Victor Davis Hanson writes: "California may face the nation's largest budget deficit at $16 billion. It may struggle with the nation's second-highest unemployment rate at 10.6 percent. It will soon vote whether to levy the nation's highest income and sales taxes, as if to encourage others to join the 2,000-plus high earners who are leaving the state each week. The new taxes will be our way of saying, "Good riddance." And if California is home to one-third of the nation's welfare recipients and the largest number of illegal aliens, it is nonetheless apparently happy and thus solidly for Barack Obama. The unemployment rate in my hometown is 16 percent, the per capita income is $16,000 -- and I haven't seen a Romney sticker yet." Read it all. [Thanks BJS]