New England Sun-Times

    As of 3:00 a.m. Pacific time Wednesday morning, hundreds of thousands of citizens from all 50 states have signed petitions at the White House We the People website seeking permission to secede from the United States, the Daily Caller reported. According to the Daily Caller, over 675,000 digital signatures have appeared on "69 separate secession petitions covering all 50 states." Petitions from seven states have exceeded the 25,000-signature threshold for White House action, with Texas leading the pack at over 94,000 signatures . The first petition, started by "Michael E." of Slidell, La., asking permission for Louisiana to secede, has over 32,000 signatures. Petitions covering Alabama , Florida , Georgia , North Carolina and Tennessee have also crossed the required threshold for White House action. A spokesman for Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesday the governor does not support the idea of

Former U.S. president  George W. Bush accidentally voted for Barack Obama today at a polling place near his Crawford, TX home. According to local reports, the two-term Republican was confused by the instructions on his electronic voting machine and mistakenly cast a ballot he intended to discard. Witnesses say Bush argued with poll workers for several minutes afterwards in a effort to redo his vote , but in accordance with state law they ultimately denied his request. The embarrassing incident may have gone unnoticed if it weren’t for a local newspaper reporter who happened to be voting in the next booth. Suzanna Everett, a politics correspondent for the  Waco Times  witnessed the entire ordeal and crafted a cunning scheme to make it public. Left On Red Barred by ethics rules from using knowledge gained within a polling station, Everett waited for Bush to leave the facility and ambushed him with a trick question designed to fool him into revealing the news him