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  • It’s ALL in the label (updated)

    "A rose/skunk by any other name would smell as sweet/foul", Wm Shakespeare expanded. George Rebane Watching the recent California gubernatorial candidates’ debate, it again became clear that the labels we both carefully, and sometimes carelessly, attach to important issues determine the direction and nature of the subsequent debate on and the final resolution of an issue. …

  • Scattershots – 9may18 (updated)

    George Rebane When I speak of the notion that ‘the Left is evil’, I am not talking about some outlier faction representing a minuscule fraction of that population.  Invoking that notion for me requires showing that a large fraction, which includes the Left’s thought leaders and intellects, is practicing a given evil policy.  Here is…

  • The 21st Century Progressive Dating Game (updated 9may18)

    Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.  Mark Twain George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 2 May 2018.] For millennia females in all cultures were shielded by their families.  Marriages were arranged for commercial or political benefit,…

  • Scattershots – 26apr18 (updated 29apr18)

    George Rebane Our American public mind has been taking some hits in recent decades, and is now in a power dive into the mud if we see what is happening in academe and in content of popular entertainments.  After having devastated K-12 education, the Left is now in the process of delivering a coup de grace…

  • Scattershots – 19apr18 (updated 24apr18)

    George Rebane Democracy and Morals.  In the 17apr18 WSJ there was an exemplary letter on this topic, and it is posted below. It is hard to disagree with William Galston’s contention in “The Perpetual Battle for Freedom” (Politics & Ideas, April 4) that in liberal democracies the preservation of freedom for all rests on a…

  • Par Force in the Second Amendment

    George Rebane On the morning of 19 April 1775, the communities surrounding Boston were awakened by riders alerting the colonial Americans that a battalion of British were marching out of Boston toward Lexington and Concord.  They were coming to confiscate a cache of arms and ammunition that the colonials had collected for the anticipated mounting…

  • Ruminations – 9apr18 (updated 14apr18)

    George Rebane ‘No Labels’ is a mighty effort by some Washington DC types from both sides to propose what they see as carefully crafted bipartisan solutions to our nation’s problems.  The activities of these good-hearted people have been covered here before.  But it appears they have overstepped their Left-approved bounds endorsing the wrong Democrat candidate…

  • Progressives Pander Pubertistas (updated 7apr18)

    George Rebane Yesterday was the day kids across the country were organized to walk out of their classes and protest ‘gun violence’.  Given what the little darlins are (not) taught in schools, they appeared to have no idea of what had happened in Parkland and what they were actually protesting with signs like ‘Choose me,…

  • Sandbox – 7mar18

    [The corruption of the FBI is detailed by former federal prosecutor and US attorney Joseph Digenova in the feb2018 issue of Imprimis.  Entitled ‘The Politicization of the FBI’, this summary of the 2016-17 ongoings with the Clinton and Trump campaigns is the most clear, concise, and complete recounting I have read.  It totally corroborates the…

  • Californians, take what you will but … (updated 8mar18)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 7 March 2018.] California is a mess.  There is not enough time in this short commentary to describe all the ways in which our state has fallen to the bottom of the barrel, but I will attempt to summarize some of…

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