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  • The New World of Social Commons

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 12 July 2017.] Today’s intense debate over what to do about healthcare once more highlights the country’s divisions.  The socialists want a ‘single payer’ system of homogenous nationalized healthcare, others of a more conservative bent promoting freer markets want a decentralized…

  • Scattershots – 8jul17 (updated 9jul17)

    George Rebane Have you heard anything about disgruntled and terminally progressive EPA employees having a tough time finding new jobs as they seek to leave an agency that is finally coming under some adult supervision?  Well, neither have many of us.  But it turns out that many of the bleeding hearts in the agency who…

  • Assault on Cemental Hill

    George Rebane Our irrepressible yet lovable port-side cartoonist RL ‘Bob’ Crabb offers his latest in the 1jul17 Union which I have filched and included here for your edification and entertainment. Sadly, as time has passed, Bob has seen less and less to like about what he finds in these pages.  But what the above graphic…

  • Ruminations – 29jun17 (updated 3jul17)

    George Rebane Do not confuse allegations with evidence. It appears that most RR commenters are practiced psychologists who not only can ascertain, but overwhelmingly enjoy providing free diagnoses of other commenters’ cognitive and character disorders that give rise to their erroneous assertions and assessments.  And many do this rather than dissect and display the errors…

  • Democrats or Russians – which to fear most? (updated 25jun17)

    George Rebane In the comment stream of a recent post ‘Elections or Polls – take your pick’, a reader posited the thesis that Democrats were a greater danger to the American Republic than is Russia.  This launched a debate thread in which the left-leaning commenters saw those supporting the thesis to range from the ignorant…

  • Elections or Polls – take your pick

    George Rebane The Left predicted that yesterday's elections would be a referendum on Trump – well, it turns out they were right. Yesterday was a disaster for the Democrats, and today everyone from their media mentors to their grassroots minions are scrambling to put enough lipstick on last night’s election results to distract the distractable. …

  • Ruminations – 16jun17 (updated 19jun17)

    George Rebane Clarification of the 1st Amendment kudos to Union publisher Don Rogers for explaining again that the ‘free speech’ amendment applies ONLY to what our government cannot do to limit communications, no matter how wise, dumb, outrageous, … the message may be.  Private parties that control/own media and entertainment outlets are free to limit…

  • Safe Spaces, Federalism, Great Divide – A Progress Report

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 14 June 2017.] With all the anti-Trump furor going on, there is a more important national pot that is slowly coming to a boil, and it brings together a number of issues and recent happenings ranging from safe spaces, free speech,…

  • Progressives’ True Colors Reexamined

    George Rebane Progressives embrace any science only to the extent of how many other progressives embrace that science.  That is sometimes called consensus science, auto-repressive science, or simply circle-jerk science. The copy progressives, and the Left in general, have put out for over a century is that they want to transform society into its new…

  • Schumer Sells ‘Broken Windows’ (updated)

    George Rebane The US adopting the dreadful Paris Accords is the hot topic now.  The accord is a voluntary agreement to further cut carbon emissions by the participating countries.  The major emitters get a pass, with the other developed countries having not even met their past commitments.  And everyone is hollering about President Trump not…

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