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  • My turn: Back on campaign trail

    Wendel Sloan CMI staff writer

    Now that Willie Nelson and I have returned from tending his "garden party" in a South Texas forest, we are resuming our Green Tea Party candidacy. We lost track of time while my cousin, Chef Juandel, whipped up special treats from my running mate's garden. My other cousins, The Anglo Mariachi Cowboy and Bootlegger Sloan, joined us with peyote-seasoning and moonshine-cooking-sherry for Chef to work his magic. Under the influence of backwoods dining, Willie and I stumbled into the epiphany that we only need 11 votes to win. If... Full story

  • Column: Political parties losing support

    Wendel Sloan CMI staff writer

    As we recently sat on the balcony of his rented condo overlooking Lake Conroe near Houston, my brother and lifelong Republican Bud Sloan surprised me by saying that he was now an Independent. I asked why. "Social issues mostly," he said. "Also an erosion of some of our basic freedoms under the Bush administration. I think the greatest threat to the kind of America in which I want to live is the 'Religious Right' telling me how to live. They profess to value freedom of religion, but the only religious freedom they are... Full story