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  • George Rebane Starting with the bottom line, I am very disappointed in the lack of progress, nay, backsliding in how the administration’s apparent policy and visible actions toward Iran are being implemented.  A week or so ago President Trump promised that holy hell would rain down on Iran if the ragheads started firing on our…

  • George Rebane Republicans continue to miss the boat on understanding the mind of America’s main street.  On the internet and broadcast media Republican mavens are self-assured that Democrats are heading for an election disaster, since they can smugly point out all the failures and follies of leftwing public policies.  But that doesn’t mean a thing…

  • George Rebane Correlation is the gateway to causality. Nationally and locally the corps of our loyal Lenin’s lads and ladies continue their anti-American drumbeat.  Locally we read a stream of revisionist lies and TDS-powered diatribes in The Union.  An example is the vituperation heaped on Barry Pruett for his recent piece illustrating the parallels in…

  • George Rebane The Dems path to power is to expand their voter base by taking, say, $500 from a maker and giving $100 to each of five takers, thereby losing one vote while gaining five.  In its various forms this paradigm defines the Democrats’ only reliable route to election victories since they have no other…

  • George Rebane President Trump, as is his wont, has again been sending a bevy of mixed signals on the disposition of the Strait of Hormuz.  First it’s sealed to all traffic, and then it’s going to be open to traffic not benefiting Iran.  First, it’s mined and we have to clear it, and then it’s…

  • George Rebane The Mirage of Diplomacy: Why We Keep Falling for the Iranian Negotiation Trap The definition of insanity, as the old adage goes, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. By that metric, the international community’s approach to the Islamic Republic of Iran has shifted from hopeful…

  • George Rebane The Democrats are winning the Iran propaganda war hands down in the lamestream media and in the polls.  Their daily anti-American, anti-Trump screeds have successfully convinced over half of our population that the war was ill-conceived, and is being poorly executed with no clear objectives to be achieved.  That none of this is…

  • George Rebane We have definitely become bogged down in our prosecution of the Iran war.  As we enter the war’s third week, it is clear that no material progress has been made toward ending the conflict for at least the last seven days.  Iran has successfully hunkered down and continues to launch missiles and drones…

  • [This commentary was published in the 10mar26 edition of The Union.] George Rebane Our worthy warriors of the Left continue to bombard us with various messages assembled under the theme of America, the evil racially-drenched imperialist warmonger that seeks to beggar the world to the benefit of its capitalist overlords.  Today TDS is their most…

  • [This commentary was published in the 11feb26 edition of The Union.] George Rebane That we are a badly divided community gives rise to a steady stream of good-hearted folks hereabouts calling for local residents to come together, to unify.  These attempts at unification go beyond the boilerplate calls with which we are all familiar.  Some…