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  • [This commentary was submitted by Union columnist and editorial board member Mr Norm Sauer.  It appears concurrently in the newspaper's op-ed pages.  gjr] Norm Sauer Surely, everyone agrees that protecting our citizens’ right to vote to choose their leaders is most important. Votes that are stolen from Americans who vote lawfully are negated as a…

  • ‘Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.’ George Rebane After North Korea’s demonstration of its ICBM a few days ago (here), I am more convinced than ever that China will do nothing to remove that threatening thorn from our side – it will never happen.  Bear with me as I weave some of…

  • George Rebane President Trump appears to have entered a new phase of his administration with the escalation of this Tweet Travails and the second faltering of ‘Replace and Repeal’ while tax reform waits (withers?) in the wings and the national budget is not even on the back burner (‘Continuing Resolutions’ don’t count).  When MOCs return…

  • George Rebane The Left predicted that yesterday's elections would be a referendum on Trump – well, it turns out they were right. Yesterday was a disaster for the Democrats, and today everyone from their media mentors to their grassroots minions are scrambling to put enough lipstick on last night’s election results to distract the distractable. …

  • George Rebane Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is charged with investigating the Russian affair with last year’s election.  Specifically, allegations that Russia interfered and/or impacted our election, and more allegations that person or persons on Team Trump criminally colluded with Russia to achieve God knows what.  There is no evidence of a crime having been committed…

  • George Rebane Hey, let’s rag on the millennials a bit more.  Every peek under the collective kimono of that celebrated cohort reveals another shortcoming.  Now we hear that a prime reason why their critical thinking skills need a little tweaking is that they’re not learning much of that in the college careers.  The revealing report…

  • George Rebane The US adopting the dreadful Paris Accords is the hot topic now.  The accord is a voluntary agreement to further cut carbon emissions by the participating countries.  The major emitters get a pass, with the other developed countries having not even met their past commitments.  And everyone is hollering about President Trump not…

  • George Rebane Before any serious discussion of America’s healthcare ensues, we must first come to grips with the answer to this question – What right does any American have to draw on his neighbor’s pocketbook to pay for the repair of his health, the preservation of which he may or not have taken any prudent…

  • George Rebane Keep hearing about CBO’s assessment of the Trump budget and healthcare reform among other things.  The lamestream is reporting the office’s assessments as coming down from the mountain on stone tablets.  No one seems to remember that the CBO has an abysmal record in forecasting anything, especially if it has to do with…

  • George Rebane Former President Obama willfully violated Americans’ 4th Amendment rights for years by authorizing and executing large-scale surveillance on all electronic communications by our intelligence agencies (primarily NSA). He did this in the face of protests from the FISA court from which by law he is supposed to seek authorization before conducting such ‘wiretaps’.…