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  • US Students ‘Slip’ in Global Tests

    George Rebane RR has been preaching for years the importance of education for our country’s continued prosperity, security, and its envied quality of life.  Researchers and academics like Niall Ferguson  have warned us that our public education system long ago reverted from operating for the benefit of the student to the benefit of education workers,…

  • Trolleyology and the Value of Human Lives

    George Rebane For decades we have seen those yellow diamond shaped signs in the back windows of cars admonishing us to ‘Drive Carefully, Baby Aboard’.  Years ago as a young father, I puzzled over the first such sign that I spied.  Its message was clear, ‘this car is transporting a human whose life is worth…

  • Thanksgiving 2013

    George Rebane Warmest greetings and wishes for a meaningful Thanksgiving to all RR readers from Jo Ann and me.  Norman Rockwell still says it the best for those of us who remember the ‘golden years’.

  • As our Republic unravels

    George Rebane In general, liberals are not stupid; many of them just have bad luck when they think. This cannot be said of California liberals. •    The Senate’s ‘nuclear option’ has been exercised;•    Obama continues to violate laws and the Constitution by rolling back more of Obamacare;•    Progressives mandate and subsidize windfarms and then sue…

  • What Babies Teach Us About Ourselves

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 22 November 2013.] Where do our deep seated feelings about right and wrong come from?  As we cooperate with each other or defect, when did we learn to do that?  Were we taught by our parents, our village, or schools in these…

  • Those who have borne the battle

    George Rebane On this Veterans Day 2013 my thoughts again turn to our wounded warriors, and how we care for those who have borne the battle at the behest of our government.  How we neglect these battered heroes and their families after they are returned from the front has now become a common refrain on…

  • Time to Live Forever?

    George Rebane A number of emails, articles, and recent announcements came together that made me again revisit the notion of man’s dream of physical immortality.  What if there were developed a pill that would genomically and/or proteomically rejuvenate a person, and taking such a pill every so many years would keep him going indefinitely?  It…

  • Ruminations – 18sep13 (updated 19sep13)

    George Rebane RIP Lavabit.  Lavabit has demonstrably been one of the most secure email services on the internet.  It is now closing its doors much to the consternation of the feds who have not been able to hack into Lavabit’s emails and servers.  And this story is worth a consideration to all Americans who pay…

  • Rise of the New Upper Class

    George Rebane [This is the appended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 30 August 2013.] In these commentaries we have examined major trends like systemic unemployment, income inequality, and the notion of a Great Divide that may rend America across one of its ideological faults.  In this installment I’ll briefly summarize a schism…

  • Ruminations – 20aug13 (updated 21aug13)

    George Rebane The nation’s insanity continues unabated.  According to the Chicago Fox affiliate (you maybe expected a lamestream outlet?) a group of illegal aliens are on a hunger strike protesting that they haven’t been put on the list for government subsidized organ transplants.  Instead of a quick ticket back to Mexico – they are Mexican…

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