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Category: Critical Thinking & Numeracy

  • Illustrations of Futility (updated 19aug21)

    George Rebane In the latest effort to find common ground in our fractured country, a new civics curriculum has been devised by a few hundred scholars under the aegis of Educating for American Democracy Initiative.  Bipartisan support comes from Sens Coons and Cornyn who have authored the Civics Secures Democracy Act to pump $1B of…

  • Climate Hysteria 3.0 (maybe 4.0)

    George Rebane ‘Settled’ is not an adjective to be used with real science. The recently released AR6 report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has injected new life into climate hysteria that seems to have been flagging over the last few years.  The usual hysterics are again up in arms with another round…

  • Belief has been banished

    George Rebane Equity is the enemy of liberty. In the days of yore we had a national institution called the Fourth Estate – professional journalism.  It was staffed by reporters taught by their editors to be ‘curious, hard-bitten skeptics’, always seeking alternative sides to what they were being told.  In a recent piece (here) by…

  • Ruminations – 6aug21 (updated 11aug21)

    Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue. George Rebane Socialist economists don’t understand why millions of workers’ real wages have not increased in the last, say, thirty years.  The answer is simple.  Labor is a cost, why increase that component of cost when it has contributed nothing to the increase in productivity.  That wages…

  • Speaking Algoristically

    George Rebane [Reading some recent papers on the current problems in the advance of deep learning, and causal inference as the next quantum leap in machine intelligence, I ran across a lot of discussion about what are still called algorithms.  It recalled the summary of a more facile syntax that I and several others have…

  • Critical Race Theory – a personal assessment

    “Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!”  Stephen Decatur "… the ultimate purpose of  public education is to subsume the individual's will into the general will."  American Marxist (2021) George Rebane CRT is now blowing across the land, starting with our K-12…

  • The Criminality of Covid Care (updated 31jul21)

    George Rebane The prominent article on front page of the 26jul21 WSJ declares ‘Covid Treatment Options Remain Elusive, Despite Months of Effort and Rising Delta Cases’.  And the most elusive treatment options remain Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and Ivermectin (IVM) which are nowhere even mentioned in an otherwise comprehensive piece on the various medicines having been tested…

  • Global Tax Bamboozle

    Tax rates don’t impact economic behavior.  Leftwing shibboleth George Rebane Let’s start with an eternal truth, forever hidden from the lightly read and leftwing ‘economists’ – corporations don’t pay taxes, their customers do.’  Today SecTreas Yellen is Team Biden’s point on the easy job of convincing the G-7 countries to establish a globally applied minimum…

  • The Great Divide – an updated review (updated 20jul21)

    George Rebane This piece on the Great Divide is a continuation of the thread I started with ‘America the Unnatural’.  The July issue of Chronicles from the Charlemagne Institute features a series of articles under the heading ‘Divided America’.  I bring these to your attention because they contain excellent reports and analyses of the socio-political…

  • Equity Denies Reality (Addended)

    George Rebane [This piece was rejected by The Union as unfit for their readers.  I must admit that I was surprised at that response, and the reasons given by publisher Don Rogers.  I will have more to say later about my new understanding of the newspaper’s ideological coloring and journalistic demeanor.  The following is an…

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