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  • The Pyongyang Censors

    George Rebane President Obama correctly chastised Sony for not releasing ‘The Interview’, its comedy critical of the North Korean tyranny and its idiot dictator.  And the FBI has now formally identified North Korea as the hacker that initially embarrassed Sony by releasing its internal memos to the world.  And now it has again embarrassed the…

  • Ferguson Wrap-up (8dec14 update)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 3 December 2014.] I intended this to be a wrap-up on the Ferguson riots, but sadly there is no wrap possible, because Ferguson is just the latest chapter in the marathon effort to fundamentally transform America.  So all we can do…

  • Charitable Giving by Conservatives and Liberals

    George Rebane RR has reported on the many studies that show people of conservative bent vastly outspend liberals in contributions to private charities (and that, dollar for dollar, private charities are enormously more effective in helping the poor and disadvantaged than are government programs).  The intuitive reasons for that are easy to grasp, at least…

  • Ruminations – 15nov14

    George Rebane Random thoughts on a Saturday morning.  The beautiful fall foliage on our trees is now on the back side of the power curve, but still saying ‘look at me’ as the last leaves drift to the ground.  At our house I make a big breakfast on Saturday morning.  It is always a panful…

  • Medical Marijuana, Property Rights, and Government Access

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 3 October 2014.] The upcoming vote on Measure S, the medical marijuana initiative, is raising many questions about enforcement as they affect private property rights.  Measure S, if passed, would replace Nevada County’s existing Ordinance 2349 that prescribes how medical marijuana…

  • Cultural Solidarity (updated 16sep14)

    George Rebane As we await this week’s vote for Scotland’s independence, my thoughts again turn to culture and its role in shaping a people and structuring a society.  Reviewing some of these notions with you at this time might even pique some discussion.  The basic idea here is that what a society can/will or cannot/will…

  • Silence of the Lambs (updated 14sep14)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 30 August 2014.] It is now twelve years since WSJ Asia bureau chief Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded by Muslim terrorists.  Since then countless thousands of Muslims and non-Muslims have been murdered by Muslims in the name of their ‘religion…

  • We can’t think about Common Core, or anything else …

    George Rebane When seeking solutions to society's problems, always hold government guilty until proven innocent. Modern progressivism is the most cynically named socio-political ideology since the world of Orwell’s 1984.  Evidence abounds that there is literally nothing progressive for organizing human society in the (niggardly revealed) tenets and expanding practice of progressivism – it gives…

  • Immigration Reform and National Interest

    George Rebane Immigration has again become a national wedge issue in this midterm election year.  It doesn’t look like any new immigration laws will come out of Congress before this November, but that doesn’t mean that bamboozling voters over alternative immigration policies is not effective for garnering their votes.  Recent posts (here) and related comment streams…

  • Ruminations – 1jul14

    George Rebane [Our regular DSL is still out.  This is posted using my iPhone hot spot feature.  Hopefully, ATT will install Uverse this afternoon.] ‘The Worldview that Makes the Underclass’ by Dr Anthony Daniels, a British physician widely published and much experienced in the trenches of society’s detritus, is an excellent summary of the message…

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