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  • Where Were the Law Abiding Guns?

    George Rebane While the looney left is having problems coordinating its fabrication of rightwing guilt for the Tucson atrocity as they play defense against the emerging facts about the shooter’s politics, there is another aspect about this tragedy that has yet to be discussed.  In an open public gathering involving political figures and a large…

  • The Loss of Form

    George Rebane Back in the stone age when we were young, a lot of emphasis was put on teaching children how to behave in various social situations.  And we were taught that there existed different kinds of social settings in which this behavior was OK, that behavior was required, and those behaviors were definitely ‘out…

  • The Vitriol Verdict is In (updated 11jan2011)

    George Rebane The response of the left to the tragic shooting in Tucson yesterday has been swift and sure.  The whole thing was the product of right wing “vitriol”.  Starting with the local sheriff, through the mainstream media, and into the blogs, it was too much political speech from the conservatives, especially those in the…

  • Politically Endorsed Science (updated 11jan2011)

    George Rebane The newly proposed lecture series ‘What’s Next in Science?’ is causing a dust-up in the local blogs, and as a former scientist who has worked on the frontiers of knowledge, I should weigh in.  At issue is how the Nevada County Board of Supervisors should respond to the lecture series that is being…

  • Contemplating 2011

    George Rebane Here are some thoughts about the coming year that have been cooking for a while.  This is the annual season of prognostications in which pundits, publishers, politicians, and propagandists are bellying up to the bar to be heard. The Economist, venerable ‘newspaper’ of opinion economics, has slid markedly leftward during 2010.  It is…

  • Lovers in a Foxhole

    George Rebane Yesterday the Senate passed a bill to revoke the longstanding ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy banning gays serving openly in the military.  Senator and combat veteran John McCain pronounced the passage a “sad day” for the military, adding "I hope that when we pass this legislation that we will understand that we are…

  • What is Art?

    George Rebane [For a change of pace from the heated discussions of our country’s future and the fate of Man, I ran into this little vignette from a past correspondence, and thought that I would share it to see what kind of a response it would draw from the eclectic intellects I am grateful to…

  • High unemployment – the new normal

    George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my monthly column published in this morning’s (11 December 2010) print edition of The Union.  The online version of it can be found here.] This week another batch of economists got surprised.  What they didn’t understand again, let alone predict, was the nation’s unemployment rate – it…

  • An Invitation to More Artful Polemics

    George Rebane "Marx and Engels never tried to refute their opponents with argument. They insulted, ridiculed, derided, slandered, and traduced them, and in the use of these methods their followers are not less expert. Their polemic is directed never against the argument of the opponent, but always against his person."  Socialism (1951), Ludwig von Mises…

  • Scattershots – 27nov2010

    George Rebane – Forest for the Trees – Al Gore’s Epiphany– Another Chapter from the Religion of Peace These entries struck me as having religion for their common denominator. After years of ignoring ample financial, environmental, and engineering data about the inadvisability of turning corn into ethanol, Al Gore has admitted to seeing the light.  In his…

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