Washington D.C.'s Dupont Circle neighborhood was a place for deep, profound questions about world affairs and the nature of democracy Monday evening. Questions like, does anything rhyme with "Halliburton"? The event, called the "D.C. Guerrilla Poetry Insurgency," was one of several "counter-inaugural" protests taking place throughout the week in the nation's capital. It was also neatly illustrative of why it's George W. Bush, not John Kerry, who's getting sworn in this week. Bush won in large part because conservative grassroots activists tend to be unified, focused, and determined. Liberals, by contrast, are often disorganized and prone to expending a lot...