Alan C. Posted February 22, 2013 Posted February 22, 2013 If you can stand the screeching succubus. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
Rick Horton Posted February 22, 2013 Posted February 22, 2013 This is so odd, isn't it? She really has no clue what libertarians believe, does she? It's creepy how us free thinking Libertarian/Voluntaryists/aNARCHISTS are almost a different specieas than the talking heads and icons of the Mainstream mediaticians.
Heath Long Posted February 22, 2013 Posted February 22, 2013 I cannot watch. I will not watch. I resigned from being involved in neocon bullshit several years ago. If I want to make myself intentionally angry, I will read the comments on any WSJ, NYT, or LA Time article...or perhaps poke my own eye with a needle.
Summerstone Posted February 23, 2013 Posted February 23, 2013 I was skeptical as heck but opted to watch. Glad I did. Thanks for sharing, Alan.
Heath Long Posted February 23, 2013 Posted February 23, 2013 I did not mean any offense to Alan. Love the articles you post. Ms. Ann just makes me cringe because she can be so spot on, and in the same sentence be bat shit crazy. It makes me think that she is a professional liar.
Magnus Posted February 23, 2013 Posted February 23, 2013 The whole debate is pointless. The entire point of government is to find new ways to control people. "Limited government" is a pipe dream. A fantasy. An oxymoron. Appealing to government to limit itself is nonsense. As a result, there is no room in politics for a libertarian position. Promoting a libertarian government is like supporting a pacifist boxer -- political freedom is the opposite of what government exists to do. She is right about one thing, though -- economic issues are far more important than the Window Dressing issues. Politicians merely use the social issues to wind people up, get attention and extract support. That's just for show. The real business of government is about money.
Alan C. Posted September 22, 2014 Author Posted September 22, 2014 Ann Coulter wants to 'drown' libertarians
LovePrevails Posted September 22, 2014 Posted September 22, 2014 I have never had time for that lunatic she said we should invade all these countries and convert them to Christianity she has always been a pernicious bitch
shirgall Posted September 22, 2014 Posted September 22, 2014 Ann Coulter gets money from attention. She gets attention by making controversial statements and getting pulled into talk shows to talk about them. When people see her having an off the wall argument they get interested in her writing and buy her books. It's not clear she believes "in" anything. It's a very simple formula that works for her, and the only way to derail it is to ignore her.
fractional slacker Posted October 9, 2014 Posted October 9, 2014 Ms. Coulter, like Stef often notes, is hella smart and a fantastic writer. Her criticisms of the left are second to none. However, she is a typical partisan statist with no use for those of us who realize politics and voting is for losers.
NumberSix Posted October 9, 2014 Posted October 9, 2014 She is right about one thing, though -- economic issues are far more important than the Window Dressing issues. Politicians merely use the social issues to wind people up, get attention and extract support. That's just for show. The real business of government is about money. The war on drugs is not a trivial issue. Millions are in jail, billions of dollars wasted, and it is the gateway to a facist police state. It also involves a core issue of does the government have the right to tell people how to live their life.
Magnus Posted October 9, 2014 Posted October 9, 2014 The war on drugs is not a trivial issue. Millions are in jail, billions of dollars wasted, and it is the gateway to a facist police state. It also involves a core issue of does the government have the right to tell people how to live their life. I agree. But compared to the back-of-house operation that occupies most of the government's attention (i.e., the banking cartel for whom the U.S. government works), the War on Drugs is small potatoes. Drug laws are, however, useful to them for cowing, frightening and otherwise (literally) beating the populace. No doubt about it.
PatrickC Posted October 9, 2014 Posted October 9, 2014 I don't know enough about what the average Libertarian lobbies for in the US. But pot legalization does (or at least used to be) a top of many of their agenda. She's a pragmatist of course, which doesn't necessarily excuse her. However, as has already been said, she is also a great disseminator of the ills of the Left, which makes a lot of her thoughts in this regard particularly productive. As for the rest, well I can shrug it off as baseless assertions and her rather insatiable desire to annoy anyone who is not neocon. Watching this mind, I do think she has mellowed in older age. That could be me of course. I got tickled when the independent lady complained about her wanting to make divorce harder. If it's in reaction to 'no fault' divorce, then I'm with Ms Coulter.
Heam Posted October 11, 2014 Posted October 11, 2014 The fact this passes for political discourse shows you how useless it is to engage with the political establishment. Why is somebody like coulter even up on stage? What does she bring?
Freedomain Posted October 11, 2014 Posted October 11, 2014 Ms. Coulter, like Stef often notes, is hella smart and a fantastic writer. Her criticisms of the left are second to none. However, she is a typical partisan statist with no use for those of us who realize politics and voting is for losers. Exactly. The research in her books and her criticism of the left is absolutely fantastic.
Panzermk2 Posted October 16, 2014 Posted October 16, 2014 Ms. Ann just makes me cringe because she can be so spot on, and in the same sentence be bat shit crazy. It makes me think that she is a professional liar. BINGO
PatrickC Posted October 16, 2014 Posted October 16, 2014 Ms Coulter educating four leftist females regarding race baiting and history. In a very polite and civil manner I might add. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0Hb80gki_E
fractional slacker Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 Not that anyone cares, but if you are a John Stossel fan he will be interviewing Ms. Coulter tonight on FOX news. The topic will be about Ms. Coulter hating on libertarians for not voting republican and hence possibly costing them seats in the Senate. I would probably watch if I had a tv, oh and cable.
J. D. Stembal Posted October 24, 2014 Posted October 24, 2014 Coulter was getting close to making an important point about legalizing marijuana, but the short segment had to cover a myriad of topics. I am all for ending the War on Self-Medicating Americans, but paying a 40% mafia protection overhead to smoke legal weed in Colorado isn't my idea of the best strategy for promoting freedom and liberty. If I were interested in breaking my sobriety, I would buy from a more traditional drug trader so as to screw the state out of the unearned spoils of war.
AustinJames Posted October 24, 2014 Posted October 24, 2014 Ms Coulter educating four leftist females regarding race baiting and history. In a very polite and civil manner I might add. This is why I appreciate Ms. Coulter. When I fancied myself a political conservative, I read a few of her books, and have not lost much respect for her since my conversion to anarchy. As has been said, her criticisms of the left are spot-on; it's her suggested solutions that need further scrutiny. This video was a perfect example of people entrenched in a particular paradigm, frustrated at their failure to invoke self-attack, resorting to emotional arguments and anecdotal assertions. Coulter did nothing but present facts, and yet she was met with nothing but incredulity and hostility. Whoopi seemed particularly discombobulated, like she refused to even understand the arguments at which Coulter was driving. The audience was silent when Ms. Coulter spoke, as well, which indicates to me (because there were no "boo's") that there was some real cognitive dissonance going on in response to her statements. I respect her the same way I do Rush Limbaugh; criticisms are spot-on, 99% of the time, and they're not afraid of being hated. In fact, they seem to derive the same satisfaction as any virtuous person ought from being hated. Whatever the flaws in their suggested solutions, I respect people with that level of grit.
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