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  • Scattershots – 19aug21 (updated 23aug21)

    George Rebane “Since the introduction of Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms, China has what economists call a socialist market economy – one in which a dominant state-owned enterprises sector exists in parallel with market capitalism and private ownership.”  This is the version of capitalism of which many on our Left are so enamored, with claims of how such…

  • Afghanistan Reflections (updated 21aug21)

    George Rebane Diplomacy unsupported by the threat of force is nothing but duplicitous hot air. Has Kabul fallen?  For all intents and purposes the answer is yes.  How else to explain all those towelheads carrying their AKs and RPGs, casually walking the streets of that city of six million, while thousands are desperately trying to…

  • Illustrations of Futility (updated 19aug21)

    George Rebane In the latest effort to find common ground in our fractured country, a new civics curriculum has been devised by a few hundred scholars under the aegis of Educating for American Democracy Initiative.  Bipartisan support comes from Sens Coons and Cornyn who have authored the Civics Secures Democracy Act to pump $1B of…

  • Belief has been banished

    George Rebane Equity is the enemy of liberty. In the days of yore we had a national institution called the Fourth Estate – professional journalism.  It was staffed by reporters taught by their editors to be ‘curious, hard-bitten skeptics’, always seeking alternative sides to what they were being told.  In a recent piece (here) by…

  • Ruminations – 6aug21 (updated 11aug21)

    Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue. George Rebane Socialist economists don’t understand why millions of workers’ real wages have not increased in the last, say, thirty years.  The answer is simple.  Labor is a cost, why increase that component of cost when it has contributed nothing to the increase in productivity.  That wages…

  • Scattershots – 1aug21 (updated 4aug21)

    The redistribution of wealth does not affect its creation. – Democrat/Marxist shibboleth George Rebane According to its director Dr Rochelle Wolensky, CDC’s new national mask guidance – even vaccinated people should wear masks in regions of high C19 incidence – is based on data from a spike of cases that occurred in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. …

  • Critical Race Theory – a personal assessment

    “Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!”  Stephen Decatur "… the ultimate purpose of  public education is to subsume the individual's will into the general will."  American Marxist (2021) George Rebane CRT is now blowing across the land, starting with our K-12…

  • The Criminality of Covid Care (updated 31jul21)

    George Rebane The prominent article on front page of the 26jul21 WSJ declares ‘Covid Treatment Options Remain Elusive, Despite Months of Effort and Rising Delta Cases’.  And the most elusive treatment options remain Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and Ivermectin (IVM) which are nowhere even mentioned in an otherwise comprehensive piece on the various medicines having been tested…

  • ‘CRT’s Attempt to Reframe Our Country’s Founding’

    [Apologies for the belated posting of this third in the series of columns Ms McLaughlin which appeared in the 14jul21 issue of The Union.  The previous two can be found here and here.  gjr] Terry McLaughlin Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has argued that critical race theory is “another right-wing conspiracy theory” that was “totally…

  • Scattershots – 12jul21 (updated 18jul21)

    George Rebane Power outage on Hind Tit Road.  Unannounced, PG&E decided to turn off power at 1130pm last night, and then back on at 4am.  The transients did their predictable share of problems starting with no internet (the ATT modem did not reset properly) to our well pump controller deciding to shut off.  One required…

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