Terrorists | Terrorists
Apr.30.2013
Of course, if Allah has any mercy, there will be copies of Kafka.
"The Trial" might be cruel, but "The Metamorphosis" might be appropriate. "In the Penal Colony" is not a positive idea, however. It might give guards and administrators alike too much temptation. [DE]
A file photo of...
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Feb.02.2013
A native of Chicago, former police detective and now romantic suspense author Chris Karslen grew up with a love of history and books. Her parents loved traveling, a passion they passed on to her. She’s had the good fortune to travel extensively throughout Europe, the Near East, and North...
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Oct.12.2011
"The very fact that poor people, migrants, Muslims, drug dealers, and political protestors are all [considered] potential 'terrorists'—justifying surveillance over them all and the rousing of nativist sentiments against them—reveals a momentous and explicit shift in how public officials and opinion...
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Oct.11.2011
Terrorist connect with Mexican cartels so they can assassinate innocents on American soil. What a "novel" idea. Today’s headline is also the synopsis of my new novel: "Terror Travels the Devil’s Highway." I have feared that life might imitate art—all the time (2000-2006) that I lived in Tucson...
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Sep.11.2011
Obliquely related to 9/11, grabbed an old manuscript collecting dust on my bookshelf, dusted it off, deleted 3,000 words, completed a final edit, and changed the title to: "Terror Travels the Devil’s Highway." I created a new company (Ri Publishing—an imprint of Redner Investments, LLC) published,...
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Aug.27.2011
Where 'do' Democrats stand on illegal immigration? It's hard to tell. They kind of seem to skirt the issue. It's like they think it will go away if they avoid the subject. At least Republicans seem to realize the importance of confronting it head on. I think it...
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Aug.02.2011
“Terror Travels the Devil’s Highway”–the first Maggie Lopez, Border Patrol Agent novel.Shorty after moving to Tucson in 2000, I learned firsthand what it was like living near the Mexican border. I heard for the first time, the term, “illegal alien.” I perhaps saw them, or at least, the trails they...
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Jul.16.2010
It used to be that when someone mentioned amateurs, I thought of the person who hits himself on the finger with a hammer, or pricks herself with a needle just below the thimble. Or maybe blows a fuse or two. Someone inept, pathetic and sad, but mostly harmless.
Now, I take a much more sinister...
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Jul.05.2010
"It is at such times we need cooler and wiser heads on the Supreme Court to recognize that criminalizing the promotion of peace by defining it as "material support" for terrorists warps reason in ways not even Kafka, Orwell or Heller could imagine."
Free speech and logic under...
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Jan.25.2010
A few thousands of miles of distance helps you to see your children’s lies a lot more clearly. Then again, an ocean churning between you also helps magnify what they would do to protect you and the home you’ve created for them. I report these findings while sitting in a hotel room in Paris...
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