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  • ‘Democrats good, Republicans bad’ – Propaganda Central

    'As government expands, liberty shrinks!' George Rebane Our intrepid columnist George Boardman in the 21oct19 Union laid out (here) a carefully concocted list of stats. Democrat “districts” generate 63% of GDP, while Republican districts manage only 37%. Democrat household incomes increased 17%, while Republican HHs only increased 3%. Democrat “districts” have greater concentrations (“clusters”) of…

  • ‘From Racism to Culturism’ (updated 18oct19)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 16 October 2019.] For some decades now, ‘racism’ and ‘racist’ have become a cachet in the Left’s narrative about the sins of the Right when other such appellations fail them.  Few people using such pejoratives can give a coherent definition of…

  • Power Outage – from a very scary viewpoint

    George Rebane Mr Cedar Moss declared himself to be one of Lenin’s “useful idiots” in this morning’s (14oct19) Union (here).  There the man actually celebrates the recent power outage and looks forward to a time when these become a regular occurrence in our lives.  For him, “there is something about all this that feels very…

  • The Split Pill Problem Solved

    George Rebane RR readers were introduced to the Split Pill Problem (SPP) in a passing Scattershots entry last summer.  The problem involved giving our puppy Puna her pain meds after her second knee repair surgery, and that evoked an interesting problem the solution to which turned out to have several features which generalize to and…

  • Scattershots – 11oct19 (updated 13oct19)

    George Rebane Nevada City mayor Reinette Senum calls for the “dismantling” of PG&E during the windless Wednesday night protest in front of city hall.  “During the protest Senum questioned PG&E’s decision to shut off power, saying that although she supports the move in cases of extreme weather, it should proactively turn it back on when…

  • ‘The Marginal Revolutionaries’

    George Rebane George Melloan, former deputy editor of WSJ’s editorial page and now syndicated columnist, has written an excellent review (here) in the 5oct19 WSJ of The Marginal Revolutionaries – How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas (2019) by historian Janek Wasserman.  This is an extensively researched “group history of the Austrian School of…

  • Scattershots – 4oct19 (updated 9oct19)

    George Rebane 'My allegation stands true until you prove it false.'  The progressive's approach to debate and judicial process (see also Alinsky and Stalin's show trials). An anti-American attribute of our Left is their imposition of process over performance in their planning and public policies.  The leftist always seeks to increase government’s scope of control…

  • Foreign Influence on the Rise

    People are usually willing to accept the verdict of democratic elections only when all parties share the same national loyalties. – Yuval Harari, widely published historian (emphasis mine) George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regularly scheduled KVMR commentary broadcast on 2 October 2019.] Let’s consider what has become an issue of great…

  • The Varieties of Reason in Another Attempt at Discourse

    “Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.”  Saul Alinsky in ‘Rules for Radicals’ George Rebane In the effort to reflect here ‘observations and interpretations of events from the last great century of man’, illuminating the ideas and attitudes of our polarized population is part and parcel of RR posts.  Here we do…

  • Toward the Singularity via super-intelligence

    George Rebane Knowing my relationship with Dr Judea Pearl, fellow blogger Russ Steele sent me a link to a recent interview (here) on AI with Judea.  Longtime RR readers recall pieces citing my friend, colleague, and mentor Judea Pearl as the inventor of Bayes and causal nets, and one of the true pioneers of AI…

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