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  • International Women’s Day transmogrified (addended)

    George Rebane IWD was launched in 1917 by the American Socialist Party to oppose the war and support nascent communist movements across Europe.  Their message of ‘bread and peace' was later attributed by Leon Trotsky as the real start of the communist and socialist revolutions.  The underlying message to attract ideologically vanilla people was social…

  • The Robots in Our Future

    George Rebane Has everyone been noticing that the news and commentaries have suddenly become inundated with stories of robots, new golden ages of man and machine, dystopias in which humans are redundant, and things bespeaking generally of the Singularity?  Also there is a new slate of AI cum robot movies about to be released that…

  • America’s Dunkirk Foreign Policy

    George Rebane The only thing effectively led from behind is a retreat, for in that direction you are already properly positioned to lead. In concert with President Obama’s just ended sideshow on “violent extremism” that once more diverts attention from our true enemy, John Kerry writes (here) that the solution to the global assault is…

  • The Minsk Summit (updated 20feb15)

    George Rebane “OK, OK, Poroshenko’s a bit pissed that it didn’t exactly work out.  But he did promise to behave, so c’mon guys, let’s stand a bit closer to the big guy for the picture.” [13feb15 update] “The Minsk accord ratifies a Russian satrapy in the Ukraine.” (here) [20feb15 update] Well, what’d I tell ya?

  • Syriza’s lesson for an America in retreat (updated 31jan15)

    George Rebane Over the weekend Greece elected a communist party – working name Syriza – to head its next government.  Syriza promised a bald-faced lie as a solution to the country’s longstanding and deepening economic crisis.  The country is flat broke, produces little that the world wants or can easily get from others, is totally…

  • Scattershots – 25jan14

    George Rebane Our universe is a very uneven and bumpy place.  In our corner when we seek to impose ‘equality’, ‘balance’, and avoid ‘discrimination’, we have to take care how we go about smoothing things out, lest we also smooth out what is left of our humanity. Private sector union membership continues its decline.  When…

  • Things are getting “curiouser and curiouser”

    George Rebane What price glory?  I’ve watched presidential press secretaries for decades pitch with a serious face the world according to their boss.  But something that Josh Earnest, the current Chief Lackey to our twice elected Liar-in-Chief, said rang a special bell.  The whole country is talking about Obama’s prevarication about the ISLAMIST jihad and…

  • Reflections on Islam (updated 12jan15)

    George Rebane The pen is mightier than the sword only to the extent that it can evoke more powerful swords. As millions of others on this planet, my thoughts have turned to Islam and its role in the ongoing global reign of terror exemplified again by the slaughter in Paris last week.  These reflections have…

  • Scattershots – 4jan15 (updated 8jan15)

    George Rebane Legalization of marijuana (MJ).  Now that California begins its statewide march toward legalizing MJ, it is noteworthy to look at the path such initiatives have forged for our forebears Washington and Colorado.  In both states the ‘leakage’ of medical MJ (MMJ) into recreational MJ (RMJ) markets is now rampant.  Both states’ taxes on…

  • Happy ‘Heckler’s Veto’ for 2015 (updated)

    George Rebane For years RR has documented the sad retreat of our fundamental rights and liberties, the withdrawal of which has not caused many an eyebrow to be raised among the country’s gruberized hosts.  Instead, it has given rise to celebrations of every newly minted political correctness by our neighbors on the Left – for…

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