Flag burning. I was weary of this debate six years ago: "I'm tempted to just say to hell with it and let this impractical and un-American proposal slide through without further comment, but that would make me as lazy and numbed as the Senators pushing it, so here I go again."

Nothing has changed. Even the headlines on the op-ed columns look familiar.

My bottom line, then and now: "The very worst part of the flag amendment, the truly un-American aspect of this issue, is that it tells Americans how they have to think.

"It says, This is how you shall be a patriotic American...To destroy the flag, you have to undermine the principles for which it stands, which is just what the amendment would do."

Glenn Reynolds is rounding up arguments against the latest iteration of a bad idea.