[ConsistentLibertarian]

If you don't watch for the scope of the modifier, you introduce an ambiguity into the text. If you make sure that modifiers have the same grammatical scope as the things they modify, you eliminate the ambiguity. I think it's better to give here and say "big deal" rather than to dig in your heals and mount an all out defence. But it's your call.

[M. Thatcher]

dig in your heals

You clearly need an editor. I am one by trade. At your service.

[Senator Pardek]

Physician, heel thyself.

[Abn1508]

Actually, what's running through my mind is the fact that Ann Coulter _is_ a published columnist...and as far as I know "ConsistentLibertarian" is not. Certainly not a nationally known one.

There are two aspects to that. One, something that professional writers learn very quickly, is that language is much more fluid than grammarians can ever comprehend. Rarely can one capture the heart through precise grammar. On the other hand, you can strike to the soul without. Call it "authorial license" if you whist. Good editors, that is editors who have been in the business for more than a week minimum, learn that. Those who don't either get booted over to editing technical manuals or kill the business.

The second is that it's not worth trying to please the people who analyze every sentence. Never get in a spittin' contest with a skunk.