Ann Coulter’s new book is out, and is already annoying people. I laughed when I heard the punch line here read aloud via Audiobooks:

The stupidest of their students become journalists, churning out illiterate attacks on dissidents from the liberal religion. Within a few weeks of each other in early 2006, both Rolling Stone and Newsweek magazines displayed their ignorance of Biblical passages cited during interviews. In a Rolling Stone interview, Republican senator Sam Brownback criticized countries like Sweden that had legalized gay marriage, quoting the line from Matthew “you shall know them by their fruits.”

The interviewer, Jeff Sharlet, interpreted Brownback’s scriptural quotation as a homophobic slur. Soon gay groups were demanding an apology from the senator. (All I can say to that is: how niggardly of them.)
[Townhall.com Excerpt from Godless]

Jeff Sharlet claims in his own defence that he was being evil rather than stupid, deliberately misinterpreting what Brownback said, as if he were one or the other of Beavis and Butthead, and then goes on to do it again:

Get it? “Niggardly”? Tee-hee-hee. See, Coulter understands that I was making fun of Brownback for accidentally using the word “fruits” with relation to gay Swedes, so she wittily responds by almost calling gay groups [slur omitted].”

No, she’s calling them mindlessly politically correct, and comparing them to the people who persecuted David Howard in Washington DC, and Stephanie Bell for using the inoffensive word “niggardly” in front of people with small vocabularies.

Apparently Sharlet has never heard of these cases, even though if you do a Google search for the word, most of the first ten results refer to the controversy. See The Straight Dope: “Howard was pressured to resign by people who, as columnist Tony Snow put it, “actually demanded that he apologize for their ignorance.”But perhaps he does know, and is just being evil again, how could you tell?

Defend Colorado Now, an anti-illegal immigration organization had a ballot measure slated for the November elections that would deny state services to illegal immigrants…yes, they had a measure.

Manolo Gonzalez-Estay, a garden-variety activist (he does not seem to be affiliated with any particular group) challenged the ballot measure in court because it would deny services such as welfare and in-state college tuition to illegal immigrants.

Faster than you can say judicial activism, the Court struck down the measure because it supposedly violated a state rule which limits a ballot initiative to only one subject.

Follow this explanation from an AP article that came out a few minutes ago,

“According to the ruling, Defend Colorado Now touted the possibility of reducing taxpayer expenditures by restricting illegal immigrants’ access to services, as well as the goal of restricting access to services.”
Colorado Court Rules Against Ballot Measure by Jon Sarche AP 6/12/06

It restricts access to state services for illegal immigrants and it…restricts access to state services for illegal immigrants.

I’m not sure how that’s more than one subject but these namby-pamby judges seem to speak their own looney language these days.

Here’s the email page for the court.

Now here’s an interesting campaign strategy…

Jack Carter is a Democrat from Nevada challenging the incumbent Republican John Ensign for a Senate seat next November.

Yeah…and he’s soliciting help from the kiddies at MySpace.com–you know, the Blogosphere advertised as a place for kids to make new friends that in reality is more like a place for perverts to meet kids.

The Carter campaign website has a link called “get involved” which takes the reader to the “Jack Carter for Senate 2006 Nevada” homepage on MySpace.com.

“If you and your MySpace friends get five people apiece … Democrats will win in 2006,” he said.

Jack Carter Calls On MySpace Democrats Associated Press 6/12/06

Hmm…Dems surfing MySpace.com looking for new recruits–if the abundance of child molesters floating around that place isn’t enough to keep your kids away, this oughta do it.

Amongst the most heartening realizations since VDARE.com began operation is the sheer number of talented volunteer patriot writers who exist, sadly far more than editorial capacity is able to handle with appropriate speed. All of course are ignored and frozen out by the MSM. The same thing can sometimes be observed in the letter columns of the smaller newspapers around the country, which are occasionally less intolerantly policed than the metropolitan venues.

A case in point is a letter in Sunday’s Aspen Daily News: Immigration Reckoning is coming. Written by John Chipchase, apparently a retired border patrol agent, originally to Senator Frist, it is an admirably succinct and comprehensive statement of the immigration reform case

1. Illegal aliens generally do NOT want U.S. citizenship…Their main attraction is
employment and their loyalty usually remains at home. They want benefits
earned and subsidized by middle class Americans. What illegal aliens want
are benefits of American residence without paying the price.

2. There are no jobs that Americans won’t do…Illegal
aliens take low wage jobs, live dozens in a single residence home, share
expenses and send money to their home country…

5. This is NOT an immigrant nation. There are 280 million native born
Americans. While it is true that this nation was settled and founded by
immigrants (legal immigrants), it is also true that there is not a nation
on this planet that was not settled by immigrants at one time or another.

(Nice to see this argument, pioneered by VDARE’s Peter Brimelow, spreading)

Chipchase makes a total of eleven well-argued and efficiently presented points. Worth reading.

With men like this out there, the Treason Lobby is in trouble.