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  • Scattershots – 29jun16 (updated 1jul16)

    George Rebane The AGW hysteria has become very hard to maintain in circles that still participate in scientific debate and within the public forum that follows such debate.  The hysteria is unaffected by such debate within the community of grant-funded scientists and their political sponsors (wherein the 'debate is over'), and of course their double dummy…

  • Brexit Reflections (updated 25jun16)

    George Rebane Britain’s Brexit vote marks a watershed for Ruminations.  It delivered a robust confirmation of the conservetarian tenets posted and debated in these pages for the last ten years.  And given the state of the EU and what is happening there, we can expect more to come.  As I monitored last night’s election returns…

  • Ruminations – 21jun16 (updated again 23jun16)

    George Rebane Consider the following in light of the administration’s recent barrage of lies about terrorism, Islam, and homeland security. Proper use of Bayesian statistics and decision support has kept Islamists at bay in many countries – Israel is the poster child – around the world.  Our homeland security apparatus eschews such modern advances under…

  • Ongoing Government Corruption – June 2016

    George Rebane When the country has a problem, it is prudent to consider government guilty until proven innocent. This is a dated sampling of a few current happenings that give evidence our federal government is incompetent and/or corrupt, and in any case does NOT have the best interests of its citizens in mind. Obama’s Mideast…

  • The Progressives’ Pervasive Pogo Prescription

    ‘We have met the enemy, and he is us.’  Pogo, 20th century philosopher George Rebane That observation has long been repurposed from its original context by pundits of various persuasions, none more consistently than by the elites of the Left.  I posted ‘The Liberal Mind Inteprets Florida, etc’ to elicit a broader discussion and illustration…

  • The Liberal Mind interprets Florida, etc (updated)

    George Rebane This morning’s massacre at an Orlando LGBT nightclub provides and ongoing confirmation of the chasm between Left and Right America.  From the national Democratic leadership and their lamestream media right down to our own RR readers of a markedly progressive bent, their impetus is to deny, minimize, or ignore – Any connection to…

  • Yes, ethnicity, culture, and even ideology impact decisions

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 8 June 2016.] As the double helix is spliced and the twig is bent … The political dust devil du jour is Donald Trump’s complaint that an Indiana judge’s ruling on a business case involving the billionaire will be impacted by…

  • Guaranteed National Income and Jobs (updated)

    George Rebane We in the IT development industry became aware over thirty years ago that the coming technology revolution would destroy more human jobs than create new ones.  Things would be different, very different.  No one believed us, least of all government types and those in the social sciences.  They all had their eyes in…

  • Scattershots – 3jun16

    George Rebane When the country has a problem, it is prudent to consider government guilty until proven innocent. Today we hear of banks being squeezed by regulatory mandates that require them to lend to a broader category of borrowers (e.g. car buyers), and at the same time reduce risk.  Such strictures can only issue from…

  • Still wrong about liberal arts majors

    George Rebane Political science major and entrepreneur David Kalt writes ‘Why I Was Wrong About Liberal-Arts Majors’ in the 1jun16 WSJ.  There he argues from his experience that it’s really the liberal arts majors –  philosophy, history, music, … – who have the best background to become what he knows as “computer programmers”.  Why?  Because…

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