Reagan at 105

Posted on February 6, 2016 by bfaure Leave a comment

February 6th is the 105th anniversary of the birth of the last great President of the United States. The fortieth of a line of greats, near greats, disappointments and even scoundrels, the reputation of Reagan has only grown in stature since he left the political scene in 1989. Greatness, as always, is not just a […]... Read More

The Brokenness of Government

Posted on January 31, 2016 by bfaure Leave a comment

The world is looking like a progressively scary place, and it’s not from the usual bad guy good guy conflict. Its what passes for a government nowadays. Governance as defined by the dictionaries suggests a governmental body is to establish policies, monitor their implementation, and assume accountability,in order to provide for the prosperity and enhancement of […]... Read More

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Oh Boy – Here We Go…

Posted on January 24, 2016January 24, 2016 by bfaure 1 Comment

The chaotic and unpredictable American process for electing a chief executive is about to commence. On February 1st, the 2016 Iowa caucuses take place and the first delegates to a national convention for each party representing the peoples’ choice will be selected. The total delegate count received for the winner of each party in Iowa […]... Read More

Trump Change

Posted on January 9, 2016 by bfaure Leave a comment

The entry of Donald Trump into the political arena was met by most (certainly Ramparts) as an insignificant sideline to what would be the compelling stories of the 2016 race. Last spring, according to the ‘experts’, Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush were the politicians that had the famous supposed gravitas and organizational heft that […]... Read More

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War Against the West: Paris Joins the Notorious List

Posted on November 16, 2015November 16, 2015 by bfaure Leave a comment

A coordinated set of carefully drawn out attacks on the night of November 13th, 2015 in Paris, France by Islamic assault troops resulted in the deaths of 129 and the wounding of 352. The aggressive reaction of the stunned and aggrieved French nation was to close its borders for the first time since World War II, […]... Read More

The Obama Doctrine

Posted on October 17, 2015 by bfaure Leave a comment

The world has become an exceedingly dangerous and unstable place in the seven years that President Barrack Obama has been the steward of American foreign policy. Certainly some realities as an outgrowth of September 11th, 2001 and the radicalism of Islam subsequent to the Iranian Revolution of 1979 were unpleasant gifts the previous administrations bequeathed […]... Read More

Boehner and the Tea Party Insurrection

Posted on September 26, 2015September 26, 2015 by bfaure Leave a comment

Speaker of the House, John Boehner, third in line to the Presidency of the United States, was felled by a procedural dispute. The dispute unfortunately for him was with a group of congressmen and women he could no longer ignore, or avoid. Maligned and derided, miscast as at best doofuses or at worst racists, the tea party […]... Read More

Media Democracy

Posted on September 19, 2015September 19, 2015 by bfaure Leave a comment

Television was barely a decade old in being available to a substantial cross section of the American public, when it vaulted to the role of ‘decider’ in the nation’s democratic process. On the night of October 7th, 1960, two politicians vetted their philosophies in front of a large shared real time audience, and television was there […]... Read More

War and Peace

Posted on September 6, 2015 by bfaure Leave a comment

In between golfing expeditions on his recent extended summer vacation, the President of the United States must have at various times noted the recent news of the day. There was of course that irritating Hillary Clinton struggling to explain how she had determined to house the nation’s secrets on an unguarded server for her own […]... Read More

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Now is the Winter of Our Discontent

Posted on August 30, 2015August 30, 2015 by bfaure Leave a comment

At the opening of William Shakespeare’s peerless study of malevolence, Richard III, the protagonist initiates his soliloquy with the seven words that focus the entire play – Now is the winter of our discontent. To Richard the seeming stability enjoyed by the elites is about to see the havoc of the discontented, from unpredictable and opaque […]... Read More

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