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The Texas Republic, reprised

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

Russian academic Igor Panarin's view of a divided US is on wsj online.

Panarin is projecting what "will" happen by 2010.

Fifty years earlier, in 1960, MacKinlay Kantor postulated what would have happened if the South had won the Civil War. Alaska was never purchased by the US, and remained in Russian hands, as Panarin predicts for the future. Texas did become its own entity.

See IPBiz post Re-writing history, really...

One wonders if there will be revived interest in "Red Dawn."

At least the Texas Republic will have a good start on its own patent court, in ED Texas, which may be getting separated from the rest of the world per the recent CAFC decision.

***UPDATE

One reader wrote about a book Slaughter at Goliad: The Mexican Massacre of 400 Texas Volunteers by Jay Stout.
One piece of promotional text asserted:

Following a one-sided battle on the prairie near Coleto Creek, 250 mostly American prisoners were marched back to the presidio at Goliad where they were joined by more than 200 others. Subsequently, on orders from President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, they were brutally slaughtered on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836. The loss of so many fighting men in a single day was, at the time, one of the largest in U.S. history.

IPBiz readers may recall the post on the Battle of Beaver Dams, wherein 623 American soldiers died, which is roughly the combination of deaths at Goliad AND Little Big Horn.

See http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2008/10/bodog-scalped-by-cafc.html

Full post as published by IPBiz on December 30, 2008 (boomark / email).