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Month: February 2026

  • America’s Literacy and Numeracy Crisis: The High Cost of Left-Wing Dominance in Public Education

    [This commentary was published in the 25feb26 edition of The Union.  It is posted here as it appeared in the newspaper. gjr] Over the years in these pages and on my blog I have been a critic of our nation’s public school system that has produced a workforce and electorate marginally able to maintain our…

  • Scattershots – 16feb26

    George Rebane Hit to Gov Newsom and the state’s Democrats for finally figuring out the homeless problem.  By spending $24B (supposedly) on California’s homeless, that then increased their numbers by 20% to over 180,000 according to HUD data, the Democrats have shown that taxpayers need only pay about $800,000 to add each additional person to…

  • The Singularity is here?

    George Rebane “The accelerating sophistication of artificial intelligence is driving a wave of warnings (from tech insiders) that AI can create real-world harms, including autonomous cyberattacks, mass unemployment, unrelenting market disruption and the replacement of human relationships.” (WSJ 15feb26)  It is getting very hard to argue that we are not already witnessing the Singularity.  And it has…

  • Socialism is intrinsically unsustainable

    George Rebane If sustainability of a government program is defined as its ongoing budgets not increasing their share of the country’s GDP for non-diminishing levels of service, then which of our government’s entitlement programs are sustainable? Which of the EU governments’ programs are sustainable? I presented the above prompt to SuperGrok AI.  And after its…

  • Sandbox – 12feb26

    [Have no idea what President Trump is doing re Iran.  Every day past the ‘red line’ continues to be a day of hundreds more executions of innocent Iranians.  What in hell is there to negotiate with this regime other than give them a choice to vamoose or kill them??  But you start by whumping them. …

  • What Unification?

    [This commentary was published in the 11feb26 edition of The Union.] George Rebane That we are a badly divided community gives rise to a steady stream of good-hearted folks hereabouts calling for local residents to come together, to unify.  These attempts at unification go beyond the boilerplate calls with which we are all familiar.  Some…

  • The less you know, …

    Mayor Mamdani told New York that his administration would seek to replace “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism”. George Rebane Today our country is divided among those who believe in the rugged individualism envisioned by our Founders of citizens who would support and maintain the constitutional republic they fashioned for us;…

  • Scattershots – 1feb26 (updated 3feb26)

    George Rebane Gold finally crashed last Friday, dropping to $4,899 from its $5,615 high on Thursday (29jan26).  That’s a 12.75% plunge after starting its most recent run-up last November.  Looking at the price history, it occurred to me that this was no garden variety exponential growth pattern, but something special – super-exponential growth.  Exponentially growing…

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