Category: Conflict and War

We live in difficult times, maybe the most difficult times on earth. Technology is advancing at an ever-increasing rate, and it is losing powers that allow the manipulation and control of people in ways those desiring control in the past…

A 17th-century Englishman, John May, said, “In a calm sea, every man is a pilot.” He was contrasting how when everything is perfect, everyone can succeed, but then what is left unspoken but implied is that when the sea turns…

I often read an author who irregularly posts on Instapundit from midnight to 7am. Her name is Sarah Hoyt and she authors sci-fi and has an active blog at accordingtohoyt.com. Last night she posted an article on Instapundit entitled Civilization…

“Listen close, Listen well. For I have a story to tell. It begins not here, but two steps from hell” Matthew 16:18b “I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” The evil we face…

“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”  J.R.R. Tolkien

Liberty – If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. Truth – In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.  George Orwell said…

So many people view Jesus’ death on the cross at Calvary through the lens of Roman crucifixion. It’s as if that suffering alone defines Christ’s acceptance of becoming the Lamb of God and the sacrificial offering for the sin of…

Considering the lengths that radical Muslims go to “protect” their ritual purity (e.g. Ayatollah Khomeini, after the Iranian revolution, declared that all non-Muslims were impure. He said that to wash the clothes of non-Muslims (you have to touch them), to…

“There are none so lost as those who have misled themselves.” That is a quote from Richard Fernandez of the Belmont Club from his article “Why We Flight“. That is not a misspelling. It got me to thinking and that…

My degree is in Ancient History. You could legitimately call me an historian, especially since I tend to view things using the tools of history. Historians depend on reflection from a distance, seeing things from a wider angle, not getting…