Since I proposed the first non-contiguous, virtual state, conglomerating together all the counties and groups of counties in the country that want to leave their states because, in most cases, their states are trending Democratic, I’ve gotten a slew of responses. They’ve ranged from complaints of urban bias, to fellow-guffawing and many things in between. But the most interesting have been those on the roots of the secession movement in northern California. (Many people mean the Bay Area by ‘northern California’. But here I mean, real northern California, as in, the part in the North of the state.) Read More

In case you missed it yesterday: Eric Holder has informed Congress that the Obama administration will not enforce a law that limits veterans benefits to spouses of the opposite sex.