A Presidential Campaign, Russian Style

Posted on May 23, 2011May 23, 2011 by bfaure 1 Comment

The United States is about to go into that season of political discourse and verbal combat known as the presidential election process. It seems the previous election is barely over and the next crop of presidential wannabes start lining up and creating distinction between themselves and the person in power. The process has produced […]... Read More

The President Gets A History Lesson

Posted on May 20, 2011May 20, 2011 by bfaure 1 Comment

Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel visited the White House as a guest of President Obama. The President, as is his way, once again managed to frame a major address on a controversial subject in direct rebuke to the guest for whom the subject matter has most cause. President Obama, on the eve of Netanyahu’s […]... Read More

The Makings of the Battle To Come

Posted on April 23, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

There is a large consortium of republican standard bearers developing a year and a half before the 2012 presidential election as evidence continues to mount that the current president is progressively running out of time to adjust the economic landscape that will be present come next November. As an upstart candidate who managed to […]... Read More

Tactic Ground Zero: Hypocrisy

Posted on April 16, 2011April 16, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

This has been an eventful week in the annals of hypocrisy, a storied section of the human library if there ever was one. We had the passing of the U.S. budgetary resolution to prevent a governmental shutdown with a alleged “crushing” 38 billion in savings painfully carved out of the federal budget of 4 […]... Read More

Duty Calls

Posted on April 6, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

Every generation hopes for a leader that transcends the self absorption and indecisiveness that consumes the political discourse at various critical times in history to become a beacon of clarity and direction to the benefit of all. The founding of the nation, so fragile in birth, received a framework for all future leaders through […]... Read More

THE AUTHORS OF THE FEDERALIST PAPERS -HAMILTON, MADISON, AND JAY

Can Our Democracy Survive Without A Legislative Branch?

Posted on March 27, 2011 by bfaure 3 Comments

The recent upheavals in Madison, Wisconsin have focused attention on the progressive inattention of citizens to the carefully thought out structure that drives this nation’s democratic republic. Although dramatically exemplified by the attempt of a county district judge to suspend the lawful process of a bicameral legislature, it is more profoundly about the national […]... Read More

The “This Is Not A War” War

Posted on March 26, 2011March 26, 2011 by bfaure 1 Comment

We live in an age of hypocrisy so it is not shocking to have found ourselves in one of the most hypocritical of contests of will. The United States and assorted allies have spent the past week participating in what has been termed by a winking dupe of the executive branch a “kinetic military […]... Read More

THE DEATH OF SOCRATES - GIAMBETTINO CIGNAROLI

Where Have The Experts Gone?

Posted on March 19, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

As the world seems to be battered by one “surprise” after another and current leaders seem clueless to fashion a logical and committed strategy to begin to tackle any of these problems, the question arises, where have the experts gone? The can do spirit of the twentieth century to conquer some of the most […]... Read More

President Obama at the Height of the Libyan Crisis reviews his basketball picks

The Re-Incarnation of President Buchanan

Posted on March 18, 2011March 18, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

At the close of his Presidency in 1861, with multiple states having declared secession and the federal military post Fort Sumter faced with violent attack from its own countrymen, President James Buchanan presided over a State of the Union address that summarized his four year policy of “indecisive indecision” on the subject of secession. […]... Read More

The Wisconsin Drama

Posted on March 13, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

A brief Sunday evening update for the “Inside Baseball” addition of the recent political drama that unfolded over the last month in the state of Wisconsin. In a terrific piece of reporting, the Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes, a Wisconsin native, and John McCormack describe the tense struggle between the republican and democrat leaders […]... Read More

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