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  • ‘What Does the Public Know?’ (Updated)

    George Rebane That question was asked recently by the Pew Research Center of a random sample of Americans who answer phones.  The survey contained a 12 multiple choice question questionnaire.  The questions were pretty vanilla about the current world.  There was only one question the answer to which may be debatable. The sidebar is one…

  • Internet Conversations – Sackheads & Scattershots

    George Rebane The comment thread under my recent column in The Union’s online edition started out normally – with the usual acrimony, vitriol, and inanities – and then morphed into a disjointed discussion on ‘handles’ and ‘sackheads’ and privacy, and even “public safety”.  It brought to a head something that I have been thinking about…

  • HR 3962 from two universes

    George Rebane There is no middle ground anymore.  The House version of Obamacare passed last night on a party line vote while we were at a local charity event.  My faithful iPhone, with a realtime AP feed application, gave its familiar ‘hot off the press’ audio signal as we were preparing to eat, and I…

  • Why Reason Fails

    George Rebane “It ain’t what you don’t know that worries me, it’s what you know that ain’t so.”  Will Rogers We are often taught that parties can always settle their differences by engaging in a reasoned dialogue – ‘Come, let us reason together.’  But the evidence, today available in thousands of comment threads on more…

  • Placing My Lance

    George Rebane A post-American president sees the job of President of the United States as a stepping stone to higher office. “And you would place your lance where?”  my friend and blogging partner Russ Steele (NC MediaWatch) asked me in a recent email exchange.  I had taken to task his reporting of the latest piece…

  • Ruminations – 22oct2009 (updated 23oct09)

    George Rebane – Soft-soaping the dollar.– The Sierra Bravos lose one (and then gain one). Ever since I can remember, at our house we always stuck the worn thin piece of soap to the new bar so that none of it would be wasted.  I guess all depression era families and European refugees learned that little trick…

  • “Wall to Wall Adulation”

    [PG-13, reader caution advised, some strong language – Martha, send the children from the room] George Rebane That’s actually a quote from Charles Krauthammer describing the MSM in their sad attempts at journalism, at least when it comes to reporting on the Obama administration.  This set me thinking about the state of journalism today in…

  • Husband Chair

    George Rebane This is actually a little nudge toward economic recovery during hard times (Hat tip to Cass Sunstein, Obama’s Nudge Czar).  This weekend Jo Ann and I are celebrating the evening we first met fifty years ago as sorority/fraternity pledges at UCLA.  What happened there and afterwards is another story, but yesterday we decided…

  • Irving Kristol, RIP

    George Rebane Irving Kristol, the father of neo-conservatism and celebrated observer of our political progress, died yesterday at the age of 89.  His legacy has informed many of us and focused the ire of many more over six decades of public punditry and wordsmithing.  The following excerpt is from one of his regular articles – Income Inequality…

  • Ruminations – 18sep2009

    George Rebane – The collateral damage from Obamacare.– Where is Obama’s plan for healthcare?– Michelle demonstrates low carbon, organic shopping. When you see Obamacare costs going up in lockstep with your taxes, you start looking at your neighbors a little differently.  The fat guy is no longer just a fat guy waddling down the sidewalk.  You know he’s…

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