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**Fact of the Week**
During the 2002 campaign for governor in Georgia, Republican Sonny Perdue chastised incumbent Roy Barnes for his role in changing the state flag in 2001. The Georgia legislature changed the flag from one dominated by the battle flag of the Confederate States of America to one dominated by the state seal. Republicans, led by state party chairman Ralph Reed (sometime head of the Christian Coalition), seized on this and other issues to win the governorship, a senate seat, and control of the Georgia House of Representatives. Many Southern conservatives talk about "heritage" when they talk of state flags dominated by the Confederate battle flag. In Georgia, that heritage goes all the way back to 1956, when the Georgia legislature first incorporated the battle flag into the state's own flag. Perhaps this historic vexillological change was merely coincidental with the burgeoning of the civil rights movement in Georgia is merely coincidental, but we kind of doubt it. Sources: CNN, 11 November 2002; Georgia Secretary of State.

Fact of the Week

During the 2002 campaign for governor in Georgia, Republican Sonny Perdue chastised incumbent Roy Barnes for his role in changing the state flag in 2001. The Georgia legislature changed the flag from one dominated by the battle flag of the Confederate States of America to one dominated by the state seal. Republicans, led by state party chairman Ralph Reed (sometime head of the Christian Coalition), seized on this and other issues to win the governorship, a senate seat, and control of the Georgia House of Representatives.

Many Southern conservatives talk about "heritage" when they talk of state flags dominated by the Confederate battle flag. In Georgia, that heritage goes all the way back to 1956, when the Georgia legislature first incorporated the battle flag into the state's own flag. Perhaps this historic vexillological change was merely coincidental with the burgeoning of the civil rights movement in Georgia is merely coincidental, but we kind of doubt it.

Sources: CNN, 11 November 2002;
Georgia Secretary of State.

**This week's columns**
Culture of Fear Paul Corrigan Michael Moore exposes the root of American culture in Bowling for Columbine.	Corporate Tax Games, Delaware Style Tim Francis-Wright A recent Massachusetts court ruling may turn corporate income taxes into a purely optional act of altriusm, not a normal act of paying a fair share.

This week's columns

Culture of Fear
Paul Corrigan

Michael Moore exposes the root of American culture in Bowling for Columbine.

Corporate Tax Games, Delaware Style
Tim Francis-Wright

A recent Massachusetts court ruling may turn corporate income taxes into a purely optional act of altriusm, not a normal act of paying a fair share.

Links to the best of the Left on the web

Our favorite resources on the 11 September attacks and their aftermath

Our favorite resources on the potential invasion of Iraq

Red Pepper news on Iraq.

No Rush to War: a collection of articles from The Nation.

Target: Iraq from GlobalSecurity.org.

Iraq's Nuclear Weapon Programme from the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Iraq dossier presented to Parliament by Tony Blair.

New York Times op-ed ad signed by 33 international relations scholars (HTML version of the ad).

Stand Down cross-ideological, anti-war weblog.

Alternative Resources on the US-Iraq Conflict: like it says, from the American Library Association.

Iraq War Debate: a huge collection of links from the University of Michigan.

More, alas, likely to come.

This Week's Links:

Bush's Desire to be the New Churchill is a Threat to Us All: Complacency about the United States and Iraq masks some extraordinary risks (Paul Kennedy, The Independent).

Pentagon Plans a Computer System That Would Peek at Personal Data of Americans: John Poindexter doesn't need any stinking search warrants (John Markoff, New York Times).

Yemen Attack Raises Legal Questions: The killing of six suspected terrorists raises serious questions about the legality of such tactics (Sean Federico-O'Murchu, MSNBC.com).

Welcome to the Democrats' Misreading: When Democrats deem George Bush to be stupid, they play into his hands (David von Drehle, Washington Post).

Where America Has Elected to Go, No One Will Follow: No mainstream European party could win an election with the Republican agenda in America (Hugo Young, The Guardian).

Regime Change Now...For the Democrats: The Democrats need new leaders, and they need them in an awful hurry (David Corn, The Nation).

It's Like This, My Old Cock: One of the few good things from last week's election was the banning of cockfighting in Oklahoma (Matthew Engel, The Guardian).

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