Antietam and the War of Ideas

Posted on September 30, 2010September 30, 2010 by bfaure Leave a comment

The American Civil War has so many teaching points and moments of inspiration for those concerned with the preservation of western civilization’s higher ideals that it bears constant review and re-focus. Though framed as a battle between “free” and “slave” states, it reached violent fruition in 1861 as a rebellion initiated by states determined […]... Read More

The President as the Portrait of Dorian Gray

Posted on September 28, 2010September 30, 2010 by bfaure Leave a comment

Every four years several dozen individuals contemplate themselves as taking on the mantle of the Presidency of the United States and immortalizing themselves as the select leader of the most powerful nation on earth. It is an enormous prop to the ego, and entering into the job most see the progressive withering of the […]... Read More

JERRY REED - "CLEDUS SNOW" SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT

JERRY REED BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT

Country Guitar Master

Posted on September 26, 2010September 26, 2010 by bfaure Leave a comment

We are frequently biased when we think of musical masters of the guitar to the technical virtuosos classically trained like Segovia, or the electric guitar giants such as Eric Clapton or Les Paul. Country music has a bit of a “bumpkin” reputation associated with guitars used as props and casually strummed, but the superficial […]... Read More

U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Operations - Wikipedia

The World Drives Toward a Nuclear Future; We Remain in Park

Posted on September 25, 2010 by bfaure Leave a comment

The focus on Iran’s nuclear program for its potential development of nuclear weapons obscures somewhat the progressive demand by many countries across the globe to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels by development of nuclear energy capacity. The presence of the majority of fossil fuel deposits in the hands of a very few countries has […]... Read More

Hey…You’re Going The Wrong Way!

Posted on September 22, 2010September 22, 2010 by bfaure Leave a comment

A terrific ad recently created by Fred Davis of Strategic Perception, one of the more creative Republican media ad producers, and underwritten by Citizens For The Republic has been furiously making the rounds of the blogosphere and soon to be publicly disseminated. In a perseptive inverse mirror effect it recalls precisely for the modern generation the […]... Read More

Brooks Comedy Perfection

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

Working together on the western homage/farce Blazing Saddles, Gene Wilder intimated to Mel Brooks, the writer and producer of Blazing Saddles, that he had an idea for another homage movie based on the 1930’s classic Frankenstein. Brooks intially stated the world hardly needed another sequel to the Frankenstein monster, which produced so many pale […]... Read More

Independent Voters Back On The Swing Set

Posted on September 19, 2010September 19, 2010 by bfaure 1 Comment

One day before the 1998 election for Senator for the state of Wisconsin, I was conversing about the election with a good friend, a self described “independent” voter. The election was one of those elections that provide the best of democracy in action. Two very intelligent men, Russ Feingold, Democrat, and Mark Neumann, Republican, with […]... Read More

A Neighbor’s Fight To The Death

Posted on September 18, 2010September 19, 2010 by bfaure 1 Comment

Something awful is enveloping the proud Mexican nation south of our borders. A vicious and dangerous war between the Mexican government and drug cartel warlord armies have since 2006 taken the lives of over 28,000 Mexicans, and with no end in sight, threatens to extend its spasm of violence across the porous American border. […]... Read More

Tea Party Ascendant

Posted on September 15, 2010September 14, 2010 by bfaure 1 Comment

In one of the most notorious political mis-steps in political history, the democrat party’s denigrating of the grass roots movement known as the tea party may be its undoing in the elections of 2010. The primary races of September 14th are showing with progressive clarity the strength and will of tea party activists to […]... Read More

45 Years Ago, Seems Like Yesterday

Posted on September 13, 2010September 12, 2010 by bfaure Leave a comment

On September 13th, 1965 the Beatles released a single in the United States that they had been arguing for months about. The signature Beatles sound was a carefully developed synthesis of the rockabilly roots and rhythm beats of the so called Merseybeat produced by local bands from Liverpool by the Mersey River, such as […]... Read More

Ramparts of Civilization

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Month: September 2010