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  • Kneeing Our National Anthem (updated 27sep17)

    George Rebane More and more NFL players, owners, and managers started showing their disrespect for one of our nation’s most hallowed totems – The Star-Spangled Banner.  They chose to do this for a number of political reasons starting with protesting alleged police brutality.  And in doing so they have the temerity to claim that their…

  • Hijacking Religion and Delivering the Votes

    George Rebane On the 23sep17 Union’s op-ed page there is a quarter page ad taken out by an outfit calling itself the Earth Justice Ministries.  From their own words (here) it appears that the EJM is a leftwing organization of progressives appealing to people of faith, mainly Christians, to join in the progressive agenda through…

  • Dershowitz Defines Dangers

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 13 September 2017.] Selectively celebrated and nationally prominent attorney and law professor Alan Dershowitz has become a familiar advocate of divers, sometimes conflicting, causes over the last few decades.  The country’s most prominent secular Jew has defended the likes of Patty…

  • Samples of Snowflakes’ Safespace Sophistries

    George Rebane This Thursday conservative commentator Ben Shapiro is scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley.  To gird the fragile ideological loins of its student body, that campus’s Executive Vice President and Provost, Paul Alivisatos has published this memo for the university’s students and faculty. We are deeply concerned about the impact some speakers may have…

  • Fake News Defined

    George Rebane Since I took some considerable issue with the LWV’s attempt to illuminate the nation’s travails with fake news (here), the definition of which never quite emerged from that conclave, I thought it proper to make my own contribution to the same.  I believe that most people graced with critical thinking skills will more…

  • Great Divide – Yes Virginia, we really are very different

    George Rebane Today’s headline again corroborates what those who have paid attention have known for some years now.  The latest WSJ/NBC poll out today reports the stark differences between the country’s Right and Left as represented by their respective Republican and Democrat party affiliations.  The important part here is that the “WSJ/NBC News survey indicates…

  • The Socialists’ Conundrum

    [In his 22sep17 letter to The Union’s editor, my friend Norm Sauer shares the Left’s conundrum in a clear, concise, and complete format originally summarized by L. Poplack of Olympia (where they used to brew my favorite beer).  The only problem remaining – is the Left sharp enough to understand the situation?  From the local…

  • Max Tegmark, welcome aboard!

    George Rebane The Singularity must really be near when we have MIT physicist Max Tegmark climb aboard with the spate of science and industry luminaries who have recently discovered that intelligent machines will someday surpass humans, will systemically displace human labor, and (in a TBD form) will become the dominant lifeform on Earth.  Dr Tegmark…

  • Male/Female Brains – different?

    George Rebane Here’s the latest little piece of reportage on a very uncomfortable topic for progressives – clinical and physiological differences between men’s and women’s brains.  In ‘Do Men and Women Have Different Brains?’ with tagline ‘A controversy sparked by a Google memo brings up an old question: What role does biology play in personality…

  • iGeners – when you thought it couldn’t get worse (updated 26aug17)

    George Rebane Time for a short update on our generational tailspin.  A new body of research has just been published on iGen, the latest generation of Americans.  iGeners are the young people born in the 1995-2012 interval.  They are the ones following our infamous millennials born 1977-1995 whose aggregate predilection toward dumbth we have been…

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