Media Democracy

Posted on September 19, 2015September 19, 2015 by bfaure Leave a comment

Television was barely a decade old in being available to a substantial cross section of the American public, when it vaulted to the role of ‘decider’ in the nation’s democratic process. On the night of October 7th, 1960, two politicians vetted their philosophies in front of a large shared real time audience, and television was there […]... Read More

War and Peace

Posted on September 6, 2015 by bfaure Leave a comment

In between golfing expeditions on his recent extended summer vacation, the President of the United States must have at various times noted the recent news of the day. There was of course that irritating Hillary Clinton struggling to explain how she had determined to house the nation’s secrets on an unguarded server for her own […]... Read More

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Now is the Winter of Our Discontent

Posted on August 30, 2015August 30, 2015 by bfaure Leave a comment

At the opening of William Shakespeare’s peerless study of malevolence, Richard III, the protagonist initiates his soliloquy with the seven words that focus the entire play – Now is the winter of our discontent. To Richard the seeming stability enjoyed by the elites is about to see the havoc of the discontented, from unpredictable and opaque […]... Read More

Felix Mendelssohn and the Romantic Age

Posted on August 22, 2015August 23, 2015 by bfaure Leave a comment

At the western edge of the island land masses that form the Hebrides off the coast of Scotland, stands a little tuft of volcanic elevation known as Staffa. Barely a quarter mile in area, the southern most tip of this uninhabited island faces the huge expanse of the Atlantic with a peculiar formation of crevice, cave, […]... Read More

VP Biden And Defense Secretary Carter Attend Memorial Service For Servicemen Killed In Chattanooga Shooting

Vice President Biden Gets It

Posted on August 16, 2015August 16, 2015 by bfaure Leave a comment

President Obama has been firm with concept that America’s heavy footprint in the Middle East is partially responsible for stoking the intense violence of the region and that our withdrawal will reduce the nidus for the conflict. He has been adament that the descriptiion of the violence as a premeditated goal of a radicalized Islam is […]... Read More

Averting a Train Wreck

Posted on August 8, 2015August 8, 2015 by bfaure 1 Comment

On Thursday evening, August 6th,2015, an estimated 24 million Americans tuned in to watch the national broadcast of a debate of republican presidential aspirants. With such an audience, the standard was set for the highest rated non sports related telecast in cable network history. I’m fairly confident this huge audience didn’t tune in to see Rand […]... Read More

The Lion in Winter

Posted on August 2, 2015August 2, 2015 by bfaure 3 Comments

This week was one of the more difficult weeks in my life. My great companion of thirteen years, my dog Woodrow, succumbed to a nasty cancer of his spleen, that like a thief in the night, stole without warning our living bond. Clinically the event was perpetrated as the result of a spontaneous rupture of a […]... Read More

People We Should Know #27 – Tom Cotton

Posted on July 26, 2015 by bfaure 1 Comment

In Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith goes to Washington, an American everyman Jimmy Stewart goes to Washington as an obscure replacement Senator from an insignificant Western state. At a critical moment in the film, the inexperienced Senator Smith, under pressure from the corrupt establishment and facing personal damage to his reputation, determines to fight them […]... Read More

The Age of the Globians

Posted on July 12, 2015 by bfaure 1 Comment

It is such a stressful time for those traditionalists among us that have considered the 2600 years since the Greeks brought forth the birth of western man as a rational and contemplative individual a journey of great achievement. The tract of progress that in the proceeding thousands of years has been fitful and at times violent, […]... Read More

The War for the Future

Posted on June 27, 2015 by bfaure 1 Comment

In the second century BC, the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, realized that in order to preserve his status and his great achievements, constant vigilance would be required, even after he was gone from this mortal coil. When you are in it for the long haul, one can’t allow the ramparts to go unguarded, or […]... Read More

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