Rebane's Ruminations

On Higher Expressions of American Values

George Rebane On this annual time of celebrating the birth of our land of the free and home of the brave a friend sent me a thoughtful essay making the case that today this has become a time of the year for somber reflection. The reaso...

New California – Our 51st State?

George Rebane The initiative to launch part of California as a new state, provided for by a number of treaties, agreements, and founding documents, has begun (here). No matter how legal and above board the effort to liberate at least p...

Twitter blackout

George Rebane Last week Elon Musk released a tranche of Twitter internal communications to conservative blogger Matt Taibbi. Since then, more has been released through Taibbi. These missives between top and middle management at Twitte...

The Great Replacement (update 21may22)

George Rebane All socio-economic problems depend on their numbers, not understanding these replaces reasonable discussion with emoting. The ‘great replacement conspiracy’ is the latest kerfuffle to rise to national prominence. The Lef...