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  • B-2s over Iran (partially restored)

    George Rebane [This 23jun25 blog post was mysteriously deleted by Typepad which they cannot recover.  I fished out a partial draft version of the post from the Recycle Bin and am reposting it here.  It does not include the two updates and graphics of the original of which I don’t have copies.] Don’t let an…

  • Scattershots – 10jun25 (updated 13jun25)

    George Rebane Fossil Fuel Use and Human Progress: The Big Picture More here (H/T to reader). The Left’s riot lies are now historically astounding (more here).  And what makes this both sad and dangerous is that your Democrat neighbor completely believes what s/he hears from Maxine Waters, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, and the other leading…

  • Triangle Problem

    George Rebane Two circles of areas A1 and A2 are embedded in an equilateral triangle as shown below.  What is the area of the triangle? ©2025 GJ Rebane  

  • Those discriminating selfish countries

    George Rebane The Marschak Colloquium is a 50+ year institution at UCLA that features world class thinkers, artists, and scientists as invited speakers.  Jo Ann and I were in regular attendance when we lived in SoCal.  As with academe in general, Marschak has drifted leftward ideologically.  The next scheduled talk will be given by a…

  • A little puzzlement (updated 23apr25)

    George Rebane As a fun diversion, here’s your Easter Egg problem albeit with a round egg.  Given three mutually perpendicular line segments of lengths a, b, c, as shown in the figure,  Problem: (A) derive the expression for the radius r of the circle, then (B) for (a, b, c) = (13,6,18) calculate the value…

  • Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs (updated 13apr25)

    George Rebane My tariff laments are on record in these pages.  I am not alone in my consternation about how the administration is conducting this part of our nation's economy.  CATO scholar Scott Lincicome sums up President Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’  Trump's reciprocal tariffs: 1) Impose hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes on Americans…

  • Lurching Leftward (updated 11apr25)

    George Rebane The Democrats daily ventures into leftwing extremes are too many to count, but unfortunately too easy to witness.  Nationally prominent Democrat author and pollster Doug Schoen, a centrist, openly laments that the Democrat Party’s embrace of socialism and collectivist extremes is not only unabated, but picking up steam.  Led by Bernie Sanders and…

  • “Eradication of Western Civilization”

    George Rebane That is the seldom spoken yet common goal of socialists, communists, Islamic extremists/terrorists, our Democratic party, and generally of leftwing ideologues worldwide.  When confronted with this reality and its confirming historical record, today’s intellectual Democrat (yes, there are some) will deny it.  The time is not yet right for its public cotillion. Recent…

  • Lamestream Lies for the Lightly-read (updated)

    George Rebane [24apr25 – This piece was submitted to The Union on 23 May 2025 for their Other Voices op-ed contributions.  Not only was it not published, but they did not even deign to answer my follow-on inquiries about its acceptance and status.  Clearly I stepped over their editorial line with this piece.  The same…

  • Scattershots – 17mar25 (updated 22mar25)

    George Rebane Happy St Pat’s day to all even if you’re not Irish! Wrong answer to an interview puzzle.  The website Medium regularly publishes math puzzles that it lifts from entrance tests for various university STEM programs and some supposedly given to applicants during their interviews.  Here is a treasure hunt problem that requires some…

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