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  • EMP is a civilization killer

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 15 Auguest 2014.] Imagine the next time the lights go out and your house settles into that unnatural but familiar silence when there is a power outage.  You know what to do.  If you have a landline phone in your house,…

  • STEM is not powered by STEAM

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary aired on 1 August 2014.] Listeners to these commentaries are aware of how important America’s STEM workforce will be to the future of our country and our quality of life.  Recall that STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math.  Preparing for a…

  • The ‘Recovery’ Rigmarole

    George Rebane We have heard about recovering from the ‘Great Recession’ since the summer of 2009.  Politicians of the Left have been conducting a painful national celebration of how their Keynesian stimulation policies have saved and then recovered our economy.  But what no one tells us is that recoveries come in various flavors, some of…

  • Forecasting by Crowds

    George Rebane [This is the addended version of my regular KVMR commentary which was broadcast on 4 April 2014.] Recently our government has had some problems forecasting events critical to the conduct of America’s foreign policy.  We seem to have missed the boat on calling the response of Iran in its nuclear weapons development, the…

  • What Babies Teach Us About Ourselves

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 22 November 2013.] Where do our deep seated feelings about right and wrong come from?  As we cooperate with each other or defect, when did we learn to do that?  Were we taught by our parents, our village, or schools in these…

  • Ruminations – 19nov13 (updated)

    “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.”  Groucho Marx George Rebane It turns out that the Census Bureau faked the 2012 pre-election jobs report.  That is reported by zerohedge.com, Armstrong & Getty on AM650, and the National Review.  The list of underhanded things that Team Obama did to…

  • Sustainability Quantified (updated 9oct13)

    George Rebane Sustainability, especially of government programs such as healthcare, has been a constant topic of debate on RR since its inception.  Our friends on the Left have trouble understanding that a program is sustainable only to the extent that its cost doesn’t crowd out other programs and consume the country’s GDP in toto.  And…

  • Change Climate! Change dammit! (updated 27sep13)

    George Rebane Well, another six years has passed since 2007 when the IPCC issued its last load of hooey piled high and dry.  In Stockholm they are now putting the finishing edits on this year’s hernia pack that updates the latest “peer reviewed science” on the earth’s climate.  And on Friday they will release the…

  • Mindbending Marijuana

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 5 July 2013.] For years I straddled the fence on the legalization of drug use, especially seemingly benign versions like marijuana.  Then I finally got off the fence in favor of making the whole catalog of drugs legal since the war on…

  • Energy Forever?

    George Rebane That the major sources of natural gas and oil are from earth’s chemical processes and not fossilized sources has been the subject of a quiet debate over the last decades.  If chemistry wins, then earth will supply humans with literally endless amounts of energy that will benefit everyone living on the planet.  And…

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