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Category: Great Divide

  • Scattershots – 26sep17 (updated 1oct17)

    Government is a monopoly of the legitimate use of force within a given territory. – Max Weber, progressive economist and co-founder of sociology. George Rebane In ‘Rule of law or mob rule’, appearing in the 26sep17 Union, Ms Linda Erdmann presents clear and cogent arguments of how ‘presentism’ has uniformly infected the liberal mind in…

  • Kneeing Our National Anthem (updated 27sep17)

    George Rebane More and more NFL players, owners, and managers started showing their disrespect for one of our nation’s most hallowed totems – The Star-Spangled Banner.  They chose to do this for a number of political reasons starting with protesting alleged police brutality.  And in doing so they have the temerity to claim that their…

  • Great Divide – Yes Virginia, we really are very different

    George Rebane Today’s headline again corroborates what those who have paid attention have known for some years now.  The latest WSJ/NBC poll out today reports the stark differences between the country’s Right and Left as represented by their respective Republican and Democrat party affiliations.  The important part here is that the “WSJ/NBC News survey indicates…

  • Democrats, as they see themselves (updated)

    [This piece of Democrat worldview showcased in their booth at the recent Nevada County fair is both illuminating and informative.  They see and experience not what we see and experience, but tacitly admit that they have no "working Democratic message"   Also note that Republicans have "the power to prevent minorities from voting in more…

  • The conundrum of culturally cohesive communities (updated 22aug17)

    George Rebane Cultural cohesion has been the propensity of humans living together for millennia and perhaps longer.  The clear and simple dictum is that people like to live with people who share their social values and view the world pretty much as they themselves do.  The benefits of such communities is both manifest and manifold…

  • 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…

  • Charlottesville – harbinger or just a temperature reading? [updated 14aug17]

    George Rebane [This post invites the continuation of the lively comment thread on the expression/suppression of ideas that started in the 10aug17 Sandbox.] So what happened yesterday in Charlottesville?  We know that a coalition of white supremacists got a permit to demonstrate against the relocation of a Confederate statue, and that leftwing counter demonstrators showed…

  • GOP – Defecate or Relinquish the Receptacle

    George Rebane Were I king, I would order the 52 GOP senators into a big room set up with tables, chairs, cots, and plenty of coffee.  They would be advised to bring their nighties and toothbrushes, and then told to stay in that room until 1) they have hammered out a healthcare bill that ALL…

  • Great Divide – 25jun17 Update

    George Rebane Updating the recent progress report (here), Arcadia is the working name for a new confederation to be formed by the secessions of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.  Trump’s election has people now redoubled making plans for the reformation of the United States into a continent of seceded states and re-constituted regions to form…

  • Democrats or Russians – which to fear most? (updated 25jun17)

    George Rebane In the comment stream of a recent post ‘Elections or Polls – take your pick’, a reader posited the thesis that Democrats were a greater danger to the American Republic than is Russia.  This launched a debate thread in which the left-leaning commenters saw those supporting the thesis to range from the ignorant…

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