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  • Scattershots – 14aug18 (updated 15aug18)

    You can get away with a lot of  illiberal theatrics and demands in a liberal society, and one of the great, eternal challenges for democratic governments is to figure out how much one can tolerate before the forces of illiberalism corrode the liberal order.  Jonah Goldberg (2018) George Rebane ‘Google gives back’ gushes the 13aug18…

  • Scattershots – 29jul18 (updated 31jul18)

    George Rebane Speaking of wholesale lying to the public, the Left’s lamestream is now telling America that the current economic surge under President Trump 1) is really just the planned outcome of all the things that Obama got started, or 2) a spontaneous act of nature like particularly wet season after a drought – actually…

  • Our Declining IQ Numbers

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 20 June 2018.] Listeners to these commentaries over the years have heard me report on the advance of America’s national dumbth – a term coined by the late Steve Allen to describe the overall state of our understanding, interests, and intellectual acumen. …

  • Scattershots – 29may18 (updated)

    George Rebane The Great Divide debate continues as muddled as ever.  We refer to leftwing commenter jon smith’s 134pm re my 1104am in the 26may18 Sandbox.  The man(?) is apparently not aware of the years-long Great Divide debate in these pages and in the national dialogue (also referenced here, see RR’s ‘Great Divide’ category).  In…

  • Mr Boardman’s dabble in STEM education

    George Rebane Our irrepressible Union columnist George Boardman’s Memorial Day contribution (here) took a swipe at those of us who “are always griping about the lack of emphasis on the STEM subjects, the math and science course that can get you a good paying job in our information-based economy.”  It’s not clear what Mr Boardman’s…

  • Memorial Day – 28 May 2018

    George Rebane Once more we gratefully contemplate the terrible price paid by those who gave their all so that America may remain the land of opportunity and the home of the free.  The words and photo from Memorial Day – 30 May 2011 still apply, and this video will explain the cost.

  • The 21st Century Progressive Dating Game (updated 9may18)

    Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.  Mark Twain George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 2 May 2018.] For millennia females in all cultures were shielded by their families.  Marriages were arranged for commercial or political benefit,…

  • Scattershots – 19apr18 (updated 24apr18)

    George Rebane Democracy and Morals.  In the 17apr18 WSJ there was an exemplary letter on this topic, and it is posted below. It is hard to disagree with William Galston’s contention in “The Perpetual Battle for Freedom” (Politics & Ideas, April 4) that in liberal democracies the preservation of freedom for all rests on a…

  • Par Force in the Second Amendment

    George Rebane On the morning of 19 April 1775, the communities surrounding Boston were awakened by riders alerting the colonial Americans that a battalion of British were marching out of Boston toward Lexington and Concord.  They were coming to confiscate a cache of arms and ammunition that the colonials had collected for the anticipated mounting…

  • Ruminations – 9apr18 (updated 14apr18)

    George Rebane ‘No Labels’ is a mighty effort by some Washington DC types from both sides to propose what they see as carefully crafted bipartisan solutions to our nation’s problems.  The activities of these good-hearted people have been covered here before.  But it appears they have overstepped their Left-approved bounds endorsing the wrong Democrat candidate…

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