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  • ‘The Divided States of America’

    As democracy is perfected, the office of the  President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron. –…

  • Yes, we really have become polarized

    George Rebane The Left in recent years has intensified the narrative that the Right has shrunk in numbers while becoming more extreme in its ideology.  The Left sees its own collectivist approaches to organizing society as having become the ideological lingua franca of most Americans.  As evidence of this, the growth of the country’s self-declared…

  • Common Core Unexamined

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 25 April 2014.] Some years back the National Governors Association, realizing that America’s workforce was rapidly losing out in the global job markets, concluded that the country needed a new approach to K-12 education.  Its efforts to that end produced what…

  • HE IS RISEN!

    George Rebane As Christmas is the promise, Easter is the fulfillment.  Oblivion vanquished, rejoice!

  • Typhoon Tarnaev – one year on

    George Rebane Today there have been many observances and rembrances of the explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon that killed three, injured over 260, and blew the limbs off 16 of them.  People were gathered at these planned events to celebrate their “show of defiance and resilience” in the face of this tragedy.  NPR this…

  • Journalism’s New Lows or just SOP?

    George Rebane The low cognitive reach of today’s journalists in intellect, knowledge base, and command of English is well recognized.  But more and more of their deficits in reasoning and research are making themselves felt as they fall behind in their role as our society’s watchdogs.  Three examples will illustrate. Gov Christie’s ‘Bridgegate’ is not…

  • Those Unedjicated Conservatives

    O wad some Power the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us!  Robert Burns George Rebane RR reader and indefatigable champion of all things progressive, Mr Ben Emery, posted a link under ‘So You Wanna College Degree?’ to a video that he advises is the progressives’ viewpoint on the dumbing down of…

  • Scattershots on Cultural Change (updated 6jan14)

    George Rebane I am a child, student, and defender of Western civilization. Today I mourn.  Stanford JD Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute informs us all how ‘The Humanities Have Forgotten Their Humanity’.  I mourn more deeply because it is at my alma mater where the coup de grace is being delivered.  UCLA has been…

  • Collapse of Commercial Collectivist Talk Radio

    George Rebane News Item – Next year commercial talk radio of the liberal bent is slated to completely collapse in the remaining major media markets of New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.  The problem is that the audiences for such content are miniscule and diminishing.  Leftwing talk radio survives on non-profit outlets such…

  • ‘A Future of Failure?’ – A Timely Progressive Lament

    George Rebane ‘A Future of Failure?: The Flow of Technology Talent into Government and Civil Society’ was just published by Freedman Consulting, a progressive policy consultancy run by former staffers of Democrat administrations.  This important report was sponsored by the MacArthur and Ford Foundations, organizations that are much in tune with leftwing causes and central…

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