A Run of Bad Luck

Posted on August 20, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

courtesy photobucket.com President Obama took some chances this past week to stem what has been a progressive crumbling of support for his chances for re-election in 2012. He embarked on a bus tour through the midwest to mingle with the people and try to stem the tide of bad karma. At one of […]... Read More

Pawlenty Out, Perry In

Posted on August 14, 2011August 14, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

Running for President of the United States takes a lot of things. It takes a thick skin. It takes a pretty big ego. But more than anything it takes a lot of money. A lot. The pointed juxtaposition of ego and money came to the surface in the Republican field of candidates this […]... Read More

A Great Idea From 1935 Has Met Its Match

Posted on July 25, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

A person born in 1935 would proudly be celebrating his or her 76th birthday this year and would be the first to admit a lot has changed since 1935. As much as it is fun to reminisce and have fondness for the earlier, simpler times, the distant year holds memories for very few alive […]... Read More

The Debt Titanic

Posted on July 23, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

On April 15th, 1912, the RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage, the greatest and most beautiful of the White Star class trans-Atlantic passenger ships, improbably shuttered briefly, in the late evening hours, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. As alien and unsettling the shutter was, it was only briefly present and quickly was gone, […]... Read More

Okay, Tell Me One More Time…

Posted on July 21, 2011July 21, 2011 by bfaure 1 Comment

Okay, Tell me one more time. Why is Paul Ryan not running for President? I recall some ideas floated as to why he shouldn’t run, including those he continued to circulate himself – the budget committee needs him; the republican leadership needs him; his kids need him. After listening to Congressman Ryan again put […]... Read More

Kabuki Theater and the Debt Ceiling Debate

Posted on July 16, 2011July 16, 2011 by bfaure 1 Comment

The great Japanese theater tradition of Kabuki reflects a stylized avant garde theater of the bizarre to dramatize the juxtaposition of the inner and outer emotions of the participants. Grand kabuki is going on these days regarding the debt ceiling “crisis” in Washington, and the lead actor of the bizarre is our president himself, […]... Read More

Duelling in Madison Leaves Something to be Desired

Posted on June 28, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

We live in a time of great political passion and emotional people regarding the critical issues of our time. But I mean, really people, is THIS the best we can do? Christian Schneider in National Review Online documents the “duel” between recently re-elected Justice David Proesser and his foil on the Wisconsin Supreme Court […]... Read More

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Out of the Paddocks

Posted on June 18, 2011June 19, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

The 2012 Presidential race has begun in earnest with the recent debate between prospective Republican candidates at a forum sponsored by CNN. The seriousness of the issues to be debated by candidates showing interest in being the chief executive officer of the most powerful country in the world is often obscured by the […]... Read More

Newt Augers In

Posted on June 13, 2011June 13, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

Newt Gingrich is currently a candidate for the Republican nomination to the presidency of the United States, but he has a much chance of gaining the nomination as Ron Paul, a candidate from the fringes of the fringe. Michael Barone of National Review Online has a sage article lamenting the sad state of affairs […]... Read More

Falklands Redux

Posted on June 9, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

The founding Charter of the United Nations in 1945 contained in its first article the right of self determination of a people declaring “all peoples have a right to self determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status, and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.” The assumption might […]... Read More

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