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  • Ruminations – 26feb20 (updated 27feb20)

    George Rebane A coronavirus panic is being vigorously promoted today by the lamestream media in response to their Democrat congresscritter masters who are doing everything they can to somehow blame the whole thing on President Trump, and convince our light thinkers that his administration is doing not enough while leaving the whole country vulnerable to…

  • 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…

  • Democracy Destroys the Electoral College

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 19 February 2020.  An edited version of this was published in the 7mar20 Union (here).] The nation’s Left is again demanding that the country should give up its republican roots and become a democracy – something which our Founders warned us…

  • Ruminations – 16feb20 (updated 20feb20)

    George Rebane Bernie will force employers to pay disabled workers the going minimum wage in his “disability rights” platform – according to socialist lights, it’s only fair.  No matter that repeal of Sec 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act will no longer induce employers to fashion jobs for which the (mostly mentally) disabled can…

  • SETI’s Copernican Que (updated 22feb20)

    “Where are they?”, Enrico Fermi George Rebane Since my previous foray into Fermi’s famous query, I have had occasion to reconsider the numbers that I generated when first applying copernican arguments to the sound of silence experienced by the various Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence efforts that started about the middle of the last century.  My…

  • Scattershots – 12feb20 (updated 14feb20)

    George Rebane New Dem candidates contest.  I’m considering starting a new contest after the 3mar20 Super-Tuesday to predict/pick the Democratic Party presidential nominee.  The line-up would consist of the 3mar20 surviving candidates and ‘Other’.  Each Friday the contestants, who can enter at any time until 10 July (the last Friday before the Dem convention scheduled…

  • Dropout Derby – 11feb20 (updated)

    George Rebane Competition is getting tough.  The Estonian Fox is soaring, and our dear departed Russ has pulled into second place by nailing Yang’s dropout.  Anyone know what Bennet is still doing in the race?  [Update]  Apparently Bennet couldn’t answer that question either, so he also bailed today.  The updated graphics are below.  

  • GDP and Earth’s Temperature (updated 9feb20)

    George Rebane Most well-read people look at Gross Domestic Product as the gold standard of our economy’s performance.  And all know that GDP growth will cure almost all the ills we still see in the economy.  But when we take a deeper look at how the GDP statistic is concocted, we discover that it’s really…

  • We do have our own facts (updated 7feb20)

    "A house divided against itself cannot stand." A. Lincoln George Rebane [This is the addended and updated transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 5 February 2020.] The nationally prominent public figure and liberal Daniel Patrick Moynihan gave us the well-known shibboleth that "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." …

  • On Western Civilization

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 22 January 2020.] Across the globe western civilization is under an historic and relentless assault.  Today most countries – developed and developing – have adopted and practice many fortuitous aspects of western civilization with attributes and social norms developed in the west. …

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