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  • America’s Undeclared Wars

    George Rebane [This post was published in the 25nov25 issue of The Union in an edited version titled ‘The Untied States of America’s undeclared wars’. gjr] The United States has a history of presidentially initiated military actions conducted under executive authority without a formal declaration of war from Congress, as the Constitution vests such declaratory…

  • California’s Tragedy of the Commons

    George Rebane [This commentary appeared in the op-ed pages of the 5nov25 Union here https://www.theunion.com/news/ideas-opinions-george-rebane-california-s-tragedy-of-the-commons/article_2e0ff575-d398-436c-bf93-87945880edce.html ] Garret Hardin published ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ in the December 1968 issue of Science, and introduced us to the reality of how a valuable but limited resource owned in common will be depleted or destroyed.  The core concept…

  • Just Tolerating the Left is Not Enough

    AOC answers her critics: “If I’m so dumb, then how come it took me only three months to complete a puzzle that on its box was printed ‘4-6 years’?” George Rebane In these tense times, a faux normalcy cloaks the serious troubles afflicting our nation and the world. As I’ve long argued in these pages,…

  • 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…

  • Scattershots – 26sep25

    George Rebane Liberals ignorant of decline in students’ performance.  This was highlighted by local liberals who dismissed my 10sep25 report of the government’s assessed and nationally reported decline in the academic skills of our public schools’ students as a “doctrinaire assessment of lowering test scores in our schools” (see NAEP and NCES reports).  He further considers…

  • Scattershots – 25aug25 (updated 31aug25)

    George Rebane DC crime rate is low and not impacted by Trump’s federalizing crime suppression in the District – so claim the city's socialist leaders.  Well now.  The long term average DC murder rate is three per week, and since the police were augmented by the feds They’ve gone 11 days without a murder, that…

  • Scattershots – 28jul25 (updated 1aug25)

    George Rebane People don’t like the BBB that’s now law.  Latest WSJ poll shows 42% support, 52% oppose the law. “At least half of poll respondents said the legislation would harm poor people, the working class, Social Security beneficiaries, the US economy, Medicaid recipients nutrition-assistance recipients and the federal budget deficit.”  Every one of these…

  • Scattershots – 16jul25 (updated 22jul25)

    George Rebane Trump almost gets it with Putin.  There is no need for Trump’s 50-day grace period for the thug’s decision to come to the table.  Five days would have been more than enough for Putin to tell the world how he wants to continue his war with Ukraine.  But at least our president is…

  • More Revelatory Bullshit from the Left

    George Rebane Propaganda Broadcasting System (you know, the unbiased one) in its 9jul25 News Hour had an interview with the new DNC chairman Ken Martin.  The entire interview is available here. Among the usual nauseating Democrat lies, this time about the BBB, that this interview again laid on their viewers (no real new revelations there),…

  • Scattershots – 6jul25

    George Rebane Yellow journalism is the practice and bailiwick of conservative media.  I am literally nauseated listening to so-called “fearless” journalists on outlets like Fox News.  According to my lights a professional and ethical journalist will not let an interviewee’s obviously erroneous statements, diversions/evasions, and lies stand, and simply proceed to the next question or…

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