RNC 2012 Day 3 Impressions: Mitt Romney -The Competent in Chief

Posted on August 31, 2012 by bfaure 2 Comments

The 2012 Republican convention had a unique problem to solve when its presidential candidate rose to the podium to give the closing speech to the conventioneers and the nation. What to do when your standard bearers, the articulate, impassioned, and committed spokesmen for the cause – have already spoken? Like a great ship on the […]... Read More

RNC 2012 Day 2 Impressions: Paul Ryan: The One We’ve Been Waiting For

Posted on August 30, 2012 by bfaure Leave a comment

Ramparts has spent the better part of two years intermittently raving about a wonky, generally unknown congressman from Wisconsin as the next coming of Reagan. Aware of this man’s spot on seriousness about problem solving, his earnest, absolutely natural way with people of all stripes, and his capacity to present the most complex issues in […]... Read More

RNC 2012 Day 1 Impressions: The Bench is Deep

Posted on August 29, 2012August 30, 2012 by bfaure Leave a comment

The first day of the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida was the culmination of the Republican Party’s change in strategy since the thrashing delivered to them at the hands of the Democrat Party and President Obama in the 2006 and 2008 elections, respectively. In baseball terms, the Republicans have pursued a “Billy Beane” strategy. Billy […]... Read More

Questions in Tampa

Posted on August 27, 2012August 27, 2012 by bfaure Leave a comment

The national Republican Party will convene today in Tampa to put forth to the American people their best scripted vision of what an elected Republican President and legislature would accomplish given the chance to represent the American nation as elected officials. And it will be a scripted vision. The days of suspense, argument about platforms, […]... Read More

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Neil Armstrong- Our Generation’s Lindbergh… Starbound

Posted on August 25, 2012August 26, 2012 by bfaure Leave a comment

Neil Armstrong lost his battle with heart disease on this day in 2012 and returned to the heavenly firmament he so boldly explored for us over 40 years ago. He spent most of the years after his moon landing triumph in self determined obscurity, rather than take advantage of the international celebrity status his […]... Read More

The Emerging Energy Bonanza

Posted on August 25, 2012August 25, 2012 by bfaure Leave a comment

Ramparts of Civilization has long been an focused observer of the interesting politics of radical environmentalism, global warming hysteria, and the unstated but aggressive agenda of such proponents to “own the truth”, subjugate rational science, and fundamentally contain individual freedom and pursuit of happiness. Ramparts’ February 21, 2012 essay “Peak Oil Joins the List“ reviewed how […]... Read More

The Game Changer

Posted on August 12, 2012 by bfaure 2 Comments

What we thought we knew about Mitt Romney changed forever at 800am central time yesterday. The number of people who think they should be President of the United States is immense, but the number of people who actually have projected beyond the proverbial plea to ‘pick me’, to articulate why the nation should give uniquely […]... Read More

Space is Big Again

Posted on August 4, 2012 by bfaure 2 Comments

This past week has been one of those weeks where those of us who revel in man’s need to explore the universe around us have a little more skip in our step. Growing up, it was taken for granted that part of being a great nation was the constant propulsion forward of adventurers and adventurous […]... Read More

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