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  • Scattershots – 4aug18 (updated 8aug18)

    “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know that just ain't so.”  Mark Twain, et al George Rebane Leftwing columnist Darrell Berkheimer makes his occasional foray into substantive socio-political subjects and blows it again.  In his ‘Will Violence or a Funeral End Incendiary Talk’ (4aug18 Union), the man demonstrates his limited…

  • Cato on Immigration and Open Borders (updated 3aug18)

    If Democrats don't want foreigners involved in our elections, why do they think it's OK for illegals to vote? George Rebane The Cato Institute is the nation’s foremost libertarian thinktank.  It has a long record of publishing well thought out and researched policy analyses which it freely makes available on its website.  I have now…

  • Ruminations – 27jul18 (updated 28jul18)

    George Rebane The Opioid insanity.  We now are in courts suing the big pharma makers of opioid pain killers, accusing them of being the cause of the tragic opioid deaths epidemic across the land.  Big pharma neither delivers nor gratuitously promotes the delivery of opioids to those who die from their reckless use.  In the…

  • Credo on Closure

    George Rebane Here I record a brief note made over a year ago that I discovered while clearing my desk for the next project.  It is probably of not much interest to RR’s current readers, but may be for some future internet archeologists, especially students of causality. Closure, n. – the act of bringing to…

  • Fairness and Leftwing Talk Radio (updated 26jul18)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 25 July 2018.] In our hyper-polarized country it’s time to revisit the notion of censoring free speech.  And specifically as this relates to talk radio.  Our Left has had a perennial problem with how talk radio works in America, or how…

  • Scattershots – 23jul18 (updated 26jul18)

    George Rebane In ‘Our country’s future relies on embracing those escaping brutality’ by Ms Judith McCarrick of the Immigration Action Alliance we find some pearls, among them – “That migrant parents have broken immigration laws to (surreptitiously) cross our borders is untrue.” Why? Because the legal immigration process is difficult and takes time, and because…

  • Democratic Socialists = proto-communists

    Some mistakes are just too much fun to make only once. George Rebane The left-leaning Associated Press reports ‘Democratic socialism surging in the age of Trump’.  The article is a well-written, comprehensive review of what the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are and their recent growth spurt as the Democratic Party lurches hard Left.  (We…

  • Trump’s Treason?

    Accept the fact that some days you’re the pigeon and some days you’re the statue. George Rebane As these pages attest, I am not a blinded supporter of all things Trump.  I especially take exceptions to his tweet-in-the-mouth MO with which he often snatches another debilitating defeat from the jaws of victory.  But I did…

  • How many people do we really need?

    George Rebane [Apologies for the ragged composition of this commentary.  I thought it important enough to get it into the RR record, and invite comments/debate by those who care to consider something beyond current events.] How many people are necessary for humans as a species to improve its aggregate quality of life and continue reaching…

  • The Mysteriously Magically Morphed Russian Indictments

    George Rebane Remember last winter when Mueller announced the indictment of 13 (that’s thirteen, like in one, three) Russians in his collusion investigation (more here). Remember that we discussed these indictments in the 14feb18 Sandbox (here), and concluded that there would be a snowball’s chance in hell of getting Russia to hand them over for…

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