Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
James Atticus Bowden 
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 …
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.
The United States of America is 250 years old this year, because for the year before, the U.S. Army (The Continental Line) was in the field fighting for freedom. This Nation forged by war is remarkably un-militaristic. Yet, the free-thinking, independent, faithfully Christian, rowdy half the country is fiercely pro-military. Freedom-loving Americans expect the well-disciplined, tightly run Army to be the best in the world and stay in their lane. Fight wars and win.
My USMA Class of 1972 had it’s annual Mini-Reunion this week in Louisville, KY. Every five years we have the official one at West Point. We’ve gone to different spots around the U.S.A. since 2013, with only one Covid Krazy blip. I started the Memorial Service as part of our time together in Williamsburg VA …
The “Southern” entitling the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a stigma in the eyes of critics. It’s an honorific in the heart of Baptist Believers. It will be celebrated in the future.
The Southern Baptist Convention is an association of fully independent churches. Like the churches in the Book of Acts.
Think about almost anything…The first thought is simple. Then, if you keep thinking and studying, layers of complexity with expanding horizons, exponential new factors, and conflicting facts appear.
The first thought is simple. Then, if you keep thinking and studying, layers of complexity with expanding horizons, exponential new factors, and conflicting facts appear. Yet, after more thought and study, the holistic conclusion is simple. A few words very loaded with meaning suffice.
Define American. Is it any person on planet Earth resides in the U.S. who simply shares a set of ideas – an American Creed? Or, is based on “blood and soil” connections by birth and ancestry? It definitely isn’t the Ethno-nationalism of a “Whites Only” America, because our America became multi-racial in 1619 when English …
“Money is the Mother’s milk of politics”. And, it’s much more than that. It is both feeds politics and is the product of politics. So, you need money to get power in politics and you will get a lot of money out of politics.
America is betwixt and between more things than you can shake a stick at. The conflict with Iran is on the front burner. Every election cycle at every level is another contest worth winning. Every institution – Government, Business, Education, Media, Arts and Entertainment, Religion, and Family is caught in the crossfire of a No Mans Lands in the Great U.S. Culture War. That’s the struggle against Cultural Marxism and it’s new, best ally – Islamist Totalitarianism.
After the 50th Wedding Anniversary celebrations for a Classmate and his wife in Florida, another Classmate and I went to church with them before we left for home. It was another Evangelical church on fire for the Lord Jesus Christ! So much so that they are planting another church about 15 minutes away. On their own. No help from any church hierarchy or authority.
Usually, Sunday is when I pen (actually peck out) my weekly Op Ed. What else should be written on Easter, other than Easter? It’s the singularly greatest event since the creation of the Universe. The point in time and space when the Creator of the Universe reconciled His created beings to Himself. The Creator becoming one of his creations in the Incarnation is huge, but not as big as the Resurrection.
There’s always good news for Bible-based Evangelicals in the Good News of Lord Jesus Christ. His Resurrection is celebrated every Sunday. And, there’s good news in numbers, despite the gloom and doom data painting a Post-Christian America and death spiral for Western Civilization. Bible-based Evangelical Protestants are growing – not as much as non-Believers and way less than possible, but growing. Growing is good.
What’s up with the back and forth Protestant/Catholic baiting on X? Is it just for clicks?
As my oldest grandchildren enter adulthood, I talk to them as best I can about what matters in life. As I write this, I realize I need to say more, clearly, directly, and more often. Because, living at the short end of the candle I believe my rear view vision is 20/20.
The Left (I just call them Bolsheviks nowadays) claims words are violence to shut people up. They police speech because the lies of Cultural Marxism and barbarian Islam can’t compete with the truth.
February 28, 2026 is another Red Letter Day in history. It’s so amazing to be alive and witness it like a spectator sport from the safety of America. The U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran is an international reset.
American Cultural Marxism is the step-by-step march through the seven institutions that shape American society, culture, and Civilization.
Samuel Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations” is meeting Orwells’ “1984’ in the UK. Right now. Rupert Lowe’s brand new political party, Restore Britain, promises massive deportations. This is a time of choosing for the UK, the US, and Western Civilization.
President Trump’s Republican Administration and Republicans in both Houses of Congress can work together to lose their majority. All they have to do is keep doing and not doing what they are now.
