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  • ‘Estonia, the little country that could’

    George Rebane A friend and RR reader emailed me the link to a Washington Times article by Richard Rahn that summarizes the economic history of Estonia.  Readers may recall my posts from our 15-29jun08 visit back to the old sod (see posts under ‘My Story’, right column).  Misplaced modesty prohibits my adding anything to the Rahn…

  • Remembering and Providing for Sacrifice

    George Rebane Today we remember and honor the military service men and women who died for us, and those who have yet to come home.  We sent them into harm’s way to keep harm away from us and our loved ones.  They went willingly again and again to do the work of war with the…

  • Deconstructing Obama and Journalism

    George Rebane The 2apr11 post – ‘Simon & Schuster’s Revenge’ – on American Thinker by Douglas Hackleman is a review of the recently published book Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President by Jack Cashill.   The review is a worthy read and will serve for many of us as a compelling preamble…

  • Ruminations – 22feb2011

    George Rebane The role of public employee unions in the sacking of America has long been denied by the socialists.  This is the political crowd that is regularly elected to office through the support of these same labor organizations.  They are the closest thing the left has to a franchised criminal class in our society.  …

  • The Loss of Form

    George Rebane Back in the stone age when we were young, a lot of emphasis was put on teaching children how to behave in various social situations.  And we were taught that there existed different kinds of social settings in which this behavior was OK, that behavior was required, and those behaviors were definitely ‘out…

  • The Shrunken Presidency

    George Rebane Syndicated columnist and scholar Victor Davis Hanson is a keen observer of humanity’s foibles and the progressives’ programs now playing on our national stage.  He recently wrote a mid-term assessment of Barack Obama, the man and the President, in a piece titled ‘Our “Pay No attention to that Man Behind the Curtain” Moment’…

  • And they still don’t know jack –

    George Rebane My career as a markets watcher and investor goes back to 1970 when I started tracking stocks and mutual funds along with my aerospace company engineering peers.  We heard the pundits, analysts, and economists make their sage assessments and predictions, and pooled our resources to subscribe to some pricey financial and investment newsletters. …

  • RR joins Sacramento Connect

    George Rebane Last week I received a kind invitation from Sacramento Connect (logo nearby) to have Ruminations join Sacramento Bee’s network of northern California blogs.  After making sure I understood the agreement that goes with such a relationship, I accepted and got busy doing all the ‘paperwork’ and installing the little pop-up toolbar that the member…

  • What is Art?

    George Rebane [For a change of pace from the heated discussions of our country’s future and the fate of Man, I ran into this little vignette from a past correspondence, and thought that I would share it to see what kind of a response it would draw from the eclectic intellects I am grateful to…

  • Surviving Augsburg Once More – 1945

    George Rebane [This autobiographical sketch recounts the Rebane family’s entrance into the post-war world of displaced persons just after the war ended in Germany, and before the ‘final disposition’ of the east European refugees would stabilize.  We and thousands like us were still in mortal danger of being forcefully ‘repatriated’.  This was to be our…

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