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  • 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…

  • A Dark Age of the Mind Threatens

    George Rebane Intellectual savant and libertarian Jeffery Tucker offers us some very insightful conclusions about “intellectual obesity” in his ‘The Backlash Against the Screen’.  He points the finger directly at the way high tech and specifically AI is being misused and well on its way to creating an entire generation of double dummies.  The downturn…

  • Election Reflections – 4jun26 (updated 9jun26)

    George Rebane Let me begin by again pointing out more of the marbled attributes of ignorance and evil that are imbued throughout the Democratic Party.  In this case it’s their support of California’s inability to present election results in a timely manner like the other states.  One liberal bureaucrat this morning argued that it was…

  • Scattershots – 28may26 (updated 1jun26)

    George Rebane Vice President JD Vance’s fraud task force is uncovering fraud and abuse amounting to billions of dollars across the land, led, of course, by California.  The process of uncovering these sites of fraud, including drafting appropriate legislation, is generally opposed by Democrats.  And this opposition is in response to the asymmetrical results that…

  • A doubtful twinkle at the end of the Iran tunnel

    George Rebane The ongoing Iran imbroglio is described by Gerard Baker (writes for the WSJ and London Times) in a level-headed piece, ‘History Repeats in Iran’.  I have been critical of President Trump’s diffidence on completing the Iran war that borders on pusillanimity (accurate words that are usually above my pay grade).  However, Baker views…

  • Tenets of Collectivism and Capitalism

    George Rebane On this Memorial Day 2026 it is appropriate to remember and honor the uncountable thousands of Americans who have sacrificed their lives to preserve the capitalistic structure of our governance as bequeathed us by our Founders.  These principles must be understood in stark contrast to collectivism, the opposing principles of governance that has…

  • Scattershots – 20 may26

    George Rebane Where have all the men gone.  The Department of Labor keeps track of workforce employment numbers and reports that in the last decades we have lost a third of the men 16 and older from the workforce – they no longer even look for jobs.  The reasons are many – mental disorders, substance…

  • Iran Assessment – 8may26 (updated 9may26)

    George Rebane [A lightly edited version of this commentary was published in the online and print editions of the 26may26 Union.] Starting with the bottom line, I am very disappointed in the lack of progress, nay, backsliding in how the administration’s apparent policy and visible actions toward Iran are being implemented.  A week or so…

  • Scattershots – 3may26 (updated 8may26)

    George Rebane Republicans continue to miss the boat on understanding the mind of America’s main street.  On the internet and broadcast media Republican mavens are self-assured that Democrats are heading for an election disaster, since they can smugly point out all the failures and follies of leftwing public policies.  But that doesn’t mean a thing…

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