As any sane person realizes, all this talk about a military takeover of Texas is just well-fanned paranoia. It comes from the same place as those stories that George W. Bush and later Bill Clinton had plans to declare Martial Law on some pretext and remain in office past the completion of their second terms. The maddening part of it is that when it doesn't happen, none of the folks fearing it will say, "Gee, I guess we were dead wrong and were fed a lot of phony rumors and horse manure." They'll instead insist that because the plan was leaked and good, alert Americans like themselves raised a stink, it was called off.