People where I live don't care about New York City one way or the other.  We think eight million people living all crammed together is unhealthy and unnatural, but if those people want to live that way, so be it.  They like their high-tax, big-public-sector economy, and their rent control and gun control.  They're amoral, cosmopolitan, and nonjudgmental; authoritarian and elitist; disconnected and unconcerned with the vast interior of America. They're different from the rest of us, but we don't really care.  You see, we're pretty tolerant in my neck of the woods, even of people we find peculiar, a little off.  It's a very big and highly diverse country.  We don't want to take away their lifestyle.  We just don't want it imposed on us.   So when Ted Cruz starts talking about New York values, we get it.  He's not telling the people of New York to change their ways.  He's asking them to...(Read Full Post)