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Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole
A New York Times Bestseller!
Ann Coulter is back, more fearless than ever. In Adios, America she touches the third rail in American politics, attacking the immigration issue head-on and flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrants' crimes, churches that get paid by the government for their "charity," and greedy Republican businessmen and campaign consultants—all of whom are profiting handsomely from mass immigration that’s tearing the country apart. Applying her trademark biting humor to the disaster that is U.S. immigration policy, Coulter proves that immigration is the most important issue facing America today.
Ann Coulter is back, more fearless than ever. In Adios, America she touches the third rail in American politics, attacking the immigration issue head-on and flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrants' crimes, churches that get paid by the government for their "charity," and greedy Republican businessmen and campaign consultants—all of whom are profiting handsomely from mass immigration that’s tearing the country apart. Applying her trademark biting humor to the disaster that is U.S. immigration policy, Coulter proves that immigration is the most important issue facing America today.
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First published June 1, 2015
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Ann Coulter
30 books449 followersAnn Hart Coulter is an American conservative media pundit, author, syndicated columnist, and lawyer. She became known as a media pundit in the late 1990s, appearing in print and on cable news as an outspoken critic of the Clinton administration. Her first book concerned the impeachment of Bill Clinton and sprang from her experience writing legal briefs for Paula Jones's attorneys, as well as columns she wrote about the cases. Coulter's syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate appears in newspapers and is featured on conservative websites. Coulter has also written 13 books.
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January 19, 2017
Americans, did you know that liberals are planning to destroy your country through immigration? If not, the redoubtable Ann Coulter will educate you. The sample of "facts" she has provided on her site to unmask this conspiracy is pretty impressive.
However, I am sad that Ann does not dwell on successful immigration strategies of the past, used in America, such as:
1. The use of smallpox on the native population
2. Forced migration
3. Bans on indigenous religion
4. Genocide
A chapter devoted to the above, I feel, would have given her book more historical depth.
----------------------------
It seems Good Ol' Annie is running out of steam. For the past three weeks, she has been talking about the same points regarding immigration, on her website. And the book is now selling at 20% off.
And - this is the most worrying thing - Ann seems to have become less offensive nowadays! Her latest blog post is positively polite.
What's up, old girl? Buck up! America will miss the old offensive Ann Coulter. You can't become decent on us now!
----------------------------
Annie's going strong on her site. I think this is the sixth straight week she's laying into Mexicans. But she seems to have lost her bite - just saying the same things over and over again.
Many crimes are committed by Mexicans. Some immigrants are Mexican. Ergo: Most crimes are committed by immigrants.
Don't ask me how that logic works!
July 16, 2015
Nuclear deal inked with Iran this week. Israel jumping up and down, throwing a tantrum. And Ann is still bashing the immigrants? I expected a scathing attack on Obama and dire warnings of imminent nuclear war in the Middle East.
Dear Ms. Coulter, as a person who regularly reads your hate-sheet, let me tell you: you are running out of steam. Soon, people will start calling you a one-trick pony.
July 23, 2015
Well, well! DonaldDuck Trump is leading the race for candidacy in the GOP! And Ann is going strong - I really think Trump should pick her as his running mate.
These are the possible scenarios:
1. Trump loses candidacy: Adios, Donald.
2. Trump wins candidacy but loses the election: Adios, GOP.
3. Trump wins the election: Adios, America.
August 26, 2015
Now that even Republicans are trying to distance themselves from Trump (as any sensible person would do), apparently Ann sees it as her mission in life to single-handedly make him president. So for the past few weeks, her weekly hate-sheet is nothing but a repetition of Trump's wacky arguments, with her brand of "evidence" (which means half-truths and outright lies, with a veneer of truth coated on them). But I think she has feels in her heart of hearts that she is fighting a lost cause - most Americans are simply not bigoted to the level she'd like them to be.
September 3, 2015
"I am obsessed with Donald Trump. I wish I could cancel my book tour and just lie in bed watching his speeches all day long. I'm like a lovesick teenager studying Justin Bieber videos." - Ann Coulter in her latest blog entry.
What did I tell you? These two are made for each other!
October 1, 2015
For those of you who praise Ann's "hard facts" and "meticulous research" in her books, I provide a sample below from her blog today.
This is not only false propaganda - this is also atrocious statistics. But then, the redoubtable supporters of the GOP would swallow anything; I know from reliable sources that they think that Fox News is a real news channel.
March 17, 2016
Well, well! The estimable lady is changing her stand to include Cruz also in her list of favourites in her latest blog post - maybe she feels that it may not be the cakewalk for Trump that she expected? Of course, she says that Cruz is getting votes only because he has taken the same stand as Trump on immigration and building walls (I haven't heard Cruz endorse that idea, BTW).
March 24, 2016
In the latest issue of her hate-sheet, Ann is advocating a total ban on all Muslims because according to her, they are the root of all violence (she has even equated Islam to Nazism - don't ask me how that works: it's "Ann-logic").
While the above is debatable, I don't think anybody will dispute the fact that guns are the root of gun-violence (at least, an essential accessory). However, I have never seen Ann advocating the banning of guns - in fact, I think she supports them.
I think there's some vital clue here that I'm missing.
April 7, 2016
The latest from Anne:
Emphasis mine.
I'm lost. Honesty? And conservative values?
Is she being sarcastic here?
May 08, 2016
Anne says on her blog:
What happened, Annie? Losing your confidence in good ol' Don? Afraid that he will sell out his rabid supporters, once he gets to sit on the throne?
October 12, 2016
The way the election is shaping up, I am afraid it may really be adios to America as we know it. Whatever is happening to the august office occupied by the likes of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln?
January 19, 2017
Tomorrow, a person who does even know how to tweet properly will occupy the august chair of the President of the United States of America. Will he do all the things me promised, and really make it adios to America?
BTW, there's a way he can really build the wall, it seems:
HOW DONALD TRUMP COULD ACTUALLY, POSSIBLY GET MEXICO TO PAY FOR HIS RIDICULOUS BORDER WALL
Will he go for it?
However, I am sad that Ann does not dwell on successful immigration strategies of the past, used in America, such as:
1. The use of smallpox on the native population
2. Forced migration
3. Bans on indigenous religion
4. Genocide
A chapter devoted to the above, I feel, would have given her book more historical depth.
----------------------------
It seems Good Ol' Annie is running out of steam. For the past three weeks, she has been talking about the same points regarding immigration, on her website. And the book is now selling at 20% off.
And - this is the most worrying thing - Ann seems to have become less offensive nowadays! Her latest blog post is positively polite.
What's up, old girl? Buck up! America will miss the old offensive Ann Coulter. You can't become decent on us now!
----------------------------
Annie's going strong on her site. I think this is the sixth straight week she's laying into Mexicans. But she seems to have lost her bite - just saying the same things over and over again.
Many crimes are committed by Mexicans. Some immigrants are Mexican. Ergo: Most crimes are committed by immigrants.
Don't ask me how that logic works!
July 16, 2015
Nuclear deal inked with Iran this week. Israel jumping up and down, throwing a tantrum. And Ann is still bashing the immigrants? I expected a scathing attack on Obama and dire warnings of imminent nuclear war in the Middle East.
Dear Ms. Coulter, as a person who regularly reads your hate-sheet, let me tell you: you are running out of steam. Soon, people will start calling you a one-trick pony.
July 23, 2015
Well, well! Donald
These are the possible scenarios:
1. Trump loses candidacy: Adios, Donald.
2. Trump wins candidacy but loses the election: Adios, GOP.
3. Trump wins the election: Adios, America.
August 26, 2015
Now that even Republicans are trying to distance themselves from Trump (as any sensible person would do), apparently Ann sees it as her mission in life to single-handedly make him president. So for the past few weeks, her weekly hate-sheet is nothing but a repetition of Trump's wacky arguments, with her brand of "evidence" (which means half-truths and outright lies, with a veneer of truth coated on them). But I think she has feels in her heart of hearts that she is fighting a lost cause - most Americans are simply not bigoted to the level she'd like them to be.
September 3, 2015
"I am obsessed with Donald Trump. I wish I could cancel my book tour and just lie in bed watching his speeches all day long. I'm like a lovesick teenager studying Justin Bieber videos." - Ann Coulter in her latest blog entry.
What did I tell you? These two are made for each other!
October 1, 2015
For those of you who praise Ann's "hard facts" and "meticulous research" in her books, I provide a sample below from her blog today.
Republicans should be sweeping the country, but they aren't, because of Kennedy's immigration law. Without post-1965 immigrants bloc-voting for the Democrats, Obama never would have been elected president, and Romney would have won a bigger landslide against him in 2012 than Reagan did against Carter in 1980.
This isn't a guess; it's a provable fact. Obama beat Romney by less than 5 million votes in a presidential election in which about 125 million votes were cast. More than 30 million of Obama's votes came from people who arrived under Teddy Kennedy's immigration law; fewer than 10 million of Romney's did.
This is not only false propaganda - this is also atrocious statistics. But then, the redoubtable supporters of the GOP would swallow anything; I know from reliable sources that they think that Fox News is a real news channel.
March 17, 2016
Well, well! The estimable lady is changing her stand to include Cruz also in her list of favourites in her latest blog post - maybe she feels that it may not be the cakewalk for Trump that she expected? Of course, she says that Cruz is getting votes only because he has taken the same stand as Trump on immigration and building walls (I haven't heard Cruz endorse that idea, BTW).
March 24, 2016
In the latest issue of her hate-sheet, Ann is advocating a total ban on all Muslims because according to her, they are the root of all violence (she has even equated Islam to Nazism - don't ask me how that works: it's "Ann-logic").
While the above is debatable, I don't think anybody will dispute the fact that guns are the root of gun-violence (at least, an essential accessory). However, I have never seen Ann advocating the banning of guns - in fact, I think she supports them.
I think there's some vital clue here that I'm missing.
April 7, 2016
The latest from Anne:
The Cruz cultists don't even care about plain honesty, which I always thought was a conservative value.
Emphasis mine.
I'm lost. Honesty? And conservative values?
Is she being sarcastic here?
May 08, 2016
Anne says on her blog:
I'm bitter and cynical enough on immigration that I don't trust anyone not to betray us. But if there was ever a candidate we could believe will build a wall and stop the mass importation of the Third World, it's Trump.
What happened, Annie? Losing your confidence in good ol' Don? Afraid that he will sell out his rabid supporters, once he gets to sit on the throne?
October 12, 2016
The way the election is shaping up, I am afraid it may really be adios to America as we know it. Whatever is happening to the august office occupied by the likes of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln?
January 19, 2017
Tomorrow, a person who does even know how to tweet properly will occupy the august chair of the President of the United States of America. Will he do all the things me promised, and really make it adios to America?
BTW, there's a way he can really build the wall, it seems:
HOW DONALD TRUMP COULD ACTUALLY, POSSIBLY GET MEXICO TO PAY FOR HIS RIDICULOUS BORDER WALL
Will he go for it?
February 12, 2018
I don't think I could ever rate a book of political commentary 5 stars. So this gets the 4 stars even though in these times Ann Coulter is at the top of the game. I don't always agree with Ms.Coulter's opinion but she does a good job expressing her platform along with the use of statistics to back up her statements. Really my only complaint with this book would be some of the detailed descriptions of illegal immigrant crimes. List some of these individual crimes for what they are and then just give us the over all statistics.
And there is nothing politically correct about Ann Coulter ... fairly warned ye be.
"... it's pointless to talk about what to do with the illegal aliens already here until we've secured the border. When the bathtub is overflowing, the very first thing you do is: TURN OFF THE Water. You don't debate whether to use a rag or a mop to clean up the water, whether to get a bucket or put a hose out the window, whether to use towels or sponges. The No.1 priority is: Shut off the water."
Excerpts can be spoiler(ish)
And there is nothing politically correct about Ann Coulter ... fairly warned ye be.
"... it's pointless to talk about what to do with the illegal aliens already here until we've secured the border. When the bathtub is overflowing, the very first thing you do is: TURN OFF THE Water. You don't debate whether to use a rag or a mop to clean up the water, whether to get a bucket or put a hose out the window, whether to use towels or sponges. The No.1 priority is: Shut off the water."
Excerpts can be spoiler(ish)
June 15, 2015
Ann Coulter's books always make me angry, because she clearly and concisely describes the people and parties who are acting against the interests of my country and culture. This book made me furious, for the same reason. She has focused on the single major problem from which all our other problems spring.
I was raised in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington DC in the 1970s and 1980s, but by 2000 my wife and I felt we needed to leave that area because it had changed so much since we were children, and not for the better. The flood of immigrants--many of them illegal--into the area had so radically changed the culture of the neighborhoods and towns in which we grew up, we felt like strangers in our own home towns. Entire small cities had become foreign colonies: Annandale to the Koreans, Arlington to the Vietnamese, Lower Alexandria to the Hondurans and Guatemalans, Manassas Park to the Mexicans...all these had become places where white Americans now visited at their peril. Crime had skyrocketed, and taxes had striven to match that pace in order to pay for new jails, new welfare services, more water and electrical infrastructure, the visits of illegal aliens to the emergency room, translators to cater to anchor babies in the schools, and on and on. The flood of foreigners into my beloved Virginia is why I named my new home in Idaho "Amon Eglan"..."Hill of Exile."
It didn't need to be this way. Rational civilizations protect their borders and their culture. America stopped doing this around 1965 when we allowed Leftist Ted Kennedy to ram through his immigration "reform" because we felt sorry for the deaths of his brothers John and Robert (at the hands of Leftist radicals). It had become apparent that Leftists would never be able to win elections on the merits of their policies, so they decided to change the electorate itself by opening the flood gates to millions of immigrants who would enter the country and be instantly dependent on government largess--a reversal of decades of policy of determining what potential immigrants could contribute to America, not what taxpayers could do for them.
So now, as Ann Coulter makes abundantly obvious, we have a Leftist government that wants to establish a permanent constituency of dependents, aided by a Leftist press that refuses to report the actual damage that unrestricted immigration has done to America. That's why we have headlines like "Boise Man Convicted of Human Trafficking" or "Arlington Man Arrested for Murder" when in fact the "men" being referred to are immigrants, usually illegal aliens, who have come here to prey on Americans. They are no more "Boise men" or "Arlington men" than I would be a member of your family if I broke into your house and took up residence in your daughter's bedroom. Ann is one of the few Americans to identify America's immigration "policy" for what it is: a way to establish a permanent Democratic voting majority and the end of the American republic.
I was raised in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington DC in the 1970s and 1980s, but by 2000 my wife and I felt we needed to leave that area because it had changed so much since we were children, and not for the better. The flood of immigrants--many of them illegal--into the area had so radically changed the culture of the neighborhoods and towns in which we grew up, we felt like strangers in our own home towns. Entire small cities had become foreign colonies: Annandale to the Koreans, Arlington to the Vietnamese, Lower Alexandria to the Hondurans and Guatemalans, Manassas Park to the Mexicans...all these had become places where white Americans now visited at their peril. Crime had skyrocketed, and taxes had striven to match that pace in order to pay for new jails, new welfare services, more water and electrical infrastructure, the visits of illegal aliens to the emergency room, translators to cater to anchor babies in the schools, and on and on. The flood of foreigners into my beloved Virginia is why I named my new home in Idaho "Amon Eglan"..."Hill of Exile."
It didn't need to be this way. Rational civilizations protect their borders and their culture. America stopped doing this around 1965 when we allowed Leftist Ted Kennedy to ram through his immigration "reform" because we felt sorry for the deaths of his brothers John and Robert (at the hands of Leftist radicals). It had become apparent that Leftists would never be able to win elections on the merits of their policies, so they decided to change the electorate itself by opening the flood gates to millions of immigrants who would enter the country and be instantly dependent on government largess--a reversal of decades of policy of determining what potential immigrants could contribute to America, not what taxpayers could do for them.
So now, as Ann Coulter makes abundantly obvious, we have a Leftist government that wants to establish a permanent constituency of dependents, aided by a Leftist press that refuses to report the actual damage that unrestricted immigration has done to America. That's why we have headlines like "Boise Man Convicted of Human Trafficking" or "Arlington Man Arrested for Murder" when in fact the "men" being referred to are immigrants, usually illegal aliens, who have come here to prey on Americans. They are no more "Boise men" or "Arlington men" than I would be a member of your family if I broke into your house and took up residence in your daughter's bedroom. Ann is one of the few Americans to identify America's immigration "policy" for what it is: a way to establish a permanent Democratic voting majority and the end of the American republic.
June 16, 2015
A totally trashy racist polemic!!
I got this 'book' from Audible for free (As a signup credit) and after listening to it,my head feels like spinning!
If I had to sum the whole 'book' up in a few words,I'd say: Mexicans/Latinos/Browns=Ewww
Thats what the book says!
I have yet to read any other such book which disregards Immigration's human side in such a Black and White Manner!And she has written 10 bestseller books like this one before,but in her earlier works,she was smart,witty (of course very caustic at the same time) but not openly Racist!!
She has crossed the Rubicon finally in this hateful polemic!
Everything in the shade of Brown is horrible,diseased,violent,unintelligent and anti American in Ann's 'opinion'
All legal Brown immigrants are Tsarnev brothers (fucking terrorists who bombed the Boston Marathon in 2013) ,Asian Muslims who want to blow up America.There are no good Browns out there,they are all Tsarnevs and Nidal Hassans (Pakistan origin Muslim terrorist who killed 13 Iraq bound US Soldiers in Ft.Worth Texas) !All Mexicans are lawn mowing illegal immigrants who want to take Texas and California back for Mexico!All Chinese women are pregnant illegals who rush to the US to give birth to 'anchor babies' who would claim their citizenship.
She calls immigrants 'turds' and cancerous (actual words from the 'book')
But if you are a Latina/o and bummed out that Ms.KKKoulter is after you only,you may cheer up now,she hates (surprise,surprise) Chinese too (who apparently honor-kill and commit suicides,like all the time as per the author)
Obviously Muslims of all colors take the cake here though!They are called cancerous turds and terrorists multiple times in the book.Somalis are the most loathed people in the book with their FGMs and honor killings,child rapes,molestations etc..
Only Black and White people are real Americans as per ms.Coulter,this might make you feel a lil better,oh she's not a racist!See,she said AAs are Americans too!
Wait a minute,Ms.Coulter in her pursuit of creating a book of the month for the KKK won't let your white supremacist self down,you bet!
Of course she decries all 'black things' too!!
In short,this book would make any KKK member and all #WHITEGENOCIDE assholes (see this trend on twitter) feel right,who believe that if he/she (most likely a he) sees a Chinese guy at their local petrol pumps or an Indian kid in school and feels Whites are being 'genocided' (I know the wrong spelling,this is what I saw on twitter!)
Ms.KKKoulter touches all the paranoid bases of the American straight white RWNJ Christian world,she manipulates and panders to the worst stereotypes of various immigrant groups,esp of Mexicans and Muslims the most but Indians,Chinese and even Japanese ffs many times!
In 2004,22% was the figure that comprised of the 'value voters'
these VVs are right wing fanatics who read Glenn Beck's The Blaze and vote for Santorums and Huckabees,believe that all Muslims are terrorists and global warming is a liberal commie conspiracy to take over America.That Gays are causing droughts and floods in multiple areas of the world,abortion brings g-d's wrath on nations etc
This is the block ms.KKKoulter appeals to,these are the people writing favorable reviews @ this book before they leave for their next klan meetings!
Brazenly Racist White trash Book!
0 Stars.
I got this 'book' from Audible for free (As a signup credit) and after listening to it,my head feels like spinning!
If I had to sum the whole 'book' up in a few words,I'd say: Mexicans/Latinos/Browns=Ewww
Thats what the book says!
I have yet to read any other such book which disregards Immigration's human side in such a Black and White Manner!And she has written 10 bestseller books like this one before,but in her earlier works,she was smart,witty (of course very caustic at the same time) but not openly Racist!!
She has crossed the Rubicon finally in this hateful polemic!
Everything in the shade of Brown is horrible,diseased,violent,unintelligent and anti American in Ann's 'opinion'
All legal Brown immigrants are Tsarnev brothers (fucking terrorists who bombed the Boston Marathon in 2013) ,Asian Muslims who want to blow up America.There are no good Browns out there,they are all Tsarnevs and Nidal Hassans (Pakistan origin Muslim terrorist who killed 13 Iraq bound US Soldiers in Ft.Worth Texas) !All Mexicans are lawn mowing illegal immigrants who want to take Texas and California back for Mexico!All Chinese women are pregnant illegals who rush to the US to give birth to 'anchor babies' who would claim their citizenship.
She calls immigrants 'turds' and cancerous (actual words from the 'book')
But if you are a Latina/o and bummed out that Ms.KKKoulter is after you only,you may cheer up now,she hates (surprise,surprise) Chinese too (who apparently honor-kill and commit suicides,like all the time as per the author)
Obviously Muslims of all colors take the cake here though!They are called cancerous turds and terrorists multiple times in the book.Somalis are the most loathed people in the book with their FGMs and honor killings,child rapes,molestations etc..
Only Black and White people are real Americans as per ms.Coulter,this might make you feel a lil better,oh she's not a racist!See,she said AAs are Americans too!
Wait a minute,Ms.Coulter in her pursuit of creating a book of the month for the KKK won't let your white supremacist self down,you bet!
Of course she decries all 'black things' too!!
In short,this book would make any KKK member and all #WHITEGENOCIDE assholes (see this trend on twitter) feel right,who believe that if he/she (most likely a he) sees a Chinese guy at their local petrol pumps or an Indian kid in school and feels Whites are being 'genocided' (I know the wrong spelling,this is what I saw on twitter!)
Ms.KKKoulter touches all the paranoid bases of the American straight white RWNJ Christian world,she manipulates and panders to the worst stereotypes of various immigrant groups,esp of Mexicans and Muslims the most but Indians,Chinese and even Japanese ffs many times!
In 2004,22% was the figure that comprised of the 'value voters'
these VVs are right wing fanatics who read Glenn Beck's The Blaze and vote for Santorums and Huckabees,believe that all Muslims are terrorists and global warming is a liberal commie conspiracy to take over America.That Gays are causing droughts and floods in multiple areas of the world,abortion brings g-d's wrath on nations etc
This is the block ms.KKKoulter appeals to,these are the people writing favorable reviews @ this book before they leave for their next klan meetings!
Brazenly Racist White trash Book!
0 Stars.
November 19, 2015
DNF at 80%
I'm rewording this review because some have remarked to me, with a good level of reasonability -later I'll explain because to me it isn't entirely reasonable- that I should abide strictly within the text of this book.
So, In my opinion, this book is a bad-quality pamphlet, that uses Democrat and immigrant aliens as they were an insult, that it makes out liberals and immigrant culprits of all bad things, that shows nothing more than disdain for anyone that and isn't WASP and neo-conservative and that, in general, demonizes anyone that doesn't think like the author.
It interprets numbers about Mexican immigration, Hispanic Community, Illegal inmigrants et al capriciously, twisting and or denying facts to accommodate them to her xenophobic and racist diatribe. And in that route, the author merrily contradicts herself; for example, she contradicts herself when, in a same chapter she admits that America was created by British and Dutch colonists for next saying A Nation of immigrants is not a nation. What?? What were those colonists but immigrants?
I have started several books by this author but with no one I had gotten as far as with this before quitting to them and I always approach Ms. Coulter's texts guided by a kind of morbid fascination and shock for the findings and opinions that the author elaborates.
I don't perceive as totally reasonable the comment on always strictly abiding by the text (see below), because books don't simply step out of an egg, moreover in non-fiction books; oneself doesn't often have a complete picture that allows to understand what oneself is reading if it isn't known who is the author and what that author thinks.
In this case, the ideas that the author elaborates with a little more reserve and attention in her books is exposed with more spontaneity in these declarations, in wich she's absolutely honest, direct and clear in her opinions -to give credit where it's due- and she don't use ironical shades that can lead to confusion regarding what she believes:
* "Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay." on American fans of World Cup soccer
* "There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer." on fears over the fallout from Japan's nuclear crisis, Bill O'Reilly interview, March 18, 2011
*"We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say." --arguing that it would be better if we were all Christian
* "If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women. It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it"
*"If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot."
*"I'm more of a man than any liberal."
*"There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats."
*"We need to execute people like (John Walker Lindh) in order to physically intimidate liberals."
*"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity."
*"Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties -- provided we're only talking about criminals."
*"God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'"
"Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now."
*"I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo."
*"Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?"
(source: about.com)
I think that all what I have quoted above and the Ms Coulter's texts that I have read portray a Hate dealer. And I despise Hate dealing.
Probably I'll retry reading some other book by this autor if my hubby keeps on bringing them to me as airport souvenir, for one because he has a mischievous sadistic vein and for the other because he knows that I believe that a dose of bad soap opera from time to time is funny, clear the ideas and affirm the principles, but it will be certainly the last time that I review one of her books, it generate a kind of discussion and reactions that, in my opinion, exceed the value of her books.
I'm rewording this review because some have remarked to me, with a good level of reasonability -later I'll explain because to me it isn't entirely reasonable- that I should abide strictly within the text of this book.
So, In my opinion, this book is a bad-quality pamphlet, that uses Democrat and immigrant aliens as they were an insult, that it makes out liberals and immigrant culprits of all bad things, that shows nothing more than disdain for anyone that and isn't WASP and neo-conservative and that, in general, demonizes anyone that doesn't think like the author.
It interprets numbers about Mexican immigration, Hispanic Community, Illegal inmigrants et al capriciously, twisting and or denying facts to accommodate them to her xenophobic and racist diatribe. And in that route, the author merrily contradicts herself; for example, she contradicts herself when, in a same chapter she admits that America was created by British and Dutch colonists for next saying A Nation of immigrants is not a nation. What?? What were those colonists but immigrants?
I have started several books by this author but with no one I had gotten as far as with this before quitting to them and I always approach Ms. Coulter's texts guided by a kind of morbid fascination and shock for the findings and opinions that the author elaborates.
I don't perceive as totally reasonable the comment on always strictly abiding by the text (see below), because books don't simply step out of an egg, moreover in non-fiction books; oneself doesn't often have a complete picture that allows to understand what oneself is reading if it isn't known who is the author and what that author thinks.
In this case, the ideas that the author elaborates with a little more reserve and attention in her books is exposed with more spontaneity in these declarations, in wich she's absolutely honest, direct and clear in her opinions -to give credit where it's due- and she don't use ironical shades that can lead to confusion regarding what she believes:
* "Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay." on American fans of World Cup soccer
* "There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer." on fears over the fallout from Japan's nuclear crisis, Bill O'Reilly interview, March 18, 2011
*"We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say." --arguing that it would be better if we were all Christian
* "If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women. It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it"
*"If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot."
*"I'm more of a man than any liberal."
*"There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats."
*"We need to execute people like (John Walker Lindh) in order to physically intimidate liberals."
*"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity."
*"Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties -- provided we're only talking about criminals."
*"God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'"
"Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now."
*"I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo."
*"Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?"
(source: about.com)
I think that all what I have quoted above and the Ms Coulter's texts that I have read portray a Hate dealer. And I despise Hate dealing.
Probably I'll retry reading some other book by this autor if my hubby keeps on bringing them to me as airport souvenir, for one because he has a mischievous sadistic vein and for the other because he knows that I believe that a dose of bad soap opera from time to time is funny, clear the ideas and affirm the principles, but it will be certainly the last time that I review one of her books, it generate a kind of discussion and reactions that, in my opinion, exceed the value of her books.
June 15, 2015
Fearless than ever
Ann Coulter lives up to her reputation as a fighter. In this book, entitled, Adios, America! Ann Coulter expresses her thoughts fearlessly about immigration that nobody else dares to speak.
Several specific cases have been discussed, which includes, the Tsarnaev family, the family of Boston Bombers. They were admitted into the country after phony claims of persecution and then cashed in for $100,000 in U.S. handouts. The trendy goal of "diversity” led to the dumping 100,000 Somalis on Minneapolis, Minnesota, who are more loyal to Islam than United States.
Ann Coulter has authored 11 books, many of which have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list. She is known for her unique writing skills with a clear sense of humor. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.
Ann Coulter lives up to her reputation as a fighter. In this book, entitled, Adios, America! Ann Coulter expresses her thoughts fearlessly about immigration that nobody else dares to speak.
Several specific cases have been discussed, which includes, the Tsarnaev family, the family of Boston Bombers. They were admitted into the country after phony claims of persecution and then cashed in for $100,000 in U.S. handouts. The trendy goal of "diversity” led to the dumping 100,000 Somalis on Minneapolis, Minnesota, who are more loyal to Islam than United States.
Ann Coulter has authored 11 books, many of which have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list. She is known for her unique writing skills with a clear sense of humor. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.
June 14, 2015
**Had a whole review written up and the dam* computer froze and didn't save it.
Bottom line: A sobering but must-read book on immigration and why it needs a serious over-haul. Another home-run by Coulter (Classic title, by the way). She is brilliant, witty, and seriously smart. This woman does her homework and everything is well-researched and documented.
(I gave this 5 stars not only for the keen insight on the matter.....but to piss off the liberals, who just love to hate her. As John Adams said, "Facts are stubborn things".)
Bottom line: A sobering but must-read book on immigration and why it needs a serious over-haul. Another home-run by Coulter (Classic title, by the way). She is brilliant, witty, and seriously smart. This woman does her homework and everything is well-researched and documented.
(I gave this 5 stars not only for the keen insight on the matter.....but to piss off the liberals, who just love to hate her. As John Adams said, "Facts are stubborn things".)
July 14, 2016
As I note every time I broach a book by MS. Coulter (and for that matter several other conservative writers) I know that many of you will refuse to read this book but condemn it anyway.
This book is a very "in your face" look at some of the problems we have with illegal immigration and it's implication. While it's obvious to anyone who picks this book up that MS Coulter is a "bomb thrower" and says certain things in a way that is guaranteed to set many people off...that is provoke the loss of temper...the facts she sights are facts and the examples she gives are real.
Also the conclusion as to why certain people desperately want a few million illegals to suddenly become voters is pretty much obvious. It seems to me in fact undeniable...though I know many will deny it.
Look as always I suggest you simply attempt to read this with an open mind. Difficult I know but try it. Who knows what thoughts that may provoke?
This book is a very "in your face" look at some of the problems we have with illegal immigration and it's implication. While it's obvious to anyone who picks this book up that MS Coulter is a "bomb thrower" and says certain things in a way that is guaranteed to set many people off...that is provoke the loss of temper...the facts she sights are facts and the examples she gives are real.
Also the conclusion as to why certain people desperately want a few million illegals to suddenly become voters is pretty much obvious. It seems to me in fact undeniable...though I know many will deny it.
Look as always I suggest you simply attempt to read this with an open mind. Difficult I know but try it. Who knows what thoughts that may provoke?
June 24, 2015
This is a 3 or 4 star book that I've bumped up to 5 solely because people that did not read the book have given it a 1. This will only influence the star rating; my comments will, as usual, attempt to focus on the merits and demerits of the book itself.
Prior to this, I've never read Ann Coulter. In fact, the last time I saw her on TV (I just googled this to get an actual date) was NINE years ago! She was talking about how no one can criticize the left because they hide behind victims. The discussion was regarding 9/11 widows. I recall viewing in the same manner that a driver views a car wreck, and then eventually turning the channel. Today is June 2015, and the time I'm referencing was June 2006. Nine years. That should give you an indication of how much I listen to Ann Coulter, and now you can weigh my bias, or lack thereof, into my review however you wish.
This book is lopsided. It's fear mongering. It's monomaniacal. It's repetitive. It's only halfway well written, the other half is by default not well written. She mentioned in the acknowledgements that she cut out 150 pages, HOLY HELL, this book was beating a dead horse as it was!
However, she has a writing style that is easy to follow with an impressive amount of sarcasm. I presume her readers will truly appreciate this aspect of the book. I laughed out loud a few times myself.
In the end, she does pull it together to form a cogent argument. She argues in favor of an immigration moratorium. Coulter could have made her arguments a bit more balanced to truly make this idea seem better, but I doubt it would have conveyed the same sense of urgency that she was hoping to convey. In that sense, she succeeded in justifying her position, but then by the mere fact that I read this book should tell you that I'm likely to agree to some form of immigration curtailing; actually, I agree with Coulter that it's imperative. I'm just not convinced she argued for it in the most optimal way. That's another reason why the book is maybe a 3.
Now that I've told you some reasons why it doesn't merit your time, let me mention some reasons why it does. In Coulter's estimation, there is a media black out when it comes to social pathology and immigration. She is correct. The media doesn't come out and mention the details that would be necessary for the typical voter to have a heuristic allowing them to have a balanced and accurate view of the situation. This is actually a really big deal, and it's the main reason why I can give her a pass on her book being so lopsided; she's simply balancing what's already been unbalanced. This does make more difficult of a book to go through and leaves the reader to question just how cherry-picked the examples are.
Her next criticism is that the politicians will not pursue what the voters want regarding immigration for a host of reasons. She is, once again, correct. US voters have overwhelmingly wanted immigration reform (ie, cutting it down, stopping it, significantly altering it) for (and no, this is not a joke) FOUR DECADES now. Though the frustration level has surely plateaued (because the people pissed off 40 years ago aren't the same people impacted today), the willingness to do nothing because big money wants it that way is duly noted and discussed at length in this book.
Coulter correctly points out the economic ramifications of the insane US immigration policy. Why do I say it's "insane"? Am I xenophobic? Well, as to the second question, you can judge that for yourself, but the policy is and has been insane for decades because on the one hand we want more economic egalitarianism, and yet we simultaneously thwart that goal. Wage egalitarianism is especially true on the left, but might surprise you to know that it's mostly true in the majority of the middle which constitutes a significant portion of the right. We want to address issues outlined in Capital in the Twenty First Century. On the other hand, we want to help people and, if possible, employ a hands-off (laissez faire) policy regarding immigration. The Austrian "leave us alone" segment of the population certainly would desire this, but the issue is far too complex to just throw up your hands and say, "anyone that wants it, let them in."
The stagnation of American wages, in real terms, has been discussed and debated for over two decades now. Robert Reich has been discussing the issue for at least that long. It's accepted knowledge that real wages are down or at best flat over the course of the last 40 years or more! By one measure, real wages peaked in 1972. Ann didn't necessary speak to this observation, but I couldn't help but notice that the two (wage decline & 1965 immigration bill) seem to coincide. Even if this correlation has no relation (fat chance), the truth is that unbridled low skilled workers flooding the country creates a nightmare for our impoverished or struggling citizens. We literally screw them over by giving them more people to compete against and lowering their workforce leverage. As Ann does point out, this is by design: the rich want more people competing for those low paying jobs, and they want less people competing for their own jobs.
This is, as Coulter describes it, class warfare. The people cutting the checks to the politicians have been waging this war for over four decades now and are succeeding wildly. They even pull the wool over your eyes to shift the argument away from this disastrous impact on our poor over to more humanitarian arguments where they can win over public sentiment. It's brilliant actually. It almost makes me wish I were a .001%er where this could improve my life and let me laugh all the way to the bank; but then again, I'd have to look at myself in the mirror every morning and live with my treason.
There are more reasons why the current policies are insane. We love the environment, for instance. Coulter does discuss what current policy is currently doing and likely continue to do to our particular quality of environmental protections. Not all cultures and societies value the lack of trash in our lakes, ponds, streams, forests, and national parks. Not everyone values this, and that includes not all Americans (but the overwhelming majority do I'd argue). We're seeing decline here and it's not accidental. This aspect Coulter discusses. What she doesn't discuss is the global ramifications of Americanizing more and more of the 7 billion people on the planet. Simply stated, more Americans = bad for the planet overall, as we consume more energy and resources than some tribal people living in grass huts.
Coulter also discusses the world population problem, though briefly. She does not, however, point out that our immigration policy ALLOWS greater world wide fecundity, thus exasperating the population explosion. The more we Americanize people here on our soil by importing them, the more we allow the population to approach unsustainability. Even that book I mentioned earlier, Capital in the Twenty First Century clearly acknowledges that the population trends we're seeing today are going to need a massive correction, because it's just not likely the Earth can sustain some 100 billion or more humans. Let's get realistic.
Jeb Bush argues in opposition to that. He says, flat out, that we NEED more population growth in the United States and that's a big reason why he wants more immigration. If you agree with Jeb Bush, then good for you.
Speaking of Jeb, one of the book's highlights is Coulter's line by line mentioning of Republican names of politicians wanting to sell out the American middle and lower class for a paycheck. Jeb is of course the first on the list. She does this because, as she says, there is no organization providing a consequence to the politicians. When the media black-out is also taken into consideration, Coulter argues, John Q public has no idea what's really going on.
Again, it's by design. Your plutocrats certainly KNOW what's happening, and what's their policy on immigration? Be brave. Ask yourself, what does Mark Zuckerberg want immigration wise? (come on, that's easy, he's very outspoken about it). What does Sheldon Adelson? There are more (though these two are very outspoken). Why do they want continued immigration and H1-B visas?
Look no further than to Disney's recent firings.
"Thank you for the imports. They're much cheaper! Screw you middle and lower class. Here, have some food stamps. Don't let the door hit you on the way out."
One the other hand, we all want to be compassionate. The true question is, in my opinion, what's more compassionate - allowing this madness to continue, or attempting to avert what is assuredly going to be a dystopic population correction down the line?
Coulter's book is a decent starting point to discuss what we truly want for ourselves, our fellow humans, and perhaps most importantly, our posterity.
This is why it's a five star book.
Prior to this, I've never read Ann Coulter. In fact, the last time I saw her on TV (I just googled this to get an actual date) was NINE years ago! She was talking about how no one can criticize the left because they hide behind victims. The discussion was regarding 9/11 widows. I recall viewing in the same manner that a driver views a car wreck, and then eventually turning the channel. Today is June 2015, and the time I'm referencing was June 2006. Nine years. That should give you an indication of how much I listen to Ann Coulter, and now you can weigh my bias, or lack thereof, into my review however you wish.
This book is lopsided. It's fear mongering. It's monomaniacal. It's repetitive. It's only halfway well written, the other half is by default not well written. She mentioned in the acknowledgements that she cut out 150 pages, HOLY HELL, this book was beating a dead horse as it was!
However, she has a writing style that is easy to follow with an impressive amount of sarcasm. I presume her readers will truly appreciate this aspect of the book. I laughed out loud a few times myself.
In the end, she does pull it together to form a cogent argument. She argues in favor of an immigration moratorium. Coulter could have made her arguments a bit more balanced to truly make this idea seem better, but I doubt it would have conveyed the same sense of urgency that she was hoping to convey. In that sense, she succeeded in justifying her position, but then by the mere fact that I read this book should tell you that I'm likely to agree to some form of immigration curtailing; actually, I agree with Coulter that it's imperative. I'm just not convinced she argued for it in the most optimal way. That's another reason why the book is maybe a 3.
Now that I've told you some reasons why it doesn't merit your time, let me mention some reasons why it does. In Coulter's estimation, there is a media black out when it comes to social pathology and immigration. She is correct. The media doesn't come out and mention the details that would be necessary for the typical voter to have a heuristic allowing them to have a balanced and accurate view of the situation. This is actually a really big deal, and it's the main reason why I can give her a pass on her book being so lopsided; she's simply balancing what's already been unbalanced. This does make more difficult of a book to go through and leaves the reader to question just how cherry-picked the examples are.
Her next criticism is that the politicians will not pursue what the voters want regarding immigration for a host of reasons. She is, once again, correct. US voters have overwhelmingly wanted immigration reform (ie, cutting it down, stopping it, significantly altering it) for (and no, this is not a joke) FOUR DECADES now. Though the frustration level has surely plateaued (because the people pissed off 40 years ago aren't the same people impacted today), the willingness to do nothing because big money wants it that way is duly noted and discussed at length in this book.
Coulter correctly points out the economic ramifications of the insane US immigration policy. Why do I say it's "insane"? Am I xenophobic? Well, as to the second question, you can judge that for yourself, but the policy is and has been insane for decades because on the one hand we want more economic egalitarianism, and yet we simultaneously thwart that goal. Wage egalitarianism is especially true on the left, but might surprise you to know that it's mostly true in the majority of the middle which constitutes a significant portion of the right. We want to address issues outlined in Capital in the Twenty First Century. On the other hand, we want to help people and, if possible, employ a hands-off (laissez faire) policy regarding immigration. The Austrian "leave us alone" segment of the population certainly would desire this, but the issue is far too complex to just throw up your hands and say, "anyone that wants it, let them in."
The stagnation of American wages, in real terms, has been discussed and debated for over two decades now. Robert Reich has been discussing the issue for at least that long. It's accepted knowledge that real wages are down or at best flat over the course of the last 40 years or more! By one measure, real wages peaked in 1972. Ann didn't necessary speak to this observation, but I couldn't help but notice that the two (wage decline & 1965 immigration bill) seem to coincide. Even if this correlation has no relation (fat chance), the truth is that unbridled low skilled workers flooding the country creates a nightmare for our impoverished or struggling citizens. We literally screw them over by giving them more people to compete against and lowering their workforce leverage. As Ann does point out, this is by design: the rich want more people competing for those low paying jobs, and they want less people competing for their own jobs.
This is, as Coulter describes it, class warfare. The people cutting the checks to the politicians have been waging this war for over four decades now and are succeeding wildly. They even pull the wool over your eyes to shift the argument away from this disastrous impact on our poor over to more humanitarian arguments where they can win over public sentiment. It's brilliant actually. It almost makes me wish I were a .001%er where this could improve my life and let me laugh all the way to the bank; but then again, I'd have to look at myself in the mirror every morning and live with my treason.
There are more reasons why the current policies are insane. We love the environment, for instance. Coulter does discuss what current policy is currently doing and likely continue to do to our particular quality of environmental protections. Not all cultures and societies value the lack of trash in our lakes, ponds, streams, forests, and national parks. Not everyone values this, and that includes not all Americans (but the overwhelming majority do I'd argue). We're seeing decline here and it's not accidental. This aspect Coulter discusses. What she doesn't discuss is the global ramifications of Americanizing more and more of the 7 billion people on the planet. Simply stated, more Americans = bad for the planet overall, as we consume more energy and resources than some tribal people living in grass huts.
Coulter also discusses the world population problem, though briefly. She does not, however, point out that our immigration policy ALLOWS greater world wide fecundity, thus exasperating the population explosion. The more we Americanize people here on our soil by importing them, the more we allow the population to approach unsustainability. Even that book I mentioned earlier, Capital in the Twenty First Century clearly acknowledges that the population trends we're seeing today are going to need a massive correction, because it's just not likely the Earth can sustain some 100 billion or more humans. Let's get realistic.
Jeb Bush argues in opposition to that. He says, flat out, that we NEED more population growth in the United States and that's a big reason why he wants more immigration. If you agree with Jeb Bush, then good for you.
Speaking of Jeb, one of the book's highlights is Coulter's line by line mentioning of Republican names of politicians wanting to sell out the American middle and lower class for a paycheck. Jeb is of course the first on the list. She does this because, as she says, there is no organization providing a consequence to the politicians. When the media black-out is also taken into consideration, Coulter argues, John Q public has no idea what's really going on.
Again, it's by design. Your plutocrats certainly KNOW what's happening, and what's their policy on immigration? Be brave. Ask yourself, what does Mark Zuckerberg want immigration wise? (come on, that's easy, he's very outspoken about it). What does Sheldon Adelson? There are more (though these two are very outspoken). Why do they want continued immigration and H1-B visas?
Look no further than to Disney's recent firings.
"Thank you for the imports. They're much cheaper! Screw you middle and lower class. Here, have some food stamps. Don't let the door hit you on the way out."
One the other hand, we all want to be compassionate. The true question is, in my opinion, what's more compassionate - allowing this madness to continue, or attempting to avert what is assuredly going to be a dystopic population correction down the line?
Coulter's book is a decent starting point to discuss what we truly want for ourselves, our fellow humans, and perhaps most importantly, our posterity.
This is why it's a five star book.
November 18, 2018
Stating the case with the stats of economic and other realities which are usually hidden. And within the reality of the big Democratic cities, those especially-how what real outcomes have become- that is pretty much lied about to the people who pay for their city's support. Some say it is with vitriol she speaks and writes. That's the outcome of what they feel themselves about her factual American reality being what "eyes" can view- that she's blunt in what is visible. No negation about illegal immigrants who break and ignore the laws. Or the party that sees "rule of law" as some kind of suggestion, not law. She consistently cites all the negatives about cultures and systems that try and have tried to combine many into "one" and how that has worked. She is hated for relating exactly what has been the results of most of those programs that insist on doing just that with "compassionate" self-patting on the back affirmations. They enable and disable. Worse poverty and multi-generational dependence results in larger community implosion and in some of Chicago's cases- total collapse.
Most of the one star reviews hate Ann Coulter as a person and not just her researched message (just call her racist and other names without any logical answers to the facts she states which are real) and have not read the book at all, IMHO. As they do not answer with any remedies to the problems that have never become close to be surmounted. And also do not recognize or acknowledge the facts of the physical and economic realities of what has happened to many urban centers in the USA. Murder, rape, robbery, assaults, carjackings, snatch and grabs are just part of the statistics that can be evaluated by record. As can homes or buildings left abandoned or unpaid for property tax or burnt or decimated by scavengers. All of those things CAN be measured. But those kinds of facts are considered vitriol? They are real and visible. And people who are victimized know it.
Ann Coulter is essentially brave beyond words. I can't imagine the protection she needs within body guard power because of her swimming so strongly with real information against the propaganda so widely used to insight and instill anger in the young.
Most of the one star reviews hate Ann Coulter as a person and not just her researched message (just call her racist and other names without any logical answers to the facts she states which are real) and have not read the book at all, IMHO. As they do not answer with any remedies to the problems that have never become close to be surmounted. And also do not recognize or acknowledge the facts of the physical and economic realities of what has happened to many urban centers in the USA. Murder, rape, robbery, assaults, carjackings, snatch and grabs are just part of the statistics that can be evaluated by record. As can homes or buildings left abandoned or unpaid for property tax or burnt or decimated by scavengers. All of those things CAN be measured. But those kinds of facts are considered vitriol? They are real and visible. And people who are victimized know it.
Ann Coulter is essentially brave beyond words. I can't imagine the protection she needs within body guard power because of her swimming so strongly with real information against the propaganda so widely used to insight and instill anger in the young.
June 13, 2015
Ann on a tear
It's refreshing to read a book about immigration that discusses the effect on American culture, and finds it wanting. Every American who can't tell you what an American is, or thinks it's embarrassing to be one, should be compelled to read this book and discover what we're in danger of losing.
It's refreshing to read a book about immigration that discusses the effect on American culture, and finds it wanting. Every American who can't tell you what an American is, or thinks it's embarrassing to be one, should be compelled to read this book and discover what we're in danger of losing.
June 19, 2015
As always, Ann Coulter writes in such a way that you can hear her physical voice coming from the page. Few pundits are able to write the way they talk (e.g. Michelle Malkin, whose books read like academic texts, rather than engaging commentaries by an entertaining pundit); Ann Coulter writes exactly the way she speaks. So, if you enjoy listening to Ms. Coulter, you will enjoy reading her, as well. If not, then...
Well, don't read her books!
Adios, America is another in a long line of books my Ms. Coulter about social issues facing the United States today. As a "culture warrior," Ms. Coulter takes strong positions and argues strongly for them. She is not shy about calling Democrats and other liberals to task. But - I'm sure to the surprise of many readers - she also takes on the Republican establishment and calls out so-called conservatives that she feels are being duped by the Left and acting against the interests of the United States.
Ms. Coulter views the unchecked influx of immigrants from countries with cultures wildly divergent from America as a detriment to our society and its development. She further believes that the government is enabling this by allowing illegal border crossings and pandering to those who enter the US illegally. Why does the government do this?
According to Ms. Coulter, it's to get votes and establish a permanent liberal majority. That Republicans have bought into the narrative of our apparent national need to accept the worst of the worst from the worst of places indicates to her that Republican politicians have been duped by the Left and the rich and powerful want to maintain their base of cheap labor.
In short, she believes that politicians from both sides of the aisle are consciously and purposefully working to destroy this country by changing its essential makeup and culture.
Is she wrong? Having read the book, I can say that she makes a compelling case. Some will find the book hateful, because it doesn't comport with their beliefs about the essential goodness of the poor and downtrodden who find their way to our shores. Ms. Coulter's question is, why is it our responsibility to care for people who have nothing to offer the US other than their mere presence - people who often become a burden on society - to the detriment of those who were born here?
So, is it a nativist screed? In part, yes. But, more importantly, Ms. Coulter makes a strong case that the changes taking place in our country are not raising up those who come here, but rather dragging the rest of our society down. If this is true, the she is correct that we need to take action to stop this decline.
Adios America does contain some factual flaws, that do tend to take away from its power as a polemic. Ms. Coulter mentions that, in Japan, it is acceptable for women to kill their children in order to punish their unfaithful husbands. This is patently false and an untenable assertion. Japanese culture allows for no such thing and, if an American lawyer made this claim to defend a client in an American courtroom forty years ago, then that lawyer was lying and Newsweek bought into the lie. Being able to quote a source doesn't make the information unquestionably true, nor does being able to point to a citation in the Nexis database. But, Ms. Coulter does make the assertion and she is just wrong.
Overall, I enjoyed reading this book very much, as it is written in Ms. Coulter's unique voice and I enjoy listening to her commentary generally. Even when I disagree with her, I still enjoy hearing her elaborate and expand on her positions. She is always will prepared with (mostly correct) facts and she has sources to back up everything she writes or claims.
I strongly recommend this book. It is interesting and well-written and deserves a place in the discussion of the impact that immigration is having on America. Five stars!
Well, don't read her books!
Adios, America is another in a long line of books my Ms. Coulter about social issues facing the United States today. As a "culture warrior," Ms. Coulter takes strong positions and argues strongly for them. She is not shy about calling Democrats and other liberals to task. But - I'm sure to the surprise of many readers - she also takes on the Republican establishment and calls out so-called conservatives that she feels are being duped by the Left and acting against the interests of the United States.
Ms. Coulter views the unchecked influx of immigrants from countries with cultures wildly divergent from America as a detriment to our society and its development. She further believes that the government is enabling this by allowing illegal border crossings and pandering to those who enter the US illegally. Why does the government do this?
According to Ms. Coulter, it's to get votes and establish a permanent liberal majority. That Republicans have bought into the narrative of our apparent national need to accept the worst of the worst from the worst of places indicates to her that Republican politicians have been duped by the Left and the rich and powerful want to maintain their base of cheap labor.
In short, she believes that politicians from both sides of the aisle are consciously and purposefully working to destroy this country by changing its essential makeup and culture.
Is she wrong? Having read the book, I can say that she makes a compelling case. Some will find the book hateful, because it doesn't comport with their beliefs about the essential goodness of the poor and downtrodden who find their way to our shores. Ms. Coulter's question is, why is it our responsibility to care for people who have nothing to offer the US other than their mere presence - people who often become a burden on society - to the detriment of those who were born here?
So, is it a nativist screed? In part, yes. But, more importantly, Ms. Coulter makes a strong case that the changes taking place in our country are not raising up those who come here, but rather dragging the rest of our society down. If this is true, the she is correct that we need to take action to stop this decline.
Adios America does contain some factual flaws, that do tend to take away from its power as a polemic. Ms. Coulter mentions that, in Japan, it is acceptable for women to kill their children in order to punish their unfaithful husbands. This is patently false and an untenable assertion. Japanese culture allows for no such thing and, if an American lawyer made this claim to defend a client in an American courtroom forty years ago, then that lawyer was lying and Newsweek bought into the lie. Being able to quote a source doesn't make the information unquestionably true, nor does being able to point to a citation in the Nexis database. But, Ms. Coulter does make the assertion and she is just wrong.
Overall, I enjoyed reading this book very much, as it is written in Ms. Coulter's unique voice and I enjoy listening to her commentary generally. Even when I disagree with her, I still enjoy hearing her elaborate and expand on her positions. She is always will prepared with (mostly correct) facts and she has sources to back up everything she writes or claims.
I strongly recommend this book. It is interesting and well-written and deserves a place in the discussion of the impact that immigration is having on America. Five stars!
July 4, 2015
I too like America they way it was and the way it is..............Im all for LEGAL Immigration done the right way but illegal immigration is a HUGE issue costing us hundereds of millions in health care, schooling, and law enforcement. I NEVER agree with Harry Reid but once upon a time we did agree .......Wonder why dirty Harry changed his positon ??? In 1993 he introduced a bill to stop illegal immigration and said about the 14th ammendment
"If making it easy to be an illegal alien is not enough, how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant? No sane country would do that, right? Guess again. If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship and guarantee full access to all public and social services this society provides. And that is a lot of services. Is it any wonder that two-thirds of the babies born at taxpayer expense in county-run hospitals in Los Angeles are born to illegal alien mothers?"
Of course our countrys welfare took a back seat to him and his partys desire for power so he had no problem changing his positon on the issue.
"If making it easy to be an illegal alien is not enough, how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant? No sane country would do that, right? Guess again. If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship and guarantee full access to all public and social services this society provides. And that is a lot of services. Is it any wonder that two-thirds of the babies born at taxpayer expense in county-run hospitals in Los Angeles are born to illegal alien mothers?"
Of course our countrys welfare took a back seat to him and his partys desire for power so he had no problem changing his positon on the issue.
July 15, 2015
Ann Coulter's books have always been good. She does her research and provides abundant citations throughout. This book is particularly well done. I must say it is eye opening, clearing all the clap trap of the liberal media, clearly showing what a mess we are in. If you love America, if you remember better days, you need to read this book. If you are like me, it will most likely make you angry, but she offers solutions and I think they need to be considered.
June 10, 2015
Nauseating
October 5, 2017
Read this letter by the mayor of a small Trump-voting town 40 miles from where I grew up, in support of the (successful) bond application of an undocumented resident in his town with two DUIs:
Captain von Trapp approves:
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I prepared work visas and green card applications for 6 years, and have many thoughts about U.S. immigration, none of them knee-jerk and some of them quite strange. This book, and the Executive Orders that it inspired, are hogwash.
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Adios, America...
Привет запад Росси́я!
Here is a list of the journalists who've died in Russia from homicide since Putin first became president. (Source and further incidents here: Wikipedia):
Putin
2000
1 February – Vladimir Yatsina, a photocorrespondent with ITAR-TASS. Homicide.
10 February – Ludmila Zamana, Samara. Homicide.
17 April – Oleg Polukeyev, Homicide.
1 May – Boris Gashev, literary critic. Homicide.
16 July – Igor Domnikov, from Novaya Gazeta, Moscow. Struck over the head with a hammer in the stairwell of his Moscow apartment building. Homicide.
26 July – Sergei Novikov, Radio Vesna, Smolensk. Shot in a contract killing in stairwell of his apartment building. Homicide.
21 September – Iskander Khatloni, Radio Free Europe, Moscow. Khatloni was killed at night in an axe attack on the street outside his Moscow apartment block. Homicide.
3 October – Sergei Ivanov, Lada-TV, Togliatti. Shot five times in the head and chest in front of his apartment building. Homicide.
18 October – Georgy Garibyan, journalist with Park TV. Homicide.
20 October – Oleg Goryansky, freelance journalist, press & TV. Homicide.
21 October – Raif Ablyashev, photographer with Iskra newspaper. Kungur, Perm Region. Homicide.
20 November – Pavel Asaulchenko, cameraman for Austrian TV, Moscow. Contract killing.
23 November – Adam Tepsurkayev, Reuters, Chechnya. A Chechen cameraman, he was shot at his neighbor's house in the village of Alkhan-Kala. Homicide.
28 November – Nikolai Karmanov, retired journalist. Lyubim, Yaroslavl Region. Homicide.
23 December – Valery Kondakov, freelance photographer. Homicide.
2001
1 February – Eduard Burmagin, Homicide.
24 February – Leonid Grigoryev, Homicide.
8 March – Andrei Pivovarov, Homicide.
31 March – Oleg Dolgantsev, Homicide.
17 May – Vladimir Kirsanov, chief editor. Kurgan, Urals Federal District. Homicide.
11 September – Andrei Sheiko, Homicide.
19 September – Eduard Markevich, 29, editor and publisher of local newspaper Novy Reft in Sverdlovsk Region. Shot in the back in a contract killing, homicide.
5 November – Elina Voronova, Homicide.
16 November – Oleg Vedenin, Homicide.
21 November – Alexander Babaikin, Homicide.
1 December – Boris Mityurev, Homicide.
2002
18 January – Svetlana Makarenko, Homicide.
4 March – Konstantin Pogodin, Novoye Delo newspaper, Nizhni Novgorod. Homicide.
8 March – Natalya Skryl, Nashe Vremya newspaper, Taganrog. Homicide.
31 March – Valery Batuyev, Moscow News newspaper, Moscow. Homicide.
1 April – Sergei Kalinovsky, Moskovskij Komsomolets local edition, Smolensk. Homicide.
4 April – Vitaly Sakhn-Vald, photojournalist, Kursk. Homicide.
25 April – Leonid Shevchenko, Pervoye Chtenie newspaper, Volgograd. Homicide.
29 April – Valery Ivanov, founder and chief editor of Tolyattinskoye Obozrenie newspaper, Samara Region. Contract killing.
20 May – Alexander Plotnikov, Gostiny Dvor newspaper, Tyumen. Homicide.
6 June – Pavel Morozov, Homicide.
25 June – Oleg Sedinko, founder of Novaya Volna TV & Radio Company, Vladivostok. Contract killing, explosive in stairwell.
20 July – Nikolai Razmolodin, general director of Europroject TV & Radio Company, Ulyanovsk. Homicide.
21 July – Maria Lisichkina Homicide.
27 July – Sergei Zhabin, press service of the Moscow Region governor. Homicide.
18 August – Nikolai Vasiliev. Homicide.
25 August – Paavo Voutilainen, former chief editor of Karelia magazine, Karelia. Homicide.
20 September – Igor Salikov, head of information security at Moskovskij Komsomolets newspaper in Penza. Contract killing.
2 October – Yelena Popova, Homicide.
19 October – Leonid Plotnikov Homicide.
21 December – Dmitry Shalayev, Kazan, Tatarstan. Homicide.
2003
7 January – Vladimir Sukhomlin, Internet journalist and editor, Serbia.ru, Moscow. Homicide.
11 January – Yury Tishkov, sports commentator, Moscow. Contract killing.
21 February – Sergei Verbitsky, publisher BNV newspaper. Chita. Homicide.
18 April – Dmitry Shvets, TV-21 Northwestern Broadcasting, Murmansk. Deputy director of the independent TV-21 station, he was shot dead outside the TV offices. Contract killing.
3 July – Yury Shchekochikhin, Novaya gazeta, Moscow. Deputy editor of Novaya gazeta and a Duma deputy since 1993. Shchekochikhin died from an acute allergic reaction. Suspected homicide.
18 July – Alikhan Guliyev, freelance TV journalist, from Ingushetia. Moscow. Homicide.
10 August – Martin Kraus, Dagestan. On way to Chechnya. Homicide.
9 October – Alexei Sidorov, Tolyatinskoye Obozreniye, Togliatti. Homicide.
24 October – Alexei Bakhtin, journalist and businessman, formerly Mariiskaya pravda. Mari El. Homicide.
30 October – Yury Bugrov, editor of Provincial Telegraph. Balakovo, Saratov Region. Homicide.
25 December – Pyotr Babenko, editor of Liskinskaya gazeta. Liski, Voronezh Region. Homicide.
2004
1 February – Yefim Sukhanov, ATK-Media, Archangelsk. Homicide.
2 May – Shangysh Mongush, correspondent with Khemchiktin Syldyzy newspaper, Tuva. Homicide.
9 June – Paul Klebnikov, chief editor of newly established Russian version of Forbes magazine, Moscow. Contract killing, alleged perpetrators put on trial and acquitted. Homicide.
1 July – Maxim Maximov, journalist with Gorod newspaper, St Petersburg. Body not found. Homicide.
10 July – Zoya Ivanova, TV presenter, Buryatia State Television & Radio Company, Ulan Ude, Buryatia. Homicide.
17 July – Pail Peloyan, editor of Armyansky Pereulok magazine, Moscow. Homicide.
3 August – Vladimir Naumov, nationalist reporter, Cossack author (Russky Vestnik, Zavtra), Moscow Region. Homicide.
24 August – Svetlana Shishkina, journalist, Kazan, Tatarstan. Homicide.
18 September – Vladimir Pritchin, editor-in-chief of North Baikal TV & Radio Company, Buryatia. Homicide.
27 September – Jan Travinsky (St Petersburg), in Irkutsk as political activist for election campaign. Homicide.
2005
28 July – Magomed Varisov, political analyst and journalist, shot dead near his home in Makhachkala, Dagestan. Homicide.
31 August – Alexander Pitersky, Baltika Radio reporter, Saint Petersburg. Homicide.
4 November – Kira Lezhneva, reporter with Kamensky rabochii newspaper, Sverdlovsk Region. Homicide.
2006
8 January – Vagif Kochetkov, newly appointed Trud correspondent in the region, killed and robbed in Tula.
26 February – Ilya Zimin, worked for NTV Russia television channel, killed in Moscow flat.
4 May – Oksana Teslo, media worker, Moscow Region. Arson attack on dacha. Homicide.
14 May – Oleg Barabyshkin, director of radio station, Chelyabinsk. Homicide.
23 May – Vyacheslav Akatov, special reporter, Business Moscow TV show, murdered in Mytyshchi Moscow Region. Homicide.
25 June – Anton Kretenchuk, cameraman, local Channel 38 TV, killed in Rostov-on-Don. Homicide.
25 July – Yevgeny Gerasimenko, journalist with Saratovsky Rasklad newspaper. Homicide.
31 July – Anatoly Kozulin, retired freelance journalist. Ukhta, Komi. Homicide.
8 August – Alexander Petrov, editor-in-chief, Right to Choose magazine Omsk, murdered with family while on holiday in Altai Republic. Homicide.
7 October – Anna Politkovskaya, commentator with Novaya Gazeta, Moscow, shot in her apartment building's elevator. Homicide.
16 October – Anatoly Voronin, Itar-TASS news agency, Moscow. Homicide.
28 December – Vadim Kuznetsov, editor-in-chief of World & Home. Saint Petersburg magazine, killed in Saint Petersburg. Homicide.
2007
14 January – Yury Shebalkin, retired journalist, formerly with Kaliningradskaya pravda. Homicide.
20 January – Konstantin Borovko, presenter of Gubernia TV company, killed in Khabarovsk. Homicide.
15 March – Leonid Etkind, director at Karyera newspaper. Abduction and homicide.
2008
8 February – Yelena Shestakova, former journalist, St Petersburg. Homicide.
21 March – Gadji Abashilov, chief of Dagestan State TV & Radio Company VGTRK, shot in his car in Makhachkala. Homicide.
21 March – Ilyas Shurpayev, Dagestani journalist covering Caucasus on Channel One. Homicide.
Medvedev
2008
31 August – Magomed Yevloyev, Ingush oppositionist, founder of Ingushetiya.ru, Moscow-based lawyer, shot on return to country while in custody of Ingush police officers. Homicide.
2 September – Abdulla Alishayev, (aka Telman Alishayev), TV presenter on Muslim channel, shot dead in car, Makhachkala. Homicide.
2009
4 January – Shafig Amrakhov, editor of news agency RIA 51, Murmansk, was shot in stairwell entrance from the traumatic pistol. Homicide.
19 January – Anastasia Baburova, Novaya Gazeta, Moscow. Homicide.
15 July – Natalia Estemirova, a human rights activist with Memorial. Homicide.
11 August – Malik Akhmedilov, deputy chief editor of the Avar language newspaper Khakikat, was found shot dead near the Dagestan capital Makhachkala. Homicide.
25 October – Maksharip Aushev was shot dead in Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria. Homicide.
2010
20 January – Konstantin Popov died from a beating received a fortnight earlier by Russian police, in a detoxification centre for drunk and disorderly. Homicide.
23 February – Journalist Ivan Stepanov was stabbed to death at his dacha. Homicide.
20 March – Maxim Zuyev was found murdered in a Kaliningrad flat he was renting. Homicide.
5 May – Shamil Aliyev, founder of two radio stations and a director of TV network was shot in his car by two unidentified attackers, who also killed his bodyguard and wounded his driver. Homicide.
25 June – Dmitry Okkert, Moscow. Homicide.
2011
15 December – Gadzhimurat Kamalov, Makhachkala. Investigative reporter – shot 6 times in a drive-by outside his newspaper's offices. Homicide.
Putin
2012
5 December - Kazbek Gekkiev, journalist for local TV programmes in Kabardino-Balkaria, was shot dead on street of Nalchik. Homicide.
2013
9 July - Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev, deputy editor of the Novoe Delo. Homicide.
2014
1 August - journalist and human rights activist Timur Kuashev. Abduction and homicide.
2016
March 31 - journalist Dmitry Tsilikin. Homicide.
Dear Judge Howard,
I'm writing a reference letter in support of Juan Carlos Hernandez Pacheco. His attorney has given me some general thoughts on what to write, since this isn't something I'm asked to do every day, or know too much about, but I stand behind everything that is said in this letter. I encourage you to contact me if you have any further questions.
For background, I am the Mayor of the City of West Frankfort. I was elected in April 2011 and have served at that position for over 6 years. I am also a retired Fire Fighter and Medic with 33 years of service in this community.
Since becoming Mayor, I have interacted with Carlos on a business and economic level. Carlos has asked for the City's input on business decisions and has asked "how can I make West Frankfort better?" Just last month, Carlos learned that the West Frankfort Fire Department was cancelling a fund raising gala, the Fire and Ice Ball. Carlos asked the City if he could sponsor the event at his business and donate the funds to the Fire Department. This is a representation of who Carlos is. I see Carlos at Chamber of Commerce meetings and other local events. I always enjoy talking to him while my family and I are dining at the restaurant he manages. Everyone at the restaurant is so nice and Carlos does such a great job. At a recent meeting of the Southern Illinois Mayors Association, Carlos was asked to cater the event. All those in attendance commented on the food and asked what restaurant was responsible. I am almost positive that Carlos gave the City a discount because the cost was half that of other caterers.
I feel Carlos is a man of character. I understand the issue is whether Carlos is a risk of fleeing or if he is a danger to the community. I do not feel that Carlos is a flight risk. He is married and loves his children. He is a loyal member of this community. He owns property here. He is a committed father and would never leave his family to fend for themselves. He spends a ton of time with his children and I cannot imagine that he would leave that behind. His wife, Elizabeth, is a US Citizen. It is my understanding that he has filed paperwork to get a legal, permanent residence and I don't think he would ever do anything to jeopardize that. He has worked hard building up his business, takes a lot of pride in it, and would never abandon it.
I personally do not think Carlos is a danger to the community. I recently become aware that he was arrested for DWI in the past. It surprised me as I have never seen Carlos with a drink. I recently discovered that after his arrest, Carlos enrolled and completed the Alcohol Anonymous program and has not had a drink since.
Carlos is a great asset to our community and doesn't ask for anything in return. This community has grown to rely on Carlos and he never lets us down. Recently Carlos brought food and refreshments to the Fire Fighters at the scene of a fire near his place of business.
I do not consider Carlos to be a flight risk. Carlos is a member of this community and strives to become a legal permanent resident.
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1746, I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the best of my information and belief.
Tom Jordan, Mayor
City of West Frankfort
Captain von Trapp approves:
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I prepared work visas and green card applications for 6 years, and have many thoughts about U.S. immigration, none of them knee-jerk and some of them quite strange. This book, and the Executive Orders that it inspired, are hogwash.
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Adios, America...
Привет запад Росси́я!
Here is a list of the journalists who've died in Russia from homicide since Putin first became president. (Source and further incidents here: Wikipedia):
Putin
2000
1 February – Vladimir Yatsina, a photocorrespondent with ITAR-TASS. Homicide.
10 February – Ludmila Zamana, Samara. Homicide.
17 April – Oleg Polukeyev, Homicide.
1 May – Boris Gashev, literary critic. Homicide.
16 July – Igor Domnikov, from Novaya Gazeta, Moscow. Struck over the head with a hammer in the stairwell of his Moscow apartment building. Homicide.
26 July – Sergei Novikov, Radio Vesna, Smolensk. Shot in a contract killing in stairwell of his apartment building. Homicide.
21 September – Iskander Khatloni, Radio Free Europe, Moscow. Khatloni was killed at night in an axe attack on the street outside his Moscow apartment block. Homicide.
3 October – Sergei Ivanov, Lada-TV, Togliatti. Shot five times in the head and chest in front of his apartment building. Homicide.
18 October – Georgy Garibyan, journalist with Park TV. Homicide.
20 October – Oleg Goryansky, freelance journalist, press & TV. Homicide.
21 October – Raif Ablyashev, photographer with Iskra newspaper. Kungur, Perm Region. Homicide.
20 November – Pavel Asaulchenko, cameraman for Austrian TV, Moscow. Contract killing.
23 November – Adam Tepsurkayev, Reuters, Chechnya. A Chechen cameraman, he was shot at his neighbor's house in the village of Alkhan-Kala. Homicide.
28 November – Nikolai Karmanov, retired journalist. Lyubim, Yaroslavl Region. Homicide.
23 December – Valery Kondakov, freelance photographer. Homicide.
2001
1 February – Eduard Burmagin, Homicide.
24 February – Leonid Grigoryev, Homicide.
8 March – Andrei Pivovarov, Homicide.
31 March – Oleg Dolgantsev, Homicide.
17 May – Vladimir Kirsanov, chief editor. Kurgan, Urals Federal District. Homicide.
11 September – Andrei Sheiko, Homicide.
19 September – Eduard Markevich, 29, editor and publisher of local newspaper Novy Reft in Sverdlovsk Region. Shot in the back in a contract killing, homicide.
5 November – Elina Voronova, Homicide.
16 November – Oleg Vedenin, Homicide.
21 November – Alexander Babaikin, Homicide.
1 December – Boris Mityurev, Homicide.
2002
18 January – Svetlana Makarenko, Homicide.
4 March – Konstantin Pogodin, Novoye Delo newspaper, Nizhni Novgorod. Homicide.
8 March – Natalya Skryl, Nashe Vremya newspaper, Taganrog. Homicide.
31 March – Valery Batuyev, Moscow News newspaper, Moscow. Homicide.
1 April – Sergei Kalinovsky, Moskovskij Komsomolets local edition, Smolensk. Homicide.
4 April – Vitaly Sakhn-Vald, photojournalist, Kursk. Homicide.
25 April – Leonid Shevchenko, Pervoye Chtenie newspaper, Volgograd. Homicide.
29 April – Valery Ivanov, founder and chief editor of Tolyattinskoye Obozrenie newspaper, Samara Region. Contract killing.
20 May – Alexander Plotnikov, Gostiny Dvor newspaper, Tyumen. Homicide.
6 June – Pavel Morozov, Homicide.
25 June – Oleg Sedinko, founder of Novaya Volna TV & Radio Company, Vladivostok. Contract killing, explosive in stairwell.
20 July – Nikolai Razmolodin, general director of Europroject TV & Radio Company, Ulyanovsk. Homicide.
21 July – Maria Lisichkina Homicide.
27 July – Sergei Zhabin, press service of the Moscow Region governor. Homicide.
18 August – Nikolai Vasiliev. Homicide.
25 August – Paavo Voutilainen, former chief editor of Karelia magazine, Karelia. Homicide.
20 September – Igor Salikov, head of information security at Moskovskij Komsomolets newspaper in Penza. Contract killing.
2 October – Yelena Popova, Homicide.
19 October – Leonid Plotnikov Homicide.
21 December – Dmitry Shalayev, Kazan, Tatarstan. Homicide.
2003
7 January – Vladimir Sukhomlin, Internet journalist and editor, Serbia.ru, Moscow. Homicide.
11 January – Yury Tishkov, sports commentator, Moscow. Contract killing.
21 February – Sergei Verbitsky, publisher BNV newspaper. Chita. Homicide.
18 April – Dmitry Shvets, TV-21 Northwestern Broadcasting, Murmansk. Deputy director of the independent TV-21 station, he was shot dead outside the TV offices. Contract killing.
3 July – Yury Shchekochikhin, Novaya gazeta, Moscow. Deputy editor of Novaya gazeta and a Duma deputy since 1993. Shchekochikhin died from an acute allergic reaction. Suspected homicide.
18 July – Alikhan Guliyev, freelance TV journalist, from Ingushetia. Moscow. Homicide.
10 August – Martin Kraus, Dagestan. On way to Chechnya. Homicide.
9 October – Alexei Sidorov, Tolyatinskoye Obozreniye, Togliatti. Homicide.
24 October – Alexei Bakhtin, journalist and businessman, formerly Mariiskaya pravda. Mari El. Homicide.
30 October – Yury Bugrov, editor of Provincial Telegraph. Balakovo, Saratov Region. Homicide.
25 December – Pyotr Babenko, editor of Liskinskaya gazeta. Liski, Voronezh Region. Homicide.
2004
1 February – Yefim Sukhanov, ATK-Media, Archangelsk. Homicide.
2 May – Shangysh Mongush, correspondent with Khemchiktin Syldyzy newspaper, Tuva. Homicide.
9 June – Paul Klebnikov, chief editor of newly established Russian version of Forbes magazine, Moscow. Contract killing, alleged perpetrators put on trial and acquitted. Homicide.
1 July – Maxim Maximov, journalist with Gorod newspaper, St Petersburg. Body not found. Homicide.
10 July – Zoya Ivanova, TV presenter, Buryatia State Television & Radio Company, Ulan Ude, Buryatia. Homicide.
17 July – Pail Peloyan, editor of Armyansky Pereulok magazine, Moscow. Homicide.
3 August – Vladimir Naumov, nationalist reporter, Cossack author (Russky Vestnik, Zavtra), Moscow Region. Homicide.
24 August – Svetlana Shishkina, journalist, Kazan, Tatarstan. Homicide.
18 September – Vladimir Pritchin, editor-in-chief of North Baikal TV & Radio Company, Buryatia. Homicide.
27 September – Jan Travinsky (St Petersburg), in Irkutsk as political activist for election campaign. Homicide.
2005
28 July – Magomed Varisov, political analyst and journalist, shot dead near his home in Makhachkala, Dagestan. Homicide.
31 August – Alexander Pitersky, Baltika Radio reporter, Saint Petersburg. Homicide.
4 November – Kira Lezhneva, reporter with Kamensky rabochii newspaper, Sverdlovsk Region. Homicide.
2006
8 January – Vagif Kochetkov, newly appointed Trud correspondent in the region, killed and robbed in Tula.
26 February – Ilya Zimin, worked for NTV Russia television channel, killed in Moscow flat.
4 May – Oksana Teslo, media worker, Moscow Region. Arson attack on dacha. Homicide.
14 May – Oleg Barabyshkin, director of radio station, Chelyabinsk. Homicide.
23 May – Vyacheslav Akatov, special reporter, Business Moscow TV show, murdered in Mytyshchi Moscow Region. Homicide.
25 June – Anton Kretenchuk, cameraman, local Channel 38 TV, killed in Rostov-on-Don. Homicide.
25 July – Yevgeny Gerasimenko, journalist with Saratovsky Rasklad newspaper. Homicide.
31 July – Anatoly Kozulin, retired freelance journalist. Ukhta, Komi. Homicide.
8 August – Alexander Petrov, editor-in-chief, Right to Choose magazine Omsk, murdered with family while on holiday in Altai Republic. Homicide.
7 October – Anna Politkovskaya, commentator with Novaya Gazeta, Moscow, shot in her apartment building's elevator. Homicide.
16 October – Anatoly Voronin, Itar-TASS news agency, Moscow. Homicide.
28 December – Vadim Kuznetsov, editor-in-chief of World & Home. Saint Petersburg magazine, killed in Saint Petersburg. Homicide.
2007
14 January – Yury Shebalkin, retired journalist, formerly with Kaliningradskaya pravda. Homicide.
20 January – Konstantin Borovko, presenter of Gubernia TV company, killed in Khabarovsk. Homicide.
15 March – Leonid Etkind, director at Karyera newspaper. Abduction and homicide.
2008
8 February – Yelena Shestakova, former journalist, St Petersburg. Homicide.
21 March – Gadji Abashilov, chief of Dagestan State TV & Radio Company VGTRK, shot in his car in Makhachkala. Homicide.
21 March – Ilyas Shurpayev, Dagestani journalist covering Caucasus on Channel One. Homicide.
Medvedev
2008
31 August – Magomed Yevloyev, Ingush oppositionist, founder of Ingushetiya.ru, Moscow-based lawyer, shot on return to country while in custody of Ingush police officers. Homicide.
2 September – Abdulla Alishayev, (aka Telman Alishayev), TV presenter on Muslim channel, shot dead in car, Makhachkala. Homicide.
2009
4 January – Shafig Amrakhov, editor of news agency RIA 51, Murmansk, was shot in stairwell entrance from the traumatic pistol. Homicide.
19 January – Anastasia Baburova, Novaya Gazeta, Moscow. Homicide.
15 July – Natalia Estemirova, a human rights activist with Memorial. Homicide.
11 August – Malik Akhmedilov, deputy chief editor of the Avar language newspaper Khakikat, was found shot dead near the Dagestan capital Makhachkala. Homicide.
25 October – Maksharip Aushev was shot dead in Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria. Homicide.
2010
20 January – Konstantin Popov died from a beating received a fortnight earlier by Russian police, in a detoxification centre for drunk and disorderly. Homicide.
23 February – Journalist Ivan Stepanov was stabbed to death at his dacha. Homicide.
20 March – Maxim Zuyev was found murdered in a Kaliningrad flat he was renting. Homicide.
5 May – Shamil Aliyev, founder of two radio stations and a director of TV network was shot in his car by two unidentified attackers, who also killed his bodyguard and wounded his driver. Homicide.
25 June – Dmitry Okkert, Moscow. Homicide.
2011
15 December – Gadzhimurat Kamalov, Makhachkala. Investigative reporter – shot 6 times in a drive-by outside his newspaper's offices. Homicide.
Putin
2012
5 December - Kazbek Gekkiev, journalist for local TV programmes in Kabardino-Balkaria, was shot dead on street of Nalchik. Homicide.
2013
9 July - Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev, deputy editor of the Novoe Delo. Homicide.
2014
1 August - journalist and human rights activist Timur Kuashev. Abduction and homicide.
2016
March 31 - journalist Dmitry Tsilikin. Homicide.
June 27, 2017
People HATE Ann Coulter and my best guess is that they know little to nothing about her. She is so widely hated because she says what is on her mind regardless of her audience and what they may or may not believe. When or if you read Adios, America! you quickly realize that THE FACTS ARE ON HER SIDE OF THE ARGUMENTS SHE DISCUSSES. So far in my reading I realize that America is in deep trouble and most Americans have no clue as to what is happening to their beloved country. Like her or hate her I highly recommend you read the book. You can then choose to not believe what she has written about regardless of the facts as many people will; hopefully not you.
I have learned so much about immigration that frankly I did not know and I consider myself well read. Coulter footnotes all of her factual stories with proof of where they have come from. You will learn that there is a movement amongst the news media to refuse to cite the fact that a criminal is an illegal immigrant and refer to them as "man" or "men" or even "group" but so not say from which country the originated from.
She explains how illegal immigrants have set fire to some of our National Parks when they think they may be arrested for growing pot within the park borders. The fires destroy evidence but more importantly keep firefighters from fighting the fire until such time as they are provided protection by law enforcement. This too has been foot noted with proof.
This book may be one of the most disgusting books I have ever read. Not because of the author. Not because of the way or manner in which she writes but solely based upon the content of the book. We as a country are in deep trouble. Why? Because a certain element within our society advocates for open borders and unrestricted immigration. These people know not what they have created. What they hoped for is that the illegal immigrants will eventually one way or the other, vote and when they do they will vote on the Democratic side of any political issue for for Democrat candidates. That sickens me in that they are forfeiting the future of our children and the future of America for immediate selfish gains.
EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS BOOK. IF YOU DO AND YOU STILL FAVOR OPEN BORDERS, THEN AT LEAST YOU CANNOT SAY YOU WERE NOT WARNED.
I have learned so much about immigration that frankly I did not know and I consider myself well read. Coulter footnotes all of her factual stories with proof of where they have come from. You will learn that there is a movement amongst the news media to refuse to cite the fact that a criminal is an illegal immigrant and refer to them as "man" or "men" or even "group" but so not say from which country the originated from.
She explains how illegal immigrants have set fire to some of our National Parks when they think they may be arrested for growing pot within the park borders. The fires destroy evidence but more importantly keep firefighters from fighting the fire until such time as they are provided protection by law enforcement. This too has been foot noted with proof.
This book may be one of the most disgusting books I have ever read. Not because of the author. Not because of the way or manner in which she writes but solely based upon the content of the book. We as a country are in deep trouble. Why? Because a certain element within our society advocates for open borders and unrestricted immigration. These people know not what they have created. What they hoped for is that the illegal immigrants will eventually one way or the other, vote and when they do they will vote on the Democratic side of any political issue for for Democrat candidates. That sickens me in that they are forfeiting the future of our children and the future of America for immediate selfish gains.
EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS BOOK. IF YOU DO AND YOU STILL FAVOR OPEN BORDERS, THEN AT LEAST YOU CANNOT SAY YOU WERE NOT WARNED.
July 10, 2015
Chalk up another hit by Ann Coulter. Adios America is another very informative tome from her, this time explaining all that has confused you about the Immigration debate. (Note: you're confused on purpose). I've always known that the left is using immigration to change the electorate and the rich don't really seem to mind since they get cheap labor. Everyone knows it. But Ann Coulter describes just how the media defends and obfuscates the issue, doing their bidding of the left and of the rich. Not to mention the New York Times and their seedy connection to the immigration issue. (Place the name Carlos Slim, the worlds richest man from Mexico, in the back of your head and file it).
If you really want to understand the whole Immigration issue, both legal and illegal, give this book a once over. (Or twice over).
If you really want to understand the whole Immigration issue, both legal and illegal, give this book a once over. (Or twice over).
July 9, 2015
I don't normally tell others what to read, this is an exception, read this book. The U.S. government doesn't have any real idea how many illegals are here, but they know how many Somoans are without battery powered radioes. If you are unfamiliar with Ms. Coulter's dry humor you may miss some key points. What I find most troubling is the fact that if you require or just ask immigrants to follow U.S. laws and assimilate you are considered a racist. They are not taking American jobs at the rate most people believe - 60% are on welfare and a portion of that money is sent back to their home countrIes. If they are receiving so much that they can give it away they should give it back to the tax payers. The stats on crime will make you angry. Read this book.
July 28, 2015
If you don't like the book, you probably have your head buried in sand and have no understanding of reality.
Obviously, we all have preferences in style; however, the information is well-sourced and in a clear format. The negative reviews out there seem to be more of the, "This isn't what I wanted to hear," variety. And of course, if it's not what you want to believe, you have to rate the book one-star.
In short, if you're a lib... It's Ann Coulter, you're not going to like what she says. If you're anything other than a self-identified lib worth reading for the information that you now don't have to dig for.
Obviously, we all have preferences in style; however, the information is well-sourced and in a clear format. The negative reviews out there seem to be more of the, "This isn't what I wanted to hear," variety. And of course, if it's not what you want to believe, you have to rate the book one-star.
In short, if you're a lib... It's Ann Coulter, you're not going to like what she says. If you're anything other than a self-identified lib worth reading for the information that you now don't have to dig for.
July 8, 2015
Ann Coulter knows she is going to be challenged on every point she makes in this book, so I was most impressed by the extensive footnoting, with URL addresses added. I like her analogy that our immigration policy should exist to better America and should be like a sports draft, choosing the best of the millions of immigrants who would like to be here, rather than whoever can best game our system. She brings up issues then no one else seems ballsy enough to air publicly. Rather than argue her documented points with logic and moderation and refutals of her facts, her opponents will simply bleat charges of racism. Sad. Read this book, especially if you think you will disagree with her. You owe it to yourself.
July 3, 2015
Another good-humored, but ultimately disheartening cri-de-couer from Ann Coulter. The subtitle is deceptive: both the Left and the Right are in on this effort to change the people. Neither party gives two beans about the middle class.
Coulter's books "Godless" and "Treason" changed my thinking about the world. This one is not so personally eye-opening but much more important overall. 1965 marked a clear change in the U.S. in many ways; before-and-after demographic and social capital data are stark. Among many other dramatic events of that year, Ted Kennedy's immigration reform act is not the least. This book is about the consequences of that act, which play out every day in the lives of our countrymen, immigrants, cities, towns, even our national parks.
Coulter's books "Godless" and "Treason" changed my thinking about the world. This one is not so personally eye-opening but much more important overall. 1965 marked a clear change in the U.S. in many ways; before-and-after demographic and social capital data are stark. Among many other dramatic events of that year, Ted Kennedy's immigration reform act is not the least. This book is about the consequences of that act, which play out every day in the lives of our countrymen, immigrants, cities, towns, even our national parks.
April 28, 2016
I didn't check any of the references (48% of the book is footnotes), but if even 20% of this stuff is true, we're screwed. BTW, intuitively, I think 98% or more is the truth. Thank goodness for Coulter's sarcastic sense of humor, or I would have been crying as I read about the nonsense going on. If agreeing with Coulter's conclusions and demanding something be done about it, makes me a racist, sign me up--I'm a racist!
June 26, 2015
Lou Ann, North River patron, June 2015, 5 stars:
Excellent, good read for anyone hoping the U.S. will do the right thing and close the borders, written by a person who knows what is happening to the country.
Excellent, good read for anyone hoping the U.S. will do the right thing and close the borders, written by a person who knows what is happening to the country.
June 15, 2015
Frightening cautionary tale
Ann Coulter's well researched and brilliantly argued book
Is an absolute must read for anyone who cares about America's survival
Ann Coulter's well researched and brilliantly argued book
Is an absolute must read for anyone who cares about America's survival
July 26, 2015
Despite the fact that Ann is characterized as a "racist" she simply is not. In America, the accusation of 'racist' has almost become an indicator that the accused is not.
Typically, the person accusing others of racism is often the racist. This is the extent to which the Culture of Spin has turned everything upside down.
My wish is that every person who denounces Ann & her views give this book a read. Her research is impeccable!
Ann challenges many of the myths that people live with and consider facts. It is alarming to learn how many Americans take their views from the New York Times & Wall Street Journal.
As much as Americans fancy themselves free thinkers, they undergo a willing indoctrination from the media machine. Ann is courageous because she seeks to unravel what we think we know about immigration.
Typically, the person accusing others of racism is often the racist. This is the extent to which the Culture of Spin has turned everything upside down.
My wish is that every person who denounces Ann & her views give this book a read. Her research is impeccable!
Ann challenges many of the myths that people live with and consider facts. It is alarming to learn how many Americans take their views from the New York Times & Wall Street Journal.
As much as Americans fancy themselves free thinkers, they undergo a willing indoctrination from the media machine. Ann is courageous because she seeks to unravel what we think we know about immigration.
September 14, 2015
You might not like Ann Coulter’s uber-conservative philosophy and biting sarcasm, but she’s a bright author who supports her ideas with outstanding research. Yes, we know everyone can manipulate statistics, but Coulter peels back the layers on the immigration problem far better than anyone else, exposing a dangerous trend seriously affecting our country, turning America in a direction no one foresaw 20 years ago. After reading Coulter’s analysis, you’ll look at immigration in a whole new light. You’ll be convinced that building a fence has to be done – now!
June 25, 2015
Information packed book
I am a huge Fox News fan and always enjoy watching Ann Coulter. Before reading this book, I didn't quite understand her full views on immigration; now I do!!
Her logic and research behind immigration is so beyond impressive.
A must read for all Americans
I am a huge Fox News fan and always enjoy watching Ann Coulter. Before reading this book, I didn't quite understand her full views on immigration; now I do!!
Her logic and research behind immigration is so beyond impressive.
A must read for all Americans
July 30, 2015
Eye-Opening
This book is very informative. 1/4 of the pages are filled with references to news articles and rich information. Warning: Don't tell anyone you're reading it unless you want to lose friends.
This book is very informative. 1/4 of the pages are filled with references to news articles and rich information. Warning: Don't tell anyone you're reading it unless you want to lose friends.
June 22, 2015
Gritty truth that needs to be told
This book tells the truth about the immigration issue. Facts do not lie. Great book sure to cause controversy in the future.
This book tells the truth about the immigration issue. Facts do not lie. Great book sure to cause controversy in the future.
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