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  • Illustrations of Futility (updated 19aug21)

    George Rebane In the latest effort to find common ground in our fractured country, a new civics curriculum has been devised by a few hundred scholars under the aegis of Educating for American Democracy Initiative.  Bipartisan support comes from Sens Coons and Cornyn who have authored the Civics Secures Democracy Act to pump $1B of…

  • Climate Hysteria 3.0 (maybe 4.0)

    George Rebane ‘Settled’ is not an adjective to be used with real science. The recently released AR6 report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has injected new life into climate hysteria that seems to have been flagging over the last few years.  The usual hysterics are again up in arms with another round…

  • Belief has been banished

    George Rebane Equity is the enemy of liberty. In the days of yore we had a national institution called the Fourth Estate – professional journalism.  It was staffed by reporters taught by their editors to be ‘curious, hard-bitten skeptics’, always seeking alternative sides to what they were being told.  In a recent piece (here) by…

  • Ruminations – 6aug21 (updated 11aug21)

    Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue. George Rebane Socialist economists don’t understand why millions of workers’ real wages have not increased in the last, say, thirty years.  The answer is simple.  Labor is a cost, why increase that component of cost when it has contributed nothing to the increase in productivity.  That wages…

  • Scattershots – 1aug21 (updated 4aug21)

    The redistribution of wealth does not affect its creation. – Democrat/Marxist shibboleth George Rebane According to its director Dr Rochelle Wolensky, CDC’s new national mask guidance – even vaccinated people should wear masks in regions of high C19 incidence – is based on data from a spike of cases that occurred in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. …

  • The Criminality of Covid Care (updated 31jul21)

    George Rebane The prominent article on front page of the 26jul21 WSJ declares ‘Covid Treatment Options Remain Elusive, Despite Months of Effort and Rising Delta Cases’.  And the most elusive treatment options remain Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and Ivermectin (IVM) which are nowhere even mentioned in an otherwise comprehensive piece on the various medicines having been tested…

  • Ruminations -21jul21 (updated 25jul21)

    ‘You comply because you want it to end.  But because you comply, it will never end.’  The realworld of dealing with autocracies. George Rebane “There’s nothing partisan about seeking the truth.”  Thus spake Nancy Pelosi, one of the all-time duplicitous lying politicians of our times, as she rejected the nomination of GOP Reps Jim Banks…

  • Scattershots – 12jul21 (updated 18jul21)

    George Rebane Power outage on Hind Tit Road.  Unannounced, PG&E decided to turn off power at 1130pm last night, and then back on at 4am.  The transients did their predictable share of problems starting with no internet (the ATT modem did not reset properly) to our well pump controller deciding to shut off.  One required…

  • Global Tax Bamboozle

    Tax rates don’t impact economic behavior.  Leftwing shibboleth George Rebane Let’s start with an eternal truth, forever hidden from the lightly read and leftwing ‘economists’ – corporations don’t pay taxes, their customers do.’  Today SecTreas Yellen is Team Biden’s point on the easy job of convincing the G-7 countries to establish a globally applied minimum…

  • ‘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…

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