James Atticus Bowden

James Atticus Bowden is a co-founder of the Virginia First Foundation. He is a retired U.S. Army Officer and Defense Consultant. His home of record upon entering the United States Military Academy was Arlington, Virginia. He graduated in 1972. Bowden served as an airborne, ranger infantry officer in 5 Divisions. He earned graduate degrees from the JFK School of Government at Harvard University and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. He taught as an Assistant Professor at USMA and Adjunct Faculty at the College of William and Mary.

Ten Reasons to Vote NO on Virginia’s 3 Amendments Scam

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Virginia Christians should feel compelled to vote. And they should vote “No”.

Romans 13:1 “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God”.

Since 1776, Virginians, as individual citizens, are the governing authority. See: Virginia Constitution. Each Virginia citizen delegates specific authority and power to officials to legislate, administer, and adjudicate as their public servants. Consequently, there’s no excuse for any Virginia Christian to not vote – to not do their duty as the Sovereign, the governing authority, of our Commonwealth.

Here are 10 reasons to vote NO on the three bogus amendments on the ballot.

Red-Green True Believers

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Recent riots and looting in Paris, France made a young White woman the face of suicidal empathy for Western Civilization. The viral video of her telling the looters to stop stealing from her shop because that was not the “cause” and she voted for migrants, was on their side, etc. made her quizzical countenance the poster child for suicidal self-delusion about Islam and the 3rd World in the West. Yet, true to true believer form, reportedly, she was still loyal to the looters’ cause days after her shop was destroyed.

Burning Down City Hall

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Democrats Normalizing Violence: Will They Repeat The 2020 Riots This Summer?

Is the senseless destruction in Limoges, France the start of something?

Last week I asked, ”Western Civilization: Quo Vadis (Where do you go)?” France gave the first response. Rioting, arson, theft, destruction, and violence for starters. Burning the historic and beautiful city hall in Limoges to the ground.

Purpose-Driven Life: Young Man in 2026

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I find discussions on social media about what it means to be a man in America or in any Western Civilization – to be miserable. The chatter is usually more a compendium of complaints than coherent thoughts. Yet the subject is important, because while the suicide of Western Civilization is shared by men and women, men must lead the actual fight to save it, restore it, and catapult it forward for a few more centuries.

Defend Virginia’s Sons & Daughters

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Vote “No” between now and November 3, 2026 to stop the Amendments Scam. The ballot questions aren’t the same words as the actual Amendments. So, the ballots are warm fuzzy bait and the proposed Amendments are the cold, rotting switch. It’s the biggest bait and switch in Virginia history.

9-11: 25 Years of Valor and Fatal Foolishness

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9/11/2001: What A Difference 24 Years Make!!!

The Muslim terror attack on 9-11 brought a fleeting moment of WW2-like national unity. A week later, I wrote the first and best op ed of the 1000 plus to follow: “One Front, Two Wars”. Our Homeland is one front where the Great U.S. Culture War and the War between Western Civilization and a resurgent Islam that breeds radicals and rage are fought.

I knew ”the adrenaline cocktail of shock, fear and anger intoxicates only for a season”.

Weather the Storm

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This past week our little town got hit by a storm cell that was tornado-like in all but name and dark funnel. It was our hardest hit since the storm of the century, Hurricane Isabel, in 2003. This one was all wind, not water. Living on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay we’re used to getting both. A no name Nor-easter will flood with inches of past records. We weather them all. We weather whatever the storm.

The storms of nature and man will always confront us.

Don’t Recognize Islam As a Religion

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Oil And Water: Islam And Christianity

Islam doesn’t rise to the level of a real religion in Western Civilization. It’s at the same level of civilization as the Aztec religion. No one should treat it the same as the other religions in Western Civilization – Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant Christianity, Judaism, and Secular Humanism. (Yes, Secular Humanism is a religion. A modern paganism, but still a modern faith that supports a totalitarian ideology). Moreover, Islam is an ideology, identity, and a complete, backward, barabaric culture which is the inherent, implacable, irredeemable enemy of Western Civilization.

Worse Than KAPOs

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What could be a lower form of human being than a Jewish guard while a prisoner – a KAPO – in a WW 2 NAZI concentration camp? For the privilege of living a little longer and eating a little more, you more than betray your People, your faith, your country and civilization. You actually help exterminate your own. And you brutalize your own helpless seniors, innocent children, and women while doing it.

How To Start an American Color Revolution

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Thomas Jefferson said the Liberty Tree needed to be watered with the blood of patriots every 20 years. Pass on that, even though the Bolsheviks push towards violence. We should fight only when there’s no other way to stay free of Human Secularist Totalitarianism or Islamist Totalitarianism. A “color” revolution is non-violent change of government which captures the culture as well.

“21st Century ROAD to Housing” Act is a Highway to Socialist Hell

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The Republican part of the bi-partisan housing bill passed (Senate: 85-5, House: 358-32) is typically Republican. Clueless. Short-sighted. Un-principled. Needless spending the Nation into bankruptcy. Un-Constitutional. Foolish beyond contempt. Enabling the Democrat road to Socialism.

Abolitionist Republican

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The Republican Party was birthed by Abolitionists who refused to compromise on slavery. They left the Northern Whigs who always compromised. Today, career politician Establishment Republicans always compromise or collaborate cheerfully. Their votes and budgets make a lie of their campaigns as “Republicans” and “Conservatives”. Career politicians made those labels utterly meaningless. Conversely, the Democrats …

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Islam Out!

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America at 250 years experienced epochal transitions from a Frontier to Agricultural to Industrial to (first-iteration) Post-Industrial society, from colonies to nation-state to world power and empire to super-power to global uber-super-power, economic crises, wars, and its terrible civil war of national definition in the War Between the States. Concurrently, each century had a paramount issue of national definition.