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Advice For Democrats

From Ann Coulter:

Democrats should run Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for president. He's more coherent than Dennis Kucinich, he dresses like their base, he's more macho than John Edwards, and he's willing to show up at a forum where he might get one hostile question -- unlike the current Democratic candidates for president who won't debate on Fox News Channel. He's not married to an impeached president, and the name "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" is surely no more frightening than "B. Hussein Obama."

Why Real Men Need Knitting Needles

Annie gets her gun, locks, loads, and fires:

B. Hussein Obama's announcement also included this gem: "I know that I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington. But I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change." As long as Obama insists on using Hallmark card greetings in his speeches, he could at least get Jesse Jackson to help him with the rhyming. . . .

There was also this inspirational nugget: "Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done. Today we are called once more, and it is time for our generation to answer that call." Is this guy running for president or trying to get people to switch to a new long-distance provider?

This guy's like the ANWR of trite political aphorisms. There's no telling exactly how many he's sitting on, but it could be in the billions. ... I can't wait for Obama's inaugural address when he reveals that he loves long walks in the rain, sunsets, and fresh-baked cookies shaped like puppies.

The guy I feel sorry for is Harold Ford. The former representative from Tennessee is also black, a Democrat, about the same age as Obama, and is every bit as attractive. The difference is, when he talks, you don't fantasize about plunging knitting needles into your ears to stop the gusher of meaningless platitudes.

Lincoln Chaffee

From Ann Coulter:

Chafee is everything the Democrats like to claim Republicans are, which we are not and they are: silver-spoon morons who get ahead on the basis of family connections (for example, Ned the Red Lamont in Connecticut).

The only reason Chafee calls himself a Republican is that he believes that everyone above a certain income level is required by law to do so.

He learned this from reading "Doonesbury" and watching "The West Wing" while studiously ignoring blindingly obvious facts like: Sens. Teddy Kennedy (inherited millions), John Kerry (married millions -- twice, lucky guy), Sen. Herbert H. Kohl (inherited millions), John D. Rockefeller (inherited millions), Mark Dayton (inherited millions), Dianne Feinstein (married millions) and aspiring senator Ned the Red (inherited millions). All Democrats.

Highly Effective

From Ann Coulter:

Last week, British authorities arrested 24 members of a terrorist cell plotting to blow up about a dozen U.S.-bound planes simultaneously. As a result of those arrests, we learned:

1. Nothing being done by airport security since 9/11 would prevent a bomb from being brought onto an airplane; and
2. This terrorist plot -- like all other terrorist plots -- was stopped by ethnic profiling.

Last week marked the first official admission that everything government airport screeners have been doing until now is completely pointless -- unless you're an airport security guard with a thing for women's undergarments, in which case it's been highly effective.

The Strict Objectivity And Rigid Nonpartisanship Of The American Media

From RealClearPolitics:

Q: The last time we spoke, you told me you're routinely misquoted by newspaper reporters. What are a couple of the more egregious examples? Why does this happen?

Ann Coulter: It happens so much, I don't even keep track of it anymore. The last one I remember was when I said "cutting the tax rate on capital gains seems to have increased tax receipts for fiscal 2006, just as supply-side economics predicted it would." It came out in the paper as, "I worship Adolf Hitler and share all of his goals, especially the 'final solution' to the 'Jewish problem.'"

I have no idea how it happens, given the strict objectivity and rigid nonpartisanship of the American media.

The Religion of Peace Muslims vs The Slit Their Throats Muslims

From Ann Coulter:

We're in a battle for our survival and we don't even know who the enemy is. As liberals are constantly reminding us, Islam is a "Religion of Peace." One very promising method of distinguishing the "Religion of Peace" Muslims from the "Slit Their Throats" Muslims is by following the al-Qaida money trail.

But now we've lost that ability -- thanks to The New York Times.

People have gotten so inured to ridiculous behavior on the left that they are no longer capable of appropriate outrage when something truly treasonous happens. It is rather like the rape accusation against Bill Clinton losing its impact because of the steady stream of perjury, obstruction of justice, treason, adultery and general sociopathic behavior coming from that administration.

Practical Writing Tips From A Best-Selling Author

From a recent interview:

When I was writing High Crimes and Misdemeanors, the magnificent writer Joe Sobran gave me the greatest advice a writer could ever get. I called him in desperation, because I was pulling my hair out trying to write the Whitewater chapter. I explained to him that the reason Whitewater was so hard to write about was that the financial transactions comprising Whitewater were incredibly complicated—and they were complicated for a reason: to hide what was really going on. After I whined for about five minutes about how impossible this made it to explain the scandal, Joe told me to write down exactly what I had just said to him—in fact, to write the entire chapter like I was writing an e-mail to him. I did, and the Economist (written by the only economists on earth who liked Hillary’s health care plan) described it as one of the clearest explanations of the Whitewater scandal out there.

So now I write everything like I’m e-mailing one of my friends—often a friend I’ve been arguing with about whatever I am writing. I think the writing is better, and it’s a lot more fun.

Also, I noticed that when I e-mailed my friends asking them to explain some point of law to me so I could put it in my book, I’d get a lot of convoluted jargon that read like an 18th-Century legal brief. But when I sent them an e-mail casually asking, “Hey, what do you think of William Ginsberg [Monica Lewinsky’s attorney]?” I would get back some of the most beautiful prose ever written. So I recommend to all writers that they write like they’re sending an e-mail to a friend—or enemy, for some really punchy writing.

The Miranda Decision

From an interview by John Hawkins:

John Hawkins: Would you like to see the Miranda decision overturned?

Ann Coulter: Yes! But even more than that, I would like to meet one person, anywhere, anytime, who doesn't already know from watching TV that they have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney if they're arrested. What class of TV-deprived wretches is this rule intended to help, the Amish? Mountain-dwelling end-timers? Survivalist cave people living in polygamous clans?

And hey: Buy Your Copy Here: Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann Coulter

A Collection of Ann Coulter Quotes

From her latest book Godless: The Church of Liberalism, John Hawkins has selected his favorite quotes. Here are a couple:

A year later, Koop admitted under oath in congressional hearings that only about 4 percent of adult AIDS transmissions worldwide could be traced to heterosexual contact, and that in the United States only 2.3 percent of AIDS cases came from heterosexual contact, "and most of that is in sexual partners of IV drug abusers." In other words, the entire, years-long AIDS Threatens Straight People Too PR campaign was a total lie from start to finish.

...(T)he Democrats hit on an ingenious strategy: They would choose only messengers whom we're not allowed to reply to. That's why Democratic spokesmen these days are sobbing, hysterical women. You can't respond to them because that would be questioning the authenticity of their suffering.

Liberal Think Tank Refutes Ann Coulter's New Book!

Liberal Think Tank Refutes Ann Coulter's New Book!

And another one here.

Buy Your Copy Here: Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann Coulter

Buy Your Copy Here: Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann Coulter

For a conservative, the day that a new Ann Coulter book comes out is more fun than Christmas. There's the book itself, of course, but beyond that there's the spectacle of liberals working themselves up into a babble-sputtering, vein-popping frenzy. It's just so much fun to watch. Then it's followed, like night follows day, with ad hominem attacks on Ann. Rob, one of the liberals commenting over at the J-Walk Blog sees the irony:

I'm no fan of this scary and seemingly demented woman, but does no one else see the irony of so many 'liberal' folks making personal comments about her appearance, inappropriately 'confrontational' approach for a woman, etc?

We're going to have to do better than this. They are the dirty cheats, misogynists, racists and liars. We're the good guys; but if we don't behave like it then they've won before they've even had to defend themselves.

Townhall.com has the first chapter. Here's an excerpt:

Under the guise of not favoring religion, liberals favor one cosmology over another and demand total indoctrination into theirs. The state religion of liberalism demands obeisance (to the National Organization for Women), tithing (to teachers’ unions), reverence (for abortion), and formulaic imprecations (“Bush lied, kids died!” “Keep your laws off my body!” “Arms for hostages!”). Everyone is taxed to support indoctrination into the state religion through the public schools, where innocent children are taught a specific belief system, rather than, say, math.

Liberal doctrines are less scientifically provable than the story of Noah’s ark, but their belief system is taught as fact in government schools, while the Biblical belief system is banned from government schools by law. As a matter of faith, liberals believe: Darwinism is a fact, people are born gay, child-molesters can be rehabilitated, recycling is a virtue, and chastity is not. If people are born gay, why hasn’t Darwinism weeded out people who don’t reproduce? (For that, we need a theory of survival of the most fabulous.) And if gays can’t change, why do liberals think child-molesters can? Pedophilia is a sexual preference. If they’re born that way, instead of rehabilitation, how about keeping them locked up?

So click that link, buy that book, support this site, and drive all your liberal friends nuts.

And You'd Have My Vote Too

Ann Coulter:

Instead of a moratorium on new immigration, I'd settle for a moratorium on the use of the expression "We're a nation of immigrants." Throw in a ban on "Diversity is our strength" and you've got my vote for life.

Democrats: It's Time To Knock 'em Down

From Ann Coulter:

Baseball has a system to protect batters from being hit: If your pitcher hits one of our guys, our pitcher will hit one of your guys. This is also the only argument that ever works with Democrats.

Democrats adored the independent counsel statute -- until it was used to catch an actual felon in the Oval Office. Then they noticed all sorts of problems with the law. Democrats swore up and down that women never lie about rape -- until that same felon was credibly accused of rape by Juanita Broaddrick on "NBC News," not to mention the four other card-carrying Democratic women who described being raped by Bill Clinton in eerily similar detail in Christopher Hitchens' book "No One Left to Lie To."

Conservatives will continue to be threatened with prison on trumped-up charges until Democrats start having to worry about being prosecuted for minor offenses, too -- though, in Kennedy's case, not as minor as Rush Limbaugh's offense, which never involved smashing his car into a police barrier. (In Rep. Kennedy's defense, at least he didn't drown the woman in his car and then disappear for nine hours.)

So, Does This Make Sense To You?

From Ann Coulter's Treason : Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism:

To review the evidence:

• On September 11, 2001, more than three thousand Americans were murdered in a savage terrorist attack on U.S. soil by Muslim extremists.
• In October 2000, our warship the USS Cole was attacked by Muslim extremists
• In 1998, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim extremists.
• In 1996, a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia was bombed by Muslim extremists.
• In 1995, five Americans were killed by a car bomb set by Muslim extremists.
• In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed by Muslim extremists.
• In 1988, another passenger jet, Pan Am Flight 103, was bombed by Muslim extremists.
• In 1986, a West Berlin discotheque frequented by U.S. servicemen was bombed by Muslim extremists.
• In 1985, an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, was seized and a sixty-nine-year-old American was killed by Muslim extremists.
• In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut were blown up by Muslim extremists.
• In 1982, the U.S. embassy in Beirut was bombed by Muslim extremists.
• In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was stormed and American embassy staff held hostage for 444 days by Muslim extremists.

So naturally, Democrats refuse to allow law enforcement to look for Muslim extremists.

Favorite Quotes From Ann Coulter

Excerpts from RWN's Favorite Quotes From Ann Coulter's 'How To Talk To A Liberal (If You Must)' :

• "If you can somehow force a liberal into a point-counterpoint argument, his retorts will bear no relation to what you've said -- unless you were in fact talking about your looks, your age, your weight, your personal obsessions, or whether you are a fascist. In the famous liberal two-step, they leap from one idiotic point to the next, so you can never nail them. It's like arguing with someone with Attention Deficit Disorder."
• "I promise you, any Americans captured by al Qaeda will be tortured, disembowelled, and beheaded right before the traditional dancing on the American corpse begins. Indeed, it is difficult to conceive of the United States actually going to war against any country that would honor the Geneva Convention. Despite the enormous groundswell of support for an attack on France, for example, we probably won't invade France. The only people America ever goes to war against are utter savages."
• "The only beef Enron employees have with top management is that management did not inform employees of the coming collapse in time to allow them to get in on the swindle, too. If Enron executives had shouted "Head for the hills!," the employees might have been able to sucker other Americans into buying their wildly overinflated Enron stock, as their bosses apparently did. The employees were victims only in the sense that they were not able to get in on the rip-off too."
• "Republicans made Southern Democrats drop the race nonsense when they entered the Republican Party. Democrats supported race discrimination, then for about three years they didn't, now they do again. They've just changed which race they think should be discriminated against."

Isikoff's Best Stories

Ann Coulter on ace reporter Michael Isikoff:

When ace reporter Michael Isikoff had the scoop of the decade, a thoroughly sourced story about the president of the United States having an affair with an intern and then pressuring her to lie about it under oath, Newsweek decided not to run the story. Matt Drudge scooped Newsweek, followed by The Washington Post.

When Isikoff had a detailed account of Kathleen Willey's nasty sexual encounter with the president in the Oval Office, backed up with eyewitness and documentary evidence, Newsweek decided not to run it. Again, Matt Drudge got the story.

When Isikoff was the first with detailed reporting on Paula Jones' accusations against a sitting president, Isikoff's then-employer The Washington Post -- which owns Newsweek -- decided not to run it. The American Spectator got the story, followed by the Los Angeles Times.

So apparently it's possible for Michael Isikoff to have a story that actually is true, but for his editors not to run it.

Why no pause for reflection when Isikoff had a story about American interrogators at Guantanamo flushing the Quran down the toilet? Why not sit on this story for, say, even half as long as NBC News sat on Lisa Meyers' highly credible account of Bill Clinton raping Juanita Broaddrick?

If Liberals Could Win In The Court Of Public Opinion, They Wouldn't Need The Federal Courts To Hand Them Their Victories In The First Place

Ann Coulter on the fight over Bush's judical nominees:

This is what we get by way of explanation on the horror show that is Janice Rogers Brown:

• "ideological extremism"
• "aggressive judicial activism"
• "even further to the right than the most far-right justices"
• "prone to inserting conservative political views into her appellate opinions"
• "many disturbing dissents"
• "a disturbing tendency to try to remake the law"
• "extreme states' rights and anti-federal-government positions"
• "working to push the law far to the right"
• "doesn't hate America and all that it stands for"

OK, I made up that last one.

Conservatives never attack liberal judges this way. We simply say: He found the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional ... He found a right to gay marriage in a state constitution written in 1780 by John Adams ... He ruled that smelly homeless people have a constitutional right to stink up public libraries and scare patrons ... He excluded 80 pounds of cocaine found in the defendant's car on the grounds that it was reasonable to run from the police when the police are viewed as "corrupt, violent and abusive."

Which, in no small part, is why it's more fun to be a conservative. You don't have to call people names, you just point out the facts and let them speak for themselves.

Would You Rather Be OJ's Girlfriend Or Michael Schiavo's Fiancee?

From (who else?) Ann Coulter:

Opinions about the Schiavo case seem to break down less on morals than on basic knowledge of the facts of the case.

There are a lot of telling facts, but two big ones are:

• The only family member lobbying for Terri's death is her husband, who is affianced to a woman he's been living with for several years and with whom he already has two children. (Today's brain twister: Would you rather be O.J.'s girlfriend or Michael Schiavo's fiancee?)


• Terri's husband has refused to allow her to be given either an MRI or a PET scan, which are also known as: "The tests that could determine whether Terri is even in a permanent vegetative state." (I believe his exact words were, "PET scan? MRI? What do I look like, a guy who just won a $1 million malpractice settlement?")

On the basis of these facts, Pinellas County Judge George Greer found that it was Terri's wish to be starved to death. She requires no life support; all she needs is food and water. If being (a) on a liquid diet, and (b) unresponsive to one's estranged husband are now considered grounds for a woman's execution, wait until this news hits Beverly Hills!

Girls Gone Wild!

Some surprising facts from Ann Coulter:

It turns out that, far from "de-escalating force" through their superior listening skills, female law enforcement officers vastly are more likely to shoot civilians than their male counterparts. (Especially when perps won't reveal where they bought a particularly darling pair of shoes.)

Unable to use intermediate force, like a bop on the nose, female officers quickly go to fatal force. According to Lott's analysis, each 1 percent increase in the number of white female officers in a police force increases the number of shootings of civilians by 2.7 percent.

Come To Think Of It, Maybe The MSNBC Reporters Are Gay Too!

From Ann Coulter:

Liberals keep rolling out a scrolling series of attacks on Gannon for their Two Minutes Hate, but all their other charges against him fall apart after three seconds of scrutiny. Gannon's only offense is that he may be gay.

First, liberals claimed Gannon was a White House plant who received a press pass so that he could ask softball questions – a perk reserved for New York Times reporters during the Clinton years. Their proof was that while "real" journalists (like Jayson Blair) were being denied press passes, Gannon had one, even though he writes for a website that no one has ever heard of – but still big enough to be a target of liberal hatred! (By the way, if writing for a news organization with no viewers is grounds for being denied a press pass, why do MSNBC reporters have them?)

Why Was 2004 A Great Year?

The answer, from Ann Coulter:

I’m thinking about putting up a reward on my Web page for any liberal who will mention either Afghanistan or the Kurds. I mean, 85 percent of Iraq is free, it’s beautiful—we have about 300 troops patrolling the entire Kurdish area. These poor beleaguered Kurds are free, are happy, are dancing in the streets, and liberals simply won’t mention them. I certainly thought Afghanistan was going to be a tougher nut to crack than Iraq—the Russians couldn’t take Afghanistan! They’ve basically been at war for a hundred years—even when nobody’s there, they’re at war with one another. We took Afghanistan in a month, and now they’ve had elections and women vote, and they didn’t vote for some crazy lunatic mullahs. So that’s a pretty good year.

The Big Picture

From Ann Coulter

Since the attack of 9-11, we've won two wars, liberated millions of people from monstrous regimes, presided over one election in Afghanistan and are about to see elections in Iraq and among the Palestinian people. Focusing like a laser beam on the big picture, liberals are upset that, during this period, the secretary of defense used an autopen. ...

As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is the autopen. Evidently, the important thing was that every one of those pardons Clinton sold for cash on his last day in office was signed by Bill Clinton personally.

Kinda Like Deciding Between Paper or Plastic

Another gem from Ann Coulter

Among the burdens liberals have placed on blacks is the nutty idea that all blacks are obliged to defend the worst elements of their race. White people don't feel a need to defend Jeffrey Dahmer or Scott Peterson. Go ahead, kill him. If we did, the Judgment at Nuremburg would have ended in a hung jury. In fact, the biggest dilemma we usually face after a case like Scott Peterson's is, "Lethal injection, or Old Sparky?"

Thanks Where Thanks Is Due

Excerpts from Ann Coulter:

The Democrats threw everything they had at this election. They ran a phony Vietnam War hero and a phony Southerner. They had middle-aged women executives at MTV hawking "Rock the Vote" to entice the most uninformed young people to vote for Kerry. They had Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews and New York Times darling Eminem. They had documentaries, books, the universities, Hollywood (and the French!) on their side.

They had liberal thugs ransacking Bush-Cheney headquarters, stealing Bush-Cheney signs and slashing the tires of Bush-Cheney get-out-the-vote vans on Election Day. In Colorado, they traded voter registrations for crack cocaine. In Ohio, they registered Mary Poppins and Dick Tracy. In South Carolina, Emily's List called Republican households and gave them incorrect information about the location of polling places. ...

But for all their chicanery, vote-stealing, Hollywood starlets, fake polls and faux patriotism, the Democrats were wiped out on Election Day. ...

To Michael Moore, George Soros, Terry McAuliffe, Dan Rather, Al Franken and the whole gang at Air America Radio – you were great, guys! Thanks for the help! We couldn't have done it without you!

Their Other New Hobby

More from Ann Coulter's new book, How to Talk to a Liberal:

Liberals’ other new hobby is to call people “liars.” After years of defending Clinton, they love the piquant irony of calling Bush a “liar.” Bush said he was a “reformer with results” — LIAR! For fifty years liberals have called Republicans every name in the book— idiots, fascists, anti-Semites, racists, crooks, Constitution shredders, and masterminds of Salvadoran death squads. Only recently have they added the epithet “liar.” Even noted ethicist Al Franken has switched from calling conservatives “big fat idiots” to calling them “liars.” This is virgin territory for Democrats— they never before viewed lying as a negative. Their last president, Bill Clinton, was called “an unusually good liar” by a senator in his own party, and their last vice president, Al Gore, couldn’t say “pass the salt” without claiming to have invented salt. Having only recently discovered the intriguing new concept of “lies,” the Democrats are having a jolly old time calling Bush a liar. But they can’t quite grasp the concept of a lie as connoting something that is intentionally untrue— or untrue at all.

Handsome, Thin, Courageous, Liberal, And . . .

Ann Coulter, in her new best-selling book, How to Talk to a Liberal, on the Pro-Democrat message of a recent Hollywood movie:

The American President— message: DEMOCRATS WILL VOTE THEIR CONSCIENCES EVEN IF IT HURTS THEM POLITICALLY AND ALL REPUBLICANS EVER DO IS CALL PEOPLE NAMES. In this movie, Michael Douglas plays Bill Clinton as Clinton would like to be— handsome, thin, courageous, liberal, and widowed.

The Role Of The Individual In History

From Ann Coulter:

CBS showcased laughable forgeries obtained from a man literally foaming at the mouth in order to accuse the president of malfeasance. But CBS would never put a single one of the 264 Vietnam veterans on the air to say what they knew about Kerry.

The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth show the role of the individual in history. It wasn't Republican strategists who finished Kerry off two months before the election; it was the American people. The Swift Boat veterans came along and kicked Kerry in the shins and no matter how much heat they took, they were brave and wouldn't give up. The veterans who served with Kerry told the truth and the American people listened (as soon as they managed to locate a copy of "Unfit for Command" hidden on one of the back shelves at their local bookstores).

CBS was forced to run a fake story so early in the campaign that it was exposed as a fraud – only because of the Swift Boat vets. These brave men, many of them decorated war heroes, have now not only won the election for Bush, they have ended Dan Rather's career.

Does Anybody Miss The Ever-Charming Mr. Marlo Thomas?

From Rush Limbaugh's foreword to Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right:

Over on MSNBC, the soon-to-be-canceled Phil Donahue also displayed the left’s terrific sense of humor. In Slander, Coulter writes, “Even Islamic terrorists don’t hate America like liberals do. If they had that much energy, they’d have indoor plumbing by now.” Donahue incisively summarized Coulter’s point for his audience by saying, “If a liberal has indoor plumbing, he’s a hypocrite.”

Donahue’s interview took a nasty turn when— in utter seriousness— he asked Coulter to respond to the accusation that she was an anti-Semite.

DONAHUE: Let me just tell you. He accuses you, among other things, of being an anti-Semite.

COULTER: Maybe that will help me with the Muslims.

DONAHUE: He says that you left New York because you wanted to get away from all these Jews. Did you say that?

COULTER: I find this very interesting, that I write a book saying liberals won’t argue about things, instead what they do is call conservatives names. And I come on your show and all you’re doing is calling me names.

DONAHUE: No, I’m not calling you. I’m saying that this is . . .

COULTER: Right, you’re quoting other people who called me names.

Some Debating Tips From Ann

From Ann Coulter's Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right:

At the risk of helping liberals formulate more persuasive arguments, there are a few pointers that might help them upgrade from the overheated demagogic rhetoric of fanatical cult members. A little variation in epithets would at least create the illusion of having an argument. “Nazi” can be used properly in a sentence, but it tends to lose its sting when you call every Republican a Nazi. “Stupid” is also a fine word, but not for twenty-five Republican presidential candidates in a row. Using the same words to describe school vouchers as to characterize the Holocaust tends to leave the impression that you forgot your point.

Why Their Fawning Press Is A Problem For The Democrats

Since this is from Ann Coulter, the standard blood pressure warnings apply:

The problem with a suck-up press for Democrats is that with no adversary press to call them on it, Democrats develop wilder and wilder Walter Mitty fantasy lives until finally one day, when they are at the zenith of their political careers, someone notices that they're not Irish, they didn't deserve their war medals, 254 swiftboat veterans hate them, and they didn't spend Christmas Eve, 1968, in Cambodia. (Or that they are white-trash serial molesters and unrepentant rapists who somehow talked their way into an Arkansas governorship.)

So, Does This Make Sense To You?

From Ann Coulter's Treason : Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism:

To review the evidence:

• On September 11, 2001, more than three thousand Americans were murdered in a savage terrorist attack on U.S. soil by Muslim extremists.
• In October 2000, our warship the USS Cole was attacked by Muslim extremists
• In 1998, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim extremists.
• In 1996, a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia was bombed by Muslim extremists.
• In 1995, five Americans were killed by a car bomb set by Muslim extremists.
• In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed by Muslim extremists.
• In 1988, another passenger jet, Pan Am Flight 103, was bombed by Muslim extremists.
• In 1986, a West Berlin discotheque frequented by U.S. servicemen was bombed by Muslim extremists.
• In 1985, an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, was seized and a sixty-nine-year-old American was killed by Muslim extremists.
• In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut were blown up by Muslim extremists.
• In 1982, the U.S. embassy in Beirut was bombed by Muslim extremists.
• In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was stormed and American embassy staff held hostage for 444 days by Muslim extremists.

So naturally, Democrats refuse to allow law enforcement to look for Muslim extremists.

They Just Won't Go Away . . .

From Ann Coulter:

I was under the naive impression that Clinton administration scandals would end once the Clinton administration ended. Even I, someone who has not exactly had her eyes closed to Clinton-era buffoonery, did not imagine that the most corrupt administration in the history of the country would find a way to keep having scandals while out of office.

But poor old Sandy Berger ends up in hot water long after everyone's gone home. Someday we'll be reading about Clinton officials causing incidents in nursing homes. (Which Clinton administration official do you imagine that might involve?)

The Ten Percent Solution

Ann Coulter on John Edwards:

If he cared so deeply, how about keeping just 10 percent of the multimillion-dollar jury awards, rather than a third? In fact, as long as these Democrats are so eager to raise the taxes of "the rich," how about a 90 percent tax on contingency fees?

For someone who didn't care about the money, it's interesting that Edwards avoided cases in which the baby died during delivery. Evidently, jury awards average only about $500,000 when the babies die, and there is no disabled child to parade before the jury.

The Seer of Technology?

From Ann Coulter:

President Bush has never said that fetal stem cells cannot be used for research. He said "federal money" cannot be used to fund such research. If leading scientists believed fetal stem-cell research would prove to be so fruitful in curing Alzheimer's, why is the private money not pouring in hand over fist? Do you realize how many billions a cure for Alzheimer's would be worth, let alone all the other cures some are claiming fetal stem-cell research would lead to? Forget Alzheimer's – do you know how much middle-aged men would pay for a genuine baldness cure? Then again, Porsche sales would probably fall off quite a bit if we ever cured baldness.

But you can't blame Nancy. As everyone saw once again last week, she's still madly in love with the guy. She'd probably support harvesting full-grown, living humans if it would bring back Ronnie. Of course, I thought it was cute and not creepy that she consulted an astrologer about Reagan's schedule after he was shot. That didn't make astrology a hard science. But liberals who once lambasted Nancy for having too much influence on Reagan's schedule now want to anoint her Seer of Technology.

The lesson to draw from what liberals said about Reagan then and what they are forced to say about him now is that the electable Republican is always the one liberals are calling an extremist, Armageddon-believing religious zealot. That certainly bodes well for President George W. Bush this November, thank – you should pardon the expression – God.

So Now They Think He Was Charming

From Ann Coulter:

Now liberals claim they liked Reagan at the time. This is extremely believable – aren't we all fond of someone who regularly exposes us as liars, cowards and hypocrites? It's just human nature.

In fact and of course, liberals loathed Reagan. Their European friends loathed Reagan – the protests against our current president are positively anemic compared to the massive protests against President Reagan when he went to visit our dear "allies," whose sorry asses we spent billions of dollars defending against the Soviets for 50 years. Even the moderate Republicans currently trying to insinuate themselves onto Reagan's legacy weren't especially fond of Reagan at the time – especially when attacking him publicly would get them invites to the tonier Georgetown cocktail parties. Only authentic Americans loved Reagan.

The Ability To Distinguish Good From Evil

Ann Coulter on Sean Hannity's book Deliver Us From Evil:

Hannity says we face moral choices between good and evil every day. If we make excuses for evil – Hitler was a "madman," a pedophile priest was "weak" or, as philandering actor Ethan Hawke recently advised us, Bill Clinton "suffered from" infidelity – soon we cease being able to distinguish good from evil at all. (I would add to the excuses for evil, "It's just about sex.") With each choice we make, large and small, we take a step closer to the devil or a step closer to God. The leaders of the modern Democratic Party, Hannity says, have made excuses for evil for so long that they cannot recognize evil anymore.

I wonder what Hannity would think of the left-wingers who can't bring themselves to condemn The Daily Kos "Screw them." comment about the four mutilated American contractors in Iraq?

And No More Jodie Foster Movies

From the irrepressible Ann Coulter:

One Times review of "The Passion" said: "To be a Christian is to face the responsibility for one's own most treasured sacred texts being used to justify the deaths of innocents." At best, this is like blaming Jodie Foster for the shooting of Ronald Reagan. But the reviewer somberly warned that a Christian should "not take the risk that one's life or work might contribute to the continuation of a horror." So the only thing Christians can do is shut up about their religion. (And no more Jodie Foster movies!)

By contrast, in the weeks after 9-11, the Times was rushing to assure its readers that "prominent Islamic scholars and theologians in the West say unequivocally that nothing in Islam countenances the Sept. 11 actions." (That's if you set aside Muhammad's many specific instructions to kill non-believers whenever possible.) Times columnists repeatedly extolled "the great majority of peaceful Muslims." Only a religion with millions of practitioners trying to kill Americans and Jews is axiomatically described as "peaceful" by liberals.

How Time Changes Everything

From Ann Coulter:

Just a few years ago, the Democrats thought a pot-smoking draft-dodger would make a splendid president. But now they are enflamed at the thought that Bush didn't fight in Vietnam! In other words, it's honorable to march in anti-American protests in Europe when America is at war, but not to be a fighter pilot in the Texas Air National Guard.

Another Reason She's America's Sweetheart

Ann Coulter on Kwanzaa, the holiday from the FBI

America's Sweetheart

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"Civil Unions" (But Not Marriage!)

Ann Coulter: "Last week the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court discovered that the state constitution -—written in 1780—requires the state to allow gay marriages. The court gave the legislature six months to rewrite the law to comply with the heretofore unnoticed gay marriage provision in a 223-year-old constitution, leaving countless gay couples a scant six months to select a silverware pattern. The main lesson from the court's discovery of the hidden gay marriage clause is that these judges are in the wrong job. If they can find a right to gay marriage in the Massachusetts constitution—never before detected by any human being—we need to get them looking for Osama bin Laden. These guys can find anything!"

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Some Common Sense About Enron

Ann Coulter: "The only beef Enron employees have with top management is that management did not inform employees of the collapse in time to allow them to get in on the swindle. If Enron executives had shouted, 'Head for the hills!' the employees might have had time to sucker other Americans into buying wildly overinflated Enron stock. Just because your boss is a criminal doesn't make you a hero. The billions of dollars Enron employees 'lost' in paper profits they had gained only in the last few years. Between 1997 and 2000, Enron stock quadrupled in price, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index edged up only a few percentage points. In 2000, Enron stock was trading at an astronomical 66 times recent earnings. Until 10 minutes ago, people who made a quick buck in the stock market were dot-com millionaire yuppie scum. Now when the market collapses before they can cash out, they are 'the tale's most sympathetic characters, its victims.' Compared to what the stock was worth in 1997, Enron employees lost an average of about $20,000 per employee in the largest company failure in U.S. history. I've lost more money on Social Security in that time, and no one's weeping for me. "

An Interview With Ann Coulter

Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views): John Hawkins: You've caught a lot of heat for a couple of quotes you made. In your column three days after 9/11, you said, 'We know who the homicidal maniacs are.They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.' You also said in an interview with the New York Observer, 'My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.' Do you stand by those quotes or do you think that perhaps you should have phrased them differently?

Ann Coulter: Ozzy Osbourne has his bats, and I have that darn 'convert them to Christianity' quote. (Thank you for giving the full quote. I have the touch, don't I?) Some may not like what I said, but I'm still waiting to hear a better suggestion. RE: McVeigh quote. Of course I regret it. I should have added, "after everyone had left the building except the editors and reporters."