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  • Scattershots – 12jul26 (updated 14jul26)

    George Rebane Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died last night.  He was a good man and an effective legislator who was able to work with both sides of the aisle.  This because he was a Bayesian – getting new information often allowed him to change/improve his position on issues.  As an influential supporter of Israel, Ukraine,…

  • 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…

  • The MOU to nowhere (updated 27jun26)

    [This post was also published in the 20jun26 edition of The Union.] George Rebane The much touted memorandum of understanding is an exhibit of Trump’s weakest and desperate attempt to get some kind, any kind, of an agreement with the perennially recalcitrant Iranian thugs to get Hormuz to some semblance of ‘open’.  Unabashedly our president…

  • Scattershots – 9jun26 (updated 11jun26)

    George Rebane Iran’s downing of the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter with one of its sophisticated drones has now changed the face of warfare in the Strait of Hormuz.  While the details of the shoot-down are not yet known, it is clear that the Iranians have some very advanced and deadly drones that can either intercept…

  • Scattershots – 11apr26

    George Rebane Large trucks marked with the Red Crescent and filled with stuff bought and paid for through the American Red Cross are allowed to enter Iran in order to provide relief for the country’s civilian population.  Many of those Iranians, held in eternal ignorance, now spend their days in regime approved street demonstrations shouting…

  • Scattershots – 1feb26 (updated 3feb26)

    George Rebane Gold finally crashed last Friday, dropping to $4,899 from its $5,615 high on Thursday (29jan26).  That’s a 12.75% plunge after starting its most recent run-up last November.  Looking at the price history, it occurred to me that this was no garden variety exponential growth pattern, but something special – super-exponential growth.  Exponentially growing…

  • Venezuela on path to freedom and prosperity

    George Rebane This morning the US carried out a law enforcement raid in Caracas to capture and extract Nicolas Maduro and wife, and transport them to stand trial in New York where they were indicted for narco-terrorism in 2020.  In the dead of night the operation came off without a hitch as a precisely integrated…

  • Armed citizens when you need them?

    George Rebane The latest mass shooting in Grand Blanc, Michigan highlights the problems with our totally unarmed civilian population in the public square.  The incident left 5 people dead (including shooter) and eight hospitalized.  The crazed killer was a military veteran who drove his pick-up through the doors of the local LDS church into the…

  • The End of Corporate Journalism?

    [This piece by regular Union columnist Terry McLaughlin was rejected by its editorial mavens for being too politically biased and containing claims that the Left considers patently false and/or unsubstantiated.  I invite RR readers to compare Ms McLaughlin’s op-ed – posted here with permission – with those from leftwing authors that appear daily in the…

  • Growth and ONLY growth

    George Rebane The Republican debate about the Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) goes on after it squeaked out of the Senate with the VP’s vote.  A quick look at the alternatives shows that the debate involves no reasonable alternative to the BBB.  Everyone except the economically ignorant leftwingers in the country knows that the only solution…

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