Viewpoint: Why Ann Coulter Matters
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The firestorm over her comments about the 9/11 widows showed that America's obsession with loving or hating Coulter is a psychological phenomenon almost unique in our culture
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As John Kerry paused and uttered the word lesbian in last week&#39;s presidential debate, the dials started to turn. Frank Luntz, a former Republican pollster who now has corporate clients, was
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Is it time to turn down the volume on TV news? A handful of developments this fall suggest a brewing backlash against opinionated news, most personified by those cable segments that set people up to argue political points, or outshout each other.
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Sometimes really smart people say really dumb things. Here's a case in point.
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Recently we have seen dis- cussions by the president and first lady and two op-ed pieces about stem cell research, one on Aug. 12 by Richard Cohen and one on Aug. 15 by Michael Kinsley. Only the column by Mr. Kinsley came anywhere close to presenting the ...
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The Republicans have a plank on just about everything. They've taken positions not only on disabled people and hunters, but specifically on disabled hunters. They found 80 different things to "applaud" in their platform, 17 to "hail" and a dozen to "commend."
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Three newspapers said this week they  will drop Ann Coulter's column after the conservative author  referred to U.S. Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards  as a "faggot."
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On a recent political round table on CNN, Ann Coulter took a swipe at Canadians, saying that we should consider ourselves "lucky that [we] are allowed to exist on the same continent" as the US.     Alright, Ann, this isn't the first time that an American has denied our right to exist. It's been going on for most of US history. But let's say, for the sake of argument, that we exist at the USA's continued sufferance. If we're that much trouble, why not do what your implications in those statements suggest.    Invade. You're bound to do better than you did before.    Just remember that last time, someone  burned the White House down.
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An inside look at Israel's extreme right wing
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Ever wonder why fear-mongering seems to work so well at the pollsâwhile appeals to reason often leave the electorate cold? A new book applies neuroscience to politics to figure out why the Democrats struggle to push the buttons in voters' brains.
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Comment is free: Polly Toynbee: The rightwing male commentators spit bile at her, but Harman is the necessary choice for a party that wants to win.
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Commentary: Conservative Beltway pundits have been panning the candidate's first days, but their opinion isn't what counts the most
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Everyone always expected the spouse of a Democratic presidential candidate to steal the spotlight. No one thought it would be Elizabeth Edwards. From a recent challenge to conservative pundit Ann Coulter to criticism of Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Edwards' wife has embraced the role of her husband's defender while showing a willingness to utter complaints others are reluctant to say.
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To abortion opponents, Phill Kline is a standard bearer. For abortion rights activists, he's a dangerous ideologue.
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Comment is free: Naomi Klein: So keen are America's leaders to hear dissent they're videotaping the dissenters. Welcome to a world of total surveillance.
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Ann Romney has grown into the role of the most outspoken Republican wife.
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Viewpoint: The controversy over a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer is a sign of the deep suspicion on both sides of the cultural divide. It needn't be that way