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  • Introducing Politically Correct Mathematics

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 25 October 2017.  A slightly edited version of this appeared as an op-ed in the 4nov17 Union (here). gjr] In these commentaries we have chronicled the long decline of America’s K-12 education, a decline that has now been joined by our…

  • ‘Is Classical Liberalism Conservative?’

    George Rebane The so-titled recent essay (here) by Yoram Hazony, president of the Jerusalem-based Herzl Institute, poses this question and sheds considerable light on the answer.  To prematurely cut to the chase, Hazony argues that modern conservatives and classical liberals have recently drifted apart in many significant ways.  In the sequel I attempt to summarize…

  • Scattershots – 14oct17 (updated 16oct17)

    George Rebane President Trump will stop subsidizing insurance companies – i.e. stop the Treasury from making ‘cost sharing reductions’ (CSRs) that allow the health insurers to reduce premium and deductible costs required to slow down the capsizing of the ACA (aka Obamacare).  The CSRs were instituted by Obama’s executive order in 2011 as one of…

  • More on Millennials’ Mini-Minds

    George Rebane The private sector is running into a problem marketing products and services to the millennials, specifically those in the most populous 24-27 age bracket.  They know so little and have been sheltered and/or diverted from the normal course of ‘adulting’.  An example of this problem is the one Scotts Miracle-Gro is having selling…

  • Scattershots – 5oct17

    George Rebane The news media, including Fox News, are confounding the latest buzz about the SecDef and the President being at odds about the Iran agreement.  Trump has called the Iran deal “the worst ever” for the US, while Mattis along with the JCoS chair testified that Iran appears to be living up to the…

  • Education – Nevada County’s Quiet Crisis

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 4 October 2017.] Amid an ongoing parade of mass demonstrations against racism, massive calamities by mother nature, and mass shootings at public venues, we have another ongoing, more insidious, and little-known crisis that directly impacts our community, and will continue to…

  • ‘Gun Violence’, girding for the next chapter

    George Rebane With the Las Vegas massacre still fresh in the news, and memories of previous such shootings indelibly burned into our collective memories, the ongoing debate in these pages about preventing children from accidentally shooting themselves or others assumes a heightened focus and an inevitably extended scope.  We are all standing by for the…

  • Racialism Rising

    George Rebane Racialism – the ideology, based on a heightened consciousness of the race of others, that promotes racial divisions and strife to hasten the breakdown of large sovereign nation-states on the road to a unified global world order. In America there should be as little room for racism as for racialism.  We Americans should equally…

  • Tax Policy Noodlings

    George Rebane The newly proposed GOP tax cut has everyone talking.  A couple of its main features are supposed to include switching from sequential taxing to concurrent taxing of earnings.  Also discussed is the removal of certain deductions like mortgage interest paid from taxable earnings.  I was interested in the impact of these two policy…

  • Scattershots – 26sep17 (updated 1oct17)

    Government is a monopoly of the legitimate use of force within a given territory. – Max Weber, progressive economist and co-founder of sociology. George Rebane In ‘Rule of law or mob rule’, appearing in the 26sep17 Union, Ms Linda Erdmann presents clear and cogent arguments of how ‘presentism’ has uniformly infected the liberal mind in…

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