The New Yorker made a great point this week.  Why would anyone think the US would be anything but better off if any state that seceded once already weren’t allowed to do it again?  If Austin were divided like Berlin (east and west in that city reversed, of course) and New Orleans became Freistadt Danz(b)ig-easy, [...]

She’s the world’s newest country, population 28.5 million.  Composed of the former states of Texas and Alaska plus the ex-Canadian province of Alberta, it’s where the hair’s big, the water’s mercurial and you can’t get an abortion unless it’s shot right out of you.  A fetus is a person, but for the sake of parliamentary [...]

I totally twittered about this yesterday, but it’s gaining traction and I think it’s amazing.  Some thoughts:
The article does not explicitly disavow Rep. Brown’s use of the word Americans, which seems to exclude Asians.  If you’re defining out the model minority (ahem), you’re probably not including a lot of other, perhaps more “controversial” groups.  [...]

Looks like the state Democrats and some moderate Republicans unseated Tom Craddick, who was Tom DeLay’s protege in the state and who has represented Midland–which was W’s home base–since 1969.
Seems to me that the medium-term future for Texas is that it will become a bastion of moderate Republicanism.  The party will likely maintain control of [...]