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Category: Critical Thinking & Numeracy

  • Solar panels – the latest California calamity

    George Rebane California’s collectivist calamites just keep rolling in.  The latest in the works is the Great Solar Panel Sidestep – a new government mandated, contractor supported dance that will push low cost housing, now already out of reach, even further into the land of the bureaucratically impossible.  As observed from outside our state’s borders,…

  • It’s ALL in the label (updated)

    "A rose/skunk by any other name would smell as sweet/foul", Wm Shakespeare expanded. George Rebane Watching the recent California gubernatorial candidates’ debate, it again became clear that the labels we both carefully, and sometimes carelessly, attach to important issues determine the direction and nature of the subsequent debate on and the final resolution of an issue. …

  • California’s Common Core Catastrophe

    George Rebane In these pages we have long lamented California’s adoption of the Common Core curriculum standards, especially in the teaching of math in K-12.  H/T to longtime RR reader and discussant Greg Goodknight, who points us to an important just-published essay on Common Core performance in California since the standards were adopted in 2010…

  • The 21st Century Progressive Dating Game (updated 9may18)

    Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.  Mark Twain George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 2 May 2018.] For millennia females in all cultures were shielded by their families.  Marriages were arranged for commercial or political benefit,…

  • Ruminations – 30apr18 (updated 1may18)

    Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.  Winston Churchill George Rebane George Boardman, our favorite left-leaning columnist and reader, writes a solid piece (here) in the 30apr18 Union on the effects of taxation on pot in California and our…

  • Scattershots – 19apr18 (updated 24apr18)

    George Rebane Democracy and Morals.  In the 17apr18 WSJ there was an exemplary letter on this topic, and it is posted below. It is hard to disagree with William Galston’s contention in “The Perpetual Battle for Freedom” (Politics & Ideas, April 4) that in liberal democracies the preservation of freedom for all rests on a…

  • Iffy Science and Public Policy

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 18 April 2018.] Will Rogers, humorist and keen observer of American life, once said, “It ain’t whatcha don’t know that worries me, it’s whatcha know that ain’t so.” A lot of government procured science, especially science on which politicians base public policy,…

  • Debating Par Force et al

    George Rebane My recent commentary on Par Force (here) invited discussion and debate, and the invitation has already been accepted.  PF represents an important perspective which some, like me, consider to be the quintessential reason for the Founders’ inclusion of the Second Amendment in our Constitution.  Others disagree, and their points of disagreement are important…

  • Par Force in the Second Amendment

    George Rebane On the morning of 19 April 1775, the communities surrounding Boston were awakened by riders alerting the colonial Americans that a battalion of British were marching out of Boston toward Lexington and Concord.  They were coming to confiscate a cache of arms and ammunition that the colonials had collected for the anticipated mounting…

  • Ruminations – 9apr18 (updated 14apr18)

    George Rebane ‘No Labels’ is a mighty effort by some Washington DC types from both sides to propose what they see as carefully crafted bipartisan solutions to our nation’s problems.  The activities of these good-hearted people have been covered here before.  But it appears they have overstepped their Left-approved bounds endorsing the wrong Democrat candidate…

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