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<p>Morning television darling Katie Couric may be extra early to work Wednesday.</p> <p>That's when Couric may get to settle a score with one of the scheduled guests on "Today," conservative commentator Ann Coulter.</p> <p>Coulter is supposed to show up to promote her new, 205-page book, "Slander," which hits bookstores Tuesday. In the tome, she rips into A-list names from the worlds of media, politics and entertainment in her quest to expose "liberal lies about the American right."</p>

Some people think of pundit Ann Coulter as a razor-tongued right-winger. But in her latest book, "Slander," she's a human Uzi -- spraying a volley of invective at members of the media establishment.Among those who come under heavy fire -- for allegedly spreading what Coulter labels "liberal lies about the American Right" -- are "Today" show anchors Katie Couric and Matt Lauer; U.S. News & World Report owner Mort Zuckerman and his one-time girlfriend, feminist icon Gloria Steinem; the New York Times's ArthurSulzberger, Howell Raines and Maureen Dowd; and our Post colleague Howard Kurtz. Click here for the entire column.

This whistle-blower they like In their enthusiasm to bash the Bush administration for its handling of the war – which Democrats consider an annoying distraction from the real business of government, which is redistributing income – the left has embraced FBI agent Coleen Rowley as a modern Joan of Arc. From liberal headquarters in Times Square, Maureen Dowd fawns over Rowley, calling her "the blunt Midwesterner" painting a "stunning and gruesome portrait of just how far gone the bureau is." Frank Rich calls her "a forthright American woman." At least they seem to have gotten over their disdain for government...

SINCE SEPT. 11, we have been authoritatively informed that buildings as tall as the World Trade Center will never be built again. A "consensus" quickly emerged among city officials to replace the soaring Twin Towers with some potty-little buildings and a park. Make Comments View Comments Printable Article Email Article But at a meeting to discuss the future of the site last week, hundreds of New Yorkers showed up and shocked the experts by demanding that the towers be rebuilt. One man, who worked on the 77th floor of 1 World Trade Center, said: "Please do not diminish the memory...

Would Mohamed Atta object to armed pilots? In a new safety initiative, the Department of Transportation has instituted an affirmative-action program for Arabs interested in pursuing careers in aviation. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta explained the security advantages of the program, saying, "surrendering to discrimination makes us no different than the terrorists." Since you can't tell these days: This is not, in the strict sense, true. It is true, however, that the department has prohibited pilots from carrying guns and has rejected the idea of a "trusted traveler" program. In fact, it's not doing anything to make the airlines any safer....

What do Democrats know now? Republicans were so dumbstruck by the mendacity of Democrats claiming President Bush had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11 attack, they have overlooked the most stunning legerdemain of this accusation. Suppose Bush had known 18 Muslim immigrants planned to hijack four planes on Sept. 11. What could he have done? Throw Arabs out of the country? Put them in preventive detention? Order airport security to take an extra little peek at swarthy men boarding planes? Liberals won't let us do that now! In a girly-girl, eye-poking attack, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., has demanded...

French voters tentatively reject dynamiting Notre Dame Liberals have finally found a people even more worthy of their admiration than the adulterous French: synagogue-burning, genital-mutilating, terrorist-cheering Muslims. Ordinarily, Jean-Marie Le Pen of France's National Front Party would be the left's ideal politician. He regularly denounces U.S. "imperialism." He opposed the Gulf War. He is supported by communists. He so despises religion that he happily married a divorcee, pleased that he would not have to marry her in a church. He has lots of affairs – the centerpiece of France's superiority to America. But liberals don't like Le Pen. They want...

Parental advisory: This column discusses 'speech' Whenever a Supreme Court opinion is bristling with references to Renaissance paintings, classical mythology, and "art and literature throughout the ages," you know the court is about to invoke the First Amendment to protect "Bisexual Schoolgirls' Porn Pictures." Writing for the court, Justice Anthony Kennedy struck down a perfectly sensible federal child porn law last week. Though you might think the attorney general was preparing to rip "War and Peace" off the shelves, the law simply extended the reach of the federal child pornography laws to computer-generated "virtual" images of minors engaging in sexually...

Having wearied of opposing the war on terrorism, Democrats are now trying to sabotage the country's energy policy. A better idea, they think, is to continue sending large amounts of money to countries that nurture homicidal Muslims intent on destroying America. George Bush has proposed drilling in a tiny, desolate portion of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR. According a leading Democratic opponent of the plan, lying is the key to defeating ANWR. ABC-NBC-CBS have been accompanying discussions of ANWR with picturesque footage of caribou frolicking in lush, fertile fields – all of which happens to be nowhere near...

You know you've lived a good life when both Fidel Castro and Bill Clinton mutter your name in disgust. If Vlad the Impaler knew about Orlando Bosch, he'd have belched out Bosch's name, too. Just a few months ago, Fidel Castro was regaling an audience in Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion with tales of Bosch's perfidy. In the sort of crisp, punchy speaking style that draws millions to hear him (nearly as much as the threat of execution), Castro compared Bosch to the Sept. 11 terrorists. Bosch, Castro said, was the perpetrator of a "monstrous terrorist act." Similarly, Clinton invoked...

The Rube Goldberg Clinton Rehabilitation Project I thought they wanted to "move on." But now that all the statutes of limitations have expired, liberals won't shut up about Bill Clinton. To little evident success, they have been desperately been trying to launch their lumbering Rube Goldberg of a Clinton Rehabilitation Project for months now. It's striking how the many testaments to Clinton's vaunted accomplishments follow a precise script, invoking the exact same talking points. The single most important talking point is to smear conservatives as "obsessed" and "Clinton-haters." Clinton-lovers want to be able to drone on about his "legacy" without...

I like black people too, Julia! I tuned in late and consequently can speak only to the last three hours of Halle Berry's acceptance speech at the Academy Awards last Sunday. But inasmuch as she engaged in wild race-baiting to get her Oscar, her expressions of shock were not very believable. She had spent weeks complaining about one time she did not get a role because of her color. It was the part of a forest ranger. Arnold Schwarzenegger probably has trouble getting cast as a ballet dancer, too. And yet still, somehow, white guilt worked on Hollywood liberals! Berry...

Despite the growing media consensus that Catholicism causes sodomy, an alternative view – adopted by the Boy Scouts – is that sodomites cause sodomy. (Assume all the usual disclaimers here about most gay men not molesting boys, most Muslims being peaceful, and so on.) It is a fact that the vast majority of the abuser priests – more than 90 percent – are accused of molesting teen-age boys. Indeed, the overwhelmingly homosexual nature of the abuse prompted The New York Times to engage in its classic "Where's Waldo" reporting style, in which the sex of the victims is studiedly hidden...

An honest reporter on Bush On a week when Janet Reno – architect of Waco and the Elian Gonzalez raid – complains about the war on terrorism on the grounds that she has "trouble with a war that generates so many concerns about individual liberties," it really doesn't matter what Frank Bruni writes about George Bush. At least the Bush administration is rousting foreign terrorists rather than harmless American citizens and a small Cuban boy. Still, at the risk of my job with Human Events and his with The New York Times – I really love Frank Bruni's new book,...

Democrats regularly insult the intelligence of half the public in order to win the votes of the terminally stupid. As long as their lies bamboozle enough clods to give them a political edge, they will say absolutely anything. The Easily Demagogued are a key Democratic constituency – right after Steely-Eyed Zealots. Thus, for example, even after Bill Clinton was exposed as a slightly tackier version of Jimmy Swaggart, the Democrats could not stop insulting our intelligence, sonorously intoning that it is not perjury if it's "just about sex" or – contradictorily – it is also not perjury if the witness ...

Mineta's Bataan death march According to initial buoyant reports in early February, enraged travelers rose up in a savage attack on the secretary of transportation. Hope was dashed when later reports indicated that the irritated travelers were actually rival warlords, the airport was the Kabul Airport, and Norman Mineta was still with us. Thanks to the hard work of the Department of Transportation, which had already arrogated to itself responsibility for commercial air safety, 19 Muslim terrorists had absolutely no difficulty in turning four planes into cruise missiles almost simultaneously on Sept. 11, resulting in the death of thousands of ...

RadioFR CPAC INTERVIEW BROADCAST SCHEDULE Starting on Monday, February 25,[TONIGHT] from 6-8 Pacific, 9-11 Eastern we will be broadcasting the interviews from CPAC. The interviews were conducted by one or more of the following freepers: The Shrew, Iron Jack, The Glaswegian, Skeet and SUSSA. Day One, Monday: 2/25 Mark Levin- Landmark Legal Foundation Ann Coulter-Conservative columnist Tom AdkinsCommon Conservative Chuck Muth- Republican Liberty Caucus Lori Waters- Eagle Forum Darin Marks-YAF, National SecretaryDay Two, Tuesday: 2/26 Gary Aldrich-The Patrick Henry Center Niger Innis-Congress on Racial Equality Marcia Richards-Evergreen Freedom Foundation Phil Kent- Southeastern Legal Foundation Matt Robinson-Author &quot;Mobocracy&quot; Jim Martin-60-Plus AssociationDay ...

Put the tax cut in a lock box Democrats have been champing at the bit to raise our taxes since the halcyon days of a Democratic Congress and president, when Bill Clinton's tax plan brilliantly engineered a historic Republican takeover of Congress. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has said, "With the war on terrorism, I just don't think it's in our best interest to go forward with the tax cuts." Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said we need to "revisit the tax cut in the midst of a recession." Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., said "we" can't afford the Bush tax cut and ...

The Robert C. Byrd Bridge To Poverty The poor's sense of class superiority over the rich is getting out of hand. At a Senate Budget Committee hearing last week, Sen. Robert Byrd, who was named after a bridge in West Virginia, viciously attacked Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill for having made a success of himself. Claiming to speak for worthless layabouts, Byrd snippily informed O'Neill: "They're not CEOs of multibillion-dollar corporations. ... In time of need, they come to us, the people come to us." Evidently what the people-in-need are asking for is a lot of federal projects named after Senator ...

TownHall.com: Conservative Columnists: Ann CoulterQUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | RIGHTPAGES | CHAT | WHAT'S NEWtownhall.comAnn Coulter (back to story)February 8, 2002Being liberal means never having to say sorryDear President Bush: &quot;(O)ur international problems are utterly intractable, and the sooner we recognize this, the better. ... We should figure out clever ways to declare victory at the first decent opportunity and remove our troops (from Afghanistan).&quot; Love, Bruce Ackerman Yale law professor (from New York Times column dated Nov. 6, 2001) Insistent that victory abroad was impossible -- one week before Kabul fell -- Professor Ackerman breezily ...