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  • 2013, the year of the Progressive Pandemic (updated 23dec12)

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 21 December 2012.] You’ve all heard enough about the Newtown killings, and, no doubt, you will hear a lot more.  I decided to give you a break on the topic, and take one myself since the debate about the response to that…

  • Fire!, Ready, Aim – Panic-driven Public Policy (updated 21dec12)

    “Passion governs.  And she never governs wisely.”  Benjamin Franklin George Rebane The 14dec12 Newtown elementary school massacre again brings out all of our weaknesses as an ignorant and free people.  And the pandering politicians and public media are already at the trough, feeding on and encouraging every imaginable emotion that short circuits reason.  I want…

  • Ruminations – 6dec12

    George Rebane Remember the ladies from Detroit who loved President Obama’s “stash” but had no idea where it came from.  Well, it’s almost four years later, and one of them seems now to be on the Detroit City Council.  As readers know, Detroit is on its collective ass and getting ready for a little bit…

  • The Liberal Mind – Diminishing Diminishing Returns

    George Rebane Another large impediment to making progress when attempting to reason with progressives is that their world lacks the reality of diminishing returns that accrue when any enterprise is taken past its optimum operating point, let alone being taken to an extreme.  Most certainly the concept is no longer taught in schools as a…

  • The Liberal Mind – A Recent Potpourri of Revelations

    George Rebane In general, liberals are not stupid; many of them just have bad luck when they think.  This cannot be said of California liberals. Recently I have encountered a literal flood of observations and events that provide more insight into the workings of the now-dominant national liberal mind.  This small compilation is by no…

  • The Buffett Rule – Butt stupid is as butt stupid does

    George Rebane                                         ‘Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Progressive.’ One thing we’ll see a lot more of is the practice of static analysis by progressives.  For those recently arrived from Mars, it goes something like this.  Harry the millionaire currently pays an effective tax rate of 25% on his annual income of a million dollars.  That…

  • Slapdown from ‘The Middle’

    George Rebane Saw Bob Crabb’s latest contribution in this morning’s Union – therefrom it is filched and displayed below for all to see. Oh, the slings and arrows that penetrate most deeply come not from the enemy, but alas, the friend.  This piece of contemporary art recalls an ancient ode from another Bob who lived…

  • Abortion and the Two Bodies Problem

    George Rebane The nonsense claims that Republicans want to ‘deny women the right to their bodies’, or even more egregiously to ‘deny women healthcare’ completely swamps any reasonable discussion of the abortion issue – its legalization and its funding by government or private means.  The issue seems to always come back to what a woman…

  • Ruminations – 14sep12

    George Rebane Well, it appears that Glenn Beck is back, and in spades.  Where before he had just an hour on Fox News, he has virtually taken over Dish TV’s channel 212 programming.  His format is basically the same with some news programming added on.  I still don’t understand how many of his hour long…

  • Biden opens, Obama has the middle, Cardinal Dolan wraps (updated 7sep12)

    George Rebane Well, the Democrats wound up their quadrennial bash with a big night of Joe Biden who kept both feet firmly on the floor and out of his mouth.  I thought his was the best speech of the night.  Timothy Cardinal Dolan did the anchor leg with a closing prayer that could easily have…

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