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  • Stupidity, against which there is no defense

    Fools all who seem it, and half of those who do not.  Gracian #201 George Rebane Executed anti-Nazi cleric and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer correctly maintained that “stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than evil.”  In America, we overwhelmingly confirm this daily.  Now I admit, sometimes it’s hard to accept this as the…

  • 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…

  • Extraterrestrials and Religion

    George Rebane Recently the Ignatius Forum held a session on ‘The Future of Space’ at our National Cathedral attended by theologians, government space officials, private sector space entrepreneurs, and academics.  Among the latter was Prof Avi Loeb of Harvard who is also active in SETI and a member of the international SETI group (of which…

  • Wealth Tax – dodging a bullet

    George Rebane One of the very dumbest things progressive Democrats have recently proposed is a wealth tax on appreciated but unrealized assets.  Everywhere it has been tried by the Left, it has not worked; it has instead reduced government revenues and distorted economies – e.g. Sweden, Germany, and France were posterchildren of such fiscal idiocies.…

  • The Glasgow Climate Change Kabuki

    George Rebane President Biden heads to Glasgow with an empty quiver this weekend in a futile effort to demonstrate that his administration is still hanging on to some vestiges of global leadership here and there.  Most nations have either written off the United States as a worthy ally, or most certainly as a hegemon to…

  • Ruminations – 27oct21

    George Rebane Record storm total at Casa Rebane measured out at 12.1 inches.  According to The Union this is a regional record for western Nevada County.  We were amazed that the power stayed on while the rain fell almost horizontally.  Home fires were kept burning; we’re blessed with acreage that supplies an ‘infinite’ amount of…

  • The Great Divide – America’s Cultural Split

    George Rebane Victor Davis Hanson continues the ongoing study of how America is coming apart.  In ‘Is America Repeating the Cultural Split Between Rome and the Byzantine Empire?’ VDH lays out the parallels and answers the question in the affirmative. When the Roman Empire split into its western part centered on Rome, and its eastern…

  • The Union – no room for blasphemies du jour

    ‘All great truths began as blasphemies.’  GB Shaw George Rebane [This commentary was published (here) as an Other Voices column in the 30Oct21 Union.  As usual, the leftwing commenters on the newspaper's website continue to demonstrate their total ignorance of who has been censoring whom across the land.  Add that to their reading comprehension and…

  • Scattershots – 21oct21

    George Rebane DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) has now penetrated the deepest recesses of STEM academia and corporatist organizations of all hues.  As theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss reports in the 21oct21 WSJ, applicants for teaching positions at major universities and corporatist management positions must now submit an essay on DEI with their applications.  And they will…

  • The Onslaught of the Politically Dormant

    "The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by those who vote for a living." Anonymous George Rebane We have been told many times that democracy works only so long as the takers can’t use the government gun to derive their livelihood from the makers.  Staged governance in a…

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