I was about to write a post on the backwardness of Germany, citing this Spiegel Online article claiming that East Germany’s rise in neo-Nazism is caused by a shortage of hot, young women(!?!) when I realized that this is my 500th post on the most radical of right wing blogs. This is cause for celebration, and introspection. I started this blog to give voice to my sometimes unique perspective on all things right wing, to be a voice for many on the right I know who are under represented by the current blog establishment. I’m Socially Libertarian yet believing strongly in personal morality, I’m a Reaganite, a proud product of the “melting pot” culture that has been much maligned in the last two decades and concerned about both Islamic and Communist expansion. I saw a niche for a blog like that, fitting somewhere between the Malkinites and Jihad Watch and 500 posts later I’m happy to say I was right.

How do I know I was right? The reactions Red Alerts has gotten from various groups. Whether it’s the far left, the radical right, radical feminists or White Nationalists, I’ve managed to touch a nerve with every group of people I consider un-American and in many cases dangerous. I have the hate mail and death threats to prove it. Which is a good segue into a retrospective of my favorite dust ups. A top 5 list of Red Alertery so to speak:

#5 Why I don’t support Ed brown (and you shouldn’t either) What I considered a toss off post attacking the “libertarian” groups who are always ready to advocate violence against civil servants just doing their job became a contentious months long argument with paranoid Brown supporters. The comments section is too good to miss and I’m proud to say that people I knew who were sympathetic to Brown lost interest in supporting him after seeing who they were standing with. My least favorite favorite post, if you know what I mean because while it proved my point I still get e-mails and comments on this post. My follow up Tax Law for Dummies (and Ed Brown) didn’t get the same reaction. I guess it’s the telling people not to shoot government officials that gets tax protesters angry, not telling them to pay taxes.

#4 The Pandagon Affair. After writing a quick piece on the virtual silence of American feminists on the Iranian regime’s recent attacks on women Ilyka at Pandagon decided to respond by calling me a gay, rape supporting civil war re-enactor in a feud with Karl Rove. I didn’t get it either but I played along. Ilyka was classy enough to apologize later, not for calling me gay or or a supporter of rape, but because she though that being part Black I’d be offended by the civil war reference. I didn’t think she was being racist myself, but I never miss an opportunity to throw down that race card. My wife and I still laugh at this one.

#3 Howard Dean is a Homophobe* I always knew he, like many supposedly “liberal” men, were not fond of the gays but needed them for leverage. Now that more and more Muslims and other groups with negative views of Gays are joining the DNC the true colors of Dean come out, and there’s not a rainbow in sight. I never thought I’d live to see the day when the head of the DNC ccould be called a homophobe, but I’m glad I did.

#2 The many faces of Ben Whitmer. Like any good conservative I had a run-in with a Ward Churchill attack troll after being critical of Ward’s propensity to co-opt other cultures for fun and profit. Whitmer, an adjunct Ethnic studies professor hired by Churchill, came at me with both barrels. Unfortunately those barrels were loaded with plagiarism, slander and an accidental disclosure that he cites his own work under different names to give himself credibility. Whitmer had a grand old time posting under the alias John Moredock, but once exposed his wild rantings stopped fairly quickly. I count it as a victory.

#1 The New klan: MoveOn.org My favorite post because it was introduction to the world. It’s still circulated on forums and activists like Bill Levenson and Jan Mel Poller used it as a bludgeon to successfully discredit MoveOn.org and due to their work MoveOn’s forums have been closed to this day. I played a small part in that, which still gets me a little misty eyed.

So there’re my five favorite posts that generated either hate mail or death threats (sometimes both) and I hope to keep poking the hornet’s nest for another 500. But let’s mix it up a little. My next inflammatory post will chosen by you! Here’s a list of posts I started but haven’t finished, you guys tell me which one you want to see and that’s the one I’ll do!

Here’re your choices:

A) Of Keffiyehs and Mind Control: The Left’s New Base Flirts with an Old Idea

B) The Hoax that Wouldn’t Die: Claims of Satanic Ritual Abuse in the 21st Century

C) YouTube: All the Racism, Anti-Americanism and Child Porn You’ll Ever Need

D) The Real reason to hate Michelle Malkin (his name is AllahPundit)

Your choice kids, now what’ll it be?