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.
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
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 The left wants one simple law passed and the right another repealed.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
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
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
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
I guess some didn’t realize there are popular parts of Obama’s legacy to be repealed as well: (CNN) Ron Paul, the former GOP congressman and onetime presidential candidate, called on Attorney General
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
When I was a kid and the sky turned green, my family used to gather around our weather radio to find out what was coming our way. We’d listen to that monotonous
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:
When the press measures attitudes rather than facts: Jesus Christ may have lived as a poor man and consistently been on the side of those with little material wealth, but a poll
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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