What better way to commemorate the 4th of July than by honoring the freedom of speech that lets confirmed liar and wannabe serial-killer Ann Coulter spread poison throughout the culture in her latest book, Treason? This Salon review by Joe Conason shows, as does Spinsanity's devastating take-apart, that Coulter wants nothing less than the imprisonment and execution of every person who disagrees with her lunatic fringe views, no matter how much she has to lie to make it happen.

The disturbing part about Treason is not so much that it's mostly fiction masquerading as fact. The disturbing part is that the people who eagerly lap this spew up don't care that it's fiction. They want to hate the opposition so much that they have no concern at all whether charges leveled against anyone further left of Strom Thurmond are true or not. Such enemies are not true believers, so they don't deserve to live or participate in public life. Anything said or done to eliminate them is therefore justifiable, no matter how ridiculously false or unjust. In their view, that's just how Jesus would want it.

But while Coulter and her ilk would silence the opposition forever, the country they hate but profess to love makes sure that her insanity can be exposed for all to see - if they care to see it. God Bless America on this 227th anniversary of its founding.

(For more uplifting commemorations, check out last year's 4th of July musical tribute.)