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The LOTUS Blog has a limited number of signed copies of the exclusive documentary about Ann Coulter, Is It True What They Say About Ann?  This DVD is the perfect gift for graduation, Father’s Day, or belated Mother’s Day (do send flowers in the mean time). 

Click here to order your signed copy of Is It True What They Say About Ann? through Paypal for only $30.00 (USPS priority shipping included!).

Review of Is It True What They Say About Ann?:

Recently the movie biz has taken the Conservative Movement by storm. In the last few months, conservatives released more than a dozen documentaries. Is It True What They Say About Ann?  tackles the misconceptions and outright lies about author and columnist Ann Coulter. I was particularly interested in seeing the film because I coordinated and attended many of the events from the documentary’s footage. Also included are interviews with critics of conservative ideas, including TV-host Bill Maher, pundit Susan Estrich and the lovable, and Democratic pollster Pat Caddell. Several protestors from Miss Coulter’s 2003 lecture at Johns Hopkins University were also interviewed. The moments that define her critics are when several of the protestors admit that they’ve never read her books or columns.

As a fan of Ann, it would have been great to see more credence given to her enormous popularity on college campuses. She is one o the most popular campus speaker and we get calls every day from students eager to annoy their liberal professors. Sponsoring a lecture by Ann Coulter is an attractive solution. It’s thrilling for the students because she is always willing to meet and talk to them until the last question is asked and the last book is signed — things many of the other heavy hitters don’t do. Patrick Wright, co-director of Is It True What They Say About Ann?, explained, “I think that we start with all the rhetoric and things that are said about Ann and then move in closer to what Ann is about.”

The documentary is successful in showing viewers Miss Coulter’s quick wit and delivery that is best witnessed in person. Her personality shines and no one can deny the obvious enjoyment she takes in ripping liberals to shreds and then celebrating with fellow conservatives afterwards.

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LOTUS has a limited number of signed copies of Ann Coulter’s latest bestseller, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.  It makes a great Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day or Graduation gift!  The cost is $35 per book, which includes USPS priority shipping.  Order securely through Paypal by clicking below. 

If above PayPal link doesn’t work for you, e-mail LOTUS at lisajanine1112 (at) yahoo.com.

I don’t have much to add that hasn’t already been written by people much more eloquent than I am.  Instead I’ll just post this witty exchange:

“Mr. Buckley,” one non-fan wrote in 1967, “you are the mouthpiece of that evil rabble that depends on fraud, perjury, dirty tricks, anything at all that suits their purposes. I would trust a snake before I would trust you or anybody you support.”

Responded Buckley: “What would you do if I supported the snake?”

UPDATE: Be sure to check out Ann Coulter’s column this week.  She recalls some of Buckley’s “shocking” retorts.  She writes, “I prefer to remember the Buckley who scandalized to the bien-pensant. “  Coulter and Buckley are similar in at least two ways.  Both have a dry wit that I love and both always seem to use words I have to look up. 

Jen Lancaster nicely sums up my feelings on New Year’s resolutions and, specifically, people who ask for yours.  Our failures are hard enough to admit to close friends.  So, why do nosy strangers insist on asking?  Jen writes on Jennsylvania.com:

The thing is, resolutions are rarely about what we already find kind of awesome about ourselves, like I resolve to continue to be a great parent, or I resolve to continue to visit my senile grandma in the nursing home three times a week or I resolve to keep adopting third world babies. 

(OK, maybe just Angelina Jolie on that last one.)

Point is, resolutions generally entail what we don’t like about ourselves, as in I’m too fat or I’m disorganized or my spending is out of control.  Therefore, when you, a perfect stranger, ask me about my resolutions, you’re basically requesting I lay all my flaws bare and I think it’s incredibly rude and presumptive, especially when you’re in no position to help me achieve whatever it is I resolve to do.

So, going forward, if you ask me what my New Year’s resolutions are, I’m not going to give you the bullshit I resolve not to make any resolutions! answer.  Instead, I’m going to tell you this:

I resolve to be self-aware enough to spot potential problems within myself and to begin to work on them immediately, without a making a public announcement or waiting to start the improvements on an entirely arbitrary date.

Colorado’s KKTV reports:

A religious freedom foundation says it has uncovered evidence that bolsters its federal lawsuit claiming that the military is permitting widespread violations of religious freedom at installations across the country.

Included in the evidence disclosed yesterday are photos and videos of religious materials and activities at Fort Riley in Kansas, the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, and Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

The evidence is part of a lawsuit filed by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation — headed by 1977 Air Force graduate Mike Weinstein.

Among the evidence is a book for sale at the Fort Riley post exchange titled “A Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam.”

Other evidence includes a display outside a military police battalion’s office with a quote from conservative columnist Ann Coulter that reads: quoting — “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”

Military officials say their policy is to accommodate all religious beliefs.

I actually think it should be mandatory to have Coulter’s quote in every military office, cubicle, tank and tent.  In fact, if you know anyone currently serving in the military, send their APO address to me at lisajanine1112 (at) yahoo.com and I’ll gladly send them this poster of Coulter* at my own expense.  

*This asterisk absolves LOTUS from any repercussions that may come from the PC police and their time-wasting antics against the military.

This Washington Times photo caught my attention today.  Sure the President doesn’t do everything we want him to, but what a wonderful photo.  The President is completely at ease, the First Lady looks regal and the adorable little boy doesn’t seem to care that he’s resting his arm on the President of the Free World.  The expressions on their faces are just heartwarming.

Photo caption:

President Bush and first lady Laura Bush, accompanied by Malik Lawson, 7, whose mother, Sgt. Sherry Martin, serves in Iraq, attend the Children’s Holiday Reception and Performance in the East Room of the White House this morning. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times)

Negotiations between Hollywood writers and their employers have been at a standstill for several weeks. The writers’ strike won’t affect most prime-time programs for some time since studios have enough material in the hopper to get them through the season. The strike has, however, affected daily shows like The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Late Show with David Letterman. It should be noted that Late Night with Conan O’Brien is one of the few programs paying its support staff while the Writers’ Guild haggles over their right to first class airfare. (See Jennsylvania.com for a succinct viewpoint from a working-class writer.)

The strike has led the programs of media darlings Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to rely on reruns. Given that they have cable shows with mediocre ratings by prime-time standards, it’s peculiar that they would be mentioned in nearly every article about the writers’ strike. The fact that they use writers should come as a shock to many people since we have to endure the mainstream media’s multiple orgasms over the brilliance of Stewart and Colbert. Perhaps the real writers are on to something. If I were one of them, I would strike, too.

Click here to read my latest column.

Lisa DePasquale, a Northern Virginian, says she likes the simple things in life. You know: walking her dog, watching The Simpsons, and analyzing football games (or “buffilicious” players, to be specific). She is a girly-girl, satirical blogger, bright writer, Bionic Republican – my guess – and the director of the very – very! – influential Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Most importantly, she makes readers laugh. I’m her No 1. Australian fan.

Read the rest of the Q & A with Intellectual Conservative’s Ben-Peter Terpstra here.  Great questions!

[Welcome AnnCoulter.com readers!  Please check out the rest of the LOTUS blog.] 

In Godless Ann Coulter wrote, “Liberals are perennially enraged that Republicans are allowed to talk back.” As such, this has spawned “Hugo Chavez Democrats” that make it their life’s work to get conservatives blacklisted from the media.  The Left’s perpetual whining is usually funny, but not so much when the spineless surrender to them.  Last week Daily Kos turned their attention to columnist Rachel Marsden.  Marsden wrote a well-read column for the Toronto Sun and appears frequently on Fox News and other networks.  Daily Kos objected to her recent column on waterboarding and this joke Marsden made on CNN:

I suppose that those who object to terror suspects getting water up the nose would say that, as a young competitive swimmer, I was also tortured. It was called “hypoxic training” — swimming underwater and holding our breath until we passed out. Our coaches didn’t call it torture, just an exercise in “mental toughness.” So think of it this way — terror suspects are getting some free mental toughness training courtesy of the U.S. government.

Daily Kos posted contact information for Marsden’s Toronto Sun editor and encouraged people to get her column removed from the newspaper.  “pale cold” wrote:

But we don’t have to sit and take it. Speak up! All Canadian Kossacks can write a letter. If any American Kossacks want to vent, hey, please! Make the Toronto Sun aware of how abhorrent and completely UNCANADIAN they are for publishing such tripe. If they don’t want to live in a country with morals and humanitarian ethics? They know where the door is. I suspect that the rest of Canada won’t lose any sleep in their absence.

torsun.editor@sunmedia.ca

Guess what?  It worked.  The Toronto Sun was inundated with e-mails from the nutjobs at Daily Kos.  Their new liberal editor-in-chief Lou Clancy notified Marsden that after a two-year relationship the Toronto Sun is dropping her weekly column. 

As most conservatives would, Marsden is wearing the Daily Kos’s campaign against her as a badge of honor.  Marsden responded on her website:

Attention terrorists and Islamofascists: You can now read the Toronto Sun without having your delicate sensibilities offended, as my weekly column is no longer with Sun Media. I am currently exploring US syndication and other venues for the column. In the meantime, you can continue to read it here at RachelMarsden.com, every Monday. And yes (to respond to some of your queries), after more than 2 years of writing weekly for the Sun, I’ve been under a new Editor-in-Chief, Lou Clancy, since October 5th, who comes from Canada’s most liberal newspaper: The Toronto Star. My column about Islam was spiked on his first day at the job. Best of luck to any principled conservatives who remain.

Show your support for Rachel Marsden by purchasing her cheeky ”CIA Center For Aquatic Excellence Waterboarding Team” t-shirt.  All proceeds will be donated to the Children of Fallen Soldiers Relief Fund.

It should be noted that despite the Left’s protests, apparently torture does work.  Perhaps we should scrap waterboarding and force terrorists to read page after page of incoherent rants from the Daily Kos e-mail monkeys.  It gets results: Toronto Sun editor Lou Clancy folded in just a few hours.

In this month’s GQ, “Anonymous” writes that Republicans “are the best party in bed.”  Sure, the reasons are a little over the top (example: “No conscience!”), but that doesn’t make her overall point any less true. 

Hmm… I hope MOTUS (Mom of the United States) doesn’t read the LOTUS blog.