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Month: August 2025

  • Typepad is shutting down

    George Rebane It seems that Typepad has been on its last legs for at least a couple of years.  They have shown very little competence and professionalism in how they have been operating their blog service.  I received an email from them yesterday announcing that their service would end on 30 September 2025.  With my…

  • Scattershots – 25aug25 (updated 31aug25)

    George Rebane DC crime rate is low and not impacted by Trump’s federalizing crime suppression in the District – so claim the city's socialist leaders.  Well now.  The long term average DC murder rate is three per week, and since the police were augmented by the feds They’ve gone 11 days without a murder, that…

  • Sandbox – 25aug25

    [Latest news on new home building.  It seems that today more and more houses are built without separate dining rooms.  This allows the house to be smaller and cheaper.  But eliminating the dining room also indicates a culture shift in the young buyers.  Fewer people today require a room in which the entire entourage of…

  • The End of Corporate Journalism?

    [This piece by regular Union columnist Terry McLaughlin was rejected by its editorial mavens for being too politically biased and containing claims that the Left considers patently false and/or unsubstantiated.  I invite RR readers to compare Ms McLaughlin’s op-ed – posted here with permission – with those from leftwing authors that appear daily in the…

  • Trump’s Putin Relapse – 21aug25

    George Rebane The ongoing situation in Ukraine is totally asymmetrical – Russia intensifies its bombing and battlefield assaults while the West jawbones and regurgitates threats that don’t materialize.  Meanwhile Trump is basking in the revised and reconstructed interpretation of the disastrous Anchorage outcome – talk about lipstick on a pig.  He now believes his own…

  • Putin’s Broken Promises

    George Rebane As President Trump meets with Ukraine’s Zelinsky and select NATO leaders at the White House to discuss a strategic response to Putin’s peace treaty demands, it is good to review what the Russian thug has in mind as supported by overwhelming evidence (see below) of his behavior on the world scene.  The main…

  • Putin – 1, Trump – 0 (updated 16aug25)

    "Peace in our time!"  Prime Minister Neville Chamberlin, 1938 George Rebane Well hell, President Trump did not pull that one off in Anchorage.  With all the talking heads on Fox doing their best to put a good face on it, there’s no denying that Trump got nothing out of this abbreviated summit that he previewed…

  • Collectivist governments and the Democrat Party

    [This piece was composed with significant research from xAI's Grok; it summarizes the years of posts under what I characterize as Rebane Doctrine.] George Rebane Why do collectivist governments with central planning and control not work? Collective governments with central control—typically referring to systems like command or centrally planned economies where the state directs resource…

  • Scattershots – 12aug25

    George Rebane Trump and Putin without Zelinsky will provide us a new perspective on pissing in the wind.  Don’t know why The Donald is setting himself up for a failure in Alaska.  Putin can’t back-off giving back conquered Ukrainian territory, and the West can’t afford to have Putin have another success in restoring USSR’s boundaries. …

  • Sandbox – 12aug25

    [NYC’s Mamdani is a communist in socialist’s clothing.  He is now polling at the 40+% level and sure to be the city’s next mayor.  On his current Hate Trump tour he is telling his double dummies that he’s willing to work with Trump as long as the president is ready to federally subsidize his ‘affordability’…

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