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The Eagle Has Landed…

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Audacity is a peculiarly American trait. On May 5th, 1961, the United States of America succeeded in launching a Redstone rocket propelling Freedom 7, a Mercury space capsule inhabited by first astronaut, Alan Shepard a distance of 101 nautical miles into space in a 15 minute sub-orbital flight, and successfully recovering both the capsule and […]... Read More
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500!

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On July 4th, 2010, Ramparts of Civilization was born.    As defined in the vision for the site, I hoped to do my small part in framing how much amazing goodness and accomplishment had found residence in the ongoing story of western civilization, at a time when the recognition and appreciation for such threads in […]... Read More
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Between Something and Something Else

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  The enormous central molten core of the planet Earth knows not of our trivial machinations on the surface of this spaceship through time, but has served us without fail.  Pulled at by the huge forces of gravity, molten iron simultaneously pulled crushed and surged under impossible pressures,  sends out streams of convection currents created […]... Read More
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Collusion Delusion

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  On November 9th, 2016. the citizens of United States of America awoke to the uncomfortable reality that a brazen, brash real estate mogul from New York managed one of the most unlikely and inconceivable victories in the history of American politics — and it wasn’t even that close.  To the amazement of most voters, […]... Read More
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New World Disorder

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Don’t look now, but there are some very unhappy people with the state of the social revolution in Venezuela.  As Ramparts has reported before, the Venezuelan revolution of late has been more fueled by hunger than the socialist philosophic concept of equality of outcome, though it is a foregone conclusion that, at this time, everyone […]... Read More
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Good People All, This Christmas Time…

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As Christmas Day approaches, our post modern world argues about whether the lyrics of a holiday classic must be censured to remove the potentially ‘hurtful’ lyrics from contributing to unsafe environments.  If you are not familiar with the specific controversial song, you might have thought the offended class were referring to the callus injury  of […]... Read More