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  • Ruminations – 22apr14 (updated 27apr14)

    George Rebane The recent DoS attack on Typepad has made reading and commenting tough on RR and countless other blogs on that service.  In this interval I have had a chance to put some serious effort into one of my other lives – investor in and technical consultant to a rapidly growing financial engineering start-up…

  • A Takeaway from Bundy Ranch (updated 19apr14)

    George Rebane When tyrannies make the laws, all opponents of tyranny are then seen and treated as criminals. The ownership and control of our public lands is a mess, both legally and constitutionally.  Save for military bases (an arguably constitutional provision), why does the federal government claim ownership – laughably in the name of ‘the…

  • Con-Con and Common Core

    George Rebane RR, in its long suffering and dedicated effort to continue the posting of announcements of public import, your attention is invited to the following two. Con-Con or the Constitutional Convention as called for in Article 5 has become an item of some urgency for factions widely separated in their ideology and their view…

  • Media Bias – Living in Separate Worlds

    George Rebane Recently the Media Research Center released two reports on how Americans are exposed to what is happening domestically and in the world.  The data in those reports show that most of us who depend on the lamestream and Spanish language outlets get a totally different picture of what is happening – mainly the…

  • Global Warming – the latest official update

    George Rebane The Lysenko list of our leftwing is more apparent than ever with the release of the second part of IPCC’s latest report (AR5) on global warming.  It turns out that they’re quietly walking back the hysteria generated over the last years – the warming is 1) not anywhere near as large as previously…

  • A Libertarian Lovefest in Scottsdale (updated 26mar14)

    George Rebane This weekend Jo Ann and I, along with some Nevada County friends, attended the annual retreat in Scottsdale, AZ put on by the Mercatus Center and the Institute for Humane Studies (both at George Mason University).  The conference for liberty prone supporters was a welcome opportunity to hear stimulating speakers, attend breakout sessions…

  • The Growing Madness in the Land (updated 12mar14)

    George Rebane By any measure America would be seen as clinically insane by an alien observer arriving on earth.  The insanity is marbled in at all levels of society starting from the highest levels of government to the dishwasher in a small town hotel.  But the real problem is that about a third of our…

  • Go along to get screwed

    George Rebane From recent developments we again see that compromising your principles to play the ‘go along to get along’ (GATGA) game does not work.  It looks like the two Republican strategies I outlined in 'Republican Rumblings' were spot on when we consider what went down at CPAC this week, and what the Repubs are…

  • Ruminations – 5mar14 (updated 7mar14)

    George Rebane The 1-7mar14 Economist features a thoughtful study ‘What’s gone wrong with democracy, and how to revive it’.  A few more pieces like this and I may have to change my attribution of the newspaper as a center-left publication.  The authors do a good job documenting all the pitfalls of democratic governance familiar to…

  • Obama’s New World Disorder (updated 4mar14)

    It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.  Mark Twain George Rebane As long heralded in these pages, President Obama’s ignorance of foreign policy (we’ll give him the benefit of our doubts) is coming into full bloom in Ukraine.  He has made it clear to all but the country’s…

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