“Obviously Our Hearts Are Broken”

Posted on September 14, 2012 by bfaure Leave a comment

The President of the United States managed to briefly interrupt his fundraiser in Las Vegas to inform the crowd of his regret regarding the death by murder of the representative of the United States in Libya, Ambassador Chris Stevens. “Obviously our hearts are broken,” he exclaimed. Well as Mark Steyn would say, not so obvious. […]... Read More

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President Obama at 2012 Democratic Convention

Pictures After An Exhibition

Posted on September 9, 2012September 9, 2012 by bfaure Leave a comment

The country has now survived the two packaged events once known as political conventions, and the early indications are that not much has changed in the snapshot of the November contest. The President holds a several point lead over Mitt Romney that continues to be paced on something obliquely referred to as a “likeability ” […]... Read More

RNC 2012 Day 3 Impressions: Mitt Romney -The Competent in Chief

Posted on August 31, 2012 by bfaure 2 Comments

The 2012 Republican convention had a unique problem to solve when its presidential candidate rose to the podium to give the closing speech to the conventioneers and the nation. What to do when your standard bearers, the articulate, impassioned, and committed spokesmen for the cause – have already spoken? Like a great ship on the […]... Read More

RNC 2012 Day 2 Impressions: Paul Ryan: The One We’ve Been Waiting For

Posted on August 30, 2012 by bfaure Leave a comment

Ramparts has spent the better part of two years intermittently raving about a wonky, generally unknown congressman from Wisconsin as the next coming of Reagan. Aware of this man’s spot on seriousness about problem solving, his earnest, absolutely natural way with people of all stripes, and his capacity to present the most complex issues in […]... Read More

RNC 2012 Day 1 Impressions: The Bench is Deep

Posted on August 29, 2012August 30, 2012 by bfaure Leave a comment

The first day of the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida was the culmination of the Republican Party’s change in strategy since the thrashing delivered to them at the hands of the Democrat Party and President Obama in the 2006 and 2008 elections, respectively. In baseball terms, the Republicans have pursued a “Billy Beane” strategy. Billy […]... Read More

Questions in Tampa

Posted on August 27, 2012August 27, 2012 by bfaure Leave a comment

The national Republican Party will convene today in Tampa to put forth to the American people their best scripted vision of what an elected Republican President and legislature would accomplish given the chance to represent the American nation as elected officials. And it will be a scripted vision. The days of suspense, argument about platforms, […]... Read More

The Game Changer

Posted on August 12, 2012 by bfaure 2 Comments

What we thought we knew about Mitt Romney changed forever at 800am central time yesterday. The number of people who think they should be President of the United States is immense, but the number of people who actually have projected beyond the proverbial plea to ‘pick me’, to articulate why the nation should give uniquely […]... Read More

100 Days

Posted on July 29, 2012 by bfaure Leave a comment

One hundred days separate the American voter from the day of decision in the 2012 Presidential election. The weight associated with decisions of such magnitude only slowly begin to pervade the consciousness at the century day mark. Americans are tied to their Presidents – […]... Read More

June 2012 – the Yin and Yang of the Western Ideal

Posted on July 1, 2012 by bfaure Leave a comment

The month of June proved to be an epic month for the forces that will determine the future of western ideals of individual liberty and free will. As modern society seems to have determined, the forces are not directional, but in direct conflict with each other. Taoist Chinese philosophy describes an equal and polar opposite juxtaposition […]... Read More

Things That Can’t Go on Forever, Don’t

Posted on June 9, 2012 by bfaure Leave a comment

The American economist Herbert Stein, counselor to presidents Nixon and Ford has been quoted as saying in various alliterations, “Things that can’t go on forever, don’t.” The great social experiments in history, roman citizenry binding unlike peoples, islamic caliphates achieving the submission of cultural disparities through religious”truth”, the French Revolution eliminating social strata by eliminating the social […]... Read More

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