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  • The Ubiquity of Bias

    George Rebane I am a biased ideologue (q.v.).  My biases, along with their reasoned bases, have been spelled out in detail on these pages for well over a decade.  No other blog I’m aware of has so meticulously presented its host’s credo and glossary of vocabulary relevant to the topics covered. Having again made that…

  • ‘Parents wary of critical race theory’

    [This is the second in a three-part series of articles on CRT by Ms McLaughlin.  The first was posted here on 16 June 2021.  This column appeared here in the 1jul21 edition of The Union.  gjr] Terry McLaughlin California residents may be familiar with euphemisms for critical race theory, such as “ethnic studies,” “educational equity” and…

  • ‘For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes …’

    [I was gratified to receive this book report from a dear and very astute friend who now lives in Florida.  For years he was a prominent developer and successful businessman in Nevada County.  A Stanford engineering graduate, he too joined the California exodus as our monopolist one-party socialist revolution became too much to bear.  By…

  • America the Unnatural

    George Rebane [This essay kicks off Independence Day week at Casa Rebane.  Jo Ann and I installed our annual display of bunting and a large Old Glory on our porch railing, which always brings good words from our neighbors.  Perhaps you too would consider giving more than a nod to a tradition that has bound…

  • The Joys of Juneteenth (addended)

    George Rebane As most Americans know, today we are a nation fractured into tribes of various victimized and victimizer identity groups.  This new social order started gelling in the national consciousness under Barack Obama, hardened during Trump’s contended presidency, and is on schedule to become a fully petrified structure of America’s society under the pro-Marxist…

  • Critical race theory lurks in schools (addended)

    [Terry McLaughlin is a regular columnist for The Union.  This column, posted here by permission, appears in the 17jun21 Union and its online edition (here).  This piece is the first of a three part series.  gjr] Terry McLaughlin Parents are becoming aware of the use of critical race theory in their children’s instruction, particularly as…

  • The Most Atrocious Tax of All (updated 18jun21)

    ‘A nation ignorant and free, that never was and never shall be.’  Thomas Jefferson George Rebane The country’s Democratic radical Left and Team Biden are prepared to expand asset taxes and introduce unrealized capital gains as another taxable form of ‘income’.  If they are successful, this will be the final nail in the coffin of…

  • Inflation – Up close and personal

    “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.”  Milton Friedman George Rebane “The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the…

  • The Evil Party – more lives lost to the Left (updated 21jun21)

    The fact that Joe Biden is even considering opening our southern border to a group of unvetted illegal aliens in a massive caravan – in the middle of a pandemic, while millions of Americans are unemployed – tells you everything you need to know about Democrats’ priorities.  - Anonymous George Rebane In voices hushed by…

  • Toward Reunification, One More Time (updated 13jun21)

    George Rebane [This commentary appeared here in the 5jun21 op-ed pages of The Union.  The response in the newspaper’s online edition comment stream was as predicted (by publisher Don Rogers among others), and I expand on this in the addendum below.] In my last two Other Voices columns – ‘Farewell Unity’ (2apr21), ‘Where exactly are…

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