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  • The conundrum of culturally cohesive communities (updated 22aug17)

    George Rebane Cultural cohesion has been the propensity of humans living together for millennia and perhaps longer.  The clear and simple dictum is that people like to live with people who share their social values and view the world pretty much as they themselves do.  The benefits of such communities is both manifest and manifold…

  • Add to history, and not take from it (updated 17aug17)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 16 August 2017.] The Charlottesville clash is metastasizing across the country.  In these look-alike demonstrations, the Civil War and all that it entails has become the latest collision point of several ideological and political agendas.  For those able to handle historical…

  • Scattershots – 15aug17 (updated 20aug17)

    “The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”  Will Rogers George Rebane In ‘By Whose Rockets’ Red Glare’ I doubted NK’s ability to do the engineering development and testing of the missiles they have been launching.  Now it looks like others are beginning to agree and find evidence of where…

  • Charlottesville – harbinger or just a temperature reading? [updated 14aug17]

    George Rebane [This post invites the continuation of the lively comment thread on the expression/suppression of ideas that started in the 10aug17 Sandbox.] So what happened yesterday in Charlottesville?  We know that a coalition of white supremacists got a permit to demonstrate against the relocation of a Confederate statue, and that leftwing counter demonstrators showed…

  • Our ERC gets dunned, again

    George Rebane The 9aug17 Union’s lead story was ‘Supes question ERC head’.  Our local business development agency – renamed Economic Resource Council to assuage the progressive palates – has had a sad history of under achievement, not all of which can be laid at its feet.  More than once the county’s sop for inducing economic…

  • Scattershots – 7aug17 (updated 9aug17)

    George Rebane A most puzzling question – why is Putin acting as if Russia’s chances for achieving its national interests under the present US-led world order are worse than under an unknown world order that will arise when/if Putin, Islam, and the American Left successfully upsets US leadership? Absent any believable and propitious policy initiatives…

  • Megaphones and Reporters – what’s the difference?

    George Rebane Regarding the national controversy on leaks and leaking, let’s consider the roles of megaphones and media reporters.  We understand that a ‘leak’ today is considered as the release of confidential information that is not intended to be widely distributed among the public.  A leak requires the participation of at least two functioning ‘agents’…

  • The Return of Featherbedding (updated 5aug17)

    George Rebane When George Westinghouse patented his railway ‘fail-safe’ airbrakes in 1869, that new technology inaugurated a century of what came to be called featherbedding for the railroad industry as unions successfully fought the railroads to continue employing unneeded workers.  Prior to airbrakes on each railroad car, the speed of trains on down grades were…

  • CALIFORNIA VOTERS ARE BEING DISENFRANCHISED

    [This commentary was submitted by Union columnist and editorial board member Mr Norm Sauer.  It appears concurrently in the newspaper's op-ed pages.  gjr] Norm Sauer Surely, everyone agrees that protecting our citizens’ right to vote to choose their leaders is most important. Votes that are stolen from Americans who vote lawfully are negated as a…

  • GOP – Defecate or Relinquish the Receptacle

    George Rebane Were I king, I would order the 52 GOP senators into a big room set up with tables, chairs, cots, and plenty of coffee.  They would be advised to bring their nighties and toothbrushes, and then told to stay in that room until 1) they have hammered out a healthcare bill that ALL…

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