She's a hack writer for some paper in Texas (I think). Part of the looney, looney left.
...and rumor has it she considers herself a horrorary member of the Dixie Chicks...
Sometimes they put her stuff in the Arizona Republic rag. Even without it they are a bunch of idiots.
I've heard stories of patriotic Americans with German surnames being harassed during World War I, but never of poor little dachshunds being persecuted. The solution would have been simple--call them badger dogs, since that's what Dachshund means in German.