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  • ‘He is Risen!’

      Happy Easter from our family to you and yours. George and Jo Ann

  • Rights and Privileges (updated 13apr2010)

    George Rebane What is a RIGHT? A right is always contrasted with and discussed in relation to the notion of privilege, which is the easier of the two to understand and define. PRIVILEGE – The permission to do, be, or have something specific, which permission can be granted to and subsequently withdrawn from one party/agency…

  • Ruminations – 25mar2010 (updated 26mar10)

    George Rebane - Has political speech threatened violence?- Consequential voting in democracies- The Gospel of Peer Review- Penn & Teller’s survey of environmentalists All Americans get concerned when political speech threatens violence.  The current charges that the right stepped over the line with threatening phone calls, tossing bricks through windows, snipping gas lines, calling a black legislator “nigger”, and…

  • The Day After …

    George Rebane Yesterday’s nationquake still trembles, and now we await the aftershocks that will follow in the coming months.  They will come as surprises to many but not all of us.  Only one much-touted promise of Obamacare will actually come true – redistributive subsidies.  But you will NOT see the promised • Lower insurance premiums, they will…

  • Crabb Cuts to the Chase (again)

    George Rebane This 16mar10 edition of ‘It Takes a Village Idiot’ cartoon was ripped from The Union’s website (link at left).  These cartoons are a regular feature of the newspaper, and drawn by one of our county’s resident treasures and RR reader R.L. ‘Bob’ Crabb.  Bob attempts to fly pretty much down the center stripe…

  • Now Hiring

    George Rebane “New college graduates may be entering the worst job market in decades, but there are still some majors that pay off—and all of them are in the applied sciences.”   So starts Joe Walker’s piece in the 12mar10 WSJ covering the current job market for recent graduates.  A table of average starting salaries for…

  • Dismal Science is not Science

    George Rebane RR readers are familiar with the two pillars on which science stands – Occam’s razor and falsifiability.  I have for years railed against the economics on which know-nothing public policy makers rely.  Almost all of them are innocent of any training in math-science, and most of them are innumerate to boot.  The gaps…

  • Social Security Lockbox – KVMR commentary

    George Rebane [I recorded this commentary for its scheduled 5mar10 run on KVMR FM89.5.  The topic was a continuation of ‘The Sad Tale of Patricia Black’ post that exposed a surprising ignorance that a large number on the left profess about the status of Social Security funding.  I consider this to be a serious problem…

  • Ruminations – 2mar2010

    George Rebane - If your day seems shorter and step lighter …- Ackerman roasted for editorial- Local blogger reaches for new highs- Rio Tinto manages luddites in Australia The Chilean earthquake affected all earthlings, but most just a mite.  A NASA scientist has calculated that the earthquake shifted enough mass in the earth’s mantle to tilt its axis and…

  • Washington Notables

    George Rebane Judicial Watch has assembled the backgrounders for its selection of “Washington’s ten most wanted corrupt politicians” of 2009.  It’s not clear to me who ‘wants’ them for what, but then I’m just a voter and not a special prosecutor.  Nevertheless, reading the litanies on these jokers is eye-opening for those whose eyes have started…

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