Hanging up on Ann Coulter

Bobble can indeed karate kick. He's been taking Pat Robertson's leg-lifting concotion and can now lift weights of over 2,000 pounds.

 

Go back and look at my post history, pud. You're into research, and you've got pals in here that are too. Maybe you can decipher it.

But let me give you a hint: This is a democracy where the individual vote counts. This is a republic where state's rights count.

You're on the clock.

Oh, and not to distract you, but Bush applauded the space program today. Seems too there's an astronaut from Daddy's favorite school, Texas A&M. I'm sure you can find some scandal in that.

Carry on.

 

OK, you're wrong.
This is neither a democracy nor a republic. It is both. The reason it is both is because the Founders were interested most of all in the protection of the rights of minority opinion. They realized that both a majority-rules democracy and an elite pure-republic could both be equally destructive of that. That is why they mixed both forms and came up with the system we have. (It's why we elect the House and the Senate in different ways, and why people insisted we have an explicit Bill of Rights when even Madison originally didn't believe we needed one.)
One of the aspects of this unique system is that the rights inherent in people -- and the equal protection of the laws regarding those rights -- cannot be voted away by anyone, or legislated away by a Congress, or ruled away by a judge. (And, no, the fact that gay people can marry under the civil law does not diminish your rights to be religiously opposed to it.)
States Rights is a canard that has failed several tests as a governing philosophy -- pragmatically, in the case of the Articles of Confederation andf the Confederate States of America, which latter was no longer a government in any real sense at the end of the war, and morally, in the case of Jim Crow and the resulting American apartheid.
So, IMHO, you're incorrect in your analysis.

 

So it's selective rights, depending on what your liberal refuse wants to consider under state's rights and what is considered the trusty job of the re-judicialize courts?

By the way, dipshit:

Would your high school English teacher or a college professor have given you an "F" for doing what Ann Coulter is accused of here?

Several leftist blogs and the New York Post have accused Ann Coulter of plagiarism. Particularly, they point to passages from her syndicated column and her latest book "Godless" that seem to match material written elsewhere. Universal Press Syndicate, which carries her column, has now rendered their verdict. According to them, there was no plagiarism. Says the president of the company: "There are only so many ways you can rewrite a fact and minimal matching text is not plagiarism." Back to square one for the Coulter-haters.

This comes on the heels of Coulter's publisher, Crown Publishing Group, which also laughed off the allegations, saying they were "as trivial and meritless as they are irresponsible." So much for that. So what exactly did she write that had the left's panties in such a knot? Well, nothing really. While some of the passages in question did somewhat match the source material, they were just rewrites of what someone else wrote about what happened.

One widely reported plagiarized passage was this, from her book "Godless:"

"The massive Dickey-Lincoln Dam, a $227 million hydroelectric project proposed on upper St. John River in Maine, was halted by the discovery of the Furbish lousewort, a plant previously believed to be extinct."

It originally ran in 1999...in a Portland, Maine newspaper:

"The massive Dickey-Lincoln Dam, a $227 million hydroelectric project proposed on upper St. John River, is halted by the discovery of the Furbish lousewort, a plant believed to be extinct."

While the passages are quite similar, it makes sense that they would be. They're describing a factual event that took place. But don't expect liberals to stop scrutinizing Ann Coulter...they'll be watching her. And something tells me Ann will be a bit more careful about how she rewrites things in the future. Too bad about the Dickey-Lincoln Dam.

 

Uh, speaking of plagiarism ...

 

The facts, dogshit.

Don't trip yourself on the truth.

 

Yeah, the facts ... One of them would be that there ain't no way in hell babble could string together that much readable copy without liberal use of the copy-paste function.

 

When unarmed with facts, throw insults.

You're a liberal piece of shit. Period.

There's no way in hell you win people to your side whose minds aren't already twisted in that direction.

Can't wait until the midterms.

 

Gentlemen:

Just checking in from page 5 to note that it is an impressive feat to take a thread about Ann Coulter and Adam Carrolla, then make it dumber than the two subjects combined. Congratulations.

 

Thanks. Some of us are trying. For others, it's coming rather naturally.

 

It's how these threads always go. Last year, I probably would have been in the mix. I find it better to sit on the sidelines now -- less stress.

 

I'm not running in the midterms. I'm going for the top spot.

You must've missed the campaign poster:

Dog in '08: Couldn't be worse than the last eight years.