Deanie Francis Mills is the author of 10 suspense thrillers, including ORDEAL and TIGHTROPE and one true-crime, FACES OF EVIL, (which she co-authored witrh Houston PD forensic sketch artist Lois Gibson.) Her work has appeared in numerous national magazines, and she is an experienced public speaker.

In 2004, when her son, Dustin, deployed to Iraq with the United States Marine Corps, Mills found she could no longer sit on the sidelines and watch a war she opposed, not when three close family members deployed, between them, six times to Iraq with the Marine Corps and army.

In 2006, when her son deployed to Iraq a second time, Deanie started a political blog, "Deanie's Blue Inkblots," (formerly "Blue Inkblots.")

She misses the "great wiseass broads like Ann Richards and Molly Ivins," and hopes that her blog, which she now does full-time, will serve their memories well.

Her daughter, Jessica, marched against the war in New York City during the Republican convention in 2004, wearing her brother's picture pinned to her shirt.

Mills lives in rural west Texas, "the buckle of the Bush Bible belt." She jokes that she's used to being 'a voice, crying out in the wilderness, like a lost coyote."

Blog Entries by Deannie Mills

Bush-McCain Abuse Our Troops

Posted September 8, 2008 | 08:10 AM (EST)


In this Sunday's Washington Post, Bob Woodward ran the first part of a series of excerpts from his latest book about the Bush White House and the Iraq war, The War Within, a Secret White House History, 2006-2008, his fourth book on the subject so far.

Here is the...

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Obama's Rope A Dope

Posted August 20, 2008 | 03:26 PM (EST)


Even when I was a little kid, I used to love to watch Mohammed Ali box. I'd sit cross-legged on the living room floor in front of my daddy's chair, and we'd watch him outsmart and outbox every contender, from the time he won the gold at the Olympics as...

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