December 7, 1941

Japan attacked China in 1937, and its military forces were guilty of increasingly hideous brutality, culminating in the “Nanking Massacre” of December 1937. Even German observers, no strangers to evil, were shocked as Japanese soldiers committed countless brutal rapes, bayonetted or decapitated up to 40 thousand Chinese prisioners or war, and engaged in other senseless […]

My Grandfather Clement Jordan

Over the last three years one of my most visited blog posts is the one entitled “General Beauregard’s Bones.”  I cannot understand its popularity except that it describes a certain incident in the American Civil War.  There are many Civil War students out there, and perhaps they are attracted to this article. That being the […]

A Century of Warfare

Introduction: Portions of this blog have been published before under different headings, but here I attempt to capture the whole history of the wars that shattered western civilization, beginning with the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 and ending with the conclusion of World War II. Its a sad tale of arrogance, folly, devastation and bloodshed. In […]

Get Whitey!

I don’t remember the title or the author, but sometime in the 1950s I read a science fiction story in which the colored races of the world rose up in righteous anger and killed all the whites. I believe there is a conscious or subliminal desire for white racial genocide on the part of some […]

The Best and the Bravest

THE BEST AND THE BRAVEST World War I saw a massive effusion of blood on battlefields all over Europe.  It is difficult for us to comprehend the magnitude of the carnage.  To illustrate, let’s consider the effect of that war on France. On one fateful day in August 1914 the French suffered approximately  100,000 casualties […]

Five Simple Truths

  The following are five simple truths.  Please reflect on them. Neither you nor I are perfect. We descend from imperfect people. Those who preceded us operated under a different set of rules and ideas concerning religion, racial relationships, social classes, and sex. We can honor a historical personage for his or her contributions to […]