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  • Our idiots write

    [The letters from two local progressive worthies appeared in the 24nov17 Union.  They are published here as a part of the public service component of RR.  My commentaries on the liberal mind pale when compared to the real things.  You really can’t make this stuff up.  gjr] Trump-Republican gun culture and gun violence When will…

  • US Students’ PISA Ratings

    George Rebane The latest (2015) release of PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) scores are out, and the all important ratings for 15-year-olds in now a matter of record.  We have long mourned the performance deficits in our educational system and the resulting standing our students have on the international stage where America must compete…

  • Definitions Derby

    Hold to nothing too violently.  Every fool stands convinced: and everyone convinced is a fool; and the faultier a man's judgment, the firmer his conviction; even with the proof on your side, it is well to make concession; for your reasons are known and your gentlemanliness is recognized; … .  Gracian #183 George Rebane In…

  • Scattershots – 10nov17 (updated 11nov17)

    George Rebane That progressivism is an evil ideology, evil in the sense that it stifles wholesale liberty, individual freedoms, entrepreneurship, grass roots altruism (charity), … .  ‘Stifles’ is too weak of a notion by far if we are to hear the prescriptions for creating their new America (i.e. Obama’s “fundamental transformation”).  Longtime RR discussant Gregory…

  • An Innumerate SCOTUS, oh my!

    A nation ignorant and free, that never was and never shall be.  Thomas Jefferson George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 8 November 2017.] Numeracy is the name given to a set of math oriented skills that an educated lay person is supposed to have in order to…

  • ‘Communism’s Bloody Century’ (Addended)

    George Rebane The titled essay (here) by Princeton historian Dr Stephen Kotkin provides an important critical review of the system of governance under which many still live and many more actively promote.  Under autocratic governments socialism’s logical terminus has been communism, as the attempt to fix socialism’s indigenous failures is always through ratcheting up the…

  • Scattershots – 1nov17 (updated 4nov17)

    George Rebane Single-payer sounds of silence.  Our lamestream has been forever silent on the blatant shortcomings and fake news about other countries’ SP healthcare systems, especially their posterchild, the UK’s National Health Service.  None of the laments published by the British press about NHS foibles and failures make it to this side of the pond,…

  • Mueller Mining the Russia Collusion Confusion (updated 5nov17)

    George Rebane It may well be that the ongoing ‘Russia collusion’ investigation will turn out to be a bigger affair than was Watergate, even if it doesn’t connect Donald Trump to any culpable act.  Special prosecutors must needs eventually find something to prosecute, and find it they will as Robert Mueller has already demonstrated with…

  • The Singularity is Nearer

    George Rebane Have you noticed over the years when we have met in these pages to talk about the Singularity, that today finally everyone is talking about it in one fashion or another.  It’s as if suddenly everyone who reads is being introduced to the newest developments in AI and the possible futures it portends…

  • Scattershots – 26oct17 (updated 28oct17)

    Legal US gun owners have 300 million guns, and over a trillion rounds of ammo.  Seriously folks, if we were a problem, you'd know it. – Inconvenient fact. George Rebane News media reports on Americans’ attitudes about paying taxes includes this little bagatelle – only 39% disapprove of the poor not paying any federal taxes,…

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