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  • George Rebane Here is a tabular view of the earners from which the feds get their tax revenues.  As shown, these rates/shares are claimed by socialists to require adjustment (read ‘huge increases’) so that “the rich will pay their fair share”.  What numbers would you like to see changed?  (Click on figure) The figure below…

  • George Rebane This year Jo Ann and I wish our readers a very special, carefully conducted and happy Thanksgiving.  It has not been the best of years, and for the first time in several years we apprehensively face a very uncertain future for our beloved country and for our families, friends, and loved ones –…

  • George Rebane As most on the Right and Left understand, the country’s command and control collectivists see the Covid-19 pandemic as a godsend.  Given the educational state of our electorate, there are enough cognitively deficient voters out there to swallow unhesitatingly the socialist propaganda which today blankets their waking hours.  The viral scourge could not…

  • George Rebane A rush for the exits has begun.  And then there were …

  • George Rebane Señor Julian Castro has decided that “it simply isn’t our time”, and put discretion before valor to re-engage at another time.  I see this as a more than interesting commentary on the voting (ideological?) preferences of our Hispanic-American citizens.  They seem to have a broader view of governance and economics than that only…

  • Dropout Derby update.  As of 3 August 2019 with Democratic candidates 20 and 24 having bailed, the following is the cumulative score tally (bottom row).  The number/name key is found in bottom figure. [Addendum]  One of the participants requested that I reprise the scoring algo with examples for a couple of the participants.  The indicated…

  • [I think it's profitable to continue the discussion about how the progressive Left is certain about President Trump's unsuitability for office in light of his domestic and foreign policy record, and the record of investigations that to no avail have sought to nail him.  And in light and in spite of this record, how our…

  • George Rebane In the figure below we present a grid representing the two-dimensional space over a defined range of governance, and a range of collectivistic social orders.  The governance (G) range encompasses a continuum starting with anarchy at G = 0, and progressing all the way to one world global government at G = 10. …

  • [Mr Sauer submitted the following response to Mr Howell’s 11mar17 critique of Mr Sauer’s Union column on renewing America’s public education system.  My own response to Mr Howell is found here.  gjr] Norm Sauer Rich Howell, a retired union member educator, attacked my column “Making Education Great” wherein I demonstrated by factual examples Democrat senators…

  • George Rebane [This is the transcript from my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 28 April 2016.] Conservatives, and even some libertarians for good measure, are accused of wanting to bring back the America of the early post-war years – the period from, say, 1945 to 1960. When any of the progressive media find someone prominent…