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  • The Left’s Continued Attack on America

    George Rebane Correlation is the gateway to causality. Nationally and locally the corps of our loyal Lenin’s lads and ladies continue their anti-American drumbeat.  Locally we read a stream of revisionist lies and TDS-powered diatribes in The Union.  An example is the vituperation heaped on Barry Pruett for his recent piece illustrating the parallels in…

  • Scattershots – 23mar26 (updated 26mar26)

    George Rebane Millionaire taxes on the rich don’t work.  Massachusetts tried that in 2023 and lost $4.2B in state revenues.  A large number of the rich just high-tailed it out of the state.  This is not reported in the lamestream media, so none of the Democrat voters know about it and will no doubt support…

  • Socialism is intrinsically unsustainable

    George Rebane If sustainability of a government program is defined as its ongoing budgets not increasing their share of the country’s GDP for non-diminishing levels of service, then which of our government’s entitlement programs are sustainable? Which of the EU governments’ programs are sustainable? I presented the above prompt to SuperGrok AI.  And after its…

  • The less you know, …

    [A slightly edited version of this commentary was published in the 11apr26 issue of The Union.] Mayor Mamdani told New York that his administration would seek to replace “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism”. George Rebane Today our country is divided among those who believe in the rugged individualism envisioned by…

  • Father forgive them for they know not …

    George Rebane Yesterday (20jan26) the socialists of Nevada County assembled a small group of Democrats and high school students for a demonstration against ICE’s efforts across the country to arrest and deport people, especially criminals, in the country illegally.  To our proto-communists these federal agents are “fascists” carrying out unconstitutional law enforcement. Now I think…

  • Book Banning Politics

    George Rebane At a recent holiday social I chanced to talk with retired judge of a distinct leftward bent who assured me that “I am no leftwinger” while exhibiting all the symptoms of TDS and iconic traits of a progressive.  When we first discovered each other’s ideological orientations, he immediately announced that we should return…

  • We really are that dumb

    George Rebane Gavin Newsom is on both a national and international tear burnishing his name if not his credentials as a serious Democratic candidate for the 2028 presidential election.  The Right has long lamented that our electorate has a dangerously large intellectual deficit.  The evidence in the nation’s and states’ voting record provides overwhelming evidence…

  • 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…

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