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  • A Leftwing Journalist Admonishes

    George Rebane Darrell Berkheimer is one of our more thoughtful, though still terminally misguided, local columnists whose current crusade to “curb misinformation” and “halt the spreading of lies” is at its apex with The Union publishing his 24sep21 and 2oct21 back-to-back columns.  His main thrust is to find a solution to the government allowing “mass…

  • Scattershots – 28sep21 (updated 30sep21)

    George Rebane In the aggregate and hands down, California continues to have the most ignorant cohort of voters in the Union.  Rebane Doctrine This tenet of Rebane Doctrine has stood the test of time and today continues to express itself at every opportunity.  No one can point to any other state that has been done…

  • Scattershots – 20sep21 (updated 23sep21)

    The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be – starting with the lawyers and enactors. Lao-Tzu (as embellished by Rebane) George Rebane The wisdom of Lao-Tzu was brought to my attention again by a friend and reader.  Jeff Thomas, a true conservetarian, wrote ‘The First Libertarian?’, an…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Toward Reunification, One More Time (updated 13jun21)

    George Rebane [This commentary appeared here in the 5jun21 op-ed pages of The Union.  The response in the newspaper’s online edition comment stream was as predicted (by publisher Don Rogers among others), and I expand on this in the addendum below.] In my last two Other Voices columns – ‘Farewell Unity’ (2apr21), ‘Where exactly are…

  • The Blessings of Inequality

    George Rebane We are in the age of trading equality for equity.  Why?  Because equality at the start of any road quickly leads to inequality among the travelers – given equal opportunities, some get further ahead than others.  That’s how it has been, is now, and always will be the human condition.  To the socialist…

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