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Month: August 2026

  • Monte Hall with a Twist

    George Rebane Fun time.  We all know the original MH problem – three closed doors behind one of which is a car (C) and goats behind the other two.  You pick one door, MH knows the C-door and opens one of the other doors with a goat.  You now get to stay with the original…

  • Sandbox – 28aug26

    [The Left’s constant message drizzles into people’s ears that the rich are taking money from the middle and the poor, causing untold suffering across the land.  The real data on the economy and the spending behavior of consumers contradicts all of this.  But under tight socialist teachings and control none of this information reaches the…

  • Scattershots – 24aug26 (updated 26aug26)

    George Rebane Over-educated or mis-educated?  Hit to those who recognize that today’s description of the Left’s “over educated” young voters is fallacious.  The more accurate description is that most of these people have been mis-educated.  Their college education provided them no useful knowledge and/or valuable skillsets.  All employers immediately recognize a trash degree when they…

  • Scattershots – 15aug26 (updated 18aug26)

    George Rebane Democrat Xavier Becerra (54%) leads Republican Steve Hilton (37%) in the polls for California governor.  Becerra is demonstrably unqualified for the office, having literally accomplished nothing in his 40 years in politics and now promises to keep taking our state down the road to social and commercial ruin with time-tested ruinous policies.  California’s…

  • Sandbox – 13aug26

    [The Republican Party is somewhere between somnambulant and dead in the national public forum; and especially so in local politics as confirmed in the pages of The Union.  If our newspaper is any indication, one can readily witness the absence of conservative op-ed voices while the local progressives cum socialists enthusiastically populate those pages with…

  • Lurching from Win-Win to Zero-Sum

    [This piece appeared in the op-ed section of the 12aug26 print and online editions of The Union.] America’s sociopolitical landscape is undergoing a profound and dangerous transformation. We are witnessing a systematic departure from the principles of mutual benefit, moving rapidly toward a society fractured by envy and defined by a zero-sum mentality. At the…

  • Wildfires Are Decreasing

    George Rebane The ‘science’ of climate change, as reported to an ignorant public, has been and continues on a deluge of lies and hysteria.  Globally it is undoubtedly the most widespread and influential scam ever perpetrated by special interests in politics and, yes, science to make money and gain power.  The most prevalent m.o. is…

  • Capitulation City

    Capitulate – to surrender, stop resisting, or give in to an opponent or an irresistible force, often under agreed-upon terms. George Rebane The Trump administration’s emerging strategy in the Middle East is culminating in what can only be described as a diplomatic and strategic disaster. What was marketed to the American public as a masterclass…

  • Let’s talk negotiations

    George Rebane In an effort to settle a claim, the insurance adjustor says to the claimant, “We’re prepared to offer you $100k.”  Looking obviously unsatisfied and avoiding eye contact, the claimant hesitates and finally responds, “Well, I don’t know … .” and trails off.  The adjustor considers this and offers, “OK, I can go as…

  • Sandbox – 5aug26

    [Given the Iran regime’s record over the last decades coupled with America’s demands to resolve the current conflict and put Iran on the path to peaceful and productive membership in the community of nations, what possible points are there left to resolve through negotiations?  Can anyone name just one point that we now consider needs…

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