Big Picture or Details
People tend to fall into two camps: Big Picture people and Detail people. Both are important and necessary for things to work properly. Unless tempered by the other type, folks tend to head into extremes on both sides, and that leads to problems. Big Picture folks, without support by detail-oriented [...]
Beast Life – Cardio
This is the first time I’ve mentioned cardio in this series. I hate cardio. You hate cardio. Everyone hates cardio except for fucking crazy people. But it is a necessary evil. As it happens, your heart is a muscle. And it’s the muscle that fuel-injects all the rest of [...]
If You Love Me, Keep My Commands
This article encompasses the reason why we at The Men Of The West decided to start this web magazine. Western civilization is under attack from without and from within. We as a nation have lost our religion. We are faithless. There is a remnant of righteous men who have drawn a line in the sand and said “no more'. We [...]
The Four Pillars for Individual Combat Effectiveness
The attack on the mentally handicapped kid by the beasts of Chicago isn't a single, isolated event. There are forces desperately trying to foment a civil war and crash the USA. I'm not going to speculate on who, or why, or what they hope to gain in this article. Instead, I'm going to talk about some of the things we [...]
The Lord is my Shepherd
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear [...]
According to Google it’s Robert E. Lee Day
Today, according to Google, is Robert E. Lee Day. As proven in the screen shot above, Google's desktop version is reporting the holiday not as honoring Martin Luther King Jr, but Robert E. Lee. Mobile tests are said to be showing the holiday as Martin Luther King Jr Day. So perhaps Google is simply trying to have it both ways. [...]
For Obamacare, TANSTAAFL
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Wise words, popularized by Robert Heinlein in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. You have to pay for your lunch somehow. Just so, someone has to pay for medical care. Medical education and training costs money. The consumables used such as swabs, alcohol, and laboratory solutions add up. Renting or buying space, [...]
Worldly Business no Plea for the Neglect of Religion
Editor's Note: George Whitefield (1714-1770) was an Anglican preacher and was a founder of Methodism and the Evangelical movement. Not only a popular preacher, he was one of the most well-known people in the Colonial period, and traveled extensively in both Great Britain and America. Below, we present his admonition to pay attention to religion, not allowing circumstances to get [...]
Times are Changing
For this article, I will do something that I most likely will not do again. I will link to a CNN article. There are two reasons why I will provide this link. First, for the context. On Wednesday, January 11, President-Elect Donald Trump held a press conference. For all the policy and other content, it became known for Trump's interaction [...]
The King is dead!
This week marks the final days of 8 years under President Obama and I want to take this moment to look back over where we have been so we can see where we are going. 8 years ago we were seeing Liberals decry how terrible the economy was under Bush the Younger. And though it wasn't terrible it certainly was [...]
Truth
One of our other writers posted on Truth yesterday, and it is worth your time. I want to delve into one aspect he raised. We live in a world that has forgotten what truth is. I suppose that is not entirely correct, as the real issue is that folks have forgotten the difference between objective and subjective truth. They have [...]
The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon
by Rudyard Kipling It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxon began to hate. They were not easily moved, They were icy -- willing to wait Till every count should be proved, Ere the Saxon began to hate. Their voices were even and low. Their eyes [...]
Truth, or… What?
"What is truth"- Pontius Pilate Truth is important. When you lose the importance of truth you get some strange things, like men claiming to be women. Or young women claiming to be cats. Social constructivist theory holds that truth is constructed by social processes. Barf. We do not currently have the technology to turn a man into a woman. In my opinion, that [...]
The Country Life
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and [...]
Ronald Reagan’s Farewell Speech
Editor's Note: At the bottom of the text, you can view a video of the speech, if you prefer. My fellow Americans: This is the 34th time I'll speak to you from the Oval Office and the last. We've been together 8 years now, and soon it'll be time for me to go. But before I do, I wanted [...]
Beast Life – The Dumbbell Press
This exercise is a great supplement for the bench press. It will hit all the weaker support muscles that go into the bench because there isn’t the bar there for balance. Choose a flat bench. Dead lift the dumbbells up off the floor, and rotate them to where one end is resting on your thigh. Now sit down while keeping [...]
Let’s Invite the Afrikaners Over – Part 3
In our first two installments (Part 1 here; Part 2 here), we have given a brief overview of the historical and current situations in South Africa, relating to the dangers faced by the Afrikaner population. We have stated our desire to see these brave folks offered the chance to immigrate to the United States. In future installments, we will delve [...]
Western Canon: The Epic of Gilgamesh
Here we can see the Sun God running late for his Crossfit class, and that jerk Chaos Monster is blocking the way and taunting him. There is something about this epic, a tale so old that we don't have the full thing, and that is just an echo of even older stories, but still it draws interest and [...]
Dress Like a Man: Shoes
"When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways." A Man of the West should dress like a man. Over the next month, I will help you start doing that. You don't need to spend a lot of money [...]
2016 Troll of the Year Awards – Winners
We would like to announce the winners from the first annual Men of the West Troll of the Year Awards. Trolling is an art form to be appreciated, and indeed, all of society benefits from the chaotic entertainment trolls bring. Trolls often bring attention to uncomfortable topics and skewer those who would otherwise be untouchable. Its easy to hate the [...]
Rules and Facts of the Site
With Thanks to Vox Day 1. You will be addressed in the style you choose. If you come in here slinging insults and acting disrespectfully, you will be treated with a contemptuous and derisive disdain that will, based on past experience, probably upset you. This is particularly true for visitors who are under the impression, mistaken or not, that [...]
The Ploughman – A Sermon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?"—Isaiah 28:24. UNLESS they are cultivated, fields yield us nothing but briars and thistles. In this we may see ourselves. Unless the great Husbandman shall till us by his grace, we shall produce nothing that is good, but everything that is evil. If one of these days I shall hear that a country [...]