Posted on 05/06/2013 7:20:26 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Raising the bar on glib, even for the Eloi at The Washington Post, former Post reporter Thomas E. Ricks includes Texas as one of the newspaper's “things to toss out” this year, along with flip-flops and Ben Bernanke.
“For decades, Texans have been clamoring about leaving the Union,” he writes. “Letting the Lone Star State secede would set a bad precedent. (See the Civil War of 1861 to 1865.) But what about expelling it instead? There is promise in that.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Agreed, lean local government control is the best solution.
The founders understood that well.
“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” ~Thomas Paine
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