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  • Scattershots – 5oct16 (updated 8oct16)

    George Rebane ALL authorizations of government actions not related to national security shall be identified to the specific person responsible, duly recorded and archived citing applicable authority, and subsequently made available to the public upon legitimate inquiry.  ALL such government actions whose authorizations turn out anonymous shall immediately be deemed illegal on their face, and those…

  • Tongue tied in America

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 28 September 2016.] ‘The blue of the grass’ is the color green in an African language.  That’s a lot of letters compared to the five letters in the word ‘green’ to get across the same message.  But it’s also getting harder…

  • Ruminations – 24sep16 (updated 29sep16)

    George Rebane Globalization cannot come about as long as the United States remains an economically and militarily strong sovereign nation-state.  This alone explains and sustains the agenda of America's collectivists of all stripes. NPR on systemic unemployment and guaranteed national income (GNI).  Even the National Progressive Radio has now come out with the revelation that…

  • Ideological Images

    George Rebane The chasm that divides today’s Left and Right has many facets, some of which can be illustrated graphically.  It is not clear that a progressive will understand the images shown below.

  • Scattershots – 16sep16 (updated 20sep16)

    George Rebane Nevada City is my home town, a place unbelievably charming and full of character nestled with its sister city Grass Valley in the Sierra foothills.  We discovered it 25 years ago and have lived here for the last fourteen.  It is a community founded by miners, expanded by agriculture and timber, and 'modernized'…

  • ‘Misreading the Nordic Model’

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 31 August 2016.] For quite some time now Americans have heard the siren song of Nordic socialism performed consistently by our country’s Left from which more and more are actually outing themselves as socialists.  In this election season we have heard…

  • Scattershots – 7aug16 (updated 12aug16)

    George Rebane More evidence that our Great Experiment has failed.  Great Experiment?  – self-governance, the raison d’etre the Founders nominated for our Republic, ‘Is common man capable of governing himself?’  Today we have finally ‘educated’ our dumbest generation ever – the Millennials.  These young people are now overwhelmingly ignorant of history, modes of governance, economics,…

  • ‘… stuck on 1% growth.’ (updated 2aug16)

    George Rebane On the last day of the Democratic Convention we suddenly saw some very un-Democratic displays of military officers on the podium, (borrowed) Old Glories galore, and shouts of ‘USA!, USA!, …’ from the floor.  So much in fact that NPR’s Weekend Edition had to do a feature piece on it asking experts what…

  • Ruminations – 27jul16 (updated 3aug16)

    “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”  Confucius George Rebane Since Turkey’s Erdogan most recently explained to the world of infidels – “Islam is Islam, there are no modifiers.  Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate objective.” – more and more articles now appear expanding on that truth…

  • George Boardman nails it

    George Rebane Columnist and RR reader George Boardman wrote an excellent and timely critique of California’s STEM education available today in our secondary schools.  Not only did he present relevant stats on the status of courses offered across the state, he also gave a chilling summary of the new revisionist history and social studies subjects that…

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