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  • Lurching from Win-Win to Zero-Sum

    [This piece appeared in the op-ed section of the 12aug26 print and online editions of The Union.] America’s sociopolitical landscape is undergoing a profound and dangerous transformation. We are witnessing a systematic departure from the principles of mutual benefit, moving rapidly toward a society fractured by envy and defined by a zero-sum mentality. At the…

  • Remembrances of a Troubled Immigrant Refugee

    George Rebane In the pre-dawn hours of 4 May 1949 the WW2 troopship USS General Harry Taylor (pictured) slowly made its way past the Statue of Liberty, headed for its assigned berth in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.  Aboard, packed into bunks seven deep for the voyage, were over 3,000 European refugees who had spent the…

  • And now Sh!t from Sea to Shining Sea

    George Rebane The Left wants to redistribute the wealth they can neither create nor understand. Gavin Newsom, a true socialist who has California in the toilet, wants the rest of the United States to replicate the state’s existential catastrophe in governance.  All the country’s outspoken socialists are calling for repressive taxes on the wealthy –…

  • The Science behind Capitalism and Collectivism

    George Rebane The central thesis of this article is that capitalism finds robust support in scientific principles governing complex systems, whereas collectivism lacks comparable empirical or theoretical backing. This fundamental differences with observable natural processes underlie many of the societal divisions we observe today. A clearer public understanding of this would help bridge divides and…

  • The Left’s Continued Attack on America

    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…

  • The American People – where are they?

    George Rebane We are assured daily by politicians and media mavens of all stripes that the “American people” support this or oppose that.  Each one of these worthies attempts to convince us that they have divined the will of the American people who supposedly make up a cohesive cohort of the population that share in…

  • America’s Foreign Policy Misrepresented

    [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…

  • Socialism is intrinsically unsustainable

    George Rebane If sustainability of a government program is defined as its ongoing budgets not increasing their share of the country’s GDP for non-diminishing levels of service, then which of our government’s entitlement programs are sustainable? Which of the EU governments’ programs are sustainable? I presented the above prompt to SuperGrok AI.  And after its…

  • What Unification?

    [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…

  • The less you know, …

    [A slightly edited version of this commentary was published in the 11apr26 issue of The Union.] Mayor Mamdani told New York that his administration would seek to replace “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism”. George Rebane Today our country is divided among those who believe in the rugged individualism envisioned by…

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