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Category: Great Divide

  • Will someone call the question? Please!

    George Rebane David Skeel of the Weekly Standard picks up a notion frequently discussed in these pages – the federalization of California and the attendant national Great Divide (more here).  In his article ‘Give States a Way to Go Bankrupt’ he argues that "the states are the next frontier in “too big to fail.” In the…

  • The Latest Volley from the Local Left

    George Rebane Yesterday morning, while waiting on PG&E’s ‘extended outage’ line listening to elevator music, I received an email from Russ Steele that contained a copy of the latest effluent directed at me personally by Jeff Pelline and his friend Steven Frisch.  For your edification you can read the original and its comment stream on…

  • Is America Too Big?

    George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my regular column which appears in today’s (9oct10) print and online editions of The Union.  I have posted other thoughts along this theme in The Great Divide category.] Essayists and political commentators have been musing about the size and cohesion of America for decades, but in recent…

  • A Growing Chasm of Opinions

    George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my monthly column which appears today 11 September 2010 in The Union's print and online editions here.] ‘But that’s just your opinion.’  Have you ever had anyone throw that little bomb into what you thought was a productive discussion?  Today when many people talk about important issues…

  • La Raza at UCLA, or Great Divide continued

    George Rebane Some marginally informed people, mostly of the left persuasion, continue to believe that the Great Divide debate is fueled only by conservatives and free marketers wanting to separate from the socialist left.  RR serves as a forum for such debates.  Here is a factually confused yet dedicated Hispanic Los Angeles School District teacher rallying…

  • ‘Altered States’ – the Great Divide dialogue continues

    George Rebane   In today’s (17apr10) WSJ there is a major article (‘Altered States’) by author/historian Michael Trinklein that reviews previous attempts in the Union by people to carve out territories for themselves that are more homogeneous along their citizens’ interests.  Contrary to opinions most popular with today’s left, the Union has had such percolations going…

  • The Great Divide – more are thinking about it (updated)

    George Rebane I have written in these pages about the possibility of America splitting into two sovereign nation states for the last couple of years or so under the heading of The Great Divide.  These were lonely thoughts for some time.  With the election of Obama – the self-declared Great Unifier – the prospect of…

  • ‘The Next 100 Years’

    George Rebane George Friedman’s much anticipated book came out a couple of weeks ago.  I was on Amazon’s waiting list for it, and got it almost instantly.  RR readers will recognize Friedman as the founder and editor-in-chief of Stratfor, the prestigious private intelligence service on all the important happenings in the world.  Along with the…

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