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Month: July 2026

  • George Rebane California sucks as a place to live and do business.  According to ongoing polling – e.g. latest USNWR poll – the state is the worst state in the Union in which to do business.  It also ranks in the bottom three in essentially all other categories such as cost of living, crime, homelessness,…

  • [Of the over 250K illegal aliens on CA, NJ, NV, PA voter rolls, DHS reports nearly 200K of them are on California voter rolls. (H/T to reader)  It would boggle the mind to deny that thousands of these people vote in our elections when there are no ID requirements to vote in the large blue…

  • George Rebane [This post was published in the op-ed pages of the 23jul26 Union] On 20 June last The Union published my short piece ‘The MOU to nowhere’ in which I criticized President Trump’s continued attempt to negotiate with Iran’s murderous regime, which has vowed the destruction of Israel, the United States, and through nuclearization…

  • George Rebane Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died last night.  He was a good man and an effective legislator who was able to work with both sides of the aisle.  This because he was a Bayesian – getting new information often allowed him to change/improve his position on issues.  As an influential supporter of Israel, Ukraine,…

  • [As repeatedly predicted in these pages, you don’t seek win-win agreements with tyrants who only understand zero sum (win-lose) relationships.  The proper tactic for bringing Iran’s mullahs to heel is to keep up a systematic sequence of destroying their infrastructure – transportation, communications, power grid, and finally energy – while the negotiations are ongoing.  Therefore…

  • George Rebane In the pre-dawn hours of 4 May 1949 the WW2 troopship USS General Harry Taylor (pictured) slowly made its way past the Statue of Liberty, headed for its assigned berth in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.  Aboard, packed into bunks seven deep for the voyage, were over 3,000 European refugees who had spent the…