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  • Scattershots – 15jan21 (16jan21)

    George Rebane The Capitol assault reports are getting curiouser and curiouser.  Instead of quickly blaming Trump supporters for the mob action while labeling them ‘seditious insurrectionists’, and then quickly calling the case closed, we keep having reports coming out documenting feds who now admit that they knew in advance that Trump haters were planning to…

  • ‘What Just Happened?’

    [Union columnist Terry McLaughlin asks that pointed question (here) on the 14jan21 edition’s op-ed page.  She goes on to provide and excellent background summary that lets the reader answer her question.  It turns out that we Americans have been given an education over the past year to accept a much more expressive way of protesting…

  • Dark Days Diary – 13jan21 (updated 15jan21)

    George Rebane ‘America was born of dissent. It shall perish when dissent is forbidden.’  I used this anonymous aphorism as a tagline for a recent post, and upon reflection, it rings more true with each passing day.  Today loud voices are heard mostly from the Left, but also some from the Right, exhorting us to…

  • Control of Corporatist Oligopolies

    “America was born of dissent. It shall perish when dissent is forbidden.”  Anon. George Rebane Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, … arguably reside somewhere between monopoly and oligopoly in the capitalist spectrum.  It is very hard for a corporation that controls a dominating segment of a major market to become such a beast in a truly…

  • Dark Days Diary – 9jan21 (updated 12jan21)

    No days unalert; … alertness when most necessary, is always missing, and not to give the matter a thought is to be slated for destruction.  Gracian #264 George Rebane Over the years to this day we have seen that our leftwing neighbors don’t have much truck with concepts like nuance or shades of gray.  Their…

  • An Appeal to Restore Election Integrity (updated 16jan21)

    George Rebane [This was to be the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary censored on 6 January 2021.] [Update.  I was informed this afternoon that my “commentary got cut tonight by station management.”  Management is now “establishing criteria for commentaries”, and there were elements in my piece with which the station took issue.  I…

  • Evidence – Why not look at the evidence? (updated 7jan21)

    George Rebane Why not indeed?  The existential evidence abounds of election fraud and irregularities having happened.  It exists just for the looking in forms of witnessed and sworn affidavits of polling place and vote counting wrongdoings; witnessed and video records of after-hours arrivals of thousands of unmailed ballots in unmarked vehicles; mass arrivals of ballots…

  • Scattershots – 27dec20 (updated 30dec20)

    Suspension of judgment is always the part of wisdom in a listener, and the remission of faith to authority the part of wisdom in a speaker.  Gracian #154 George Rebane Identity politics is a totalitarian enterprise, as called out by Paul Gigot, op-ed editor-in-chief of the WSJ.  About Gigot's defense of Joseph Epstein’s commentary on…

  • Scattershots – 18dec20 (updated 22dec20)

    George Rebane The recall of Gov Gavin Newsom is making good progress, and petition signatures may be collected until 10 March 2021.  Here is the link to get your signature on a petition to recall this hubristic progressive idiot before he does more damage to our state. Cato’s annual Human Freedom Index just published; it…

  • The fat lady has sung, off key (Addended and updated)

    George Rebane [This is the addended, edited, and updated transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 16 December 2020.] Last Monday the Electoral College elected Joe Biden to be the 46th president of the United States.  The election was heavily contested for two distinct reasons, but to no avail.  Let me be clear from…

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