...But I don't own an American flag! LOL! I don't even have a God Bless America bumper sticker.

I don't think she stirs up hatred. Would you call me a hateful person? We know each other pretty well by now. It's a laugh, nothing more than that. For me it's the equivalent of watching late-night comedians make fun of public figures. You giggle, even though you might not ever be that rude about someone else yourself. I would never make unkind comments about Hillary Clinton's personal appearance, for example, even though I consider her dead wrong on almost all policy issues, but comedians do that sort of thing all the time. I personally HATE practical joke shows. I never even liked Candid Camera that much and I despise shows like Scare Tactics. I cringe watching some unsuspecting average person be scared to death or made a fool of on camera. But I do enjoy a good heated political debate and in my mind a person's publicly aired ideas and statements are fair game for anyone to make fun of. Sheesh, that just makes the game more interesting. I know pundits are saying the atmosphere today is more hateful than it's ever been, but I totally disagree. Politics has always been contentious or even downright nasty and upcoming elections always bring on a certain amount of hysteria (cf. the current field of Democratic presidential contenders, for example). Doesn't anybody else find this even vaguely amusing? Or am I just a degenerate, political-cartoon-addict? Politics is one area where speech ought to be totally unfettered. I was disappointed when people called for Bill Mahr's resignation after his 9-11 comment. For heaven's sake, the name of the show was Politically Incorrect! Duh! I enjoy political incorrectness. I revel in it. It's such a breath of fresh air in what can otherwise be a very prissy environment nowadays. And the "moralism" comes from some very surprising sectors, too!

BTW, I like the word "penumbra." It has such a legal air to it. I guess because it reminds me of reading certain Supreme Court cases.

"And I for one don't think she was joking any more than she was joking when she demanded that we kill Muslim heads of state and forcibly convert their populations to Christianity."

She didn't say "Muslim heads of state," she said "leaders," i.e., terrorists who are capable of crashing planes into buildings. Specifically, those operating out of Afghanistan. She also didn't say we should forcibly convert them. Personally I thought the carpet-bombing statement was the one that was over the top. They did it to Germany in WWII because there was no other *way* to do it then. Now we can avoid such civilian losses.

Didn't one of Coulter's dear friends die on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon two days before she published that column? I felt the same way that day...I'll freely admit I was angry at images of Muslims rejoicing in the streets over the deaths of thousands of innocent people. Personally, I think the world *would* be better off if Muslim nations somehow could became Christian nations overnight...but as conversions come about via willing acceptance of the love of Christ and not by force, that can only happen on an personal level, not a national one. And we DID happen to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. That is now government policy, to invade and to decapitate these terrorist groups right on their own turf. In fact, Christians are on the ground in both countries as I write, rebuilding hospitals and schools and offering the message of the gospel to those who want to hear it, in what were formerly repressive nations with no freedom of religion whatsoever. I say, "alright!"