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  • Scattershots – 15jun23

    George Rebane The latest liberal lies involve their claims of book banning, specifically by Gov Desantis in Florida school libraries.  The lamestream has worked hard and successfully to convince the nation that the Right is the party of book banners.  However, the truth of the matter is that even  in their posterchild state of Florida,…

  • What is Faith?

    So, what is faith?  “Faith is believing in something you know isn’t true. — Tom Robbins, author.  Think about it: If the “something” you believe in is actually provably true, you wouldn’t need faith.”  So writes Tom Durkin in the 14apr22 Union.  From this I can’t really tell if here we have the misguided quoting the…

  • What is truth?

    George Rebane Contrary to common wisdom, in addition to your opinions you can also have your own facts, history, science, logic, sense of justice, fairness, equity, evil, beauty, and, of course, truth.  Rebane Doctrine Two friends of ours tackled the notion of ‘truth’ in recent issues of The Union.  Jan Tannarome (‘Facts vs Beliefs’) and…

  • The Adulation of a Murderous Thug

    George Rebane With the horrendous historical preambles of Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, the world now knows that Russia’s Vladimir Putin is a murderous thug.  What our Left misses or means to misinform is the manner in which many of us on the Right assess Putin’s geo-strategic actions, especially when compared in the same arena to…

  • Ideology and a nitpick with VDH

    George Rebane Readers know that I am a longtime admirer and student of Victor Davis Hanson.  I have met him and spent time talking with him (here).  But when he writes ‘Why Ideology is the Ancient Enemy of Civilization’, I have to pick a nit with him because there he uses a too narrow of…

  • Democrats’ Newspeak – 13jan22 (updated 31jan22)

    George Rebane [A slightly edited version of this piece appeared in the 29jan22 op-ed pages of The Union, titled ‘Democrats’ ‘Newspeak' a radical ideological agenda’.  As you can see from the comment stream under article, once again none of the leftwingers understand the message and simply play their strong suit in attacking the messenger –…

  • Speaking Algoristically

    George Rebane [Reading some recent papers on the current problems in the advance of deep learning, and causal inference as the next quantum leap in machine intelligence, I ran across a lot of discussion about what are still called algorithms.  It recalled the summary of a more facile syntax that I and several others have…

  • Socialist Semantics

    “When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just when and what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less. ' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things. ' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.” …

  • Fair, Just, and Legal, Oh My! (updated 3mar20)

    George Rebane From the dictionary: Fairness: “the state, condition, or quality of being fair, or free from bias or injustice: evenhandedness.” “the quality of making judgments that are free from discrimination.” Justice: “the quality of being fair and reasonable” Legal: “appointed, established, or authorized by law; deriving authority from law; permitted by law; lawful. We…

  • Racism and Racists revisited (updated 24jul19)

    "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all." George Rebane In a more learned time…

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