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  • Swedish Rhapsody

    [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 16 January 2019.] George Rebane Today our socialist politicians feel that they have the wind at their back to fundamentally transform our country into the Socialist States of America.  And that may well be the case as poll after poll shows that for…

  • Pelosi’s “Immoral Wall” (updated 6jan19)

    George Rebane In The Myth of the Rational Voter Bryan Caplan documented a significant body of research which showed that in the US voters in the aggregate are what may be termed formally insane.  The general understanding of this phenomenon applies to populations all over the world, and its general characteristics were even known to…

  • Fearful Writing

    “We write at root to make sense of life. And what do we seek to understand more than anything? Our deepest fears.”  Josh Weil George Rebane Union publisher Don Rogers’ Friday essay – ‘Write where you fear the most’ – was an unexpected helping of food for thought this morning.  Mr Rogers takes us through…

  • Globalists and Nationalists, oh my!

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 12 December 2018.] Have you considered where you stand on the many issues that not only divide us Americans, but also people everywhere, that is everywhere they can freely speak their minds?  Have you really thought it through well enough to…

  • Scattershots – 10dec18 (updated 13dec18)

    George Rebane Laffer lives, tax rates do affect people’s behavior.  French president Macron and his government have discovered that over the last couple of weeks, and are now retreating from the attempt to wean their country from fossil fuels by boosting the price of such fuels for French consumers and workers.  The monetary losses already…

  • Calling Global Warming a Hoax can be Confusing!

    [Russ Steele is a regular contributor and commenter in these pages.  He hosts Sierra Foothills Commentary, a blog that focuses on the ongoing debate about the science behind the highly politicized ‘climate change’ issue.  RR invites submitted bylines from various viewpoints on a wide spectrum of issues.  gjr] By Russ Steele Let’s be clear, climate…

  • Scattershots – 22nov18 (updated 26nov18)

    George Rebane Forcible female mutilation is again legal in America.  “A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the U.S. law banning female genital mutilation was unconstitutional and dismissed charges against several doctors in Michigan who carried out the procedure on underage girls as part Muslim sect’s religious practice. … U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman ruled…

  • Khashoggi affair resolved

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 21 November 2018.] President Trump announced yesterday that the US would not pursue the Khashoggi murder by Saudi government agents.  The president’s reasoning was clear and eminently rational.  As anticipated, our leftwing received it with howls of disapproval that accused the…

  • 11 November 1918 – Ed and Jack’s War

    George Rebane My up close and personal introduction to WW1 came at the knee of my two early mentors Jack Maschmeyer and Ed Egold. Both were WW1 veterans who were sent ‘over there’ and didn’t come home ‘until it was over over there’. Both saw trench warfare at its most horrific and survived going ‘over…

  • Victims of Communism remembered – 8 November 2018 (updated 9nov18)

    [I post today’s ‘Presidential Message on the National Day for the Victims of Communism’ in memory of the 100-200 million people, including members of my family, killed by communists and communism over the past century.  This is the system to which today’s Left is repaving the road of return.  gjr] On the National Day for…

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