People love to be told what they know already. It's not so much that what they say is wrong, though Ann Coulter does seem to be completely crazy.

This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.

Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety Nazis shouting "Sieg Health" and seeking to trammel freedom, liberty, and large noisy parties. The Safety Nazis advocate gun control, vigorous exercise, and health foods. The result can only be a disarmed, exhausted, and half-starved population ready to acquiesce to dictatorship of some kind.