(Sequel to “War Begins in 1914”) After the Battle of the Marne ended on September 9, 1914, the Allied and German armies attempted to outflank each other. Failing this, they entrenched and faced off over a no-mans land. The trenches stretched from the Swiss alps to the English Channel. From time to time each side […]

(Sequel to “Europe Starts on the Path to Self-Destruction”) On the afternoon of August 3, 1914, two days after declaring war on Russia, Germany declared war on France and began implementing a long-held strategy conceived by the former chief of staff of the German army, Alfred von Schlieffen. Germany’s offensive thrust to the east was […]

(This is first in a series of articles about the wars that decimated Europe and other parts of the world and left western civilization, including its Judeo-Christian roots, weakened and in crisis, prey to the destructive winds of nihilism and extreme Islamic fundamentalism. Parts of the narrative are rewrites of articles I published before. Though […]

Observant I’m not. I go through the world totally oblivious to much that goes on around me. If someone asks me what someone else was wearing at some social function, I would have no idea. Perhaps if they had been totally naked I would have noticed, otherwise no. An incident from my past clearly illustrates […]

I am not a conspiracy theorist. I do not believe a vast secret cabal is intent on imposing an anti-Christian agenda on an unsuspecting world. Nevertheless, I do believe there are many persons in high places who are doing great harm to our nation. I will refer to them as “cultural elites.”For whatever reason, they […]

(I posted this article three years ago.  I believe it is worth a repeat.) The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.  Psalm 111:10 The veneer of civilization that protects us from savagery is very thin.  Those ties that bond us together as a society of law abiding, rational human beings are extremely […]

The men who drafted our Constitution were brilliant. They devised a system wherein the three branches of government balanced each other. The legislature was to write the laws of the land, the executive was to execute these laws, and the courts would ensure that those who violate these laws, including the Constitution, were checked and, […]

Since the beginning of this year I have posted very few articles. Prior to that I had been posting two to four articles every week. This blog was launched in July 2018, so that means that there are hundreds of articles now stored in this blog. An enterprising reader may access any of them. However, […]

There is much consternation in the mainstream media and among leftist politicians because of the Supreme Court’s recent decision to deny the use of race or ethnicity in determining one’s eligiblty for admission to college. This, in effect, was a denial of affirmative action. Are these protests and concerns justified? Civil rights laws were passed […]

I wrote my first entry in this blog in July 2018. Since then I have made hundreds of posts, many about family, even more about politics. Beginning in January of this year my rate of production reduced precipitately. Frankly, I had become discouraged. I had used every arrow in my quiver in the fight against […]