Radio Talk Show hosts Chris Dickson and Ron Chappell of "The Dickson/Chappell Report" are meeting at the Vietnam Memorial in Richmond, Indiana on July 9, 2005 to have a ceremonial burning of a "USA Today" newspaper in response to Gannett editor's promises to burn American flag if Burning Amendment passes.

The top editor at a newspaper owned by Gannett, which publishes USA Today, promised in a Sunday column to burn an American flag if the Senate passes an anti-flag burning amendment. Linda Grist Cunningham, Executive Editor of the Rockford Register Star in Illinois, pledged: "If the U.S. Senate follows its silly siblings in the House of Representatives and votes for a ban on burning the American flag, I'm going to burn one. It never occurred to me to burn a flag -- except in some flag-retiring ceremony -- but just the idea that Congress has nothing better to do than spend time on this nutty issue makes we want to burn one." She also displayed her disgust with critics of Senator Dick Durbin, complaining that people "with an ax to grind" took "a couple of lines out of context."

The House of Representatives approved the flag burning amendment yesterday. I don't really have too many strong feelings about this. It was probably just a little show of patriotism for the homefolks, although about 130 representatives declined the o...

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Or we can issue a mandate for all flag burners to be beaten to a pulp by veterans.

I would personally like to slap anyone who burns the flag but they have the right to do it and that is that; but honestly is it worth the effort?

How about fixing that mess in Iraq or fixing our borders.

Based on Rehnquist's dissent in Texas v. Johnson, the last SCOTUS flag-burnin' case, I think his answer would be "yes." Read it; it's a hoot.

Look, desecration of the flag is bad...getting Congress involved is worse. With all the bile being thrown around the Senate, this admendment will be DOA

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If what somebody has to say can't be expressed more effectively by means other than burning the flag, maybe it isn't worth saying. I really don't see what harm this amendment would do to free speech -- even if there were a chance in hell of it ever being ratified.