Ann's Song

Coulter: Thumbs down on Newt Gingrich.

Trumped

Ann Coulter disses the birthers.

She Tries Harder

Ann Coulter, writing about Gov. Palin in "Time":

The only thing I have against her is that she threatens to surpass me in attracting the left's hatred.

A Mother's Face

A moving reflection by Ann Coulter, who lost her mother last week (and her father last year):

I'll never see my mother's beautiful face again, at least not for the next several decades here on Earth. I've been looking at her across the room in doctors' offices over the past few years, thinking to myself: There will come a point when you won't see that face again.

Her angelic face always looked like home to me. My whole life, as soon as I'd see my mother's face I'd know I was safe, whether I was a little girl lost in a department store or a big girl with a problem, who needed her mother.

Bill And Ann And Ron And Nancy

Ann Coulter and Bill Maher, both gifted comic-polemicists, sparred over President Obama's stem cell research decision at a debate in New York:

That led to the two battling over Nancy Reagan, who has come out in support for Obama’s decision.

“Nancy Reagan was so madly in love with Ronald Reagan,” Coulter said, “if you told her that we could bring Ronald Reagan back to life, cure Alzheimer’s by disemboweling everyone in this audience, she would say ‘do it.’”

Maher: “So you’re saying Nancy Reagan, the patron saint of the Republican party ... ”

Coulter: “She’s not the patron saint of the Republican party.”

Maher: “She’s somebody you revere. ... You’ve just said she’s bats--t crazy.”

Coulter responded that it’s funny to see liberals — who once chided Reagan for following astrology — now trying to bring her into a science debate. “I never saw her as a seer of technology,” she added.

Ann's Wild Ride

Sitting in for Larry King, Joy Behar asked Ann Coulter if she's ever dated a liberal. Ann's reply:

I tried, but I couldn't take the dinky little electric car.

Two Chiefs

Old friends and former Nixon chiefs of staff Kathy O'Connor and Jack Brennan met up Thursday night for Ann Coulter's talk at the Nixon Library. Former White House military office aide Brennan ran RN's San Clemente office during the difficult years of 1974-80, while Kathy served beginning in 1990 (after ten years as his confidential secretary) and helped the Nixon family through Mrs. Nixon's illness and death in 1993. Kathy joined in the vigil at the President's bedside after the stroke that led to his death in 1994.

Jack was played by the less dynamic and handsome Kevin Bacon in "Frost/Nixon." We haven't cast Kathy yet.

Annie Get Your Gun

Hold onto your hats, Yorba Linda -- Ann Coulter's coming on Feb. 5 to address a sold-out crowd at the Nixon Library. A preview:

When [New York] Gov. David Paterson ended the Kennedy soap opera by appointing Democratic congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand, her Democratic colleague, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, blanketed the airwaves, threatening to challenge Gillibrand in the next election because of her NRA-approved stand on guns.

McCarthy explained, "My voice is for the victims."

The only reason McCarthy was elected to Congress in the first place is that her husband and son were shot by a crazed gunman on the Long Island Rail Road in 1993. Colin Ferguson's shooting spree wasn't stopped sooner because none of the passengers had guns. As has been demonstrated beyond dispute at this point, armed citizens save lives.

In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that the only public policy that reduced both the incidence and casualties of such shootings were concealed-carry laws. Not only are there 60 percent fewer gun massacres after states adopt concealed-carry laws, but the death and injury rate of such rampages are reduced by 80 percent.

Rep. McCarthy claims to "speak for the victims" by promoting policies that will probably create a lot more victims.