Super Bowl L (that’s Latin for “50”, TV crowd) is in books (those paper things…). A few quick thoughts on the game: the play itself was better than expected; the old school NFL beat the new through sheer tenacity. Lady Gaga shivered my spine with her rendition of the Old Republic’s anthem. I successfully ignored the associated jingoism. The halftime show wasn’t bad either, not great but good enough. The commercials were just pathetic, a mindless collection of preachy, lowbrow modernism lost amid the various competing messages of correctness and stupid consumerism.

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The solution for football is simply football. Play the game and leave off the societal suedo-science garbage. The new school will be rewarded if it emulates the old – less pomp, more heart. With that said we can now look forward, sporting wise, to Masters week!

We can also turn our attention to more weighty matters. I don’t mean the clown show election, that is as meaningless as any Super Bowl commercial. There are real issues which warrant real action. Two critical matters come to mind this morning, both representing dire problems for the West. The first is the dire condition of the economy, the second the clash of Christian Civilization with the post-modern forces of Hell.

Ignorance may be bliss but it is also the overarching theme of economic theory; most just don’t get it. Gary North is an Austrian School genius. His recent piece is both a concise history and a diagnosis of what’s wrong. Analogized to football, classical economics and free trade and association are like the teams playing the game. Fascist government regulation and interference is like the pomp and stupidity surrounding the game and weakening it.

North notes that the modern system is dead and only waiting for burial. The debt and crippling regulations of the state have pushed the system to the point of collapse. The inevitable end – default, totally – is the solution to its own problem. Let it happen. Let us be free of the pretense and trappings of socialism in our rebuilding.

Civilization may be equated to football also. The West is the game itself, the worthy happening. The forces of the debased, multi-cultural, death-loving heathens are the commercial distraction; they’re threatening to destroy the game by making it not worth watching.

While the TV told us to drive trendy cars and save water, while the government protects murderers and, simultaneously, persecutes ranchers, ISIS plans war against the Christian church in America. Literally, they want to gun down Christians at airship.

Christians today are under attack on a level not seen since the early days of the Roman Empire.

If a Christian baker refuses to bake a cake for a gay wedding, that is front page news, but if a Muslim admits to planning to shoot up a church of several thousand people that is a non-event according to the media.

This anti-Christian bias is growing stronger with each passing year, and it has now become institutionalized in our society in so many ways.

The American church hasn’t been all that helpful in the fight. Rather than teach the Gospel truth modern Catholic and Protestant denominations are overeager to hawk the false gospel of prosperity. A look around Facebook daily shows the problem. Jesus is concerned with eternal salvation not how many times you “share” or “like” some comforting worldy riches meme. Type AMEN!

The Muslim arrested for plotting terror at a megachurch noted he was doing his duty for jihad and planning to attack a place where people were both unaware and unarmed. Again, the problem presents its own solution. Be aware. Learn what the hell is happening around you. In a war, be prepared to fight. When confronted, resist.

Not one of the Republican nor Democrat clown show freaks will help us. They all work for the enemy. Let us demonstrated old school fortitude in dealing with them and their works.