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  • Bar to Employment is Lowered

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 8 August 2018.] Used to be that for most jobs you had to show some serious education and experience in your background in addition to good appearance and character.  And things really got tougher during the depths of our last recession, employers…

  • The Ninth Circuit Court on CCW and Open Carry

    George Rebane Recently a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the “U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment guarantees a right to openly carry a gun in public for self-defense, finding that Hawaii overstepped its authority to regulate firearms possession outside the home.” (more here) This ruling brought up questions on how we…

  • Today’s Employment and Entrepreneurship

    George Rebane So here’s the drill.  In our risibly insane land we have the following three factors in some kind of convoluted and crazy collision when it comes to work and making workplaces. In today’s economy unfilled jobs abound by the millions.  Construction jobs not requiring a college education are near the top of the…

  • Trumporama – 30jul18 (updated 1aug18)

    George Rebane These thoughts are motivated by a letter2editor in today’s Union by Richard Van Steen.  There this gentleman, who has graduated from TDS to TAD, tells us that all Americans who don’t want President Trump immediately impeached are traitors, pure and simple – kinda like the stuff he has between his ears. Lately I’ve…

  • Ruminations – 27jul18 (updated 28jul18)

    George Rebane The Opioid insanity.  We now are in courts suing the big pharma makers of opioid pain killers, accusing them of being the cause of the tragic opioid deaths epidemic across the land.  Big pharma neither delivers nor gratuitously promotes the delivery of opioids to those who die from their reckless use.  In the…

  • Scattershots – 23jul18 (updated 26jul18)

    George Rebane In ‘Our country’s future relies on embracing those escaping brutality’ by Ms Judith McCarrick of the Immigration Action Alliance we find some pearls, among them – “That migrant parents have broken immigration laws to (surreptitiously) cross our borders is untrue.” Why? Because the legal immigration process is difficult and takes time, and because…

  • Democratic Socialists = proto-communists

    Some mistakes are just too much fun to make only once. George Rebane The left-leaning Associated Press reports ‘Democratic socialism surging in the age of Trump’.  The article is a well-written, comprehensive review of what the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are and their recent growth spurt as the Democratic Party lurches hard Left.  (We…

  • Trump’s Treason?

    Accept the fact that some days you’re the pigeon and some days you’re the statue. George Rebane As these pages attest, I am not a blinded supporter of all things Trump.  I especially take exceptions to his tweet-in-the-mouth MO with which he often snatches another debilitating defeat from the jaws of victory.  But I did…

  • The Mysteriously Magically Morphed Russian Indictments

    George Rebane Remember last winter when Mueller announced the indictment of 13 (that’s thirteen, like in one, three) Russians in his collusion investigation (more here). Remember that we discussed these indictments in the 14feb18 Sandbox (here), and concluded that there would be a snowball’s chance in hell of getting Russia to hand them over for…

  • Ruminations – 12jul18

    Intellectual ostracism – the refusal to engage with a person or people who cannot rise to minimum standards of rationality. (Stefan Molyneux in The Art of the Argument – Western Civilization’s Last Stand, 2017) George Rebane Dems’ final solution for ‘immigration’.  Given our inundation of illegal aliens from the south, the Dems may yet have…

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