...If this book is "timely" despite its sniping and anachronisms, it's only because of a curious new nationalism that confuses flag waving, party bashing, and finger pointing with patriotism. And while many of us may be genuinely disturbed about where the country, international affairs, the environment and the economy are headed next, books like Coulter's at least offer some form of cathartic diversion to the many reductivists out there.