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  • Global Tax Bamboozle

    Tax rates don’t impact economic behavior.  Leftwing shibboleth George Rebane Let’s start with an eternal truth, forever hidden from the lightly read and leftwing ‘economists’ – corporations don’t pay taxes, their customers do.’  Today SecTreas Yellen is Team Biden’s point on the easy job of convincing the G-7 countries to establish a globally applied minimum…

  • The Great Divide – an updated review (updated 20jul21)

    George Rebane This piece on the Great Divide is a continuation of the thread I started with ‘America the Unnatural’.  The July issue of Chronicles from the Charlemagne Institute features a series of articles under the heading ‘Divided America’.  I bring these to your attention because they contain excellent reports and analyses of the socio-political…

  • Equity Denies Reality (Addended)

    George Rebane [This piece was rejected by The Union as unfit for their readers.  I must admit that I was surprised at that response, and the reasons given by publisher Don Rogers.  I will have more to say later about my new understanding of the newspaper’s ideological coloring and journalistic demeanor.  The following is an…

  • Scattershots – 4jul21 (updated 9jul21)

    George Rebane There are no more paladins living among us.  When some public atrocity is being committed, like someone or two having the crap kicked out of them on a sidewalk, or a Molotov cocktail thrown through a store window, or a brutal execution of someone sitting in a car, then all the gathered onlookers…

  • The Ubiquity of Bias

    George Rebane I am a biased ideologue (q.v.).  My biases, along with their reasoned bases, have been spelled out in detail on these pages for well over a decade.  No other blog I’m aware of has so meticulously presented its host’s credo and glossary of vocabulary relevant to the topics covered. Having again made that…

  • ‘Parents wary of critical race theory’

    [This is the second in a three-part series of articles on CRT by Ms McLaughlin.  The first was posted here on 16 June 2021.  This column appeared here in the 1jul21 edition of The Union.  gjr] Terry McLaughlin California residents may be familiar with euphemisms for critical race theory, such as “ethnic studies,” “educational equity” and…

  • ‘For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes …’

    [I was gratified to receive this book report from a dear and very astute friend who now lives in Florida.  For years he was a prominent developer and successful businessman in Nevada County.  A Stanford engineering graduate, he too joined the California exodus as our monopolist one-party socialist revolution became too much to bear.  By…

  • Open Letter to our Government Employee Neighbors

    George Rebane This piece appeared (here) in 18jul09 Union when I was a regular columnist for the newspaper.  It was written in response to the dawn of the Obama age which already gave ample portent to the hard times ahead as he began stifling the normal rebound from the recession that was already starting to…

  • America the Unnatural

    George Rebane [This essay kicks off Independence Day week at Casa Rebane.  Jo Ann and I installed our annual display of bunting and a large Old Glory on our porch railing, which always brings good words from our neighbors.  Perhaps you too would consider giving more than a nod to a tradition that has bound…

  • Scattershots – 25jun21 (updated 29jun21)

    George Rebane Biden on gun control smirked at the notion of guns in civilian hands being effective against a tyrannical government.  He cited that any such insurrection against our federales will require disgruntled citizens to have at least “F15s and a few nuclear warheads” to be successful.  This is the common hypocritical response of the…

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