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Amid a growing mound of Confederate flag cases, one unsettled legal issue in courts across the country is this: Can public schools ban the wearing of Dixie Outfitters and other Confederate T-shirts without running afoul of the First Amendment?

John Powers, a Lefty columnist for a Lefty magazine on the Left coast discovered recently that "...over the last two decades, the joy has gone out of the left -- it now feels hedged in by shibboleths and defeatism -- while the right has been having a gas..." Powers also "...discovered that while unread copies of The Nation invariably rose in guilt-inducing stacks, [he] always read The Weekly Standard right away. Why? Because seen purely as a magazine, The Standard is incomparably more alluring..." More

John Powers, a Lefty columnist for a Lefty magazine on the Left coast discovered recently that "...over the last two decades, the joy has gone out of the left -- it now feels hedged in by shibboleths and defeatism -- while the right has been having a gas..." Powers also "...discovered that while unread copies of The Nation invariably rose in guilt-inducing stacks, [he] always read The Weekly Standard right away. Why? Because seen purely as a magazine, The Standard is incomparably more alluring..." MORE