Not far enough

The left and right-wing extremist don't take it far enough. Their stances are still too centrists for most Americans who really want an America they can be even more proud of, which will be evidenced when we see more American flags hanging from just about every place imaginable. That's how I know that Fox news is the most patriotic and the Food Network least. There are too few American flags visible on the Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter blogs.

Who on the left blogosphere trade in polemics as well as those two? Something from iVillage? The extreme left is equally guilty of being harsh and bloodlust wordwise as the right. And the hypocrisy.

The thing is, being hypocritical doesn't necessarily equate to being wrong. A mass murderer who advises people to not kill would surely be right while being a hypocrite. Politicians are just more frequent offenders. Yes, even Obama, and no one can be sure it's even less with him than most. Equivocation is also solid currency.

How do I segue back to Malkin and Coulter. Crap. Anyway, Malkin on immigration isn't taking her thoughts to the logical conclusion. Why stop at eliminating the citizenship rights for those born on US soil when we can turn back the clock and fix all our mistakes? Let it be retroactive and we'll take back the citizenship of every person who was not born from American citizens -every last one of those leechers: illegals, on work or travel visas. As it happens, obviously, Michelle's dear (assumption) parents were on visas and thus not real Americans in any sense of the word. Sure, that would also mean Michelle needs to move back to the Philipines if they'll have her. Wait, she's already got roots: one (real) American husband and two kids. But rules are rules. As she said herself, keeping families together arguments hold no water when we are dealing with a real encroachment of US sovereignty.

Next, the real American, and bestselling author (a claim that almost every published writer can make for some reason) Ann Coulter. She did a really brilliant post on her dad but had to ruin it with a dig at liberals by somehow calling upon the Almighty to smite them (not terrorists, not Osama but liberals). Not to say there's no play for baiting and fan service but as the closing of a rememberance of your dear (another assumption) of your recently deceased father. Well, everyone has different standards.

"Father hated puffery, pomposity, snobbery, fake friendliness, fake anything."

Um, nothing about whether he liked his daughter; I have only my informed guess but I like to fake friendliness. Oh, and ideas from Marx. And Adam Smith. Keynes. I like ideas and not the stifling of them. So I'd vote no on McCarthy who was apparently quite the hero in the Coulter household.

Ann also referenced Anna Karenina. Well-read, or perhaps just taken off Cliff Notes, the ten page summary. I do that sometimes. A lot.

"Father mostly had contempt for Soviet spies. In addition to damaging information, such as military plans and nuclear secrets, the spies also collected massive amounts of utterly useless information on things like U.S. agricultural production. These were people who looked at a flush toilet like it was a spaceship. He told me Soviet spies reveled in the whole cloak-and-dagger aspect of espionage."

Did he know they were spies. Did he think the US spies were causing a scene and drawing attention to themselves? Or better yet not taking any notes and just winging it? They were spies, that's all I'm saying.

"He hated unions because of their corrupt leadership, ripping off the members for their own aggrandizement."

Was he okay with corrupt governments? Halliburton wants to know. Wait, it doesn't.

"There was massive violence by the strikers, including guns being fired into the homes of the mine employees who returned to work."

Only strikers were violent; the suppressors were all manners.

Despite all that, even if you factor into who he created, he was probably a decent person. He made a much bigger contribution than a right or left-wing blogger ever will. Of course, me included.