I’ve written before about the symbolism of the hanging scene in Larry McMurtry’s “Lonesome Dove”, which first appeared on TVÂ in 1989. It dawned on me, while writing a piece last week addressed to the new Republican members about crimes…
A Message to the New Congress, Judgment Day Approaches
Time to consider the “unthinkable” in a different light It has been five months now since you were sworn in and moved into your offices in Washington. The town has not been as you thought it would be, has it?.…
Surrendering a War We’re Winning, Death by Cynicism
I want to set this down today, before Pres Obama’s announcement of troop withdrawals from Afghanistan. As you know, since Unified Patriots has been online we have memorialized every fallen soldier in Afghanistan and Iraq in our By an…
The Moslem Reformation, How it Might Occur; Nation-Building on $3000/day
(I know this is long, but it is written for a chapter in a monograph I’m putting together on Democracy and the Arab Street for a group of policy analysts. I hope they like it too.) Moses Sands, in his…