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  • Millennial & Rational Voters

    George Rebane The well-respected Pew Research Center published a report on its recent survey of the political attitudes of the so-called millennial voters (young people who came of age in the first decade of this millennium).  Pew noted that “their attachment to the Democratic Party weakened markedly over the course of 2009”, although a majority…

  • A Multilingual post-America Rising

    George Rebane   Only lightly camouflaged conspiracy theories come to mind when I hear the latest reports of the government abetting efforts to again minimize the role of English as the prime unifying force in this wonderful polyglot that has always been America.  The disunity and political strife in multilingual countries has been the norm…

  • Counsel from a Democrat

    George Rebane Douglas Schoen was President Clinton’s pollster and continues his astute observations of America’s body politic.  Today he writes a piece advising fellow Democrats on some major policy shifts to get them through 2010.  Among his pearls – – Democrats “need pro-growth, fiscally conservative policies.”– The tea party movement “is not a Republican movement, and anyone who…

  • Kinda reminds you of …

    George Rebane … a government program.

  • The Library – Another Fundamental Transformation

    George Rebane The future (and past) of libraries is the subject of Marilyn Johnson’s This Book is Overdue.  I have just read a WSJ review of the book by Christine Rosen (‘From Wisdom to Wi-Fi’).  Johnson covers a lot of ground in the book about libraries and, interesting for this day and age, librarians.  The…

  • Of Ragheads and Racism

    George Rebane We are in an ‘all in’ war between two civilizations – western civilization of the European pedigree, and Islamic civilization formerly of the Arabic and now of a broader pedigree.  In their own words they declare that the west and Islam can no longer co-exist on this planet, and their intent is to…

  • At the Birth of Pork

    George Rebane Did you ever stand on the bank of a mighty river like the Missouri and contemplate its majestic and massive flow?  There it appears mighty and unstoppable in its progress to the ocean where it is swallowed up without a trace.  And then your thoughts turn to how such a behemoth starts from…

  • Ex Plures Duos (updated 28jan2010)

    George Rebane For the last thirty years or so we have been awakened by NPR’s morning program.  Locally that means listening to KXJZ 90.9 from Sacramento.  The format starts with inter/national news and then California news slanted toward our part of the state.  Both news programs seem to be politically pretty vanilla.  Oh, every once…

  • The Moral Economy of Scale in Murder

    George Rebane   RR reader, critic, and contributor Steven Frisch has a well developed and worthy of debate world view.  He posted a comment to some statements I made here regarding the history of death by government and, by implication, its portents for America.  Steve took my brief explication of 20th century state sponsored/executed mass murders…

  • Tea Party Patriots Under Cover of Night

    George Rebane Tonight we made it to a gathering of the local Tea Party Patriots (aka teabaggers) in the Grass Valley Elks Lodge.  I estimate that over three hundred of Nevada County’s rightwing extremists packed themselves into that hall.  It was advertized as a celebration of the movement’s success here and across the country –…

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