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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…

  • Wildfires Are Decreasing

    George Rebane The ‘science’ of climate change, as reported to an ignorant public, has been and continues on a deluge of lies and hysteria.  Globally it is undoubtedly the most widespread and influential scam ever perpetrated by special interests in politics and, yes, science to make money and gain power.  The most prevalent m.o. is…

  • Capitulation City

    Capitulate – to surrender, stop resisting, or give in to an opponent or an irresistible force, often under agreed-upon terms. George Rebane The Trump administration’s emerging strategy in the Middle East is culminating in what can only be described as a diplomatic and strategic disaster. What was marketed to the American public as a masterclass…

  • Let’s talk negotiations

    George Rebane In an effort to settle a claim, the insurance adjustor says to the claimant, “We’re prepared to offer you $100k.”  Looking obviously unsatisfied and avoiding eye contact, the claimant hesitates and finally responds, “Well, I don’t know … .” and trails off.  The adjustor considers this and offers, “OK, I can go as…

  • Scattershots – 29jul26 (updated 2aug26)

    George Rebane California sucks as a place to live and do business.  According to ongoing polling – e.g. latest USNWR poll – the state is the worst state in the Union in which to do business.  It also ranks in the bottom three in essentially all other categories such as cost of living, crime, homelessness,…

  • Another socialist’s intellectual blanks

    George Rebane [This post was published in the op-ed pages of the 23jul26 Union] On 20 June last The Union published my short piece ‘The MOU to nowhere’ in which I criticized President Trump’s continued attempt to negotiate with Iran’s murderous regime, which has vowed the destruction of Israel, the United States, and through nuclearization…

  • 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…

  • Happy 250th Independence Day!

    George Rebane

  • 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 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…

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