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  • Scattershots – 21aug14 (updated 22aug14)

    George Rebane Here is something for the data archeologists and anthropologists of the distant future – three disparate areas that share in the wholesale insanity that is ending America as we have known it.  But more important to note is that not many care about these issues. Gilead Sciences’ Sovaldi is a stupendously successful drug to…

  • The Externality of Externalities

    George Rebane OK boys and girls, time for a little review of an arcane notion of economics that is the darling of socialists cooking up ever more ways to make our lives miserable.  An externality of some good or service traded at market price is the attributed added cost to society that the consumption of…

  • ‘Why Do Americans Stink at Math?’

    George Rebane That is the title of a major piece in the 23jul14 NYT by “education journalist” Elizabeth Green of chalkbeat.org that one of my east coast correspondents pointed out.  In it she highlights the record of American students and adults on international placement tests and our own regular surveys of adult literacy and numeracy.  Longtime…

  • More Central Planners’ Outrage (updated 26jul14)

    George Rebane Google has announced the launch of its Baseline Study – a “moonshot” research effort to obtain the quantitative description of a healthy human body along with early precursors to the likelihood of eventual dreaded diseases.  They’ll do this by assembling initially hundreds then thousands of volunteers who will donate their bodily data placed…

  • Liberal Logic – always remarkable and harmful

    George Rebane In genereal liberals are not stupid; many of them just have bad luck when they think.  (However, this cannot be said of California liberals). As we await details of the House suit against this Executive, it might be good to remind ourselves what kind of thinking has put the country into a tailspin.…

  • Ruminations – 12jul14

    George Rebane RL ‘Bob’ Crabb is having a big bash at McGee’s on 27 July to celebrate the ‘release’ of his new book (graphic autobiography?).  Would love to be there, but travel plans will cause us to miss this significant event.  All the rest of you should go and buy a couple of books –…

  • Systemic unemployment – what the future holds (addended)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast today 9jul14, two days early because this weekend the station is covering the World Music Festival from the county fairground.] The Wall Street Journal is one of the remaining success stories in print publishing, this week celebrating its 125th anniversary since it…

  • Scattershots – 9jul14 (updated)

    George Rebane A couple of sad additions to the Liberal Mind department.  People who follow news and public affairs hear at least ten times a day another liberal or lamestream statement declaring with complete assurance that anyone who, at their cost, is unwilling to deliver abortion inducing prophylactics to a woman is in fact 1)…

  • The Democracy Dilemma (Addended)

      Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. (Winston Churchill from a House of Commons speech on Nov. 11, 1947) George Rebane On its centenary we revisit the world shaking impact of WW1.  The first of modern international wars did change…

  • SBC, in their own words

    [For some years now the Sierra Business Council (SBC) has been a center of interest and amusement in regional conservative circles.  The non-profit NGO has drawn this attention primarily through its somewhat untoward selection of its name, and the longstanding and determined defense of that moniker by its CEO Steven Frisch.  Mr Frisch has maintained…

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