[Red Phillips]

I should have pinged you on the reply above. See above re. the Articles of Confederation.

Re. Front Page Mag. I gave them some credit. But if they are on the wrong side of the right to secede question they are on the wrong side of my real conservative vs. fake conservative dichotomy that I explained above. Secession is a right and the ultimate and most important check and balance. It is not sedition if that is what your tag line is implying. Although statist everywhere would agree with your tag line. Don't want none of those pesky secessionist messing with their power.

[rmlew]

1. Secession is a tool, not a panacea. There can be no stable republic if sections are threatening to or are seceding. Demagogues and revoltions are common results of secession. Anarchy and weakness also invite foreign intervention.
2. Where secession passed in a Constitutional manner, I would have far less problem with it. However, we had a bunch of State Governments pursue unConstitutional courses of action leading to insurection and rebellion. Supporting said insurrection is sedition.