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  • Yellowstone Supervolcano about to blow?

    George Rebane [This little interlude will most likely interest very few RR readers, but it has provided me a respite from the political struggles through my continuing love-affair with pushing squigglies.  Truth be told, I do this kind of stuff quite often, and who knows, there’s always the off-chance that some reader may show interest.]…

  • American Retreat

    George Rebane Robert Kagan is a historian and political scientist with an endowed fellowship at the Brookings Institute.  He perches a bit left of center from where he has been a foreign policy adviser to both Republican and Democratic presidents.  Dinesh D’Souza is a conservative political commentator, author, and filmmaker formerly associated with the Heritage…

  • Ruminations – 25aug18 (updated 31aug18)

    George Rebane That Lady Justice today only wears a patch over one eye is apparent to at least half the country.  Mueller’s ongoing investigation, along with the FBI et al investigations that preceded it, gives clear and compelling evidence to the bloom of corruption that has compromised our justice system over the last decade.  Kim…

  • Cato on Immigration and Open Borders (updated 3aug18)

    If Democrats don't want foreigners involved in our elections, why do they think it's OK for illegals to vote? George Rebane The Cato Institute is the nation’s foremost libertarian thinktank.  It has a long record of publishing well thought out and researched policy analyses which it freely makes available on its website.  I have now…

  • Trump’s Trade Wars Triumphant?

    George Rebane In my 10jul18 ‘Trump’s Trade War’ I opened with the puzzlement that most of his supporters have had lately about the tariffs that he has initiated – “Unless President Trump has something up his sleeve on the outcome of the current tariff tussle and ensuing trade war, I think our fearless leader is…

  • How many people do we really need?

    George Rebane [Apologies for the ragged composition of this commentary.  I thought it important enough to get it into the RR record, and invite comments/debate by those who care to consider something beyond current events.] How many people are necessary for humans as a species to improve its aggregate quality of life and continue reaching…

  • 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…

  • Media Bias

    George Rebane First, H/T to Bob Crabb where I first saw this graphic of ‘media bias’ before going to another site to filch a good copy of it.  Now I have several problems with where some outlets are placed on this chart, but I’ll keep them to myself until readers have had a chance to…

  • Ruminations – 22jun18 (updated 24jun18)

    George Rebane Dr Charles Krauthammer (1950-2018).  This man was an intellectual staple in our house for at least twenty years, and his most recent stint on Fox News brought him to our dinner table on an almost daily basis.  His towering intellect, expansive knowledge base, exquisite reasoning, and gentle, often self-effacing humor made him a…

  • Our Declining IQ Numbers

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 20 June 2018.] Listeners to these commentaries over the years have heard me report on the advance of America’s national dumbth – a term coined by the late Steve Allen to describe the overall state of our understanding, interests, and intellectual acumen. …

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