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Who Knew? – The American Oil Revolution

Posted on December 28, 2014 by bfaure 1 Comment

In all the stories assumed to be the Christmas miracle story of 2014, the story no one predicted was the resurrection of the American economy on the muscular shoulders of the American oil industry. On the gas pump above frozen in time like a faded photograph are the gasoline prices when America was the number one producer […]... Read More

Freedom Loses Again

Posted on December 20, 2014December 20, 2014 by bfaure 1 Comment

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. […]... Read More

Shackleton’s Magnificent Failure

Posted on December 6, 2014December 7, 2014 by bfaure Leave a comment

One hundred years ago this week, the explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew aboard the schooner Endurance left the port of the Grytviken whaling station on South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic to the continent of Antartica. The goal was a never before achieved transcontinental traverse across one of the remotest places on earth. It […]... Read More

Ramparts of Civilization

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Month: December 2014

Who Knew? – The American Oil Revolution

Freedom Loses Again

Shackleton’s Magnificent Failure