Happily, it is still possible to visit Texas without a passport even though the governor seems to be taking the state's tagline more seriously than ever: "Texas: it's like a whole other country."
Governor Rick Perry didn't actually endorse secession when he spoke at an antitax tea party at Austin city hall. But you could forgive people for misunderstanding, since he's been railing against an overreaching Federal Government, rejected stimulus spending and quoted Sam Houston's declaration that "Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression." Perry, who faces a tight re-election campaign against that...