom you share the most in common. Kudos to our local restaurants Old Town Café, Sergio’s, and Friar Tucks for remaining open and in business despite Gov Newsom’s unconstitutional diktats and the compliantly…

  • Returning to Race-based College Admissions

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my resumed regular KVMR radio commentary broadcast on 3 June 2020.] Former University of California regent Ward Connerly founded the American Civil Rights Institute in response to the corrupt racism that affirmative action introduced into state government contracting, public jobs hiring, and deciding who would be admitted to state schools. …

  • Image of ignorance and/or incompetence (updated 14may20)

    George Rebane To again illustrate what we have been talking about the government’s basis for C19 policy decisions, the above graph and its annotation (from the 13may20 SacBee here) show raw test positive (TP) ratios over time, giving no hint of either the test’s reliability parameters, the tested sample (size and provenance), or knowledge that…

  • Hunker Down Diary – 9may20

    George Rebane Today is HD63 in the Rebane household, and we are beginning to see little stirrings of sanity across California with even timid Nevada County showing signs of developing a C19 resistant backbone.  Now we are starting to see appeals from various late comers for letter writing campaigns to our electeds to exhort them…

  • Scattershots – 28apr20 (updated 2may20)

    George Rebane 501c3 bets to co-locate money and mouth.  RR’s commenters have over the years made assertions and predictions with such deeply held convictions as to draw more than a smile from the rest of us.  So here’s a proposal (again) – offer odds and a material dollar bet that your measurable assertion will come…

  • Hunker Down Diary – 23apr20 (updated)

    George Rebane We are now in HD47 and watching how the national lockdown has slowly turned from a health safety policy to yet another political match between the Left and the Trump administration.  These days we do a lot of reading about C19, recognizing new data on the extent of existing herd immunity, greatly lowered…

  • The Second Wave of Covid-19 (updated 15apr20)

    George Rebane [A rewrite of this piece for broader audiences – ‘The big decision and the second wave’ – appeared in the 18apr20 online and print editions of The Union.] As we start to turn the corner on the initial wave of C19 infections sweeping the land, people are already talking about the second wave…

  • Scattershots – 22feb20 (updated 25feb20)

    George Rebane Surprise! – school costs are projected to double their budgeted income.  Well, not really.  It’s only a surprise to our progressives who either skipped or failed Econ 101.  The 22feb20 Union cites a report by WestEd that projects the coming “silent recession” in our schools (here) This was known to most of us…

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