On February 24th, 1868, after three years of open conflict with a President of the United States they universally detested, the House of Representatives of the United States passed 11 articles of Impeachment against President Andrew Johnson. The accidental President Johnson, brought to the position of the Presidency through the tragic assassination of President Lincoln, […]... Read More

When President Obama assumed the Presidency of the United States in 2009, he ushered in changes that reflected his desire to, as he stated it, to totally transform the United States. The decorum of the Oval Office in the White House was converted to reflect this change, including a carpet bordered with deep quotations that […]... Read More

  On November 9th, 2016. the citizens of United States of America awoke to the uncomfortable reality that a brazen, brash real estate mogul from New York managed one of the most unlikely and inconceivable victories in the history of American politics — and it wasn’t even that close.  To the amazement of most voters, […]... Read More

An original 1951 economic compact developing a proposed improved internal post war trade zone between the former allies France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and their erstwhile enemies, Italy and West Germany, was seized by idealists and over the decades grew into something altogether more imposing.  By 1993, the dream of a continental free market […]... Read More

November 6th, 2018 brings that time honored tradition in the United States – the biennial national election day.  Ramparts has had its own election tradition – of generally doing a poor job of predicting results – maybe just a little too much leaning on hoped for outcomes, and not enough objective recognition of the fickle nature […]... Read More

When you are so sure you are in the right, that there is no place for the concept of truth, you have arrived at mob rule.  America and its reliance on the two hundred and forty some year old Constitution, and a tradition of rights of the individual and rule of law, teeters at the […]... Read More