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Category: Great Divide

  • May Day in LA

    George Rebane The 2011 May Day celebrations in Los Angeles were not covered as thoroughly by the lamestream as one might wish.  Our progressive cadres continue to lay a thick smokescreen on the notion that today’s labor movement, led by public service unions, have again picked up the theme of a new communist revolution.  Moreover,…

  • An Eerie Feeling re the Great Divide

    George Rebane Is the Great Divide already under way?  RR readers are familiar with the Great Divide discussion in these pages (RR search ‘great divide’).  The basis for the idea of a structural change in these United States is an old one, one that is provided for by our Constitution, and one that was in…

  • Hardwiring the Right and Left

    George Rebane In my technology newsletters I recently encountered some buzz about clinical evidence differentiating the brainbones of liberals and conservatives – in short, you may be one or the other because that’s the way you’re wired up.  There has been a flurry of articles posted on the original research done on this thesis at…

  • “… and then they came for the trade unionists.” (updated 12mar2011)

    George Rebane So laments William Rivers Pitt of truthout.com, one of the most extreme leftwing commentators in my experience.  He starts his latest screed on the Wisconsin legislature’s attempt to balance the state’s budget that has suffered under the largesse extracted by its public service unions.  Pitt revs into gear with the now famous aphorism that…

  • Ruminations – 12jan2011

    George Rebane China has announced that it is on the path to making the yuan (aka renminbi) a global currency (more here).  In short, the yuan will then take its place beside the euro and the dollar as a currency in which international accounts may be settled – in other words the yuan will become…

  • The Vitriol Verdict is In (updated 11jan2011)

    George Rebane The response of the left to the tragic shooting in Tucson yesterday has been swift and sure.  The whole thing was the product of right wing “vitriol”.  Starting with the local sheriff, through the mainstream media, and into the blogs, it was too much political speech from the conservatives, especially those in the…

  • 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…

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