In light of the recent turning back of the clock by the U.S. Supreme Court, the continuing devastation and deaths in Iraq, and today's shameful decision by the President to commute Scooter lIbby's sentence, it's time for Rhode Island to follow Vermont's lead and to establish a republic of which it can be proud:
In Vermont, disillusioned by what they call an empire about to fall, a small cadre of writers and academics is plotting political strategy and planting the seeds of separatism, and they are getting significant backing.