Sidelights.(Brief Article)

The online edition of the former official Soviet Communist Party paper Pravda ran an opinion piece by Patrick Buchanan. * A Pew Center poll found that 47 percent of women and 53 percent of men favor higher military spending, and that 64 percent of women and 65 percent of men favor a missile-defense system.... A Harvard University poll found that 75 percent of Harvard undergraduates trust the military, and that 71 percent of male students would serve if the draft were reinstated. * "Terrorists target not only our freedom of democracy but also freedom of trade," said Bolivian president Jorge Quiroga. "The more products, the more freedom of trade, the more globalization, the better." * Trevor Harvey, head of the "anti-violence group" MAD DADS, was arrested for battery after he allegedly punched a referee at his seven-year-old son's flag football game.

At a speech at Princeton University, actor Danny Glover described America as "one of the main purveyors of violence in the world" and warned Americans that "we must stand vigilant against Bush in these times and work with the abolitionists." ... Peter Boyer of The New Yorker describes Jesse Jackson as "an admirer of Karl Marx." When Jackson visited Marx's grave "he realized that Marx was not the evil force that `brainwashed' Americans were taught to believe but, rather, was driven by an Old Testament-style system of social justice." ... Harold Doley, Jr., one of the 100 wealthiest blacks in America, worked with Jesse Jackson's Wall Street Project and now describes Jackson's tactics as "a kind of RICO operation, both criminal and civil. It was racketeering." * Over half of Americans feel that the National Rifle Association speaks for them at least some of the time, according to a recent Zogby poll. Sixty-six percent feel that people who passed a background check and took a safety course should be allowed to carry a gun on their persons or in their cars.... Forty-five percent of Americans value their Second Amendment rights "much more" or "somewhat more" since September ...