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Patriotism should be proud but not blind, critical yet loving. And liberals and conservatives should agree that if patriotism entails no sacrifice, if it is all faith and no works, then something has gone wrong. The American who volunteers to fight in Iraq and the American who protests the war both express a truer patriotism than the American who treats it as a distant spectacle with no claim on his talents or conscience...
...wearing the flag pin good or bad? It is both; it all depends on where and why. If you're going to a Young Americans for Freedom meeting, where people think patriotism means "my country right or wrong," leave it at home and tell them about Frederick Douglass, who wouldn't celebrate the Fourth of July while his fellow Americans were in bondage. And if you're going to a meeting of the cultural-studies department at Left-Wing U., where patriotism often means "my country wrong and wronger," slap it on, and tell them about Mike Christian...
...doesn't keep you awake at night, what's wrong with you? However, it might keep me awake in a different way. I think of ways to prevent them from happening...
...representative told me the company added this breakfast item in an attempt to "increase the chicken portfolio in our menu." Because people think chicken is healthy, McDonald's has been selling tons of it (59% more than in 2003, compared with only 10% more beef). People, however, are wrong, because 5 oz. (about 140 g) of fried chicken and butter-filled biscuit (410 calories, 20 g of fat, 1,180 mg of sodium) is a lot more damaging than an Egg McMuffin and almost exactly the same nutritionally as a double cheeseburger...
...survive a disaster" was wrong about fire-drill requirements in New York City [June 9]. The idea that the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) opposes such drills is also false. REBNY has consistently supported mandatory, semiannual fire drills as well as evacuation drills. Owing to the danger involved in traveling down many flights of stairs and after learning of two resulting heart attacks, the industry, working with the fire department, agreed that drills shouldn't require walking all the way to the street. Instead, they would require building occupants to travel down three or four flights...