September 03, 2002
WAR: DON'T TREAD ON MY BUDGET
Best of the Web Today is back, and today's edition has loads of goodies, some of them a week or two old if you're just returning from vacation yourself. Here's one from TIME magazine: the Navy is bringing back the "Dont Tread On Me" battle flag. That's wonderful symbolic news, but one suspects that its derivation is the Navy's need for good press in the war on terror, in which air power, the Marines and Special Forces have gotten most of the glory. Whose sensibilities would this likely appeal to? Well, Don Rumsfeld comes to mind . . .