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  • Fetus + 12 inches = Baby

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 17 May 2013.] OK, if you’ve been habitually glued to the lamestream media, you probably just recently heard of the murder trial of late term abortionist and now convicted hat trick killer Dr Kermit Gosnell.  According to court testimony Gosnell ran a…

  • Conservatives’ Use of ‘Nanny State’

    ‘The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings …’, L Carroll George Rebane Conservatives continue their idiotic practice of characterizing the encroaching leviathan of big government as the ‘nanny state’.  There is nothing nannyish about such a state, it is…

  • CTA on ‘cultural competency’ – a peek into the pus

    George Rebane Our society is covered with plenty of boils and pimples from our attempts to do the ‘right thing’ with all the political correctness we can muster.  A correspondent sent me a piece on the California Teachers Association website in which the union highlights the politically correct sensitivities and behaviors of teachers confronting students…

  • US Murder Rate History [Addended] (updated 27apr13)

      George Rebane In doing some research for the upcoming Breaking Bread episode on the Second Amendment, I found this clear summary of America’s murder rate.  It is compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center using FBI statistics. These numbers and the trend overwhelm the infrequent episodic mass killings that have occurred over the last…

  • Boston and pan-Islamism – some early ruminations

    George Rebane The end of round one in Boston’s latest experience with pan-Islamic jihad brings to mind several observations before round two gets under way.  My working name for round two is ‘Positioning for political justice’.  But here I’d like to put down some thoughts about two aspects – the larger frame of the Boston…

  • ‘Breaking Bread’ on NCTV (updated)

    George Rebane Late yesterday afternoon we finished ‘taping’ the first installment of ‘Breaking Bread’ (BB), a new series that is to air over the coming months on NCTV Channel 11.  BB is a roundtable discussion of ideas, happenings, and current issues of broad national interest.  It is based loosely on the historical French salons which…

  • Marriage by any other name (updated 5apr13)

    George Rebane California’s Prop8 rescinded gay marriage in the state.  The will of the people may now be overturned by the Supreme Court which is hearing the appeal to uphold Prop8 that in the interval was overturned as unconstitutional by lower courts.  In this debate we recall that under California law, gay couples can already…

  • The New Pope and Christianity’s Challenge

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 15 March 2013.] Cardinal of Argentina and Jesuit, Jorge Bergoglio, was elected Pope last Wednesday, the first from the Western Hemisphere to hold the Holy Office of Catholicism.  He chose to be known as Pope Francis (the First), a name that fits…

  • The Liberal Mind on Choices and Fortune

    George Rebane Capitalism works best when corporations must woo their customers instead of government. There is something in the liberal mindset that does not understand ‘choice’ when applied to individual responsibility.  In a recent comment stream one such reader stated – “Do people actually choose to be poor? How many poor people would refuse a…

  • Ideologies and Governance – a structured look

    Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country’s Constitution be labeled as “extremists”. George Rebane Hereabouts and in more distinguished forums the governance debate continues as to which types belong to the Left or the Right.  The confusion from the Left’s academics seems to be with…

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