The Voice

Posted on December 29, 2010 by bfaure 2 Comments

We know it immediately when we hear it- the unique expressive voice that was Luciano Pavarotti’s. It is telling that we miss it so much, now that it is three years since Pavarotti passed from the earth’s stage to take on perhaps more demanding celestial roles. There are many fine singers, but few created […]... Read More

Will Healthcare “Reform” Make U.S. Sick?

Posted on December 27, 2010 by bfaure Leave a comment

The debate last spring regarding American healthcare was truncated and revolved around lack of access not provision of answers to our pressing healthcare needs. In typical modern legislative fashion, years of carefully wrought considerations regarding the strengths and weakness of the healthcare process were swept “under the rug” in the political rush to claim […]... Read More

The Poetry of the Christ Birth

Posted on December 25, 2010December 26, 2010 by bfaure 1 Comment

The Holy Bible is many things. A tome of the miraculous relationship of a Supreme Being with His creation. A device to fashion a life of good acts and deeds. A missal for introspective prayer. A means for restoring the balance of a man’s life experience with his needs. It is also, however, […]... Read More

WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE - EMANUEL LEUTZE (1851)

The Christmas Miracle at Trenton

Posted on December 24, 2010 by bfaure 1 Comment

It is one of the truly amazing aspects of history that epic historical tides can irreversibly develop from the simplest, seemingly obscure, and remote events. It is one of those events framed around the Christmas holiday, the American raid on Trenton December 25-26,1776, that can easily be declared as epic by any measure. It […]... Read More

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Posted on December 21, 2010 by bfaure Leave a comment

The wonderful 1944 musical Meet Me In St Louis directed by Vincente Minelli contains one of the most treasured Christmas songs ever written. Performed by Judy Garland at the height of her artistic powers, sung to the emotionally distraught child actress Margaret O’Brien, the song and setting resulted in one of the most poignant […]... Read More

Its Going To Be A World of Hurt

Posted on December 20, 2010December 20, 2010 by bfaure Leave a comment

The staggering bill of our profligate spending of the last thirty years is progressively coming to bear not only on the national level, but on the state and municipal levels as well. A recent study shows our state by state indebtedness is now approaching a trillion dollars and the ability to structure solid payment […]... Read More

People We Should Know #6 : Evgeny Kissin

Posted on December 16, 2010 by bfaure Leave a comment

Child Prodigy is an overused description for almost any child showing unusual talent or potential. The candidates extend from three year old Tiger Woods showing a classic golf swing on the Michael Douglas show to the various Lil’ Orphan Annies’ belting out “Tomorrow” on a Broadway revival. The true test is really the development of adult […]... Read More

Anarchy University

Posted on December 13, 2010 by bfaure Leave a comment

The late 1960’s and early 1970’s were a period of radicalist chic in universities of the United States with an anarchist fringe developing out of eastern and Midwestern universities from the radical group, Students for a Democratic Society. Anarchists with violent cast accumulated in organizations such as the Weathermen Underground in New York and […]... Read More

Oh, The Burden

Posted on December 12, 2010December 12, 2010 by bfaure Leave a comment

Every four years another group of egocentric, driven individuals get it in their mind that they have the special ingredients that are required for the demanding job of President of the United States. They come in several distinct sub-species. There are the career politicians who “understand” the inner workings of modern government “better” than […]... Read More

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