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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…

  • COP30 – Climate Hysteria on Steroids

    [This commentary was published in the 9dec25 online and print editions of The Union.  Recent reports from the federal government and UC San Diego highlight the ongoing and alarming trend in the increase of dumbth in our student population and young people in general. Since this is due entirely to the influence of leftwing teachers’…

  • Collectivist governments and the Democrat Party

    [This piece was composed with significant research from xAI's Grok; it summarizes the years of posts under what I characterize as Rebane Doctrine.] George Rebane Why do collectivist governments with central planning and control not work? Collective governments with central control—typically referring to systems like command or centrally planned economies where the state directs resource…

  • Donbas et al – Sudetenland Quietly Ignored

    [This commentary was also published in the 15aug25 edition of The Union (here)] George Rebane As President Trump prepares to welcome Putin to Alaska, where he won’t be arrested, the meeting draws much attention and has little chance of producing anything useful because President Zelinsky of Ukraine remains uninvited.  All anticipatory reports of the coming…

  • ‘More UN climate nonsense’ (updated 24jul25)

    George Rebane James Freeman in the 23jul25 WSJ writes a telling article on the intended confusion that surrounds ‘sustainable energy’ costs – i.e. the comparison of wind, solar, and hydro to fossil fuels.  The latest pile of steaming bullshit was regurgitated by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in an AP interview as reported here.  I am going to…

  • ‘More UN climate nonsense’ (updated 3aug25)

    George Rebane James Freeman in the 23jul25 WSJ writes a telling article on the intended confusion that surrounds ‘sustainable energy’ costs – i.e. the comparison of wind, solar, and hydro to fossil fuels.  The latest pile of steaming bullshit was regurgitated by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in an AP interview as reported here.  I…

  • Getting from here to there

    George Rebane OK boys and girls, it’s time to take a break from our socio-political harangues and debates, and delve into something more intellectual yet delightfully accessible.  The figure contains a 10-by-10 network of nodes each identified by their blue numbers from 1 to 100.  The related red numbers denote the cost of traversing that…

  • Growth and ONLY growth

    George Rebane The Republican debate about the Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) goes on after it squeaked out of the Senate with the VP’s vote.  A quick look at the alternatives shows that the debate involves no reasonable alternative to the BBB.  Everyone except the economically ignorant leftwingers in the country knows that the only solution…

  • What is ‘fair’? – one more time

    George Rebane The use of ‘fair’, as in ‘the rich need to pay their fair share’, is one the most nefarious misuse of language in the public square.  Oxford Languages defines the adjective as “impartial and just, without favoritism or discrimination”.  Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem (Nobel 1972, here) proves that in collective decision making among alternatives it is…

  • Our Chinese Communist benefactors

    George Rebane [This post appears in the 9jul25 edition of The Union’s op-ed pages, retitled with the atrocious and confusing word salad ‘US political factions push socialism to achieve Chinese Communist Party levels of control?’ (Note the question mark.)  The newspaper also refused to include the accompanying figure which makes clear to the layman an…

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