Is Ann Coulter on a suicide mission as she goes to Berkeley?UPDATE: Cancels

April 26, 2017 — bunkerville

UPDATE: Ann backs out. YAF backs out, no one would insure her security.  Maybe this tells us why.

April 26 (Reuters) – Conservative commentator Ann Coulter has canceled her speech planned for this week at the University of California’s Berkeley campus after a dispute with university officials, who feared violent protests, over whether a safe venue could be found.

“There will be no speech,” she wrote in an email to Reuters on Wednesday, saying two conservative groups sponsoring her speech were no longer supporting her. “I looked over my shoulder and my allies had joined the other team,” she wrote. (Reporting by Mark Hosenball in Washington and Jonathan Allen in New York)

Ann Coulter Says She Will Pull Out of Speech at Berkeley – The New …

Ann Coulter has said she still is planning to rumble. No doubt will face the anarchists and Commies on Thursday as she goes to Berkeley. Since the YAF pulled out support, she has indicated she will speak where she can. Around 6:00 pm. Thursday. If she goes to Sproul Plaza, this will be the site of the early 1970’s violence that many of us remember. Add to the mix that it has been reported that the  Oath Keepers | Oath Keepers on showing up for her security. The Berkeley police said that they have no plans to protect her. Clearly an order to stand down was given at the last unrest. Could this be the start of the second “shot heard round the world?” Here we go:

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Young America’s Foundation (YAF) has pulled out of Ann Coulter’s Thursday event at UC Berkeley, blaming the college for allowing left-wing extremists to terrorize conservatives on campus.

The University of California at Berkeley is bracing for massive protests and potential violence in an open, public space known as Sproul Plaza after hearing that conservative commentator Ann Coulter plans to give a speech there Thursday.

The state flagship university has become ground zero for an intense confrontation between the far left and the far right since Donald Trump’s election in November, with some protesters trying to stop controversial speakers from appearing on campus and others objecting that such actions violate their right to free speech. Some of the clashes have devolved into riots, leaving the school and city to struggle with how best to balance the free exchange of ideas with community safety.

In February — and twice more since then — masked protesters turned demonstrations over the boundary between free speech and hate speech into violent confrontations, setting fires, causing injuries and leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars of property damage in their wake.

“The character of that attack on campus was unprecedented,” UC-Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks said Tuesday.

Coulter said in an email late Tuesday night that she plans to arrive at Berkeley sometime after 6 p.m. on Thursday. She said she is still hopeful that Berkeley will provide “an appropriate room” for the event and that she is still unsure when and where she will speak. College Republicans had been discussing the possibility of Sproul Plaza for Coulter’s speech since the university canceled Thursday’s planned event and so far has declined to provide a venue for it on that day. More at Washington Post

“When Young America’s Foundation confirmed Ann Coulter would speak at UC-Berkeley as part of YAF’s nationwide campus lecture program on April 27, we assumed UC Berkeley would take all steps necessary

 “As of 4:00 p.m. today, Young America’s Foundation will not be moving forward with an event at Berkeley on April 27 due to the lack of assurances for protections from foreseeable violence from unrestrained leftist agitators,” they continued. “Berkeley should be ashamed for creating this hostile atmosphere.”
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Ann Coulter saw the Supreme Roberts train wreck coming

June 29, 2012 — bunkerville

I am too weary to attempt to opine on any “bright side” of the Supreme Court ruling. I will let that for other Conservatives who choose to remain in somewhat of a denial state as to how devastating this was. I hear somehow, just like progressives, there was some sort of higher good in the decision,  Of course, yet to be determined. Four members were prepared to send the whole law into oblivion. A dream come true. 

How is it that Ginsburg got 99 votes for approval by the Senate when up for her nomination? When she was head of the ACLU? As for the GOP, getting Borked again is the fear de jour, so we settle for the unknown.

So the Bunkervites got together last night to commiserate and drown our sorrows over the fact that what is left is that the quality and quantity of our lives will be diminished.  And we did this to ourselves by the pick of John Roberts. Comrade Matrix mentioned that Ann saw this coming. Good, I said, that will be the best I can do for a post tomorrow. So here we go. Thanks Mr. Bush.

Ann Coulter prophesied the coming split between Chief Justice Roberts and conservatives back in 2005, writing that “Stealth nominees have never turned out to be a pleasant surprise for conservatives.”

After pretending to consider various women and minorities for the Supreme Court these past few weeks, President Bush decided to disappoint all the groups he had just ginned up and nominate a white male.

So all we know about him for sure is that he can’t dance and he probably doesn’t know who Jay-Z is. Other than that, he is a blank slate. Tabula rasa. Big zippo. Nada. Oh, yeah … We also know he’s argued cases before the Supreme Court. Big deal; so has Larry Flynt’s attorney.

But unfortunately, other than that that, we don’t know much about John Roberts. Stealth nominees have never turned out to be a pleasant surprise for conservatives. Never. Not ever.

Since the announcement, court-watchers have been like the old Kremlinologists from Soviet days looking for clues as to what kind of justice Roberts will be.

Coulter titled the post “SOUTER IN ROBERTS’ CLOTHING”  Full Story at Ann Coulter

H/T:Buzz Feed

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Obama National Security Policy: Hope Their Bombs Don’t Work

May 6, 2010 — bunkerville

Thanks Batman for saving us

Ann Coulter at her very best over at Human Events:

……So now, I gather, our only strategy is to hope the terrorists’ bombs keep fizzling.
There’s no other line of defense. In the case of the Times Square car bomber, the Department of Homeland Security failed, the Immigration and Naturalization Service failed, the CIA failed and the TSA failed. (However, the Department of Alert T-Shirt Vendors came through with flying colors, as it always does.)

Only the New York Police Department, a New York street vendor and Shahzad’s Rube Goldberg bomb (I do hope he’s not offended by how Jewish that sounds — Obama can apologize) prevented a major explosion in Times Square.
Even after the NYPD de-wired the smoking car bomb, produced enough information to identify the bomb-maker, and handed it all to federal law enforcement authorities tied up in a bow, the federal government’s crack “no-fly” list failed to stop Shahzad from boarding a plane to Dubai.
In a bit of macho posturing this week, Obama declared that — contrary to the terrorists’ wishes — Americans “will not be terrorized, we will not cower in fear, we will not be intimidated.”
First of all, having the Transportation Security Administration wanding infants, taking applesauce away from 93-year-old dementia patients, and forcing all Americans to produce their shoes, computers and containers with up to 3 ounces of liquid in Ziploc bags for special screening pretty much blows that “not intimidated” look Obama wants America to adopt.
Intimidated”? How about “absolutely terrified”?
Second, it would be a little easier for the rest of us not to live in fear if the president’s entire national security strategy didn’t depend on average citizens happening to notice a smoldering SUV in Times Square or smoke coming from a fellow airline passenger’s crotch.
But after the car bomber and the diaper bomber, it has become increasingly clear that Obama’s only national defense strategy is: Let’s hope their bombs don’t work!
If only Dr. Hasan’s gun had jammed at Fort Hood, that could have been another huge foreign policy success for Obama.
The administration’s fingers-crossed strategy is a follow-up to Obama’s earlier and less successful “Let’s Make Them Love Us!” plan.
In the past year, Obama has repeatedly apologized to Muslims for America’s “mistakes.”
He has apologized to Iran for President Eisenhower’s taking out loon Mohammad Mossadegh, before Mossadegh turned a comparatively civilized country into a Third World hellhole. You know, like the Ayatollah has.
He has apologized to the entire Muslim world for the French and English colonizing them — i.e. building them flush toilets.
He promised to shut down Guantanamo. And he ordered the mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to be tried in the same courthouse that tried Martha Stewart.
There was also Obama’s 90-degree-bow tour of the East and Middle East. For his next visit, he plans to roll on his back and have his belly scratched like Fido.
Despite favorable reviews in The New York Times, none of this put an end to Islamic terrorism.
So now, I gather, our only strategy is to hope the terrorists’ bombs keep fizzling.
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The new wave of female firebrands striking fear into liberal America

November 16, 2009 — bunkerville

“Politics on the right used to be a parlour game played by old, white men,” said Bowler. Palin changed that and Bachmann has followed. They have replaced the dulcet tones of grey-haired Washington senators with Midwestern vowels and Alaskan twangs. They have risen swiftly through careers forged a long way from Washington, wearing their outsider label as a badge of pride. They have given conservatism the look of a middle-American suburban soccer mom with first-hand experience of raising a family in tough times.

Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann

She is a striking brunette with a decidedly outspoken attitude. She lambasts President Barack Obama as a socialist and has become the darling of America’s right-wing activists who flock to her appearances. She is hated by liberals and loved by conservatives.

Sarah Palin? Not quite. Meet Michele Bachmann, a Republican congresswoman from Minnesota who is being hailed as a new and increasingly powerful voice in American politics.

She is part of an increasingly visible “female brand” of conservatism that is rising in America in the wake of the election of Obama. They include notable syndicated commentators such as Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter, whose dislike for liberals has grown ever more shrill in recent months.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/15/michele-bachmann-president-sarah-palin

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