Rebane's Ruminations

We do have our own facts (updated 7feb20)

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." A. Lincoln George Rebane [This is the addended and updated transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 5 February 2020.] The nationally prominent public figure and liberal Danie...

The Great Replacement (update 21may22)

George Rebane All socio-economic problems depend on their numbers, not understanding these replaces reasonable discussion with emoting. The ‘great replacement conspiracy’ is the latest kerfuffle to rise to national prominence. The Lef...

Walter Williams on the Great Divide

George Rebane The Great Divide as a means to peaceably resolve the post-tipping point ideological polarization of the country is a major theme on RR and has its own category of related posts. The thought of Dr Walter Williams, eminent a...

The Great Divide through Restructuring? (updated 31jul13)

George Rebane Eight counties in northeastern Colorado are looking at the possibility of becoming the nation’s 51st state. Like so many idyllic locales in the country, Colorado’s population corridor along the eastern slope of the Rockie...

The Great Divide – the debate continues

George RebaneRL ‘Bob’ Crabb posted ‘Inept vs Insane: The National Feud’ on his blog which by its title alone invited a heated discussion in its comment stream. I put in my two cents and started a thread that had Bob worrying that people...

A Different and Dangerous Impeachment

George Rebane ‘This Impeachment Is Different – and More Dangerous’ writes Lawrence Lessig in Politico. He is currently the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, and according to my lights tilts a bit to t...

Stupidity, against which there is no defense

Fools all who seem it, and half of those who do not. Gracian #201 George Rebane Executed anti-Nazi cleric and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer correctly maintained that “stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than evil.” In Am...

Yes, we really have become polarized

George Rebane The Left in recent years has intensified the narrative that the Right has shrunk in numbers while becoming more extreme in its ideology. The Left sees its own collectivist approaches to organizing society as having become...

Independence Day Weekend Thoughts (updated 3jul16)

George Rebane This will be America’s 240th birthday celebration observed by divers cohorts of “real live nephews of our Uncle Sam” not all of whom wish him a long life. Our divisions today are at least as great as those which gave rise...

The Depth of Dumbth (updated 1apr17)

George Rebane Evidence continues to pour in that the most recent generation of Americans – the so-called millennials – have turned out to be the dumbest in our history. Specifically, their literacy, numeracy, and critical thinking skil...