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  • Why no one invades Switzerland

    George Rebane For generations the Swiss have required that all households with military age males keep a fully automatic assault weapon in their home with a combat load of ammunition.  Shooting and staying qualified with such weapons is a family affair and supported by the government.  Seeing people going to the local range with a weapon slung over…

  • Another Train Wreck Picture

    George Rebane The coming explosion of entitlements is one of the publicized drivers of socialized medicine and its current embodiment as Obamacare.  The nearby chart from the Heritage Foundation plotting CBO data tells part of the story.  Historical tax revenues for the feds have been close to the underside of 20% of GDP.  If you…

  • Hot Flash in from the Cold

    [This entry has been making the email rounds, and a RR reader suggested that the message was important enough to post.  I agree.  gjr] Emergency Weather Bulletin This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan after a severe snow storm … The Mining Journal,…

  • The Great Commission

    George Rebane Christians are taught that one of their most important tasks in life is to win people over to Christ and the Gospel; it is called the Great Commission.  The preferred method to accomplish this has been for Christians to proselytize their religion as far and wide as possible.  Islam is among the few…

  • Where is the moral fiber?

    George Rebane Where indeed?  In responding to my Christmas post, a reader emailed me about a grocery store incident in which a man, with daughter watching, helped himself to some mixed nuts from a bin.  She reminded him that that was stealing, and he reminded her that it wasn’t stealing at all since he was…

  • Christmas 2009

    George Rebane The two main events in the Christian calendar are celebrations of the Promise and the Fulfillment.  Christmas calls on us to reflect on the Promise delivered – the arrival of Emmanuel, God with us, that made real what had long been promised.  By His appearance among us, the Promise of the good news and a…

  • Ruminations – 15dec2009

    George Rebane • Truthout.com reports on military resistance group March Forward! • 'Whole Foods Republicans' is not a strategy  • Heritage updates on climate change and Copenhagen • Climategate catches Al Gore lying about polar ice melt• CRU temperature datasets and programs were “botched”• Why don’t socialists and leftwingers like those labels? The hard left blog Truthout.com reports (here) on the formation…

  • Liberal Beliefs Revealed – This May Explain a Lot

    George Rebane The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life just released a survey of religion and spirituality from which the table below is abstracted.  (Hat tip to a RR reader for the heads up.)  Check out the complete results here comparing Republicans and Democrats, and Liberals and Conservatives. Now our leftwing cum socialist friends have been…

  • Today’s Bookends of American Education

    George Rebane The stretch in approaches to educating our kids is vast, ranging from the pragmatic to the idiotic.  A RR reader from the northwest sent the following words and links to illustrate the point. It is just amazing what $5000/year/kid can do without the interference of public schools and teachers unions (The Harlem Children’s…

  • Is Ours a Defendable Culture?

    George Rebane Last Sunday the Swiss voted to ban the erection of additional minarets on the country’s mosques (here).  The vote was desperate, awkward, and overwhelming.  That small ever-neutral, obstinately independent country was seeking a way to say no to its colonization by Islam.  In every direction the Swiss have seen their neighbors with growing…

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