It would be my sincere preference that our political discourse not delve into who does and does not wear American-flag pins, with every presidential candidate's lapel suddenly drawing sharp scrutiny.

That said, if we are going to go in this direction, we might as well highlight hypocrisy when we see it.

Discussing an interview in which Sen. Barack Obama said he had stopped wearing a flag pin on his lapel during the lead-up to the Iraq war, Sean Hannity said on his radio show: "[W]hy do we wear pins? Because our country was under attack." He continued: "And to politicize once again the war to this extent. Well, who cares about the war? Are you proud of your country?" Yet while criticizing Obama for not wearing a flag pin, Hannity himself has not worn an American flag lapel pin on a number of recent occasions.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw lapel pins.