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It's 2009. Time for Secession!
2009-06-18 01:42:00 Every presidential inauguration year seems to kick off another round of local secessionist talk. In 2001, it was about New York City seceding from New York and becoming its own state. I admit to a certain degree of sympathy for that given the fact that NYC is the revenue cash cow for the state. But few people took the talk seriously. Short of NYC becoming a hostile nuclear power, there's no way Albany would agree to let us go. In 2005, the local news was about Staten Island secession. Its promoters have a different plan. They want to leave NYC and become part of New Jersey. I didn't have a problem with that. For me, Staten Island is mostly just an obstacle to be navigated on the way to New Jersey anyway. If it became part of New Jersey maybe it would get better malls. Now Long Island wants to secede and become the 51st state. What kicked this off is a $1.5 billion payroll tax to bail out the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Never mind that the MTA is underwriti...
Obama Justice Department Decision Will Allow Non-Citizens to Register to Vo
2009-06-02 22:32:00 Decision Bars Georgia From Continuing Voter Verification Process Atlanta - ?The decision by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to deny preclearance of Georgia?s already implemented citizenship verification process shows a shocking disregard for the integrity of our elections. With this decision, DOJ has now barred Georgia from continuing the citizenship verification program that DOJ ...
By: TexasFred's
Memorial Day in Texas: secession wasn't Perry's point at all
2009-05-25 06:51:00 By raising states' rights at a tea bag event, then backing away ASAP assuring everybody it’s just really, really just a discussion about federalism and the role of local vs national government, has Governor Rick Perry sent his signal to those who hear it another way? It didn't stay off the radar, but if the message was received does he care? Some of us still vividly recall George Wallace flanked by Alabama State Troopers, and an era when states' rights was just the PC way to say "segregation is our vision."Try surveying Texans on Memorial Day, or the 4th of July, and I guarantee they won't be talking about seceding, they're proud to be Americans. If you ask them about Bush cutting taxes on the rich while shorting armor for Americans in Iraq they won't defend him much more than anybody else in the GOP, either.You might think it was just a ploy for exposure by their current Governor - Perry's back-walking the rhetoric as hard and fast as he can, certainly. But was it really ...
Shorter New York Times on NY Secession
2009-05-02 15:23:00 Those people upstate are just a bunch of ungrateful fucking whiners.
By: BuffaloPundit
Democrats: Texas gov should disavow secession talk
2009-04-17 18:07:00 Democrats: Texas gov should disavow secession talk AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - In a state that once was its own nation, a Republican governor who talked about secession without completely dismissing the idea has Democratic lawmakers in an uproar. Gov. Rick Perry, in comments following an anti-tax “tea party” Wednesday, never did advocate Texas breaking away ...
By: TexasFred's
Secession Bill Proposed in State Senate
2009-03-26 15:18:00 Capitol Confidential reveals: The bill, which you can read in its entirety after the jump, is co-sponsored by Joseph Robach (R-56th District), William Larkin (R-39th District), Michael Ranzenhofer (R-61st District), James Seward (R-51st District) and Dale Volker (R-59th District). Coincidentally, all are upstate legislators and represent largely rural districts. The idea ...
By: BuffaloPundit
The Legal issues of Secession as a Legitimate Recourse of the States
2009-03-04 22:18:00 The Legal issues of Secession as a Legitimate Recourse of the States Secession is a term and a concept that holds various and differing connotations to many individuals. It is an idea seldom thought about by most Americans in our day. Those that have some familiarity with the term generally associate it primarily with the ...
By: TexasFred's
Secession
2008-12-05 19:59:00 I'm not a big fan of upstate New York seceding from downstate, despite our constant effing in the a by such upstate-centric individuals such as Malcolm Smith, Carl Kruger, or Pedro Espada, Jr. I realize that tax revenue from New York City and its suburbs goes a long way; ...
By: BuffaloPundit
... Wiener Secession ...
2008-09-16 09:06:00 •palais de la Sécession viennoise, architecte Joseph Maria Olbrich, 1897, Vienne Autrichethe Secession building, Joseph Maria Olbrich, 1897, Vienna Autria Wiener Secessionsgebäude von Joseph Maria Olbrich errichtet, 1897, Wien Österreich.Anton Karas - Vienna City Of My Dreams
By: Clik & Clak
Secession, National Sovereignty, and Territorial Integrity
2008-04-23 13:38:00 Traditionally, the international community has been reluctant to treat civil strife the same way it does international armed conflict. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
[Stupid] Seattle mayor suggests secession from rest of the state, cites war
2008-04-18 14:43:00 Seattle Times
Secession Over the Second Amendment?
2008-03-14 17:33:00 The State of Montana may make a move to leave the Union if the Supreme Court decides that the Second Amendment is a collective right, not an individual right. From PatriotPost.us: In the continuing saga of District of Columbia v. Heller, 39 of Montana?s elected officials have signed a resolution declaring that a Supreme Court ruling against the individual right of gun ownership would give their state grounds for leaving the union. It seems that when Montana?s settlers signed a statehood contract in 1889, one of the conditions was that the federal government agreed that individuals had the right to keep and bear arms. If the Supreme Court rules that firearm ownership is merely a state or ?collective? right, Montana officials say that the statehood contract will have been breeched. ?The U.S. would do well to keep its contractual promises to the states that the Second Amendment secures an individual right now as it did upon execution of the statehood contract,? Montana Secretary of St...
‘There has been more secession in unitary systems’
2008-03-12 14:44:00 Prof Ronald L Watts is an internationally acclaimed scholar who has spent his life studying federal systems all over the world. There are many important things that Nepal, particularly at this stage,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Secession by Kosovo shows split across Asia
2008-02-18 15:41:00 China, Indonesia and Sri Lanka criticized Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia on Monday while Taiwan and Australia welcomed it, as Kosovo's move appeared to be a litmus test of attitudes in Asia toward secession.
By: Get rich
To secede or not to secede?
2007-10-03 18:43:00 From the Associated Press as found at Yahoo.comCHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - In an unlikely marriage of desire to secede from the United States, two advocacy groups from opposite political traditions ? New England and the South ? are sitting down to talk. Tired of foreign wars and what they consider right-wing courts, the Middlebury Institute wants liberal states like Vermont to be able to secede peacefully.That sounds just fine to the League of the South, a conservative group that refuses to give up on Southern independence."We believe that an independent South, or Hawaii, Alaska, or Vermont would be better able to serve the interest of everybody, regardless of race or ethnicity," said Michael Hill of Killen, Ala., president of the League of the South.Separated by hundreds of miles and divergent political philosophies, the Middlebury Institute and the League of the South are hosting a two-day Secessionist Convention starting Wednesday in Chattanooga.They expect to attract supporters from Ca...
In Vermont, nascent secession movement gains traction
2007-06-04 10:45:00 MONTPELIER, Vt. –At Riverwalk Records, the all-vinyl record store just down the street from the state Capitol, the black “US Out of Vt.!” T-shirts are among the hottest sellers. But to some people in Vermont, the idea is bigger than a $20 novelty. They want Vermont to secede from the United States — peacefully, of course. Disillusioned ...
China slams Taiwan leader, invokes anti-secession law
2007-03-06 12:46:05 Beijing, March 5: China uttered a veiled military threat and condemned the efforts of Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian to promote Taiwanese independence as a "dangerous step" Monday, calling Chen a "faithless politician."
By: newkerala.com
Kurdish Secessionism Looms Over the Middle East
2006-12-22 03:22:02 Those wishing to see the Danish Muhammad (pbuh) cartoons that are causing so much controversy can see them on this site by clicking here. Even worse anti-Muhammad (pbuh) cartoons can be seen on this site here and here.The latest death toll figures from Hurricane Katrina can be seen on this website here. Exclusive photos of dogs eating human corpses in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina can be seen on this site here.The Kurds are an "Aryan" people in the true, Indo-European sense of the word (not the Nazi aberration meaning "Nordic"), referring to the populations of Northern India, Afghanistan, Turkey and Iran. Their origins are uncertain. One school holds that they are related to Iranian (Persian) tribes living around Lake Van in southeastern Turkey 3,000 years ago.The ancient Kurdish city of Hasankeyf on the Tigris River is currently threatened by a huge dam that will destroy hundreds of archaeological sites and a great deal of valuable wildlife, especially, bird habitat. It is wi...
By: Robert Lindsay
?Immigration?: Assimilation, Secession, Or Disintegration?
2006-12-17 19:10:02 It is rare that I would pick up my keyboard upon reading something from a fellow contributor here at GTL. However, my good friend Mathew O’Keefe in his article ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION LEAD TO TALK OF SECESSION-NY TIMES prompts some thoughts that I would like to respectfully share. The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the nation of France to celebrate the American Centennial in 1876. It is not a part of our constitution nor is it any form of law. The wording on the statue, oft-quoted, is in English also, if I may be so bold. There are many issues involved here, and condensing it to “illegal immigration” both glosses over something and yet is revealing. What is glossed over is the fact that laws do exist; federal laws. They have very strict guidelines for immigrating to the U.S.; that is, if you obey the law. They are a pain in the butt; are unfair and cumbersome. They place a burden on human beings trying to make a better life or live normally with an America...
Illegal Immigration Leads to Talk of Secession ? NY Times
2006-12-17 19:10:02 This was selected as a front page Featured Post at MemeOrandum FARMINGVILLE, N.Y., Dec. 14 ? Assuming a new name has often been part of the immigration experience. Now this Long Island hamlet, bruised for a decade by its reputation as a place where illegal immigrant day laborers crowd into rooming houses, is considering a name change of its own. Farmingville, or at least the more affluent half of it, where few if any of the new immigrants live, would have itself be known instead as the village of Oak Hills. -NY Times Illegal immigration touches every city in America and frankly I have to say that sometimes it can get ugly in rural towns in America everywhere. In one aspect of the argument I can understand the frustration of property owners when their town is over run with illegal immigrants but I get pissed off when those same people are hiring illegal aliens to cut their lawns and clean their houses. That is what is happening in Farmingville and the biggest supporter of seces... |
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