Ann Got There First

Ann Coulter covers our recent festivities. I'm not sure she's right about the racial breakdown - you'd think she'd know better than to trust the BBC - but she does revisit some of the old classics, like the Shannon Matthews non-kidnapping - remember that?

All of which is by way of making an important point: no, this didn't come of the blue. All that's happened is that a whole year's worth of Saturday nights have come at once. No one can say they weren't warned.

I'd say Ann would be able to get a whole book out of this stuff, but she already has.

You should read the whole book, but for now, a short summary: nothing is accidental. Liberals have been relying on mob violence since at least the French Revolution. Liberals stoke mobs, protect them, then create absurd heroic narratives about it all afterwards. They can't win in the marketplace of ideas, so they try and persuade chavs to burn the it down.

Perfect

Things you always knew, but couldn't put into words: meet the 'Ransom Note Method'.

Coulter!

On Pakistan this week - also known as the left's new front in the WoT:

Media darling Bhutto returned to Pakistan after fleeing the country following her conviction for corruption as prime minister. Her conviction was later overturned by the corrupt Pakistani Supreme Court, leaving me to ponder, which is worse: being convicted of corruption in a Pakistani court or being exonerated of corruption in a Pakistani court? She was again convicted in a Swiss court of money laundering.

The media adore Bhutto because she went to Harvard and Oxford, which I consider two more strikes against her. A degree from Harvard is prima facie evidence that she's on the side of the terrorists. I note that Bhutto demonstrates her own deep commitment to democracy by giving herself the title "chairperson for life" of the Pakistan Peoples Party.

Coulter D'Jour

Coulter on the MSM's preference for certain types of whistleblowers:

According to a Military Times survey taken in September 2004, active-duty military personnel preferred President Bush to Kerry by about 73 percent to 18 percent. Sixty percent describe themselves as Republican and less than 10 percent call themselves Democrat (the same 10 percent that MSNBC has on its speed-dial). Even among the veterans, Republicans outnumber Democrats 46 percent to 22 percent."

So there aren't a lot of anti-war military types for the media to turn into this month's "It Girl." (If conservatives ran the media, there would be a constant stream of government employees admitting to sloth and incompetence, welfare recipients admitting to being welfare cheats and public schoolteachers who support school vouchers.)

Coulter D'Jour

On healthcare:

As long as we're studying the health care systems of various socialist countries, are we allowed to notice that doctors in these other countries aren't constantly being sued by bottom-feeding trial lawyers stealing one-third of the income of people performing useful work like saving lives?

But the Democrats (and Fred Thompson) refuse to enact tort reform legislation to rein in these charlatans. After teachers and welfare recipients, the Democrats' most prized constituency is trial lawyers. The ultimate Democrat constituent would be a public schoolteacher on welfare who needed an abortion and was suing her doctor.

Next Talking Point: Lack Of Recycling Facilities In Baghdad

Now it looks like America is going to win in Iraq, libs have decided that security is all very well and good, but the war is lost unless there's a political solution. In other words, the Iraqis need to sort out their sleazy and ineffectual system of government, and develop the kind of efficient and incorruptible system we have in the Anglosphere.

Hmmmm.... maybe we could send Mandelson and Cherie out there to give them a few tips.

Meanwhile, Ann the Great reminds us that things were a little different back in the day....

The Democrats' current talking point is that "there can be no military solution in Iraq without a political solution." But back when we were imposing a political solution, Democrats' talking point was that there could be no political solution without a military solution.

They said the first Iraqi election, scheduled for January 2005, wouldn't happen because there was no "security."

Noted Middle East peace and security expert Jimmy Carter told NBC's "Today" show in September 2004 that he was confident the elections would not take place. "I personally do not believe they're going to be ready for the election in January ... because there's no security there," he said.

At the first presidential debate in September 2004, Sen. John Kerry used his closing statement to criticize the scheduled Iraqi elections saying: "They can't have an election right now. The president's not getting the job done."

About the same time, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said he doubted there would be elections in January, saying, "You cannot have credible elections if the security conditions continue as they are now" -- although he may have been referring here to a possible vote of the U.N. Security Council.

Come to think of it: John Kerry and Jimmy Carter ? If those two are offered as examples of what democracy produces, it's no wonder the Iraqis are leery about the whole thing.

Apparently, the left has decided to base its strategy on Monty Python's Black Knight. The invasion will be a blood bath! Chop. There's no political progress! Slice. There's no security! Slash

It wouldn't be so bad, but judging by the MSM, we're required to treat each new condition as though it isn't the seventy-third time the left has moved the goalposts. And that's without considering what it says about the left that their whole strategy is based on finding some form of words to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

You Don't Have To Be Mad To Be A Liberal Pin-Up, But It Helps

Spookily enough, the week after the David Shayler meltdown, the unspeakably wonderful Ann Coulter has given us a rundown of some of America's favourite Liberal pin-ups. Apparently, the Left's 'hump 'em and dump' attitude to the victim d'jour isn't just a British thing.

Coulter D'Jour

Red meat for Laban:

At the precise moment in history when the U.S. has abandoned any attempt to transmit Anglo-Saxon virtues to its own citizens, much less to immigrants, George Bush wants to grant citizenship to hordes of immigrants who are here precisely because they are fleeing cultures that are utterly dysfunctional and ruinous for the humans who live in them.

Yep, That Covers It

More wisdow from St Ann:

The great bounty of cheap labor by unskilled immigrants isn't going to hardworking Americans who hang drywall or clean hotel rooms — and who are having trouble getting jobs, now that they're forced to compete with the vast influx of unskilled workers who don't pay taxes.

The people who make arguments about "jobs Americans won't do" are never in a line of work where unskilled immigrants can compete with them. Liberals love to strike generous, humanitarian poses with other people's lives.