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  • Ruminations – 18oct2008 (updated)

    George Rebane * The transhumanist Humanity+ organization has launched the H+ web magazine (webzine 3.7MB pdf) to get the word out about humanity’s road to Singularity.  Its lead article highlights the current condition of ignorance about the topic.  Politicians are still promising to ‘bring back jobs’ that are gone forever.  Well, maybe not forever.  If…

  • Ruminations – 10oct2008

    George Rebane • ‘A Looming Policy Disaster’ by Jason Scott Johnston of the University of Pennsylvania presents a cool-headed look at the current climate change issue.  In it this paper makes the point that a “sustained, critical look at climate change economics and science is long overdue.”  For those still seeking a reasonable answer to…

  • The Approaching Armageddon of America’s Agriculture?

    George Rebane “Last spring, (Switzerland) began mandating that geneticists conduct their research without trampling on a plant’s dignity.” reports the 10oct08 WSJ on its front page.  The piece goes on to detail how new constitutional modifications are making research in plant genetics a tortuous trail of following mandated procedures which are beyond silly.  Some excerpts…

  • Beyond Bar Stool Economics

    George Rebane A correspondent sent me a ‘made simple’ version of our federal tax policy that is attributed to David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, University of Georgia.  The anecdote, while accurate enough as far as it goes, leaves out an important point that seems to be the crux of the socialist’s argument for…

  • Ruminations – 7oct2008

    George Rebane   Two back-to-back trips in as many weeks.  Last weekend we celebrated my 50th high school reunion in southern California with a bunch of old geezers who didn’t recognize each other – well, a few did.  And now we’re back from a weekend on Vancouver Island attending a triennial gathering with friends.  The…

  • More Problems from Government Solutions

    Mike McDaniel As long as we look to the government for solutions there will always be a problem. I would be a hypocrite to be a financial advisor and not believe in free market capitalism.  Anyone invested in the markets must believe in free market capitalism.  A characteristic of our free market system is the…

  • The Bailout Bungle

    George Rebane The Community Reinvestment Act will turn out to be one of the IEDs (improvised economy destroyers) that Congress buried long ago in the financial fabric of our country.  Now what it spawned has gone off. Throughout the history (since 1977) of this great piece of social engineering, people of goodwill from both sides…

  • Liberal Tenets – Take 2

    George Rebane My belief tenets of the Educated Liberal (EL) received a thorough comment by an educated liberal friend and correspondent.  The 39 listed tenets were in two groups – the first 29 were derived from my own experience and people of a similar outlook, and the last ten were from G. Stone, a liberal…

  • The Educated Liberal

    George Rebane In the heat of this election season I recently finished a lengthy exchange with a long-time, much younger, and well educated friend.  He sees himself as a left-leaning libertarian, who wondered again how anyone with two brain cells to pound together could be an intellectual and Christian at the same time – well,…

  • Ruminations – 20sep08

    George Rebane Bush lied about Saddam’s nuclear program?  Well, according to the Associated Press, reported by no less liberal medium than MSNBC on 5 July 2008, Bush didn’t lie.  It turns out that 550 metric tons of uranium bearing ‘yellowcake’ – you know, the stuff that Iran is now spinning the bejeezus out of to…

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