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Gas Cost: Is it just us, or do Obama's policies sound suspiciously like that "Annie" song: Don't worry about today's killer pump prices, a bright energy sun will come out tomorrow. When gasoline prices topped $4 a gallon in 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama had a simple message for voters: There's nothing that can be done about it today. Certainly not offshore drilling. Obama trashed Sen. John McCain's call to open up vast tracts of offshore oil to exploration and drilling. It would not, he said in June 2008, "lower gas prices today. It would not lower gas prices this...

CHICAGO (AP) - The iconic redheaded orphan Annie is ending her time on newspaper comics pages after 85 years. Tribune Media Services announced Thursday that it will cease syndication of the "Annie" strip on June 13.

Here is a breaking news video report tonight on the discovery of "human remains" inside a wall in the basement of the Yale University Medical Building. The remains are believed to be that of Yale Grad student Annie Le who has been missing since last Tuesday, when she was last seen entering the medical building . . . (VIDEO)

It's been weeks since the last one, so on Sunday, The New York Times Magazine featured yet another cheery, upbeat article on single mothers. As with all its other promotional pieces on single motherhood over the years, the Times followed a specific formula to make this social disaster sound normal, blameless and harmless -- even brave. These single motherhood advertisements include lots of conclusory statements to the effect that this is simply the way things are -- so get used to it, bourgeois America! "(A)n increasing number of unmarried mothers," the article explained, "look a lot more like Fran McElhill...

... New York, NY, 11/15/08 - New York University College Republicans are proud to announce their keynote speaker for this semester will be Ann Coulter. “Ann Coulter at New York University” is scheduled for Wednesday, December 10th, at 7:00 p.m. in the Eisner and Lubin Auditorium. She will be appearing before a sell out crowd of 450 students, faculty, and members of the community. The Eisner and Lubin Auditorium is located on the 4th floor of the Kimmel Center at 60 Washington Square South. . Ann Coulter is a political commentator, syndicated columnist, and 6-time New York Times Best Selling...

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A "virtual fence" to defend our border with Mexico? You know, detectors and sensors and cameras and the like, but not a physical barrier? That's the considered policy position of Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, which he shares with such homeland security experts as Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and Michael Chertoff, secretary of Homeland Security. All of them support a virtual fence -- because any fool can see that walls don't work. Bricks, concrete, barbed wire, all that: overrated! We don't need physical boundaries between us, only virtual boundaries. That's why we'd never...

ANN COULTER, dressed in black pants, black top and a sleeveless brown leather vest, her reddish blonde hair falling around her shoulders, a large silver cross on a silver chain around her neck, does not have angel eyes. In fact the best-selling author's eyes are narrow and hawkish. In the vast basement ballroom of a Washington hotel where, for three days, more than 5000 conservative activists have assembled to restore their faith in themselves and connect with the spirit of Ronald Reagan, the incongruity of the song - a 1960s paean to teenage infatuation - was beside the point. For...

Ann Coulter hates liberals with an undying passion. Although that's common knowledge and usually the first thing most people know about this conservative diva, you're probably thinking that that's not the best way to start an article in which the goal is to, in a way, glorify and defend her from those men and women who covet the safety of political correctness. Yet, it's the truth. First and foremost, "political correctness" are two words that are not in Coulter's vocabulary, nor should they be. Why are we, as a society, so concerned with what other people want to hear? We've...

Ann Coulter to appear on CSPAN WASHINGTON Journal, Friday Morning at 8 AM, and again later on Hannity and Colmes at 9PM

For those of you who missed it last night on Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes, famed author and pundit Ann Coulter (who people often compliment for her good looks) is apparently smitten with a certain soldier. Last night on H&C, after one of the hosts mentioned Lt. Gen. James Mattis, Coulter requested that from then on the hosts referred to Mattis as “Ann’s future husband". Sean Hannity chuckled and mentioned it as he sent the show to commercial break. James Mattis, the Lieutenant General who our friends over at HundredPercenter are currently saluting as “Our Modern Day Patton", gained...

In those rare moments where I’m actually embarrassed, I have a standard quip that eases the burden: “I’m used to being embarrassed. I’m a black conservative.” Well, it’s pull-the-paper-bag-down-over-my-head time again, courtesy of Ann Coulter, who for the purposes of this column is Miss Ann Coulter, and I give not a tinker’s dam whether she pardons the pun. Coulter is the conservative author and columnist who can match wits and words with the best of them. She’s fairly good-looking, but she’s no Halle Berry (More on that later.) I pondered whether I should pick up Coulter’s latest work — How...

If CNN doesn't hire them, Dan Rather and his producers can always get a job teaching at the Columbia School of Journalism. The Columbia Journalism Review recently defended the CBS report on George Bush using forged National Guard documents with the Tawana Brawley excuse: The documents might be "fake but accurate." Dan Rather and his crack investigative producer Mary Mapes are still not admitting the documents were fakes. Of course, Dan Rather is still not admitting Kerry lost the election or that a woman named Juanita Broaddrick credibly accused Bill Clinton of rape. Responding to Bill O'Reilly's question in a...

Ann Coulter: The liberals are fasting for the inaugural. Who's going to break the news to Jerry Nadler and Michael Moore?

On Jan. 3, I met Ann Coulter at an Italian restaurant on the Upper East Side. She was glowing, stunning, radiant. Better than ever. She was wearing a powder blue shirt, black pants, black boots and a cross around her neck made of diamonds. I hadn’t seen her since the Republican convention. Since then, the President had been decisively re-elected, her book How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) hit the New York Times best-seller list, where it remains, and some dopes threw pies at her during a speech she was giving at the University of Arizona and...

The single biggest event of 2004 was the Election Day exit poll, which, like John Steinbeck's "The Short Reign of Pippin IV," made John Kerry the president for a few moments. But in a move that stunned the experts, American voters chose "moral values" over an America-bashing trophy husband and his blow-dried, ambulance-chasing sidekick. The second biggest event in 2004 came on Sunday, Dec. 26, when The New York Times referred to an organization as a "liberal research group." (I think it may have been the Communist Party USA, Trotskyite wing, but, still, it's progress.) CBS eminence Dan Rather was...

Interview by Carlos Baroni, Oriana d'America, Italy, October 2004 Q: Many liberals are rich, come from the East Coast, are white, studied at the Ivy university. You are rich (I hope), come from Connecticut, are white and studied at Cornell. Why do you hate the liberals? A: Because I know so many of them. Liberals are clueless, amoral sexual degenerates, communists and pacifists – no offense to you or your readers intended, of course. Q: You said the USA's worst enemy are the liberals. A: So what's the question? The enemy within is often far more damaging than the enemy...

(snip) End Note And we leave you with a belated and un-Christmasy Christmas thought given to us by none other than that the liberal-blasting, knock-you-off-your-seat Ann Coulter, as posted on her Web site last week. Stand back, people, here it comes: "To The People Of Islam: Just think: If we'd invaded your countries, killed your leaders and converted you to Christianity YOU'D ALL BE OPENING CHRISTMAS PRESENTS RIGHT ABOUT NOW! Merry Christmas." When we asked Coulter what the response was to this little ditty, she e-mailed us: "It's a big hit!" We bet.

Bill O'Reilly Exposes Coulter's Nonsense For those of you who think I have nothing good to say about Bill O'Reilly, listen up. I was ready to applaud him last night during a rerun of a segment, previously unseen by me, with him and Ann Coulter about demonizing political opponents. Of course, the only demonizing under discussion was done by the left against the right. O'Reilly started out the interview with a good question for Coulter. "Is there a difference between what you do and the attacks on Clarence Thomas and Condoleezza Rice?" Not surprisingly, Coulter thought there was, and she...

'It's wabbit season!' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: November 24, 2004 7:40 p.m. Eastern © 2004 Universal Press Syndicate Admittedly, still reeling from the nastiest Democratic campaign since sorority rush at sniper school, the country could do with a little civility. But victorious Republicans behave like Warner Bros. gophers Mac 'n' Tosh: "Awfully sorry, old boy." "No, not at all – after you." There's something to be said for coming out swinging. We won! The nation is lousy with red states! It's wabbit season! The country has witnessed a relentless Republican juggernaut for the past quarter-century. But Republicans can't shake the notion that...

Here is Ann Coulter's upcoming weekend Schedule, including up to Tuesday

Ann Coulter will be on Larry King Alive after the debate

<p>LOS ANGELES -- Tony Award-winning actor Keene Curtis, who played Daddy Warbucks in ``Annie'' on Broadway and was the upstairs restaurant owner on the TV show ``Cheers,'' has died. He was 79.</p> <p>Curtis died Sunday from complications of Alzheimer's disease at a retirement center in Bountiful, Utah, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.</p>

They have called Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ''Uncle Thomas'' and ''lawn jockey for the far right.'' They hope out loud that ''his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early, like many black men do, of heart disease.'' They called Newt Gingrich ''stupid.'' Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush are just said to be ''dumb.'' Linda Tripp, Paula Jones and Katherine Harris were pronounced ''ugly.'' And, of course, Christian conservatives are always dubbed ''right-wing extremists,'' ''ayatollahs'' or simply ''the religious right.'' ''Racist''... ''bigot''... ''fascist''... ''homophobe''... and, of course, the always popular, ''Nazi'' -- these are...