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  • Tongue tied in America

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 28 September 2016.] ‘The blue of the grass’ is the color green in an African language.  That’s a lot of letters compared to the five letters in the word ‘green’ to get across the same message.  But it’s also getting harder…

  • Ideological Images

    George Rebane The chasm that divides today’s Left and Right has many facets, some of which can be illustrated graphically.  It is not clear that a progressive will understand the images shown below.

  • This economy – how much longer?

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 14 September 2016.] There was happy dancing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue this morning.  The much publicized mirth has to do with what appears to a break in the longstanding doldrums in which our economy has been mired for the last eight…

  • Confusing Confused Conspiracies

    George Rebane Conspiracy (n) – an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot; a combination for a secret, unlawful, or evil purpose. Mid-roaders are some of the most ideologically opaque critters that reside on the political landscape.  In these pages I have attempted to gently take them…

  • Polling Phollies

    George Rebane We must always remember that more often than not the public mind is fickle, frantic, and foolish. No one can escape the polls during this election season whose results will be deemed cataclysmic by at least half of the American electorate, no matter who wins.  So all kinds of people from government, campaigns,…

  • Playing with Amnesty

    George Rebane Amnesty – “an act of forgiveness for past offenses, especially to a class of persons as a whole”, Random House Dictionary (unabridged).  “an act of oblivion, a general overlooking or pardon of past offences by the ruling authority”, Oxford English Dictionary (unabridged). Amnesty for illegal aliens today has become the new third rail of politics for both sides.  On long established principle the Republicans will not countenance…

  • ‘Misreading the Nordic Model’

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 31 August 2016.] For quite some time now Americans have heard the siren song of Nordic socialism performed consistently by our country’s Left from which more and more are actually outing themselves as socialists.  In this election season we have heard…

  • Congressional Reform Act of 2017 a la Buffett

    George Rebane A correspondent sent me this transcription from a Warren Buffett interview in which he assembled the whole list of things we have all heard piecemeal here and there.  This is something that I believe most Americans can get behind, and as history shows, when we overwhelmingly vote for something, it can come to…

  • Scattershots – 7aug16 (updated 12aug16)

    George Rebane More evidence that our Great Experiment has failed.  Great Experiment?  – self-governance, the raison d’etre the Founders nominated for our Republic, ‘Is common man capable of governing himself?’  Today we have finally ‘educated’ our dumbest generation ever – the Millennials.  These young people are now overwhelmingly ignorant of history, modes of governance, economics,…

  • Bayes sans equations and tears

    George Rebane This little monograph is the most recent in the series to explain Bayesian reasoning to the non-technical (but otherwise intelligent) reader, and will serve as a reference for future posts.  Some previous efforts in this direction can be found here and here.   In the sequel we repeat the exercise graphically without resorting to…

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