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  • Hyperbiased Media

    George Rebane For years my conservative friends and I have shared a common experience when talking to a leftwinger about current events.  They all have massive blind spots in what they know of what’s going on.  The explanation is simple.  They only get their news from leftwing lamestream media which simply omits, minimizes, or hides…

  • America’s Millionaires

    George Rebane [This post appeared (here) in the op-ed pages of the 4jun25 Union.] On average, all of us in America are millionaires.  In 2022 the average household net worth – assets minus debts – hit $1.06 million.  But that hopeful number is skewed by the ultra-wealthy.  The more accurate net worth of $192,900 is…

  • California’s $8 gasoline

    George Rebane With most of the state’s refineries already gone, and two more packing up to leave, and with more planned refinery exits in the works, the state is heading for a transportation disaster.  The oil companies are uncertain about the reality of CA’s 2035 ban on internal combustion engines now being litigated.  Other states…

  • Scattershots – 22may2025 (updated 26may25)

    We must now take seriously the possibility that it will be the resurrection of a shared culture, not its abandonment, that will make possible our continued survival and cohesion.  The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West (2025) George Rebane The Big Beautiful Bill is now on a rocky road…

  • Scattershots – 15may25

    George Rebane “California’s poverty rate has increased significantly, with disproportionate impacts on Black and Laninx residents” during the Biden years (2021-2024).  The California Budget & Policy Center reports (here) on the continuous disaster foisted on our formerly golden state by the double dummy Democrats who inhabit Sacramento at all levels.  And it is getting worse…

  • The Matter of Abrego Garcia

    George Rebane Democrat lies abound in all sizes and shapes; they wash over us daily during our consumption of the news, be it from conservative or progressive outlets.  The lies about the deported gang member and wife beater Abrego Garcia have gotten a lot of mileage, and proivdes a lot of holier-than-thou comments on blogs…

  • Scattershots – 4may25 (updated 7may25)

    George Rebane Today the Rebanes landed on these shores 76 years ago (here).  It was the most fortuitous and wisest move by my parents to accept America’s 1948 invitation to the Balts then ensconced in displaced persons camps all over West Germany.  It has been documented many times since by historians and journalists that the…

  • Trump trumped?

    George Rebane Given the choices I remain a Trump supporter.  I have voted for him three times.  But as RR pages witness and its readers know, I am not an uncritical acolyte of his administration.  He has totally misread what may be termed the elements of negotiating with totalitarians, especially those of the communist stripe…

  • Scattershots – 24apr25

    George Rebane Trump is being played by Putin for all to see, and the man has finally stumbled into one of his blind spots, apparently without a clue.  In brokering the Ukraine/Russia peace he is announcing daily progress with Russia, who continues to bomb the crap out of Ukraine’s civilian centers, and dunning Zelensky for…

  • 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…

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