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  • Book Banning Politics

    George Rebane At a recent holiday social I chanced to talk with retired judge of a distinct leftward bent who assured me that “I am no leftwinger” while exhibiting all the symptoms of TDS and iconic traits of a progressive.  When we first discovered each other’s ideological orientations, he immediately announced that we should return…

  • Scattershots – 15jun23

    George Rebane The latest liberal lies involve their claims of book banning, specifically by Gov Desantis in Florida school libraries.  The lamestream has worked hard and successfully to convince the nation that the Right is the party of book banners.  However, the truth of the matter is that even  in their posterchild state of Florida,…

  • Twitter blackout

    George Rebane Last week Elon Musk released a tranche of Twitter internal communications to conservative blogger Matt Taibbi.  Since then, more has been released through Taibbi.  These missives between top and middle management at Twitter during the summer and fall of 2020 are damning evidence of how the Democrat Party, government agencies, and corporatist entities…

  • America’s Foreign Policy

    George Rebane Our foreign policy is on the rocks, and has not been so badly mishandled since JFK’s screw-up brought on the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.  Our globally recognized incompetence in that national endeavor has brought us to the brink of WW3 with not only one, but two marginally stable enemies (I discount North Korea…

  • Scattershots – 8mar22 (updated 12mar22)

    George Rebane Probability is the measure of possibility. H&I fires.  The Russians are using an unusually insidious, deadly, and dastardly artillery tactic to kill fleeing civilians on negotiated evacuation routes.  The tactic is called Harassment and Interdiction fires, and are designed to deny the enemy free use of designated areas over extended periods.  H&I fires…

  • Herding CRT’s Ideological Cats

    [This commentary appeared as an Other Voices column here in the 27nov21 edition of The Union.] ‘It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble; it’s what you know that ain’t so.’  Will Rogers and others. George Rebane Herding ideological cats is a job Union editor Alan Riquelmy is tasked with as the chair…

  • It’s Still the Economy, Stupid!

    George Rebane While Messrs Smith, Bastiat, Mises, Hayek, and Freedman explained it all, Mr Henry Hazlitt succinctly summarized the whole thing in his classic, Economics in One Lesson (1946).  This book has become such a fundamental text, that you don’t even have to buy a copy of it any more.  It is now online in…

  • The Lamestream’s Russia Collusion Illuminated

    George Rebane Holman Jenkins in his ‘What Ails the US Press?’ expands the strong point, much massaged in these pages, that “the media’s lack of interest in the Steele dossier amounts to collusion in a coverup.”  In this 3aug19 WSJ piece he lays it out so well that I decided to let RR readers crawl…

  • Scattershots – 13jul19 (updated 16jul19)

    George Rebane Thistle and Shamrock is a weekly program of Irish music on NPR hosted for years by Fiona Richie who speaks in a rich Irish brogue.  On weekends at our house we hear about the first ten minutes of it before one of us turns it off or to another station.  And that is…

  • Scattershots – 28feb19 (updated 2mar19)

    George Rebane Trump won big in Hanoi.  By walking away with a smile when the Ugly Fat Kid overreached by offering to give some to get all, our president maintained his creds and caused the UFK to call a midnight news conference to claim a misunderstanding – ‘No, no, no, we didn’t demand that all…

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