El Borak

El Borak is an historian by training, an IT Director by vocation, and a writer when the mood strikes him. He lives in rural Kansas with his wife of thirty years, where he works to fix the little things.

July 12, 2018

Bunch of Little Rotters

Over the years my tomato patch has produced respectable results.  But one of the problems I consistently encountered was called Blossom End Rot.  It happened first some ten years ago and grew
February 19, 2018

What Did We Think Was Going To Happen?

Everyone, it seems, has a magic bullet that’s going to end school shootings. It’s part of our culture. The left wants one simple law passed and the right another repealed. Everyone on Twitter is a policy expert, Facebook is filled

Beggar's Choice, Part II

January 29, 2018
Part I can be found here. The rain had subsided by midnight, though ragged clouds still hid most of the stars. A moist wind whipped Larvik’s new cloak about his body as

Beggar's Choice, Part I

January 27, 2018
Larvik brushed away the flakes of skin that fell like black snow upon his table. He deflected the waitress again; the pockets of his faded cloak held nothing of any use to

Buy Pies, Sell Slices

January 20, 2018
Here at Men of the West, we believe in resilience. We promote spiritual resilience: that deep and abiding faith in Christ that helps us to overcome the world. We work toward physical

Preserving the rule of law

January 13, 2018
I guess some didn’t realize there are popular parts of Obama’s legacy to be repealed as well: (CNN) Ron Paul, the former GOP congressman and onetime presidential candidate, called on Attorney General

John Brown: The Making of a Martyr

January 9, 2018
The first in a series of history books that belong in every American’s library. Recommendations welcome. Robert Penn Warren’s John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (1929) has been described as “very

The Historicity of Jesus

December 27, 2017
Usually one must wait for Easter for the media to trot out its stable of “mainstream” religious scholars who know nothing about their subjects.  This year, the present was delivered at Christmas:

On that Christmas Day

December 14, 2017
There was a young Jewish girl named Mary, and she was scared. She wasn’t exceptionally beautiful or exceptionally smart or exceptionally strong; in fact, she didn’t feel herself to be exceptionally anything
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