The art of secession
If you listened to Talk of the Nation yesterday, you heard retiring Texas congressman Ron Paul defending the notion of Texas seceding from the Union as something very American. He's been saying the same thing for years, and Texas is still down there in Texas -- one of us. Also, it's not really American at all. Details, details.
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