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  • DHS ratchets free speech (addended)

    George Rebane The source of any problem you encounter in the public forum is more than likely due to some institution, agency, or bureau of government; bet on it. Political commentator Kim Iverson writes ‘Disagree with government policy?  Homeland security says you’re a ‘terrorist’ if you speak out’.  The Dept of Homeland Security is on…

  • From Lakoff to McConnell to Biden

    George Rebane Berkeley professor, cognitive linguist, and progressive philosopher extraordinaire George Lakoff is the celebrated author of Don’t think of an Elephant (2014), which in its first (2004) edition became the best selling definitive bible of neo-Marxist thought, policy, and communication.  He is the intellectual darling of the Left who has spelled out the belief…

  • Scattershots – 6feb22 (updated 11feb22)

    George Rebane Numbers never speak for themselves.  Instead, they always deliver the substance of adroitly framed messages by astute spokespeople. ‘Climate Scientists Encounter Limits of Computer Models, Bedeviling Policy’ is the title of a comprehensive survey article in the 6feb22 WSJ, that echoes and confirms most of the points made in these pages about general…

  • Lockdown Lunacy vs Fringe Ideas

    George Rebane Litmus test for autocracy – ALL autocracies actively proscribe ideas that are fringe to what the state prescribes as mainstream thinking.  Rebane Doctrine The recent study from Johns Hopkins University unequivocally shows that lockdowns don’t work in reducing Covid-19 death rates. (here, here, and here) The mortality rate data for this also comes from…

  • Racist SCOTUS Nomination

    [More than three-quarters (76%) of Americans want President Joe Biden to consider all potential nominees to replace outgoing Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, according to a recent ABC News-Ipsos poll. (more here)] George Rebane Bumblebrain joins the short list of known presidents who have chosen their SCOTUS nominees based on race and gender, and, of course, their proper ideological orientation. …

  • Tangles in the Underwear (updated 3feb22)

    “Nothing good ever comes out of communism.”  Sen Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) George Rebane From the Biden presidential library’s White House telephone record archives – Operator: Justice Breyer, will you please hold for the President? Breyer: Oh sure. Biden: Hey Stevo, we’re gonna announce your retirement today, and I didn’t want you to see it on…

  • Scattershots – 25jan22 (updated 2feb22)

    George Rebane SAT tests are biased and inequitable.  That is the claim by leftwing academics over the past few years.  The evidence shown for this assertion is that black and Hispanic students don’t get the same pro rata scores with the white students.  Today the SAT people say that they’ll fix that by having different…

  • Ruminations – 17jan22 (updated 18jan22)

    George Rebane A zealot is one who identifies intimately with his message, and opposes all efforts to reasonably falsify the message because doing so would also falsify him. A brief compendium of current observations for the record. Conservatives are (fascists, racists, white supremacists, … pick one or more) and work constantly to have government limit…

  • The Covid testing fiasco grows

    George Rebane Now there are not enough tests, and the desired rapid tests are really unreliable, and regardless of test results, it is probably safer to let Omicron spread than mess with it, if you’re not in one of those vulnerable classes, and more to come.  All this on top of the simple fact that…

  • The “Insurrection” one year on

    George Rebane Calling and pursuing the 6jan21 Capitol riot as an ‘insurrection’ is the new litmus test for identifying those of the Left in America. Countless leftwing naïfs across the country – e.g. Tom Durkin (here) in the 6jan22 Union – are decrying the “death of democracy”, which supposedly started with what they call a…

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