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  • Texas Massacre and Gun Control (updated 11nov17)

    George Rebane When some dysfunction or disaster occurs in our land, first look to government as the cause or guilty party until proven innocent. In various forms this aphorism has been a Rebane Doctrine tenet in these pages and the recent Texas killings by a deranged military outcast is again the latest case in point. …

  • ‘Communism’s Bloody Century’ (Addended)

    George Rebane The titled essay (here) by Princeton historian Dr Stephen Kotkin provides an important critical review of the system of governance under which many still live and many more actively promote.  Under autocratic governments socialism’s logical terminus has been communism, as the attempt to fix socialism’s indigenous failures is always through ratcheting up the…

  • Scattershots – 1nov17 (updated 4nov17)

    George Rebane Single-payer sounds of silence.  Our lamestream has been forever silent on the blatant shortcomings and fake news about other countries’ SP healthcare systems, especially their posterchild, the UK’s National Health Service.  None of the laments published by the British press about NHS foibles and failures make it to this side of the pond,…

  • Scattershots – 26oct17 (updated 28oct17)

    Legal US gun owners have 300 million guns, and over a trillion rounds of ammo.  Seriously folks, if we were a problem, you'd know it. – Inconvenient fact. George Rebane News media reports on Americans’ attitudes about paying taxes includes this little bagatelle – only 39% disapprove of the poor not paying any federal taxes,…

  • Introducing Politically Correct Mathematics

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 25 October 2017.  A slightly edited version of this appeared as an op-ed in the 4nov17 Union (here). gjr] In these commentaries we have chronicled the long decline of America’s K-12 education, a decline that has now been joined by our…

  • Racialism Rising

    George Rebane Racialism – the ideology, based on a heightened consciousness of the race of others, that promotes racial divisions and strife to hasten the breakdown of large sovereign nation-states on the road to a unified global world order. In America there should be as little room for racism as for racialism.  We Americans should equally…

  • Scattershots – 26sep17 (updated 1oct17)

    Government is a monopoly of the legitimate use of force within a given territory. – Max Weber, progressive economist and co-founder of sociology. George Rebane In ‘Rule of law or mob rule’, appearing in the 26sep17 Union, Ms Linda Erdmann presents clear and cogent arguments of how ‘presentism’ has uniformly infected the liberal mind in…

  • Kneeing Our National Anthem (updated 27sep17)

    George Rebane More and more NFL players, owners, and managers started showing their disrespect for one of our nation’s most hallowed totems – The Star-Spangled Banner.  They chose to do this for a number of political reasons starting with protesting alleged police brutality.  And in doing so they have the temerity to claim that their…

  • Hijacking Religion and Delivering the Votes

    George Rebane On the 23sep17 Union’s op-ed page there is a quarter page ad taken out by an outfit calling itself the Earth Justice Ministries.  From their own words (here) it appears that the EJM is a leftwing organization of progressives appealing to people of faith, mainly Christians, to join in the progressive agenda through…

  • Scattershots – 20sep17 (updated 22sep17)

    What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. – Christopher Hitchens George Rebane Cindy Hren, local student and purveyor of things constitutional, published a refresher on the form of our government in the 17feb17 Union (here and here).  Then as if by clockwork, several embarrassingly (but not to them) ignorant progressives lit…

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