Major Hasan and Treason
by
Erin Solaro
The issue is not whether Major Nidal Malik Hasan is a terrorist. It is whether or not he is a traitor.
Here are the known facts.
Major Hasan, a field grade officer in an Army of a nation at war contacted and maintained contact with for an unknown period, an imam, Anwar al-Awlaki, known [...]
Porn is What We Have Done with Our Freedom
by Erin Solaro
Relax. This is not your usual piece on pornography, your usual “We know porn does real and terrible damage to millions of human beings and their society, but no one seems to know how to deal with it.” Nor is this to sneer at those [...]
I write and knit at the same time. Write a few words, knit a few stitches, write a few, knit a few.
I am now working on Defiance in Time of Peril: An Open Letter to America’s Young Womanhood. At the same time, I have begun knitting what will be a sweater coat, “Morocco”, from Joyce [...]
For a law-abiding citizen to bear personal arms is an act of civilization.
Not just an act of self-defense or an act in defense of civilization, but an act of civilization.
This is true for men and it is even more true for women. For a woman to bear personal arms means that she will not be [...]
This chapter finds Olivia under extended interrogation in Moscow’s infamous Lubyanka Prison. Three years prior, the day before leaving Vienna for Moscow, Olivia had contacted the US Embassy and offered her services as a possible “bridge” between America and Russia. The CIA man she talked with, blew her off, then promised to write a memo about [...]
At this point, Olivia has moved to Russia, established her laboratory, and gone to Chechnya several times to test her equipment in combat with a Russian Spetznaz (Special Forces) brigade. She has met her future lover, the brigade commander, Colonel (later General) Dmitri Suslov. She is also getting boxing lessons from Major Vladimir Malinovsky, the brigade’s [...]
In this chapter, Olivia is approached by Yuri Getmanov and told that Russia could use her expertise. Getmanov will be a key player later in the book when Olivia is imprisoned on espionage charges.
It had started at an arms show, a military-industrial complex, hyper-globalized, merchants-of-death annual extravaganza, back in DC, in the crisp and crystalline [...]
There is in the book world a genre known as “comfort food books.” Tell me what I want to hear the way I want to hear it. Keep it simple. Make it predictable. Let it read easy. And let it not matter too much.
Whatever else THE DOVES may be, it is not a comfort food [...]
Posting this two weeks after the speech, in an era of instant news, would seem a little OBE, except for articles like John Vinocur’s Central and Eastern European Countries Issue Rare Warning for U.S. on Russian Policy in today’s New York Times. Mr. Vinocur, who really ought to know better, seems unaware that all the [...]
I finished The Doves on 30 June 2009: stopped making changes, diddling, froze the text. I had wanted a complete draft by 30 June; instead, I had a completed book. So my husband and I then went into town: some bourbon for him, some rosé for me, some meat and veggies and fruit, including two [...]
