What Patriotism Is, and Is Not

    At the beginning of the week, a friend sent me a scurrilous, anonymous e-mail
attacking Barack Obama that has been circulating around her elderly cousin's senior living community in New Jersey. Headlined "Something to Think
About," it lists 13 acts of assassination, kidnapping, war and terrorism,
all of which, it notes, were committed "by Muslim male extremists between
the ages of 17 and 40." After several other claims, including a bogus citation from the Book of Revelation,
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