This is a joke right? Our government is having a debate about flag burning when nobody burns flags. Dana Milbank: "The Citizens Flag Alliance,
June 26, 2006

This is a joke right? Our government is having a debate about flag burning when nobody burns flags.

Dana Milbank:

"The Citizens Flag Alliance, a group pushing for the Senate this week to pass a flag-burning amendment to the Constitution, just reported an alarming, 33 percent increase in the number of flag-desecration incidents this year.

The number has increased to four, from three. The naive among us may have trouble appreciating how four flag-burning episodes would constitute a constitutional crisis. But the men and women of the Senate, ever alert to emerging threats, are on the case...read on "

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