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  • The conundrum of culturally cohesive communities (updated 22aug17)

    George Rebane Cultural cohesion has been the propensity of humans living together for millennia and perhaps longer.  The clear and simple dictum is that people like to live with people who share their social values and view the world pretty much as they themselves do.  The benefits of such communities is both manifest and manifold…

  • Add to history, and not take from it (updated 17aug17)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 16 August 2017.] The Charlottesville clash is metastasizing across the country.  In these look-alike demonstrations, the Civil War and all that it entails has become the latest collision point of several ideological and political agendas.  For those able to handle historical…

  • Scattershots – 15aug17 (updated 20aug17)

    “The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”  Will Rogers George Rebane In ‘By Whose Rockets’ Red Glare’ I doubted NK’s ability to do the engineering development and testing of the missiles they have been launching.  Now it looks like others are beginning to agree and find evidence of where…

  • Scattershots – 7aug17 (updated 9aug17)

    George Rebane A most puzzling question – why is Putin acting as if Russia’s chances for achieving its national interests under the present US-led world order are worse than under an unknown world order that will arise when/if Putin, Islam, and the American Left successfully upsets US leadership? Absent any believable and propitious policy initiatives…

  • 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. …

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