Give Us Back our Damn Flag

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/32/features-flacks.php

This post-9/11 patriotic fervor has revitalized the conventional wisdom that love of country is synonymous with conservatism. Conservatives, we are told, wave the flag. Or wear it on their lapels. Leftists, by contrast, only scorn it. Or burn it... [b]ut some progressives are now challenging this conventional reflex, no longer conceding that conservatives have a monopoly on Old Glory....

Oh she's only as rich as the poorest of the poor
only as free as a padlocked prison door
only as strong as our love for this land
only as tall as we stand