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The Unmoved Mover

It is a testament to the concept of towering intellect when your ideas, only partially preserved over the ancient recesses of time, contribute to the fundamental core of our understanding of just about everything 2400 years later.  That is the essence of the man Aristotle (384BC – 322BC) who lived in Greece at the time […]... Read More
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Freedom of Speech

  America is a hot mess. Conceived with two of  the greatest foundational documents in history on the principles and means to “redress grievances”, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States with its associated Bill of Rights, the country instead has determined to dissolve itself into a morass of retribution and […]... Read More
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Aftermath 2020

It may be years before we really have a full understanding as to what really happened in the 2020 American national election.  It will considerably sooner than that, baring some spectacular unforeseen discovery regarding the integrity of the vote, that Joseph Biden will be certified the winner of the Presidential election, having laid claim, by […]... Read More
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So You Say There’s A Chance…

If you relied on mainstream media projections of the world today, you would only know a pandemic world of shut down, economic malaise, chaos, and violence.  The leading foil for this calamitous vision is certainly the lizard king himself, President Donald John Trump.  Four years of projection of the president as a bully, ignoramus, naive […]... Read More
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Trump vs Biden

  The national political conventions, such as they were, are over.  The sixty day sprint to the national election is now underway and the disinterested and peripheral voters will start to pay attention.  The election of 2020 for the presidency of the United States is essentially like no other in history, driven by the bizarre […]... Read More
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The Politics of Anarchy

Whatever impulse for righteous protest propagated by the tragic death of George Floyd is long gone. Around the world, in a very organized fashion,  protests presumptively positioned to speak for people who have been profiled and abused by police, have exploded into calculated anarchic violence. From Tulsa to Tel Aviv, groups of agitators and their […]... Read More
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10 Years Defending the Ramparts

Ten years ago, on July 4th, 2010, the Ramparts of Civilization blog came into being.   Ramparts was inspired by several internet blogs such as Power Line and Instapundit that were maintained by well read, thoughtful people with regular jobs who felt in their spare non-work  time they had something to say.   They proffered  a […]... Read More