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  • ‘Your money or your life!’ (updated 21mar20)

    George Rebane Proposition:  Many more lives will be lost and/or ruined by intentionally tanking our economy into a depression, than will be lost to Covid19 going forward with a balanced policy of social distancing and continuing our economic pursuits with due prudence during the waning epidemic. The iconic and immortal Jack Benny, comic of a…

  • “Testing, testing, testing” – Really? (updated 23mar20)

    George Rebane Those words from Speaker Pelosi summarized her three most important aspects of the pandemic legislation now going through Congress.  But once more I believe that the lady misses the point here.  Testing will do demonstrably little to stop or even slow down the inevitable and incipient explosion of Covid19 infections in the land. …

  • The Long Road Back – Loss/Recovery

    George Rebane Given all the problems caused by the global Covid-19 pandemic, we now contemplate your investment portfolio in light of the markets’ plunge over the last two weeks – in short, we’ll now expand our horizons from the morbid to the macabre.

  • An Electoral College dialogue continued

    George Rebane Mr Dick Sciaroni wrote 'Electoral College reform – it's up to us' in the 13mar20 Union, a measured and civil response to my 7mar20 Union column, ‘Democracy Destroys the Electoral College’ (and here), wherein he concludes with, “Is it time to reform the Electoral College system? Perhaps. It’s up to all of us,…

  • COVID Testing – Unclear on the Concept (updated 15mar20)

    George Rebane Our dispensers of perennial hate have now fastened on to the shortage of Covid test kits in the land, and claim that the President had two months warning and did nothing.  The fact of the matter, as even reported in the NYT (here), is that no one around the world knew of the…

  • The Democracy Debate Revisited

    George Rebane On 19 February last, I broadcast on KVMR and posted here a commentary titled ‘Democracy Destroys the Electoral College’.  Subsequently I submitted an edited version of the piece to The Union which published it in its 6mar20 print and online editions (here).  The commentary was of a piece and amplified my longstanding agreement…

  • Bernie’s Big Lie – Socialist Sweden

    George Rebane Sen Bernie Sanders’ lies are too many to count, but one that he keeps repeating successfully to the nation’s light thinkers involves the myth of Scandinavian socialism.  This is the kind of socialism that Bernie wants to incorporate in the United States, and he continues to use Sweden as the posterchild of how…

  • Should Our Kids Learn to Code?

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 4 March 2020.] As more and more young people finish their education today with unemployable skill sets, while employers are looking for people who can think on their feet and solve problems, the question of whether and how to teach high schoolers…

  • The Socialistic Socialization of Socialism (updated 6mar20)

    George Rebane Some thoughts on Super Tuesday 2020.  Socialism is a form of organizing society and the economy, a form unknown to our younger generations.  They have been taught in our schools all about the mythical glories of socialism, and no history of what actually happens when countries have adopted it.  Today they are saturated…

  • Fair, Just, and Legal, Oh My! (updated 3mar20)

    George Rebane From the dictionary: Fairness: “the state, condition, or quality of being fair, or free from bias or injustice: evenhandedness.” “the quality of making judgments that are free from discrimination.” Justice: “the quality of being fair and reasonable” Legal: “appointed, established, or authorized by law; deriving authority from law; permitted by law; lawful. We…

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