David M. Swindle is a writer, editor, and activist. He is a senior editor and the webmaster for Liberty Island. He writes novels, non-fiction, articles, blog posts and screenplays. He edits books across genres. Some of the titles he has acquired and edited for Liberty Island include: J.P. Medved's sci-fi thriller
Justice, Inc, Quin Hillyer's satirical
Mad Jones trilogy,
Jonah: A Novel of Men and the Sea by Howard Butcher, the comedic
Snowflake's Chance by Curtis Edmonds,
The American Blackout action-thriller series by Fred Tribuzzo, and Brian Drake's
Steve Dane spy thriller series.
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David also works as the Southern California associate for the
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The Israel Group. Previously he has worked as coordinator of the Middle East Forum's Islamist Watch project (2016-2017), associate editor for PJ Media (2011-2015), and associate editor for FrontPageMag/managing editor of NewsReal Blog (2009-2011). His articles have been published by The Daily Wire,
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Some owners of huskies protest that, despite appearances, the husky is the farthest thing from a wolf, being one of the oldest and purest dog breeds, having been bred in isolation until modern times. They need not protest. All dogs are, strictly speaking, wolves (familiaris is just a subspecies of canis lupus and they can and do cross-breed). Therefore a breed kept in relative isolation would be even closer to the common ancestor of both, and the husky was bred to keep many lupine characteristics needed for its job – pulling a sled in rough conditions. Wolves are noble and… Read more »
Thank you for your thoughts. Yes, there is the pack mentality, but strangely there is also an individualist and stubborn streak too, at least in our Maura. But I understand that that is also normal for the breed.