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  • Berkheimer and Bernie – birds of a feather (updated)

    George Rebane Last Saturday’s (28may16) newspapers offered up dollops of leftwing wisdom from the great and the small, both issuing from what to me and mine has always been a Neverland of cogent thought.  From Hiroshima (pronounced Hiroshma, not Hero-shiima) we heard once more the words of our leader pleading for an Earth that never…

  • Sustainability and Single Payer Revealed

    George Rebane Sustainability is the established watchword cum battle cry of 21st century world transforming progressives everywhere.  Its most identifiable provenance was the 1992 UN conference which gave us the globalists’ plan for the future – Agenda 21.  Today sustainability is continually evoked as the raison d’etre for stultifying public policies that constrict our activities and…

  • They sure ain’t like us (updated 5may16)

    George Rebane A continuing narrative on these pages has been the grossly asymmetric way that the Right (conservatives, libertarians) and Left (socialists, liberals) treat each other’s expression of ideas and beliefs in the public fora.  A corollary to this narrative is how narrow and broad are the spectra of news sources and commentaries that each…

  • Wanna bet?

    George Rebane Suppose astute observers of the political scene Manny, Moe, and Jack want to demonstrate their prognostication skills in a wager, and they decide to show their acumen by predicting the number of delegates with which Donald Trump arrives at the Republican Convention this July.  Now the standard way to do that would be…

  • Scattershots – 22apr16

    George Rebane Supes Miller and Weston gave their “rationale” for floating Measure W on the 7jun16 ballot (op-ed in 22apr16 Union). They tell us that W is “strictly about controlling nuisance, environmental and public safety impacts from outdoor (MJ) grows.”  Well maybe.  Now don’t get me wrong, I’m on record for sharing these concerns voiced…

  • Candidates Ignore Growing Risk of ‘War for our time’

    George Rebane Among the many failures of the Obama presidency, I believe history will record that his chamberlainian naiveté and failures in foreign policy will eclipse the other disasters he has authored for America.  More observers are starting to see the growing number of harbingers to war popping up all over the globe as America…

  • The Liberal Mind – there are so many of them

    George Rebane On Saturday mornings I cook a big breakfast centered around a multi-layered frittata (dubbed Eggs Rebane in the family) and sautéed vegetables all served with toasted slices from one of my artisan breads (have baked all our bread since 1998).  Jo Ann makes the coffee, cuts my vegetables, and then gets to sit…

  • The Liberal Mind – Hilary Hodge can’t connect the dots (updated 21apr16)

    George Rebane Liberals, in the footsteps of Bernie in this election year, have worked themselves into a white heat denigrating business, employers, profit, entrepreneurship, …, in short all the trappings of free market capitalism.  Our local outlets for such sentiments include the neighborhood progressives whose commentaries decorate The Union’s op-ed pages.  Among them is the…

  • A burning election year question for Americans (updated)

    George Rebane In this year of 2016AD, is not the disjunction of our communal knowledge remarkable when it informs a goodly portion of us that capitalism and free enterprise are evil and the prime causes of misery and suffering wherever they are practiced; when in reality these are and continue to be the ONLY social…

  • Scattershots – 8apr16 (updated 9apr16)

    George Rebane Socialists and communists have been trying to destroy America for generations.  Learning from past mistakes, they have picked up the pace in recent years under a clearly socialist president.  From this pithy analysis of things one year into FDR’s administration, our current clutch of collectivists are doing much better.  Checking the list below,…

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