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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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),…

  • 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…

  • George Rebane This Fourth of July we have something extra and very special to celebrate – the Big Beautiful Bill that passed the House yesterday and will be signed into law today by President Trump. [update]  President Trump has signed the BBB into the Big Beautiful Law.

  • George Rebane The Republican debate about the Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) goes on after it squeaked out of the Senate with the VP’s vote.  A quick look at the alternatives shows that the debate involves no reasonable alternative to the BBB.  Everyone except the economically ignorant leftwingers in the country knows that the only solution…

  • George Rebane [This post appears in the 9jul25 edition of The Union’s op-ed pages, retitled with the atrocious and confusing word salad ‘US political factions push socialism to achieve Chinese Communist Party levels of control?’ (Note the question mark.)  The newspaper also refused to include the accompanying figure which makes clear to the layman an…

  • George Rebane [This 23jun25 blog post was mysteriously deleted by Typepad which they cannot recover.  I fished out a partial draft version of the post from the Recycle Bin and am reposting it here.  It does not include the two updates and graphics of the original of which I don’t have copies.] Don’t let an…