Douglas McKinnon, former White House and Pentagon official and author of "America's Last Days" and the forthcoming "Apolalypse Directive," offers these thoughts on 'secession': 

   I believe we need to secede from politicians who would weaken our border and compromise our national security to pander for Hispanic-American votes.

   I believe we need to secede from politicians who clearly don’t think we are a sovereign nation, and from those politicians who are working behind the scenes to make the United States part of the 'North American Union.'

   I believe we need to secede from those who target conservative talk radio while enabling groups that front for Islamists.

   I believe we need to secede from a media and presidential candidates who continually and purposefully question the strength of our economy so they could create a self-fulfilling prophecy designed to help elect a liberal president.

   I believe we need to secede from politicians and a media who denigrate or ignore the multiple successes of our troops in Iraq, so they can further their own liberal agenda.

   I believe we need to secede from politicians who would use appeasement as their main defense against the terrorists who mean to exterminate our nation.

   I believe we need to secede from activist liberal courts and politicians who seek to attack those who home school while working day and night to remove God from our nation.

   I believe we need to secede from the prophets of 'Global Warming' who would prefer to bankrupt our nation, scare our children, and insult and terminate scientists who question their conclusions, rather than engage in reasoned dialog.

   I believe we need to secede from a left-of-center media that controls basically the top 100 newspapers in our nation, as well as the three major television networks, and all but one of the cable networks.

   I believe we need to secede from an entertainment industry that systematically exposes our children to the vilest forms of smut, so they can first, make a profit, and second, indoctrinate as they seek to subvert the morals, ethics, and character of our nation.

   I believe we need to secede from politicians who don’t believe in appointing strict-constructionist judges to the Supreme Court.

   I believe we need to secede from politicians and their boot-lickers who tell conservatives that they should subvert their beliefs for the greater good of the party.

   I believe we need to secede from politicians who don’t believe in lower taxes and fiscal responsibility.

   In short, I believe we need to secede from any and all who say that conservative principles and an adherence to traditional values no longer matter. If we compromise and accept the continual blurring of party lines and the left’s definition of our future, then not only have we lost our way, but we have lost our country.