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  • My Writing in 1963

    A Facebook friend from the 1962-63 in Fontenet, France sent me this.    Can you read what I wrote?  I remember writing it and the feedback I got when it was published. [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:37pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • POTUS Jobs Conference

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    The President’s Job Conference at the White House today was just another pathetic joke.  BHO is following in the footsteps of Hoover and FDR at making an economic bubble into a disaster.  Socialism never works.  The laws of economics are like the laws of physics.  When governments raise taxes, they kill [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:32pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • BHO Strategy: Surge and Scoot

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    Watched President Obama’s speech to see what of West Point he used as a  photo op.  My classmate- and head of the English Department, Rick Kerin was full screen – faculty on parade – three times.  Much better than the 2 hour plus parade we had for President Richard Nixon [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:22pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Going Rogue for Sarah Palin

    Finished “Going Rogue, an American Life” by Sarah Palin and writing team.  A book worth reading.  It gave me the insights to know why I’d support her vigorously in 2012 for President of the United States. The book is three major, separate sections stitched together.  Part I.  The story of Sarah Palin [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:44pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • See the Movie: The Blind Side

    Go see this great movie.   Great because it’s about Christian love – giving mercy, not ceremony, moving people to be the body of Christ in this generation.  Real people.   True story.  Makes it really great. Fun movie, personally,  because the story takes place in Memphis, Tennessee.   West Tennessee is home to [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:11pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Big Time Thanksgiving Blessing

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    Son-in-law came home from combat deployment much earlier than imagined.  He just showed up on daughter’s door step.  Thank YOU, Lord Jesus, for his safe return.  Huge blessing for tomorrow’s Thanksgiving.  Especially because his family was visiting my daughter – and didn’t know he was coming home now. Praise the Lord. [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:35pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • You Can Sign the Manhattan Declaration

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    You can sign the Manhattan Declaration.   Go to http://www.manhattandeclaration.org/ Sign it.  Download it.  Link to it.  Share it with friends and family. This is an important moment for American Christians.  Don’t miss being part of it.  The need for this statement has been brewing since the unfaithful husband and Florida judge had the [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Why Al Mohler Signed the Manhattan Declaration

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    Baptists shy away from signing ecumenical documents because they don’t want their theology watered down.  We believe what we believe strongly. Here is an interesting statement from Baptist seminary president Al Mohler on why he signed the declaration.  From his website, http://www.albertmohler.com.  today. “I am not inclined to sign manifestos or petitions. [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:36pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Words That Are a Line in the Sand for American Christians

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    Check this out.  http://www.demossnews.com/manhattandeclaration/press_kit/manhattan_declaration_signers   Worth reading:   Manhattan Declaration & Signers Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience Drafted on October 20, 2009 Released on November 20, 2009   Preamble
 Christians are heirs of a 2,000-year tradition of proclaiming God’s word, seeking justice in our societies, resisting tyranny, and reaching out with compassion to the poor, oppressed and suffering.  While [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:40pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • 59 and Counting

    This week my 59th birthday passed with the speed of going through a yield sign when you can see the way clearly.  So, now I am 59 years old and counting – to infinity. I’m only a year away from the age of my father, James Albert Bowden, when he died.  [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:16pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • The End of Oprah

    Oprah Winfrey ends her TV show in 2011.  Hurray.  Good for America.  Great for Christians. Certainly, somone will try to follow her as the diva of powerful female connections with folly for talk and stirring emotions. The sooner her bullhorn of sophistry as caring sweetness is silenced the better for America. Maybe some tough, bright, [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:03pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • How Much More Incompetence Is Needed

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    H0w much more incompetence is needed until 60% of American voters are thrilled to go vote out the Democrats in 2010 and 2012?  Even BHO by a 60:40 margin. Recovery.Gov posted the bogus claims of jobs created by the Federal government stimulus spending.  It even claimed bogus jobs in bogus congressional [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:53pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Another Life Transition

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    Today was my last day with a major Defense Corporation.  It was my third corporation.  Waiting to start work with a small start up.  I’ve already done some work with them.  Waiting to start 40 hours a week.  Not there yet. Interesting how low my anxiety is.  Feel great.  Excited about [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:42pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Islam’s Civilizations Are Barbaric Compared to the West

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    Hear it from a former Muslim.  Who now has to hide and have 24/7 security – because of her words.  You see if you just say the wrong things – das ist Verboten – about Islam, then at least one in ten Muslims want to kill you.  One in ten [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:05am EST
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • The Problem With Being Muslim and American

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     A Muslim-Army major murdered many people and wounded many more at Ft Hood today.   Since 1775 no Christian or Jewish officer has ever done that.   Yet, it isn’t a surprise that a Muslim officer would do it - if he were a devout Muslim.   A Muslim-American officer has to choose to be a devout Muslim or a [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:07pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Big Wins

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    Big wins in Virginia – congratulations to Bob, Bill and Ken.  And, in my district to Tom Gear.  Sorry that Phil Hamilton lost.   Very sorry. Big wins in Virginia but the big story is NY 23.  If the Conservative whens there over both the Democrats and the Establishment Republicans, it shows [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:56pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Happy Reformation Day

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    On October 31st, 1517 Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg Church.   It became the official start of the Protestant Reformation.  492 years of new light on the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Jan Hus could have started the whole movement the century before [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 1:38am EST
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Futures Tutorial 25: Geopolitics to Virginia

      The view from 1990-92 on how Geopolitics will matter to Virginia 2005-2015.    Name the Geopolitical issue and see what questions it raises with what big ideas in the background.  I made up the word ‘finitudes’ to describe the finite resources of land, air and water which must be protected and used [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 9:42pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Tragedy of Tolerance

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    The College of William & Mary undergraduates selected a very troubled classmate as their Homecoming Queen.  Certainly it was all a big joke to many of them.  All done in great fun.  And the young man, who sometimes is a girl or might have the operations to become an ersatz [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 10:56pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Choose Which America You Want To Live In

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    Choose between the two Americas.  See which one is better.  President Obama proposes an American of hope and change based on income redistribution.  See what happens to the income of Americans under his socialist economics. Even if you support Liberal class warfare, look what happens to the poor and middle [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 1:08pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Evidence of End Times for American Civilization

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    This is evidence of the end times for American Civilization – unless We, The People fix the Nation.  The evidence comes from where America began – in Virginia.  Williamsburg, no less.  The College of William and Mary, second oldest college in the country,  got rid of its mascot – the [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 10:54pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Futures Tutorial 24: Society – Implications for Virginia

      So, in 1990-92, what did we think would be the social challenges of 2005-2015.  Pretty much linear extrapolation of problems then.  The illegal immigrant issue was seen in another presentation as a large threat to the U.S.  But, it didn’t come up on our radar as a specific social challenge.  [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 10:37pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Futures Tutorial 23: Education and Economics

    Still pushing my way through the Army 21 long range futures study – as I shaped it to fit Virginia’s future for the same period.  Which is now.  The work was done 15 years before hand (and the crowd went, “Ah!”).  Also, I know I could make two blog entries [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 10:55pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Beautiful Video

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    Posted: October 18, 2009, 10:11pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Duty, Honor, Family

    Daughter and son-in-law on last weekend getaway before 3rd combat deployment.   Praise the Lord that we can babysit 24/7 this weekend.  Look forward to the day when I can babysit – not pre-deployment – for as yet unborn babies from my other two children.  What a great day for the [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 7:47pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • 3.6 Million Reasons Why Obama Fails

    The study of economics – micro and macro – includes consideration for the amount of time it takes for an input to the economic system – a stimulus bill, a bailout, or a tax cut – to have its full effect.  Nowhere in that body of knowledge is it taught [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 11:19pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • On Bailouts and Bonuses

    Heard the socialist elites (not a contradiction in terms – they are elites who can support socialism because they already have financial wealth) on NBC whining about the upcoming bonuses big banks will pay out. The socialists were complaining that banks are giving out the taxpayer’s – our – money in [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 9:09am EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Futures Tutorial #21: Technology and Virginia 2005-2015 – from 1991.

    Back to finishing off this series.  We’re working through the implications of change for the years 2005-2015 – from our study, Army 21, in 1990-92.   The point of the futures study - the implications adn findings  – were modifed from the Army and the U.S. by me – to see what matters [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 10:59pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Why We Should Celebrate Columbus Day

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    Traditional Columbus Day was October 12th.  I read of some untraditional, or, perhaps, new traditional teaching about Columbus Day.  Some public school teachers held mock courts for Christopher Columbus for crimes against humanity, or  taught about the details of his ‘crimes’  against native peoples.  They missed the movement – following Columbus’s [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 12:26am EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Political Corruption in Virginia – Gentlemanly and Genteel

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       Every student of American history knows Tammany Hall in New York City set the standard on how to do corruption.   Not, that Chicago, Boston, Memphis or many, many other cities and rural counties  couldn’t compete for corrupting every aspect of local representative government at different points in history.   It’s as [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 10:40pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Folly and Grand Folly

    King Solomon said at the end of his life, “The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools.  Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good. As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 10:48pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Wrapping Up My Christian Retreat

      The Christian retreat in Colorado ended with a business meeting.  Seven men are considering a start up company.  Defense Contracting and Consulting Wherever We Can Find Interesting Work (not the actual name of the proposed company).    The first evening we gave our individual Christian testimonies.  They were as different as our [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 11:40pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Part 3: The Fall Festival of Booths – Succoth

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    Succoth is the Feast of Booths.   Remember what it was like wandering around the desert for 40 years?  This is how the Hebrews lived.  So, build a shelter of fronds.  Live it in for a week.   Get in touch with your innner, ancestral Hebrew if you are Jewish. So, here is the [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 12:13am EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Second Hebrew Fall Festival: Yom Kippur

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      Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the second Fall festival the Lord God ordered the Hebrews to observe.  It has an exact day – the 1oth day of the 7th month on the lunar calendar (Leviticus 23:26).  I’d like to know what the precision of the date means – [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 11:32pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • One Christian’s Learning About Hebrew Fall Festivals: Pt 1.

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    Last week I went on a Christian retreat with 7 guys and a Preacher.   I’d known one of the fellows for a couple of months.  So, we strangers set out to learn more about the Hebrew Fall Festivals in the beauty of Colorado in its Fall. We’re not trying to be [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 12:20am EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • God Created All Creatures

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HJTG6RRN4E&feature=player_embedded#Dog Hero   Genesis 9:5 says that animals and men will be judged.  It will be 5 years in December since my dog friend died.  I miss him still. http://www.americancivilization.net/articles/2004/Last_Conversation_with_Coal_Dawg.pdf [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 9:31pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Rush Is Right Again – On the Way Forward

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    Here is an  excerpt from Rush’s program the other day - “RUSH: Wait, hear me out. It’s going to lead to people say, “Both parties are the same, there’s no difference, Republicans and Democrats.” What we have to focus on here is taking back the Republican Party. I think there is enough rage [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 9:44pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Quick Sitrep

    Meeting finished early, so I left 24th floor panoramic conference room of DC (from Rosslyn in  Arlington where I grew up) and drove home instead of staying the night.  Saw 6 rainbows.  Thought about God’s promises.  And the wonder of a child – sharing it when I could with my [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 11:09pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Race, Class, and Gender(s) Indoctrination at The University

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    White Guilt Awareness Day by Caroline Rushing If you are straight, white, and male, please stand up. Congratulations, you are more privileged than you probably ever realized. Because of your blessed birth, you are responsible for the victimization of thousands of your underprivileged peers. You may not be aware, but implicitly you [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 8:31pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Last Day at Infantry Conference

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    Last day at the Infantry conference.  The day started with Lieutenant General and former Ambassador Dell Dailey’s presentation.  When I saw him last night, it was the first time in 31 years.  31 years.  Thirty-one years since service together in 2nd Battalion 21st Infantry, 24th Infantry Division, Ft Stewart, GA.  [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 8:42pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • GEN Petraus Speaks on His Two Campaigns

    Heard GEN Dave Petraus speak for almost two hours (unclassified) to the annual Infantry conference today.  First time I’ve heard him speak.  Met him once when he came by when he was at Ft. Monroe to say “Hi” almost 20 years ago.   We both had taught in the same department [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 11:30pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Two Walks Down Memory Lane

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    Chickamauga:  Wonderful time with family – daughter, son-in-law, first cousin and his son.  Saw where all four of my Mother’s ancestors fought in the 2 SC and 16 SC Infantry.  Thrilled and fascinated  seeing where their regiments came on line and went up against the enemy.  One gg-gfather was killed there.  His wife and [...]
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    Posted: September 21, 2009, 11:06pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Fundraiser for Virginia Attorney General in Tidewater

    FACEBOOK LINK: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127813576363 Join us on the James with Virginia’s next Attorney General Sen. Ken Cuccinelli Sunday, September 27, 5-7pm at the home of Cary & Doug Nunnally 9 Hilton Terrace • Newport News, Virginia $25 per person; $40 per couple RSVP by mail (address below)                                 [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 12:45pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • The National Conversation on Race Is Finally Here

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    The long-awaited national conversation on Race finally took place.  Former President Carter accused critics of President Obama of racism.  That sparked the final outing of truth on Race in America – the  2009 version.  Three people spoke for 300 million Americans.  A third of the country is Liberal.  A third of [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 10:01pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Calling the Obama Race Card a Year and a Half Ago

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    Wrote this in early 2008 Obama-Baiting Speaking Obama’s whole name, Barack Hussein Obama, is attacking Obama.  According to Liberals.  It’s a racist, anti-Muslim baiting of Obama.  Because the name Barack Obama points to Africa.  The name Hussein points to Islam.  His name “plays on the fears of voters.”  It doesn’t matter that [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 4:57pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Meanings for the 9-12 March on Washington

    Number of comments: 7
    The meaning of the 9-12 march on Washington had as many meanings as marchers.  Which was from 60 thousand to 2 million.  The variance in those numbers measures the gaping distance between those on the Left and Right, Liberal and Conservative, Obamorons and anti-Socialists, MSM and bloggers connected to experts, [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 11:41pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • From September 2001: One Front, Two Wars

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        Written in September 2001.  Prescient words – except I didn’t know that President Bush would let Sec Def Rumsfeld screw up the Operation Iraqi Freedom for 2 years.  And, the coalition of Muslim allies has held together better than I suspected – which doesn’t mean they will support the U.S. forever.  Still, [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 6:44am EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Who, Whom? for Healthcare

    “I believe it was Lenin himself who introduced to Russia the famous phrase “who, whom?” – during the early years of Soviet rulethe byword in which the people summed up the universal problem of a socialist society.  Who plans for whom, who directs and dominates whom, who assigns other people [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 11:55pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Coming Armed to 9-12 Demonstrations

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    Bring a broom.  Any size- hand broom will do.  America is way past peasants with pitchforks.   We’re not at Concord bridge, so no need for Patriots packing anything other than a broom.   The broom is to sweep Congress clean.  Sweep Congress clean.  It’ll take 3 elections to do it.  During the [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 11:24pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Healthcare Show: 3 Stooges on One Stage

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    Watching the masterpiece political theater of a Presidential address to the joint Session of Congress, I was struck when I suddenly realized that the President and his two closest successors were sharing the TV frame.  President B. Hussein Obama, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi shared one stage tonight for the [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 10:24pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • My Personal Connection with Labor

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    Labor, as in working, has been my life.  I started earning wages when I was 15.  Was self-supporting – thank you U.S. Army – at age 17.  Still in the harness now. But, my connection to the labor movement is a different personal story.  It’s about my Grandfather – the Atticus [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2009, 11:26pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Futures Tutorial 20: First Findings for Virginia

      In 1996 I redid the Army 21 briefing with a focus on what the findings meant to the Commonwealth of Virginia.  The Army lawyers said I was good to go on intellectual property issues as long as I foot noted as in any scholarly paper.  The findings on the left [...]
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    Posted: September 05, 2009, 12:02am EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Futures Tutorials Part 19: Most Likely World

        Ultimately, a futures study, like Army 21: 2005-2015, has to answer the question, “What’s Going to Happen?”   The graphic shows what we saw in 2005-2015 from our perch at Ft. Monroe, VA in 1990-1992.    The two big earth changing events are what drives the post-Cold War Era and post-Industrial Era – the Information Era.   The maps [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 11:37pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Back to Futures Tutorials: Challenges – Part 18

      Early this year I was sharing the findings from the futures study for 2005-2015 which I lead back in 1990-92: Army 21.   My aim was to share the methodology and the insights.   I was diverted by Virginia politics in l’affaire Frederick and then the Obamicide of America and the Tea Party [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 9:14pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • My Commentary on the Massacre at Beslan – 5 years ago.

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    Beslan is to World War IV as Guernica is to World War II. Pablo Picasso immortalized Guernica’s horror in art. The videos from Beslan aren’t art, but they, too, may become international memory.  On April 26, 1937 the Nazi Totalitarians deliberately bombed civilians in Guernica, Spain. On September 3, 2004 [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Ted Kennedy’s Real Legacy

      Ted Kennedy’s real legacy can be measured in dollars and cents – because it really is valued in dollars and cents. What happens to his personal wealth and his share of the family trust?  Years ago I remember reading that the Kennedy family was worth about $300 m. Kennedy supported the death [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 11:16pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Jihad by Paul Fregosi

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    Jihad by Paul Fregosi was published in 1998.  3 years before 9-11.  It’s a European’s view of the long, long fight against Islamic invasion in Europe.   He covers the whole bloody history.  He describes the atrocities and hatred unleashed by both sides.  At the end of the book, the author describes the [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 9:05pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • My Personal Memories of Ted Kennedy

    I was at the JFK School of Government, Harvard University, from September 1979 through June 1981.  Two wonderful years of study and learning.   New and different experiences that stay fresh, alive and wonderful in memory after 30 years.  Two testing years of family death, serious spouse illness, unrelenting work caring and [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 11:07pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Listen to This Song

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on_AdFUJVH0 [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 2:50pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Why Calling Islam Inferior Isn’t Racism (Just a start)

    Some great, simple words of explanation from a Brit.  But, just the start of the proposition.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4FpTvp0tgs&feature=player_embedded [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 11:19pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Ted Kennedy Is Dead

    Number of comments: 2
    De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Ted Kennedy is dead. [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 8:35pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • I Support Phil Hamilton

    Number of comments: 2
    Del. Phil Hamilton is in hot water.  The local newspaper laid out a case to look like a clear conflict of interest with just the right dash of slease.  Politician wants more money – he is a retired school adminstrator.  Politician offers a deal to public servant.   Politician gets the [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2009, 10:28pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Incompetence Governs the U.S.

    The B. Hussein Obama government’s estimate of the deficit was off by $2 trillion from May 09 to August 09.   In 3 months we see that their estimate has to be changed, readjusted, fixed, re-fudged, made up, imagined, marketed, etc. by only $2 trillion dollars.  Another example of why BHO is [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2009, 1:22pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • A First Amendment Victory Reveals What Is Wrong

    Number of comments: 3
    From the Chistian Newswire.   Aug 24, 2009 “ SANTA ROSA COUNTY, Florida — After a 7½ hour hearing in federal court, federal District Judge Casey Rodgers told Michelle Winkler that she would not be held in civil contempt over her husband’s prayer at an awards banquet.”  That looks like a victory [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 10:27pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Little Town Tea Party Testifies to Big Potential

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    Attended the second meeting of the Tea Party organization in my town of 12,000.   Wow.   Politicians would love to have this working for them.   The opponents do have something to worry about.  Not an angry mob, but a grassroots movement that just might mean something big. There were almost 50 folks [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 12:44am EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • 1 Degree of Separation from Lockerbie

    My wife knew one of the families killed at Lockerbie.  She was a guidance counselor at Hanau American High School in Dec 1988.   One of her kids there was a daughter in the family of an engineer NCO.    They were all killed going home.    Right before CHRISTmas.  She said the girl [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 11:46pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • A Real Story About Racial Hatred

    Number of comments: 3
    From the Patriot Post, “Media Blackout “Equal and exact justice to all men…” –Thomas Jefferson Editor’s Note: PG suggested — this essay contains graphic descriptions of a brutal crime. In 1775, John Adams wrote, “There is in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong, a love of truth and a veneration [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 1:12pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Racism, Racist, Race: Wolf, Wolf, Wolf

    Number of comments: 6
    Last night I listened to the young PhD fellow say he saw, heard, sensed, divined racism at congressional recess confrontations on health care – on the Bill O’Reilly show.  O’Reilly tried to guide him away from the accusations to no avail. I can’t find the right rhetoric to mock such ideas [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2009, 11:44pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Basic Questions About Healthcare Reform

    Number of comments: 4
    Where in the Constitution does the Congress get the enumerated power to legislate healthcare 0r give the authority to the Executive (POTUS) to implement nationalized healthcare? Why should the Federal Government create national health care policy?  Why should any government create health care policy, rules and regulations? What medical decisions should governments make [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 11:20pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • A Wedding Followed the Funeral

    The weekend after COL (RET) Jeff Spara’s internment in Arlington Cemetery, we went to a wedding.    We’ve lived in one small town for 20 years as of July.   So, going to weddings and funerals every year is standard fare.  This one was different because when two 25 year old adults [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 12:02am EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Spara Ceremony at Arlington

    Number of comments: 2
    Yesterday, the body of COL (RET) Jeff Spara was buried at Arlington Cemetery.  He had a funeral mass at the Memorial Chapel.  My sister was married in that chapel (1972).  I gave eulogies at the funerals for my Father (1980) and Mother (1986) there.  Saw a number of my classmates there [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2009, 9:36pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • The Constitution Is Dead

    Number of comments: 3
    “The Constitution is dead” from Who Killed the Constitution by Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin R.C. Gutzman.  Finished reading it today.  Pretty timely, when I see a youtube of a fellow challenging a Georgia Congressman on Federal Healthcare.  The fellow asks what is the Constitutional authority for government involvement [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2009, 9:14pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • What Is Un-American?

    Number of comments: 2
    The Speaker of House – 3rd in line to the greatest power in the world, Nancy Pelosi (D/Socialist – CA) – called out what was un-American to her.   Not that anyone should care about anything she says as a serious comment about anything. But, the comment begs a question.  What is [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 10:54pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Hearing Something New in an Old Story

    Charles Stanley preached “the prodigal son” tonight.  As many times as I’ve heard the sermons, read and pondered it myself, I heard some new things today.  Or, maybe I heard their particular emphasis more. You can’t out-sin God’s grace to love you. After you accept Christ, you can walk away from hearing [...]
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    Posted: August 08, 2009, 9:20pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Another Reason for Returning to a Constitutional Republic

    Number of comments: 2
    The Heritage Foundation’s great book on the Constitution, “The Heritage Guide to the Constitution”  begins with the observation that America is ruled with “the consent of the governed”  while European countries have the “rule of the majority.”  Important distinction. If the individual is sovereign, then government only has those powers given [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 10:39pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • It’s the Economy, Stupid – in Simple Terms

    The economy is all about capital.  And the ability to produce and exchange capital. The economy isn’t based on government, infrastructure, investments, research, innovation, education, or any other soap a politician, pundit or grifter is selling.  Those things matter – as the Rule of Law and culture do, tremendously, but they [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 11:28pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Neither Host Nor Hostess for Tea Parties – Yet

    Number of comments: 1
    I read two pieces – separated by 7 years in time – that, when put together, present a better picture of what is going on at tea parties and townhalls across America. I read someone’s piece about the leaderless movement that is gaining steam.  Energy is increasing in the slow news, [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2009, 11:39pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Barbarian Islam Produces Islamists

    Number of comments: 6
    The Sunday Richmond Times had the story about the latest Muslim mob murders of Christians in Pakistan on page 12.  Ho hum.   It’s just business as usual. In several respects the latest murders aren’t new news.  They are just new events in a long pattern of events that began with Mohammed’s [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 10:35pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • The Devil in the Details of Obamacare

    Number of comments: 10
    From Liberty Counsel – A NATIONWIDE PUBLIC INTEREST RELIGIOUS CIVIL LIBERTIES LAW FIRM “Obama Administration’s Health Care Plan HR 3200 currently under consideration in the House of Representatives Reviewed, revised and adapted on July 29, 2009, by Liberty Counsel from the original authored by Peter Fleckenstein and posted on FreeRepublic.com and his [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2009, 12:01am EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Beer Summitry

    Number of comments: 1
    Drinking beer and talking about issues = summit talks?  Elect me President of the United States.  I am POTUS right now.  Better than POTUS.   I wouldn’t be in over my head on economics and foreign relations – and healthcare, like Princess Di/B. Hussein Obama is.  Any libation-sipping Southerner over age 35 could [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 10:49pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • First Step in Healthcare Reform

    The bill the Republicans in Congress should offer – would have 3 paragraphs. 1. Medicare, Medicaid, (add any federal programs NOT for federal workers - as opposed to Tricare, etc) will be unfunded by the USG as of Dec. 31st, 2011.  2.  POTUS/HHS/Treas  are directed to plan the 2 year transition of tax revenues from the [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 10:20pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • No Time for Politicians

    It’s a good thing that work is demanding more.  I have less time for politics.   That’s very good, because my patience for politicians which has worn thin through 17 years of activism, is about to wear down to nothing.  B. Hussein Obama, our Princess Di posing as President, is engaged in [...]
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    Posted: July 28, 2009, 11:03pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Seeing John Ford’s View of the Southwest

    Number of comments: 4
    Finished my death by slides day at Fort Huachuca, AZ.   Took an hour before dark to drive to Bisbee, AZ and back.  What a feast for the mind – through the eyes.  Saw the mining town that struck me as so similar to mining towns strung up and down a holler [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 11:37pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Criticisms of the Pope’s Caritas in Veritate

    Number of comments: 3
    Warning: very long post.  Could have broken it up, but since I finally had the time to write the criticisms out, here they are.  Read if you like. I didn’t put in all the places where I agreed with the Pope in his encyclical.  Not enough time for now.  But, post [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 1:36am EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Loving and Hating Sarah Palin Are Twin Sides of the Same Coin

    Number of comments: 9
    Twice this weekend neighbors made passing conversation about how much they loved Sarah Palin.  And I got an earful over the phone.  Maybe admired and supported are better words.  One person spoke of wanting to clean house of the Ivy League elitests in government – for good.  I asked if [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2009, 9:55pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • A Real Threat to Free Speech

    Number of comments: 5
    I’m not a fan of political hyperbole.  So, this is the real deal – if it passes the Congress and becomes Federal Law. HR 1966, introduced by Rep. Linda Sanchez last April is in reaction to the suburban mother who drove one of her daughter’s acquaintances — a 13-year-old girl — [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2009, 10:56pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • The Nature of Federal Government Stimulus, Bailouts and Loans

    In order for the U.S. Government to give to any person, corporation, or state, the U.S. Government had to take.  Whatever is given to one is taken from another. Government must always take in order to give. Regardless of whether the giving is Constitutional or not, the taking precedes.  In addition to [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2009, 10:14pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Caritas in Veritate

    Number of comments: 2
    Read the Pope’s new encyclical letter.  Thank you, Martin Luther, for getting the Reformation rocking. Thank you, King Henry VIII, for wanting to divorce so badly that you facilitated the Reformation in England - and thus to America. May write more later.  No time tonight. [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 11:41pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    My wife finished the book – part of her Summer fare.  So, we watched the Elia Kazan-directed 1947 movie.  Loved it.  My grandparents’ generation was born in the 1880/1890s.  So, even though they weren’t urban immigrants their life experiences had many parallels with the characters in the movie/book.   I knew my [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 2:10am EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • There Should Be 4 Articles of Impeachment Pending

    Number of comments: 4
    Given the 5:4 decision on not letting a city invoke race to determine promotions in the fire department, there should be four articles of Impeachment in the U.S. House of Representatives against the 4 judges.  The Constitution says “ The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2009, 10:46pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • The Glorious 4th – July 2009

    Number of comments: 2
    Yesterday, I was asked to speak at a Tea Party today.  Prior family plans prevailed.  There are many things I could have said today.  Many things that need to be said in this time and place.  It’d be hard to chose just one point for a crowd to carry home – [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2009, 9:55pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Family Reunion

    Off the net for a bit.   Time for the annual League-Holland Reunion.  The descendants of Robert Malvina Holland League and Commodore Butler League gather in Simpsonsville, SC.  Robert, aka Grandmother Bobby, was a lady born in 1862 and named Robert in honor of her uncle who was killed at the  Battle of [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2009, 10:43pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • France May Take Step 1 Against Surrender to Islam

    From the AP (June 22, 2009) at Newsmax.com.  “PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy lashed out Monday at the practice of wearing the Muslim burqa, insisting the full-body religious gown is a sign of the “debasement” of women and that it won’t be welcome in France.    The French leader expressed support [...]
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    Posted: June 22, 2009, 10:11pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • BowdenHouse Inc.

    Number of comments: 6
    Got the notice yesterday from the Virginia Corporation Commission that BowdenHouse Inc. became a legal corporation on June 12th, 2009. BowdenHouse Inc.  will sell James Atticus Bowden – first.  My labor, not me.   My oldest daughter may have a product to sell one of these days.  I may complete  the radio production [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2009, 10:55pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Don’t Get Your Hopes Up About Another Iranian Revolution

    Number of comments: 5
    The A-’name follows’ fellow in charge of Iran rules with the blessing of the mullahs.  The High Priests of Iranian Shiite Muslims are the power behind the president, king, peacock, you name it, talking to the crowds and visiting around the world as the head of state.   It looks like [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2009, 10:36pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • BHO’s New Financial Oversight

    I heard about the proposed legislation for more Federal Government oversight of financial institutions.   The details make all the difference between a bad bill and a terrible bill.   The bill begins as a bad bill, because the Federal Government can’t prevent all future economic bubbles and calamities.   It especially won’t prevent [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2009, 10:21pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • BHO: Incompetence Compounds Arrogance

    B. Hussein Obama is a study of human incompetence compounded by superhuman arrogance.  Or, maybe it’s the incompetence that is the exponent to the arrogance.  The illustration is Iran this week.  BHO had the talent, focus, skills, intelligence, etc. to get elected POTUS.  So did Jimmy Carter.  Carter did a county [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2009, 10:42pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Great Gratefulness

    Number of comments: 6
    Son-in-law is back from the sandbox.  Home for a year.  Three grandbabies and oldest daughter out of my house for awhile.  The quiet will be deafening.   Happy for every moment they all get together for the next year. God is good.  All the time.  No matter what. Praise the Lord Jesus. [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2009, 8:33am EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • Happy Birthday, U.S. Army

    Number of comments: 3
    Today is the birthday of the United States Army.  Since 1775.  Soldiers in the field over year before the Declaration of Independence.  The Army carried the country on its bayonets for 8 years to 1783.  The Continental Line closed the deal – made their proof as a professional army in the [...]
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    Posted: June 14, 2009, 11:26pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden

  • BHO Socialist or Incompetent: Doesn’t Matter

    Number of comments: 3
    Please pay close attention to the two blue lines.  These are the official predictions of B. Hussein Obama and his government.  These lines were the reason why Congress was supposed to support printing money (see yesterday’s post) and passing the stimulus.  To fix the economy.   To save and create jobs.  Except, [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2009, 9:58pm EDT
    by James Atticus Bowden
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