“How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?” asked President Abraham Lincoln, who answered his own question:
“Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
And Congress’ saying that D.C. is a state would equally contradict truth and reality, as our nation’s capital lacks all of the attributes of a 51st state of the Union.
Whence came our capital of Washington, D.C.?
The city was carved out of Maryland and Virginia in 1790, which voted to cede 100…