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  • Whouda Thunk It?! (updated 19jan2011)

    George Rebane I don’t recall a sitting President ever writing an op-ed piece in a newspaper.  This has changed with President Obama penning ‘Toward a 21st-Century Regulatory System’ in today’s (18jan11) WSJ.  Yes, in the Wall Street Journal and not the New York Times or any of the other national liberal rags.  We must recall that…

  • Bob Crabb Paints With a Broad Brush

    George Rebane RL ‘Bob’ Crabb, Nevada County’s keen observer of foibles and follies, has taken the local blogosphere to task.  His cartoon below appeared in the 15jan11 issue of The Union where he holds the chair as the newspaper’s regular apolitical cartoonist.  A compendium of his work was recently published in Once Upon a Village…

  • Upload me Watson!

    George Rebane IBM’s Watson supercomputer has bested humans at the TV game Jeopardy.  Furthermore, it promises to give a definitive performance on 13, 14, 15 February.  Big deal?  Yes it is; and please don’t confuse this advance in machine intelligence with the 1997 victory over chess master Gary Gasparov by IBM’s then hotshot Deep Blue.  The…

  • Arizona loses to California

    George Rebane Associated Press reports on a Mexican study on the disposition of Arizona’s illegal aliens (aka “migrants”) since SB1070 became state law.  It turns out that about 100,000 Mexicans left the state with fewer than 25% returning home.  The rest presumably crossed the Colorado River to California that has the most lenient laws about…

  • The Light from Tucson

    George Rebane People instinctively try to draw some compensating outcomes out of the Tucson massacre.  What they take away and how their ongoing lives are informed by the senseless carnage there illuminates who they are. The reaction of the broad left to this tragedy has been instant and, in my view, maniacal.  I see no…

  • Ruminations – 12jan2011

    George Rebane China has announced that it is on the path to making the yuan (aka renminbi) a global currency (more here).  In short, the yuan will then take its place beside the euro and the dollar as a currency in which international accounts may be settled – in other words the yuan will become…

  • New Robots in Manufacturing

    George Rebane This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas featured advances in robotics.  They are now coming out of the R&D pipeline in droves showing all kinds of capabilities in vision, manipulation, mobility, smarts, and even emotion.  One of the featured robots was the ‘Little Helper’ robot that is designed to work in manufacturing…

  • The War of the ‘Tax Eaters’

    George Rebane It has now been several years since an early few of us identified and spoke out against the fiscal travesty of the public service unions (please search RR with ‘public service union’ and ‘public sector union’).  We were immediately castigated by the progressive left whose comments, on these pages and under the online…

  • Where Were the Law Abiding Guns?

    George Rebane While the looney left is having problems coordinating its fabrication of rightwing guilt for the Tucson atrocity as they play defense against the emerging facts about the shooter’s politics, there is another aspect about this tragedy that has yet to be discussed.  In an open public gathering involving political figures and a large…

  • The Vitriol Verdict is In (updated 11jan2011)

    George Rebane The response of the left to the tragic shooting in Tucson yesterday has been swift and sure.  The whole thing was the product of right wing “vitriol”.  Starting with the local sheriff, through the mainstream media, and into the blogs, it was too much political speech from the conservatives, especially those in the…

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