{"id":437,"date":"2006-05-15T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=437"},"modified":"2006-05-15T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T22:24:00","slug":"interesting-scenario-the-second-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/15\/interesting-scenario-the-second-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting scenario: the second Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read a good novel this weekend which is available for free in PDF format: Red! Blue!<\/span> by D.Quinn Mills. The story happens two years from now, during the Presidential election season of 2008 (although the author mistakenly has the election happening in ’07 and the inauguration in ’08). Sheila Brinton, a Democratic senator whose husband is an ex-president, runs against John Cox, a Republican governor whose brother is the current president and whose father is a former president. The election ends in a dispute over who won Nevada’s electoral votes, and both candidates refuse to back down and lay claim to the White House. As inauguration day nears, the country is on the brink of a second Civil War – not between the North and the South, but between the red states and the blue states.<\/p>\n

Perhaps a little bit farfetched, but a good read nonetheless. The author’s blog<\/a> is the official Red! Blue! site, but since I know many of you have Blogspot sites blocked at your work, I’ll also provide direct links to the PDF files that make up the book:<\/p>\n

Red! Blue! Part I<\/a>
Red! Blue! Part II<\/a>
Red! Blue! Part III<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"