James Atticus Bowden column
James Atticus Bowden is a military 'futurist.' His novel, Rosetta 6.2, is available at www.rosettasixpointtwo.com. A retired United States Army Infantry Officer, he is a 1972 graduate of the United States Military Academy. He earned graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University. He holds three elected Republican Party offices in Virginia. Contact him through his website, www.americancivilization.net, and blog, Deo Vindice.
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July 25, 2010
Adultery was the worst sin in early colonial New England. Adultery sows seeds of mistrust, betrayal and lust which beget division, rage, and murder. Villages . . .
James Atticus Bowden
November 12, 2008
Congratulations to President-elect Barack Hussein Obama for his symbolic victory. However ill gotten the gains, a black man was elected President of the United . . .
James Atticus Bowden
March 5, 2008
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 . . .
James Atticus Bowden
February 7, 2008
Ronald Reagan gave Republicans the eleventh Commandment, "Republicans shall not criticize Republicans." It's a commandment of convenience used when it serves a . . .
James Atticus Bowden
January 26, 2008
Yes, the man, the era, and any hopes that another politician will be his identical twin are dead. The ideas that made the man, shaped the era and elude today's . . .
James Atticus Bowden
January 12, 2008
If Mike Huckabee gets the Republican nomination for President of the United States, Evangelicals lose. America loses with Barack Hussein Obama or HRH Hillary I . . .
James Atticus Bowden
October 5, 2007
Recently I reviewed a lifetime in 24 hours at my West Point class reunion. It was the 35th for Proud and True '72. Five years ago I recounted my impressions . . .
James Atticus Bowden
August 21, 2007
Shakespeare's King Richard III cried, "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" He would give his country to save to save himself. Today, we need to give a . . .
James Atticus Bowden
June 25, 2007
If you put a pot, even a big one, under a glacier and built a fire to melt the glacier — what happens? The pot gets crushed. It may take time, but a couple . . .
James Atticus Bowden
June 14, 2007
In Feudal Europe the peasants would rise up, occasionally, against particularly oppressive lords. After a bit of looting, killing and drunken revelry the . . .
James Atticus Bowden
May 10, 2007
Rosetta 6.2 is one response to the most unique and profound experience in my life which occurred on March 15, 1987. For seven years prior, since my father's . . .
James Atticus Bowden
April 23, 2007
For years I've joked with Virginia Tech students, alums, and parents that Tech was a cult. When you join the cult you cover yourself in 'Tech' apparel, . . .
James Atticus Bowden
April 11, 2007
Jim Gilmore has six months, unless former Sen. and movie star Fred Thompson puts his hat in the ring earlier, to move from distant second tier candidate to the . . .
James Atticus Bowden
January 10, 2007
James Gilmore announced his exploratory committee for the Presidency. The MSM yawns. They don't get it. He can be President of the United States of America . . .
James Atticus Bowden
December 16, 2006
The College of William & Mary* removed a Christian cross from a chapel. They had to do it. Only one person had written a letter complaining about a cross in a . . .
James Atticus Bowden
November 19, 2006
Many Republicans lost the House, the Senate, and some Governorships. Few Conservatives lost. Very, very few Conservatives lost in the South. In my microcosm . . .
James Atticus Bowden
October 27, 2006
Rush Limbaugh, my junior by just a few months, but my senior when it comes to the acumen of his political gut being smarter than my well-educated political head . . .
James Atticus Bowden
October 19, 2006
Virginia has an amendment to its Constitution on the ballot this November. It's a little institutional concrete to shore the riprap before the next big storm . . .
James Atticus Bowden
July 15, 2006
The Rule of Law is based on the numbers of men and women of good will who obey the Rule of Law. The Rule of Law is diminished and, ultimately, destroyed when . . .
James Atticus Bowden
July 14, 2006
I blog about Virginia policy and politics on Bacon's Rebellion and Bearing Drift, as well as other topics at my own blog, Deo Vindice (www.americancivilization . . .
James Atticus Bowden
May 9, 2006
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) sent me an email screaming the "Democrats put their political ambitions in front of the best interests of . . .
James Atticus Bowden
April 20, 2006
The slings and arrows of six generals sting Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The SecDef may not suffer real anguish, but they put him on political . . .
James Atticus Bowden
April 5, 2006
There's a reason why we Americans don't speak Pictish. There's a reason why the present government of the United States of America serves an American Nation . . .
James Atticus Bowden
March 28, 2006
March came in like a lion in York County, Virginia. Like Aslan, the lion of Narnia, Christians are pushing back against the cultural cleansing of Christianity . . .
James Atticus Bowden
March 17, 2006
Harvard University's motto, Veritas, is Latin for 'truth.' Harvard's Alumni magazine (Jan-Feb 2006) featured an article, "The Middle Class on the Precipice" . . .
James Atticus Bowden
February 15, 2006
I haven't written for a few weeks because I've had a glum period with weekly issues that beckon my time too weakly for words. This season recalls January and . . .
James Atticus Bowden
January 13, 2006
The NBC TV program 'The Book of Daniel' is a comedy about Episcopalians. The writer, Jack Kenny, is a practicing homosexual who describes himself as being "in . . .
James Atticus Bowden
December 15, 2005
Most Americans, especially Southerners and Westerners, just want government to leave them alone. Government should do the few things it's supposed to do well . . .
James Atticus Bowden
December 1, 2005
Recently an article by MG (RET) Robert Scales described the close personal bonding between Iraqi Army officers and their U.S. Army counterparts. His . . .
James Atticus Bowden
November 12, 2005
Barbarians are rioting in France. The barbarians are back. Again. Barbarians, called Gauls, were conquered by the Romans (Julius Caesar, 58-51 B.C.) For the . . .
James Atticus Bowden
November 3, 2005
Judge Alito will be the fourth of nine votes to fix the Supreme Court. One more vote and an 'Originalist' majority on the U.S. Supreme Court can save American . . .
James Atticus Bowden
October 27, 2005
President George W. Bush and Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff made speeches about deporting every illegal alien — all 11 million plus and counting. Except, . . .
James Atticus Bowden
October 19, 2005
What a difference a year makes in politics. Last year when I worked the Republican booth at our Tidewater town's Seafood Festival, there was a steady rush of . . .
James Atticus Bowden
October 10, 2005
The Holy Bible's Book of Judges records the Gileadites defeating the Ephraimites. The Ephraimites couldn't pronounce 'sh.' There wasn't a 'sh' sound in their . . .
James Atticus Bowden
October 3, 2005
President Bush nominated a never-married, childless, unknown lawyer to the U.S. Supreme Court. Just like Bush, The First, nominated David Souter. Souter has . . .
James Atticus Bowden
September 25, 2005
Hurricane Rita hit. It'll be more long weeks, just like after Katrina, before the Nation is breathing normally. By the time the news from the disaster . . .
James Atticus Bowden
September 13, 2005
Last week's TV coverage showed the American flags come out across the Hurricane Katrina-stricken Gulf Coast. Some were mounted on makeshift flag poles to stand . . .
James Atticus Bowden
September 8, 2005
The wrong side of a hurricane is the northwest wall of the eye. That's the side of Hurricane Isabel that slammed into my town, Poquoson, Virginia (pop. 11,500) . . .
James Atticus Bowden
August 31, 2005
Right after 9-11, Moslems insisted on being called Muslims. Woe unto the American who used the former name. Recently, the Mohammedans won a coup getting a . . .
James Atticus Bowden
August 21, 2005
The suffocating heat of August is about to gasp its last and collapse into September. Until then it takes too much energy to read, let alone write, new . . .
James Atticus Bowden
August 13, 2005
About 15 years ago a NASA scientist sowed the first seed of doubt about Darwin's Theory of Evolution. That seed bore fruit over years of personal inquiry and . . .
James Atticus Bowden
August 3, 2005
Recently, an editor for an e-newsletter with over one million subscribers said my October 2001 op ed, "One Front: Two Wars" was 'amazingly prescient." But, . . .
James Atticus Bowden
July 29, 2005
Every Conservative that I read, save Anne Coulter — America's clear-eyed, conscience-driven, genius-witted intellectual Cassandra — cheers President Bush's . . .
James Atticus Bowden
July 16, 2005
British citizens, who happen to be Muslim, murdered over 50 people, including themselves. Or, was it Islamists, who happen to be British, killed innocent . . .
James Atticus Bowden
July 9, 2005
President George W. Bush makes one of the most important decisions defining his legacy by uttering a name. If that name for Supreme Court Justice is a constant . . .
James Atticus Bowden
July 2, 2005
Is Nation holy like God? Are they the same or different in sacredness? Individual Americans should consider the proper order of things as the Sovereigns of . . .
James Atticus Bowden
June 19, 2005
The Iraq War isn't one. It looks like a War. It has all the pain and suffering of wartime captured in human stories with individual names that scream in . . .
James Atticus Bowden
June 6, 2005
This merry month of June the U.S. House of Representatives will put together a plan to reform Social Security. The first and last reasons for Social Security . . .
James Atticus Bowden
May 27, 2005
John hurried past the "Memorial Day Ceremony" banner and burst through the double doors. He was late. He heard Mary checking the sound system before he saw . . .
James Atticus Bowden
May 21, 2005
The alleged desecration of a single copy of the Koran sends deadly Muslim mobs into the streets, creates howls from Muslim governments and gathers condemnation . . .
James Atticus Bowden
May 15, 2005
Thirty years ago Saigon fell. I was a company commander in the 2nd Battalion, 508th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. When our Vietnam . . .
James Atticus Bowden
May 4, 2005
Thank goodness Confederate History Month is over! Maybe Civil Rights organizations, black politicians and journalists will stop whining for awhile. They must . . .
James Atticus Bowden
April 29, 2005
The Liberals howled at "Justice Sunday." Way too 'uppity' of Senator Frist to speak about a political issue, a majority rules vote on judges, from a Baptist . . .
James Atticus Bowden
April 24, 2005
When Pope Benedict XVI was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger he told Europe to recover its Christian roots "if it truly wants to survive." Amen from an arch-Protestant . . .
James Atticus Bowden
April 18, 2005
President Bush's big border blunder was calling a couple of hundred middle-aged citizens 'vigilantes.' The name-calling will blow up and destroy his presidency . . .
James Atticus Bowden
April 11, 2005
Most emails responding to my op eds about the judicial murder of Terri Schiavo asked, "What can we do?" My ideas, listed below, are just empty words. They . . .
James Atticus Bowden
April 4, 2005
Please make a plan for action and prayer without ceasing.
Christians and Jews have two American traditions for defeating tyranny. Armed warfare against all . . .
James Atticus Bowden
March 28, 2005
Governor Jeb Bush, R-Florida, was pained to say he had done all he could do legally. Bush said he wouldn't 'break the law' to save Terry Schiavo. Bush wouldn . . .
James Atticus Bowden
March 21, 2005
Errors are made by commission and omission. So it is, when individual choice makes human sin. Terri Schiavo is being killed by the state for our sins of . . .
James Atticus Bowden
March 19, 2005
The hate mail I got for my op ed, 'Ten Reasons to Change Social Security,' got me thinking hard about why I want real change, right now. Annually, the Social . . .
