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  • Dump Trump and Pillory Hillary – 13aug16

    George Rebane Democracies are stable only to the extent that they enjoy a cohesive ideological spectrum and in which questions are decided with close votes.  In such jurisdictions the alternatives decided are not inimical to each other, and everyone knows their vote on the matter counts.  In lopsided democracies the minority’s vote no longer counts, which then…

  • Wages by Fiat

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 3 August 2016.] Liberal economist Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton maintains that 'Only (Hillary Clinton) Can Make Wages Grow Again', and then launches into a lecture on how economic policies by government fiat will outperform the market driven nostrums advanced by Donald…

  • Ruminations – 27jul16 (updated 3aug16)

    “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”  Confucius George Rebane Since Turkey’s Erdogan most recently explained to the world of infidels – “Islam is Islam, there are no modifiers.  Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate objective.” – more and more articles now appear expanding on that truth…

  • Independence Day Weekend Thoughts (updated 3jul16)

    George Rebane This will be America’s 240th birthday celebration observed by divers cohorts of “real live nephews of our Uncle Sam” not all of whom wish him a long life.  Our divisions today are at least as great as those which gave rise to the South’s War for Independence – aka the Civil War.  Americans…

  • Scattershots – 29jun16 (updated 1jul16)

    George Rebane The AGW hysteria has become very hard to maintain in circles that still participate in scientific debate and within the public forum that follows such debate.  The hysteria is unaffected by such debate within the community of grant-funded scientists and their political sponsors (wherein the 'debate is over'), and of course their double dummy…

  • Brexit Ripples

    George Rebane The ripples from Brexit will travel far and wide, and in their turn give rise to more of what happened in the UK.  Brexit and its aftermath will once again confirm what we have here argued for years – people want to live where their culture is dominant and celebrate the self-determination to…

  • Brexit Reflections (updated 25jun16)

    George Rebane Britain’s Brexit vote marks a watershed for Ruminations.  It delivered a robust confirmation of the conservetarian tenets posted and debated in these pages for the last ten years.  And given the state of the EU and what is happening there, we can expect more to come.  As I monitored last night’s election returns…

  • The Progressives’ Pervasive Pogo Prescription

    ‘We have met the enemy, and he is us.’  Pogo, 20th century philosopher George Rebane That observation has long been repurposed from its original context by pundits of various persuasions, none more consistently than by the elites of the Left.  I posted ‘The Liberal Mind Inteprets Florida, etc’ to elicit a broader discussion and illustration…

  • The Liberal Mind interprets Florida, etc (updated)

    George Rebane This morning’s massacre at an Orlando LGBT nightclub provides and ongoing confirmation of the chasm between Left and Right America.  From the national Democratic leadership and their lamestream media right down to our own RR readers of a markedly progressive bent, their impetus is to deny, minimize, or ignore – Any connection to…

  • Scattershots – 9jun16

    George Rebane I was heartened to read the Other Voices column in today’s (9jun16) print edition of The Union by Jonathan Collier of the California Grower Association of Nevada County.  Mr Collier’s lengthy piece showed that he understood the wide range of issues related to growing MJ in our rural community.  His call for a…

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