Rebane's Ruminations

The Charade is Over

George Rebane Justifiably giddy with their fundamentally transforming victory Sunday, the Administration is opening its kimono. The Reverend Al Sharpton has been elevated into the White House circle, and after conferring with President...

A Growing Chasm of Opinions

George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my monthly column which appears today 11 September 2010 in The Union's print and online editions here.] ‘But that’s just your opinion.’ Have you ever had anyone throw that little bomb into ...

‘Whose fault?’ and ‘market morality’

George Rebane On Russ Steele’s NC2012 there is a comment stream in which people are groping for some middle ground. I have contributed to it by asking what would one do with such a middle ground, were one to be discovered. The point be...

Mexico Toughens Stance on Autonomy for Southwest US

George RebaneMexico City, 6 May 2024 – Mexico’s president Juan Carlos Echeverria announced in his Cinco de Mayo celebration speech in San Diego that Mexican forces that have staged over the last six months along Mexico’s northern border ...

Is the State of Jefferson politically sustainable?

George Rebane Last night Jo Ann and I attended the SoJ town hall meeting at the GV Elks Club. This meeting was announced here, and it drew a full house. The well-organized gathering was set up by the NC SoJ steering committee under th...

Past the Tipping Point – 27oct12 (edited)

George RebaneReaders know that I believe our country is already past the tipping point and headed for a bad transition. For me the tipping point represents that unfortunate state of affairs in our nation from which recovery by 'normal' ...

The Democracy Dilemma (Addended)

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. (Winston Churchill from a House of Commons speech on Nov. 11, 1947) George Rebane On its centenary we revisit the wo...

Local liberals lambast loosening lockdowns (updated)

George Rebane As we and others across the country have pointed out, phasing out the C19 lockdowns has become the latest political chasm in the Great Divide. You know that our country is now fundamentally transformed when it can no long...

The fat lady has sung, off key (Addended and updated)

George Rebane [This is the addended, edited, and updated transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 16 December 2020.] Last Monday the Electoral College elected Joe Biden to be the 46th president of the United States. The e...

Hopelessness Confirmed Again (updated 21may23)

George Rebane The release and concurrent suppression of the Durham report confirms once more that we are way past any hope of rapprochement of America’s great divide. In short, our split is now permanent, all it awaits is for serendipi...