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  • ‘Me Generation’ looks for work

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary that was broadcast on 11 May 2012.] It’s graduation season during a particularly intense election year while the economy is stuck in the mud, and technological advances still come pouring out the research universities and private industry.  Our educational system at all levels puts…

  • Ruminations – 8may12

    George Rebane Happy VE Day!  On 8 May 1945 the Rebanes were in Liederberg – a small German farming village that just a few days ago was firmly brought under the control of Patton’s Third Army (more here) – and ready to be carted off to Augsburg and four years of internment in post-war displaced…

  • ‘… to shift the burden of hardship to the rich …’

    George Rebane That promise is resounding worldwide as socialist/communist politicians promise to ease the long overdue payments for profligate government spending in countries facing financial ruin.  Today France elected Francois Hollande to be its new president.  How did Hollande beat Sarkozy?  by promising to shift the burden of hardship, naturally. The rich are already paying…

  • ‘Why the technical stuff?’

    George Rebane I was asked that question recently by a regular RR reader.  He went on to opine that not many of my readers would make the effort to understand all that high falootin’ stuff and just skip over it.  In short, I’m wasting time and effort in offering up such posts.  And, of course,…

  • More Milestones on our Downward Spiral

    George Rebane This week has seen a lot of dilapidation in our ship of state.  For openers, Peggy Noonan takes an overarching survey of events that reflects on our national character.  From other perspectives we see what it is to be on a careening progressive luge as this administration more fully reveals itself, and what…

  • A Cut at ‘Rational Optimism’

    George Rebane A friend and correspondent who shares many of my worldviews sent me a link to science writer Matt Ridley's hopeful piece on "seventeen reasons to be cheerful".  RR readers of these pages know that I am of the opinion that the western world is now beyond the tipping point, that we are headed…

  • Ruminations – 10apr12

    “In a truly free society, public affairs are not confined to the affairs of government.”  F.A. Hayek George Rebane Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler will be on Fox Business’ John Stossel at 6pm PDT on 12 April.  No doubt he will be talking about the new structure of the tea party movement, and how…

  • HE IS RISEN!

    George Rebane Hearing that strong assertion, the Christian answers joyfully, ‘He is risen indeed!’ For us, Christmas is the promise, and Easter its fulfillment.  The summation of all Christianity is Christ’s covenant in the promised transcendence of Man, all concentrated into one simple declaration – ‘He is risen!’  Without this, our faith is a fraud;…

  • From Human Obsolescence to Technology Ebooks and Climate Models

    "… of shoes and ships and sealing wax/ of cabbages and kings.",  Lewis Carroll George Rebane (Written 31mar12; no time to write today Sunday, I'm pulling my scheduled club duty as rangemaster at the local rifle/pistol range.) On this blustery and wet Saturday morning I gathered together a few of the piles of notes I…

  • North Korea saves planet (again)

    George Rebane Shown below, we and our neighbors once more had our traditional annual celebration of ‘Save the Earth’ done a wee bit differently than the poor wretches in North Korea under the heel of their celebrated Good/Dear/Beloved/…/Bullshit Leader.  Those poor schlubs are forced to celebrate Earth Hour every night, while year after year we…

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