I notice all the usual suspects, left and libertarian, foaming at the mouth over Sarah Palin's past support of Alaska independence. This is evil because, because, well, just because.

This is more proof, as if we needed it, that the anti-secession hysteria has nothing to do with slavery nor the Confederacy, despite the smears. Those who hate and fear decentralism and secession love the central state, and - like their hero Abe - think it blasphemous to break up the monstrous imperial Union, or even to contemplate it.

PS: Free Alaska and Hawaii. And then every other state.