Comments on: Happy Independence Day! – National Edition

By: Kit

Kit — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:28:26 +0000

You missed alot.

A-LOT!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:21:22 +0000

All I really got to see was the area around Interstate 10. Mobile Bay was beautiful and Mobile and its old Antebellum mansions were gorgeaous.

By: Kit

Kit — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:03:55 +0000

As an Alabamian I have to ask, what was your favourite part of our Grand State?

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:52:01 +0000

Its funny but the more of America I see the more I fall in love with her. The trip across Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisianna, Texas, Oklahoma, Texas again, New Mexico, Arizona and California was another revelation to me. I loved Mobile Bay and the hills of Alabama, the woods of Mississippi, the fields of Northern Louisianna, the wood lands of Texas, and the plains after Dallas, Fort Sill and The Witchita Mountain Wild Life Refuge where our history and heritage lives on, The Staked Plains of Texas, the ranches, the endless land and the huge sky, the desert of New Mexico and that crazy mountain drive all the way into Albaquerque, Flagstaff Arizona where the smell of mountain pines still lingers in my memory, and the Mojave Desert with its moonscape and mystery, and here, SoCal…..

By: David Marcoe

David Marcoe — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:27:48 +0000

Joe’s posts always have something interesting.

Back in the day, Joe’s posts over at EO helped to shape my political thinking, even when I disagreed. That’s where my famous patented kill-you-with-exhaustion-by-the-shear-length-of-my-point-by-point-rebuttals evolved. It was also possible to face off against some of the micro-celebrities of the Left’s blogosphere, circa ’04 and ’05. Things have ballooned out since then, to the point it really isn’t possible to do that now.

What’s so interesting about the American Left is that they are so anti-American, while being so consummately American. Who else, but Americans, could have figured out how to turn radical European chic into the commercial kitsch of pop culture of the 1960s? The torrent of merchandising–from tie-dye to lava lamps–was born from a million entrepreneurs creating a cottage industry. Good or bad, we Americans know how to turn anything into a business.