Mr. Biden’s remark that a “minor incursion” into Ukraine by Russia would not be a Casus Belli can be compared to the Truman Secretary of State’s speech in early 1950 putting South Korea outside America’s zone of interest in the Pacific. Mr. Truman did not cause the Korean War, it was planned by the Norks and the Chinese long before, but Acheson’s speech gave the Russians the go-ahead to support the North’s attack on the South and a war-weary America found herself embroiled in a bloody conflict on the Korean peninsula – an undeclared war that resulted in over 36,000 dead American soldiers, airmen, and marines, thousands more of our allies, and millions of Koreans. Diplomatic missteps are often the precursors to war. 

Did Mr. Biden’s remark while away from his handlers and his teleprompter give Mr. Putin permission to undertake an all-out war against Ukraine? Probably not. Historians will argue the point ad terminus, and the political leaning of the historian will guide his/her analysis. But it did give Putin an illusory assurance that the United States would not take swift action to counter his invasion. It was an illusion. While we must not directly engage in conflict with the Russians in Ukraine, we also cannot stand idly by and allow Mr. Putin to continue the rape of a neighbor country; a rape that began and left unopposed when Mr. Obama was president and Mr. Biden his vice. 

So, regardless of whether or not Mr. Biden gave Mr. Putin permission to take over portions of Ukraine is irrelevant at this point, The United States and likeminded nations must treat Russia as a pariah in the family of nations. Russia must be cut off from markets, finances, transport, and all other means of intercourse with the rest of the world. This invasion must cost far more than any gain that could occur for continuing it. Those who value peace must supply the Ukrainians with every means available to resist the invasion, and I applaud Mr. Biden, the Germans, the Swedes, and others for stepping up now and providing weapons and equipment for the task. 

As Christians, we should pray for Ukraine. Pray that they might be strengthened in their resolve to resist. Pray that their enemy, and Putin is their enemy, might stumble and fall. Pray for Putin’s removal as the dictator of Russia by whatever means God ordains and that Russia might take her place in peaceful concourse with her neighbors. And pray for those distressed, dislocated, and fleeing as refugees from an unwarranted conflict. May God grant Ukraine victory as he once granted victory to little Judah over mighty Assyria. 

Let us follow our prayers with our dollars. The wounded must be mended. The homeless must be housed. The hungry must be fed. And the partisans must be armed. Pray for Ukraine with both petition to God and dollars to the people. 

Now that I’ve had my bit of fun mocking Mr. Biden and his Black Woman Supreme Court Seat, I find it time to say why this action on his part is so offensive to me and quite possibly to many others. 

I have absolutely no objection to any American of any ethnicity or of either sex sitting on the Supreme (or any other) Court. Any person whose first identity is American Citizen and who understands and loves the Decalogue, the Constitution, and The Declaration of Independence (our founding documents) is qualified to sit in judgment over our legal process. As a Conservative, I would hope that any judge understands the limits of the law’s authority and doesn’t feel it within the court’s venue to keep discovering rights that are hidden from the nation at large. That’s probably too much to ask – but ask I will. 

So, no, no one should object to a black woman being appointed to serve as a Justice of The Supreme Court because of her ethnicity or gender. To do so would be racist and misogynistic. But Mr. Biden sold this seat to a powerful, racialist, political organization in order to obtain their support when he was running for President, and to this I object. 

Mr. Biden needed to win the South Carolina Democratic Primary in February 2020 to have a shot at winning the nomination of his party for the presidential election. He was just one of many Dems contending for the nomination, and in all truth, he wasn’t the best and brightest. But he is a canny politician who knows the movers and shakers of his party. The African Diaspora makes up only about 12% of the American populace, but about 60% of Democratic Party voters in South Carolina are black. The candidate who has the greatest support among that 60% of the party would win that primary election. Mr. Biden took 61% of the black Dem vote and won the South Carolina primary in a landslide. (If you’re interested in the math, there are about 3.6 million registered voters in S.C. and Mr. Biden received 260,000 votes in that primary of which about 160,000 were from black voters.) 

To win the support of Representative Jim Clyburn, THE black Democrat kingpin in South Carolina politics, Mr. Biden promised that should Mr. Clyburn throw the support of the black machine to his candidacy, he would in return nominate a Black Woman to fill the next vacancy. Et voila!  Someone has said that politics is like sausage making. If you want to enjoy the product don’t watch the process. Mr. Biden placed a Supreme Court seat on the table in order to win the Democrat nomination for the Presidency and he won his bet. 

Machine politics have always been a feature of American elections and governance. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that a political machine in that tiny state of South Carolina would determine the outcome of a primary election, and that election result would feed the larger machine in its voter turnout. The Democratic Party is, I am tempted to say, the not-white party. The descendants of the European Diaspora who colonized and established this nation still overwhelmingly vote Republican. The Democrats, in order to win elections and reap the rewards of political ascendancy, are a hodge-podge of ethnic minorities in coalition against the European majority. While it is true that their leadership is largely European, those leaders come from minority European ethnic groups and have experienced less than full embrace here by those who migrated first. (Irish, Italians, Jews, etc.) 

So back to the Black Woman. If her primary identity is Black, she is not qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. If her primary identity is Woman, she is not qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. If her primary identity is Citizen of the World, she is not qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. If her primary identity is American Citizen, welcome. 

In his process of claiming the Presidency by gaining the support of Mr. Clyburn and the Black political machine in South Carolina, Mr. Biden has politicized the Supreme Court as it has not been politicized in my lifetime and poisoned the wellspring of trust that is essential to the governance of our nation. The fantasy that the Court is apolitical is an important damper on political passions in this country, and I think Mr. Biden has popped that bubble – perhaps permanently. When the people no longer believe the fantasy, the door is opened to rebellion, and I am no proponent of that. 

The Entente Cordiale may not be at the forefront of your thinking right now. I obviously have too much time on my hands right now, so it keeps popping into my mind as I consider our government bumbling and bungling into another one.

The EC was an agreement between the English and the French that laid the groundwork for the First World War. It wasn’t meant to be such, but the English and French were feeling threatened by the growing economic power of the new German nation (Germany was a region not a nation before 1871), and agreed to certain alliances to check its growing influence.

NATO has become the most recent Entente Cordiale. Its raison d’etre ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union, but instead of allowing itself to be consigned to the list of no longer useful political-military alliances, it has kept fanning the distrust of Russia that Europeans have harbored since at least the greats, Peter and Catherine. Russia was/is Orthodox and Europe was Roman, and the Orthodox and the Romans have tried to exterminate (or convert) the Orthodox since 1054. (This antagonism between Western and Eastern Europe has a LONG history!)

So, we have the American Empire forming its Entente Cordiale with its weak European client states to check the Russian influence as it challenges the continued expansion of American hegemony.This little snippet of world history is to say that the conflict over Ukraine is rooted in a struggle for power and influence that stretches back over a thousand years, and more recently over nearly four hundred years, and we, the Americans, have joined in this struggle unwisely and unnecessarily.

Entente Cordiales can have catastrophic consequences, and a weak leader like Mr. Biden can stumble us right into another worldwide conflagration. At least that is my studied opinion.

God designed the youthful female form to be a magnet to men – he is, after all, heavily invested in the perpetuation of the race. Advertisers count on and exploit this creation reality. I pointed my browser to a highly regarded news outlet. In the column beside the news feed was a picture of a young woman displaying her ample cleavage. I looked. It was an advertisement from Forbes for a retirement plan.

There are lessons to be drawn here. For men, it is to know yourself. Know how God designed you and know and obey his guidance on how that design is to be used to give him glory, to benefit the race, and for your lasting joy. Place your affections, and keep them there, on a woman with whom you can join your life to co-create the next generation, to train those children to live for God and man, and to enrich society through your collective efforts as you become the elders for our tribe. Don’t flutter from flower to flower!

For women, and I know I’m venturing into dangerous territory here, know the power of your presence – especially in the bloom of your youth. God created you to be the completion of man. You are The Mother of the Race and the partner of your man. You must know how to read a man’s character and his heart. Do not rent yourself out to the charmer. Because you are the womb of the race, you will always pay the higher price for your humanity than do men. Find a man you can trust to preserve, protect, and defend you even to the cost of his own life until death do you part. Again, don’t be a rental.

And now for a piece of advice for both men and women as you grow into your middle and later years: do what is prudent to maintain your health and vigor, but realize there is no fountain of youth other than the waters of The River of Life waiting for those who have been given eternal life (not yet realized) through Jesus Christ. Cosmetics, plastic surgery, Botox, hair coloring, trips to the gym and Viagra may give the illusion of youth but not the reality. We do live in a time of youth worship. If you’re looking for a job, it’s easier to find one at 30 than at 50 even if your 50 is way better than your 30. That’s “fine” in times of prosperity and ease; it fails greatly when our very survival is threatened. Understand that this American obsession to be what we are not is a blip in the course of human history, and in times of crisis your breast implants or the use of a pill to “get it up” count for nothing. In fact, if you’ve spent your years in vanity, you will be found to have spent your years in vain. Your life, in the words of Solomon (my paraphrase) will have been shown to be a waste of oxygen.

What then are we to do? Celebrate our creation. If you are a young man, make yourself a worthy husband. Learn to use hand and mind to house, clothe, feed, and nurture a family. Learn to be a man and not a bearded boy. Learn how to identify a woman who will be a suitable partner to procreate, educate, and mentor the next generation. Don’t waste your time and energy on that which entertains rather than educates. I am speaking of everything from sports to video games and movies to transport to vacations, to Tinder dates and one-night stands. Don’t use women as rent-by-the-hour entertainments. No wed, no bed is the standard for both men and women. The more you use women as a means of self-gratification, the less fitted you will be to be a husband and father and an example of manhood for generations to come.

And if you are a young woman, plan your life to be the mother and partner God has designed you to be. Everything I said to young men about casual sex applies to you – even more so. Birth control, condoms, and abortions may protect you from childbirth, but they won’t protect you from the wounding of your being. Don’t hide behind a mask. I don’t see God as opposed to the discrete use of cosmetics and jewelry, but if it takes you an hour to put your face together before you can go out in public, you are denying the beauty with which God has endowed you and hiding the real you from view. Love the woman God made you.

It has finally dawned on me why the Capitol Uprising of last January 6th is an obsession of the ruling elites in media and government, especially on the part of the Democrats and their allies in the business conglomerates.

Riots and uprisings and insurrections have been raging throughout our country since at least the Ferguson riots of 2014 but they have caused little concern from the elites. Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots, lootings, occupations, and general destruction have been greeted with a shrug and a pander by these ruling and influencing elites, but somehow, somewhy, somereason, the Charlottesville Uprising of 2017 and the Capitol Uprising are the subject of days and days of Congressional hearings and media babble. Why? Here is my observation.

The race-based and anarchist uprisings are no threat to the power of the elites. Yes, they cause millions of dollars of damage to their communities, but in all truth, the African-descended and identified are a very small, about 12% of the population, and economically powerless minority. They usually destroy their own neighborhoods and businesses, and any damage they do cause outside those precincts can be covered by insurance or the public purse. As long as the powerless are the ones destroying lives and property, no real political threat is felt by the elites. In fact, the bones the elites toss to the minorities can only go to strengthen their grip on the reins of power and position. If the elites pour a few dollars into minority areas and a few dollars more in supporting a minimum standard of subsistence for them, along with awarding a few seats at the political table, they expect the eternal gratitude of those minorities to be demonstrated in their votes to keep the elites in power.

It is an entirely different matter all together when a sizeable section of the European-descended population expresses anger and outrage at the elites. Although an extremely wealthy man himself, Donald Trump had always been an outsider to elite circles and in his governance he showed his contempt of the ruling elite. Seventy-two million Americans joined him in the 2020 election in trying to restrict the reach of those elites into their lives. Granted, many of those 72 million were just Republicans who panted to join the ranks of the elites, but many millions of those voters were expressing their wish to overthrow the elites entirely and return government to the ordinary citizen. Some were, like me, holding their noses and voting Trump because, with all his faults, he was a better choice than the ruling elites of the left and their allies in media and academia.

So, while the riots in Portland and Seattle and Ferguson and Chicago and Charlotte and Washington DC and Milwaukee etc. were costly, they posed little threat to the elites’ grip on power and wealth – in fact, the fear that they generate in the hearts of the no-riot types strengthens their grip as they promise to keep them safe and secure. The elites know racial minorities and anarchists can be suppressed in a heartbeat should their rioting get completely out of hand, so a bone tossed, a law passed, an expression of shared outrage, and all is well in elite land.

The uprisings in Charlottesville and the Capitol and the discontent with the ruling elites they expressed were and yet are a real threat to those precious few who control the nation. Civil wars erupt when a large minority of the nation – any nation – are treated with contempt and disregarded in their concerns. Bill and Hillary Clinton, like so many others, sold their souls to leave their lower and middle-class roots and join the elites. Hillary could say of those from whom Bill sprang, that they were just a “basket of deplorables.” She was expressing the true opinion the powerful hold for the powerless white minority (and all others who identify with them). This large minority who wish only to be lightly governed, and to be respected for the sacrifices in blood and treasure they have made to make America the great nation that she is, find themselves and the values they hold dear held in utter contempt by the elites. Their religion, their family structure, their traditions and values, are mocked. They are nobodies and nothings in the eyes of the elites, and they are reminded of that on a daily basis through the entertainment they are fed, the drumbeat of the news, the continual assault on their way of life in the halls of power, and the destruction of their history in academia. And on January 6th, a tiny sliver of this large minority told the elites they were pissed! That anger has not subsided. If the elites choose to sweep it aside and treat it as the grumblings of some dumb rednecks, these “gods” will take America into troubled waters, and if I am reading them correctly, that is exactly what they are going to do.

The Black Lives Matter movement and its follow-on coalition of the People of Color have awakened me to the realization I am not just a generic American citizen. I was content and satisfied for at least 65 of my 75 years to think of myself as an American. I pledged allegiance to our flag every morning as a child as class began, felt a surge of pride as I held my hand over my heart as the Star-Spangled Banner was played, donned the nation’s uniform when I was old enough to do so, and passed through life thankful that I had been so blessed to have been born here. America was the Promised Land and I was its citizen. Then came the riots and protests and legislation and advertising and education and entertainment that declared White Americans to be the enemy of all that was good and just in the world.

The White Man, so says the not-white-man – emphasis on the word, “man” – corrupted this pristine planet with his extraction of ores, his mining and exploitation of coal to turn those ores into brass and bronze and iron and steel, his pumping of oil to produce an industrial economy that pollutes the planet with its factories making planes and trains and automobiles and tractors and computers and mobile devices and electricity to power it all. The White Man is responsible for wars and conquests, for territorial expansion and the nation-state. Had he not come upon the scene, truth and justice would prevail. There would never have been slavery and oppression, great poverty and great wealth. Were it not for the White Man evil would not exist in the world at all and humanity would have continued to live in harmony with nature in an unchanging world!

The Black Lives Matter and People of Color coalitions have created a new American identity with new flags, new anthems, new holidays, new founders, and new heroes. And this new American forced me to re-look at my American identity. I could not longer be, “just an American.” That identity is being denied me.

I have been awakened to that which has always been regarding the essence of this nation. Not only are we not a unitary state but are rather a federation of individual states united in common purpose and support, neither are we a unitary people but are rather a federation of tribal/ethnic groups united in common purpose and support. As long as those bonds of common purpose remain, we will remain one nation made of many different peoples.

Not only am I not just an American, I am also not just a White Man. My ancestors migrated to this land beginning around 1619 through the mid-1700s. But they didn’t come as White people. They came from Scotland with their resentments against the English, and from England, (with some contributions from the Nordic peoples during their invasions and occupation of the British Isles), and Germany. Each of these migrating peoples came with their politics, ideals, and religion, and joined in coalitions with the others for mutual support and defense. My Scottish ancestors did not cease to be Scots, nor did my English ancestors cease to be English when they arrived here. The Scots came with their Reformed theology and the English with their Puritan, and they lived in separate enclaves where they could maintain their identity while developing a new, American, one.

The White American is a strawman. There is a coalition, a federation, of various European ethnic groups that looks white on the surface, and which has been content to see itself without its ethnic distinctions at the forefront until now. BLM and PoC have made that identity impossible. The so-called White American is awakening to the reality that he remains Italian, or Spanish, or Portuguese, or Polish, or German, or Norwegian, or Swede, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, English, Iranian, Armenian or any of the other myriad ethnicities that migrated to this continent from Europe and from the Aryan tribes streaming from the steppes of Asia over the centuries, even as he sees how those ancestors formed political and social coalitions to strengthen and expand this nation.

Nation-states are fragile things. They can fracture in an instant, and those fractures may be irreparable. Do not think that just because we have been a nation since 1787, we shall continue to be such in the future. No nation in history has done so. We shouldn’t expect to be the exception. We almost broke apart in 1861-65 in our first Civil War, and if the British had put a few more pounds into the Confederacy, we would have done so. We should not think there could not be a second and more successful fracture.

The modern Democrat Party driven by its neo-Marxist elites, believes it can ride the People of Color coalition to lasting hegemony in which these elites can control their PoC subjects with handouts and quotas. They are wrong – at least I think and pray that they are – the POC coalition has no strong unifying principle to bind it together other than a collective resentment of the wealth and power that has accrued to their so-called White oppressors. The POC may gain a few victories before it is seen that an Indian physician whose parents came from Chennai, or a Chinese engineer who emigrated from Hong Kong has little in common with the group other than they are not originally from Europe. Their interests and worldview are closer to Boise than Beijing and they will find, if they desire to do so, they can become American in every sense of the term. When they awaken to the fact that anyone who embraces the American vision can be American completely, the coalition will come apart at the seams.

So, I have a cautious optimism that we will survive the current fracturing of our peoples back into their ethnic origins as their primary identity. We can all be Americans if we have common goals and purposes. But if not, let’s hope for a civil divorce rather than a bloody civil war.