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  • Why Not 24/7 Air Attack? (updated 11oct17)

    George Rebane Dropping fire suppressants from fixed and rotary wing aircraft is an extremely effective way to fight wildfires.  Living in the southern California mountains we annually witnessed how air attack kept little fires from becoming big, and big fires from going into populated areas.  In the 1993 Malibu fire, it was five or six…

  • Scattershots – 5oct17

    George Rebane The news media, including Fox News, are confounding the latest buzz about the SecDef and the President being at odds about the Iran agreement.  Trump has called the Iran deal “the worst ever” for the US, while Mattis along with the JCoS chair testified that Iran appears to be living up to the…

  • Ruminations – 27sep17 (updated 1oct17)

    If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. – Thomas Sowell George Rebane Canada, the beloved of anti-American liberals, “has an urgent message…

  • Deflected Dialogue Redux

    George Rebane Gentle reader, we again return to RR’s department of poetry.  For the new to these pages, this is part of our cultural outreach that emphasizes the ‘rhyme’ part of our overall Rhyme and Reason offerings.  Actually, today we sample a reprise of an earlier poem for an earlier time entitled Deflected Dialogue –Upon…

  • Scattershots – 20sep17 (updated 22sep17)

    What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. – Christopher Hitchens George Rebane Cindy Hren, local student and purveyor of things constitutional, published a refresher on the form of our government in the 17feb17 Union (here and here).  Then as if by clockwork, several embarrassingly (but not to them) ignorant progressives lit…

  • When disaster is certain, who pays? (codas added)

    George Rebane Every time I look at the news of floods, fires, earthquakes, and other large and predictable emergencies, the notion that the rest of us have to pay to make whole those who knowingly take those risks rubs me the wrong way.  I lived most of my life in SoCal, one of the world’s…

  • The Wall – Why Would Mexico Chip In

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 30 August 2017.] Lately, among all the other lambasting of President Trump relating to a flood of new happenings, the notorious border ‘wall’ between the US and Mexico has again surfaced in the news.  The major points of interest in the wall…

  • Add to history, and not take from it (updated 17aug17)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 16 August 2017.] The Charlottesville clash is metastasizing across the country.  In these look-alike demonstrations, the Civil War and all that it entails has become the latest collision point of several ideological and political agendas.  For those able to handle historical…

  • Scattershots – 15aug17 (updated 20aug17)

    “The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”  Will Rogers George Rebane In ‘By Whose Rockets’ Red Glare’ I doubted NK’s ability to do the engineering development and testing of the missiles they have been launching.  Now it looks like others are beginning to agree and find evidence of where…

  • Megaphones and Reporters – what’s the difference?

    George Rebane Regarding the national controversy on leaks and leaking, let’s consider the roles of megaphones and media reporters.  We understand that a ‘leak’ today is considered as the release of confidential information that is not intended to be widely distributed among the public.  A leak requires the participation of at least two functioning ‘agents’…

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