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Month: May 2026

  • Scattershots – 28may26 (updated 1jun26)

    George Rebane Vice President JD Vance’s fraud task force is uncovering fraud and abuse amounting to billions of dollars across the land, led, of course, by California.  The process of uncovering these sites of fraud, including drafting appropriate legislation, is generally opposed by Democrats.  And this opposition is in response to the asymmetrical results that…

  • Sandbox – 28may26

    [Several polls have recently come out confirming President Reagan’s famous quote, “The nine most frightful words in the English language are, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”. The more famous corollary to that quote is his, “The government is not the solution to our problem, the government is the problem.” The poll…

  • A doubtful twinkle at the end of the Iran tunnel

    George Rebane The ongoing Iran imbroglio is described by Gerard Baker (writes for the WSJ and London Times) in a level-headed piece, ‘History Repeats in Iran’.  I have been critical of President Trump’s diffidence on completing the Iran war that borders on pusillanimity (accurate words that are usually above my pay grade).  However, Baker views…

  • Tenets of Collectivism and Capitalism

    George Rebane On this Memorial Day 2026 it is appropriate to remember and honor the uncountable thousands of Americans who have sacrificed their lives to preserve the capitalistic structure of our governance as bequeathed us by our Founders.  These principles must be understood in stark contrast to collectivism, the opposing principles of governance that has…

  • Scattershots – 20 may26

    George Rebane Where have all the men gone.  The Department of Labor keeps track of workforce employment numbers and reports that in the last decades we have lost a third of the men 16 and older from the workforce – they no longer even look for jobs.  The reasons are many – mental disorders, substance…

  • Sandbox – 11may26

    [Climate hysteria is subsiding almost everywhere across the world, save California where the double dummies are fully in charge of continuing to wreak maximum damage on the state’s citizens.  Most nations agree that the data so far is insufficient to support predictions of an imminent climate catastrophe, and the hysterical responses over the last decades…

  • Iran Assessment – 8may26 (updated 9may26)

    George Rebane [A lightly edited version of this commentary was published in the online and print editions of the 26may26 Union.] Starting with the bottom line, I am very disappointed in the lack of progress, nay, backsliding in how the administration’s apparent policy and visible actions toward Iran are being implemented.  A week or so…

  • Scattershots – 3may26 (updated 8may26)

    George Rebane Republicans continue to miss the boat on understanding the mind of America’s main street.  On the internet and broadcast media Republican mavens are self-assured that Democrats are heading for an election disaster, since they can smugly point out all the failures and follies of leftwing public policies.  But that doesn’t mean a thing…

  • The Left’s Continued Attack on America

    George Rebane Correlation is the gateway to causality. Nationally and locally the corps of our loyal Lenin’s lads and ladies continue their anti-American drumbeat.  Locally we read a stream of revisionist lies and TDS-powered diatribes in The Union.  An example is the vituperation heaped on Barry Pruett for his recent piece illustrating the parallels in…

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