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A leaflet is seen stapled to a message board near Sproul Hall on the University of California at Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif. The University of California, Berkeley says it's preparing for possible violence on campus whether Ann Coulter comes to speak or not. Ben Margot/AP hide caption

A leaflet is seen stapled to a message board near Sproul Hall on the University of California at Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif. The University of California, Berkeley says it's preparing for possible violence on campus whether Ann Coulter comes to speak or not.

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Competing demonstrations in support of and against conservative commentator Ann Coulter's controversial speech, which had been planned for Thursday at the University of California, Berkeley, were held amid a heavy police presence. Despite some shouting and harsh words, both groups were peaceful.

Coulter's planned appearance had been canceled Wednesday after school officials said they wouldn't be able to adequately secure the site and sponsors pulled out.

But even without the conservative commentator's event, the university and the city of Berkeley had braced for dueling protests that they feared could become violent.

"While we cherish our freedoms of speech and assembly, there is no freedom to silence others or to commit violence," University Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin said in a joint statement. "If you are at a demonstration and you see violence, separate yourself."

Helicopters circled over Berkeley and city and campus police put on a significant show of force on Thursday, according to local media reports.

Campus police had arrested two people as of 1 p.m. local time, Berkeley said on Twitter. It said "both individuals' affiliation to UC Berkeley is unknown at this time," and did not elaborate about the reasons for the arrests.

The police said they were limiting access to one of the university's main plazas and searching individuals for "restricted items" such as "weapons (real and simulated), improvised weapons, tasers, hard plastic/metal/bottles, chains, banners/signs, explosive and incendiary devices."

NPR's Richard Gonzales was at Berkeley today, and described a large demonstration near campus around noon by protesters who "say they wanted to stage this rally to underscore their objection to Ann Coulter's appearance on the campus even though she says she's not going to come."

Right-wing demonstrations in support of Coulter gathered in the afternoon and pictures posted by the news site Berkeleyside show protesters gathered at a nearby park.

Further adding to the tension earlier in the day, Coulter suggested in an email to The Associated Press that she still might appear on campus.

"I'm not speaking. But I'm going to be near there, so I might swing by to say hello to my supporters who have flown in from all around the country," Coulter said, according to the wire service. "I thought I might stroll around the graveyard of the First Amendment."

But Coulter never showed up.

This has been a lengthy saga. Before Wednesday's cancellation, the university previously canceled the speech over security concerns, then reinstated it for a different day and place.

Coulter blamed the university for the final cancellation, and said on The Sean Hannity Show Wednesday evening that there was "nothing I could do." Several sponsoring groups pulled out because of the security concerns.

Coulter added: "All of the people who should have been standing up for the First Amendment here, all ran away with their tails between their legs."

The university said it "had done everything in its power to protect Coulter's First Amendment rights while also ensuring the safety of the campus community," campus officials told reporters yesterday.

They said they were not consulted about the date of the talk, and when they explained they were unable to provide a secure venue, Coulter rejected alternative dates.

"You can't exercise your First Amendment rights if it's taking place in an event that gets shut down because the venue isn't protectable," said Dan Mogulof, assistant vice chancellor for public affairs.

Berkeley is one of the country's most liberal universities. Coulter is opposed to immigration and was planning to speak about the issue. Her latest book is titled Adios America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole.

Berkeley has seen three major incidents of political violence recently, as The Two-Way reported:

"On March 4 and April 15, left and right wing protestors skirmished in a nearby Berkeley park. In February, masked agitators, commonly known as Black Bloc, broke windows and set fires at the campus building preventing right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking."

Wednesday's cancellation prompted criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union.

"For the future of our democracy, we must protect bigoted speech from government censorship," said David Cole, the ACLU's national legal director. "On college campuses, that means that the best way to combat hateful speech is through counter-speech, vigorous and creative protest, and debate, not threats of violence or censorship."

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Conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter blamed the media for the ouster of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, whose last day at the White House was Friday, and suggested the press has control over President Trump.

"STEVE BANNON OUT! Media is the most powerful branch of government. If @realDonaldTrump didn't like the media giving Steve Bannon all credit, instead of firing him, he should've hired 10 more like him," Coulter said in a series of tweets Friday.

"@realDonaldTrump needs to hire @CLewandowski_ immediately, so there's SOMEONE in the White House who isn't from Goldman Sachs," she continued, referencing Corey Lewandowski, who previously served as Trump's campaign managers.

The White House announced Friday that Bannon will leave his position after spending eight months working for Trump in the West Wing.

"White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve's last day," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. "We are grateful for his service and wish him the best."

The move was immediately met with praise from congressional Democrats, but some conservative groups panned Bannon's departure.

Coulter, who has supported Trump and Bannon, suggested Bannon's exit would hurt Trump's White House, and urged Trump to follow through on his campaign promises.

"To prove that he didn't get all the good stuff from Bannon, @realDonaldTrump better start the wall pronto!" Coulter tweeted.

She said the media would decide who the president is going to fire next, and indicated it's the press that has ultimate power over Trump.

"I think this will do it. Now, media will forgive @realDonaldTrump and treat him totally fairly. They admire weakness. Who will media decide @realDonaldTrump has to fire next?" Coulter tweeted.

"SNL sketch should have shown media sitting at the big desk in the Oval Office, with @realDonaldTrump at the little table," she continued.

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Ann Coulter sarcastically blasted the poor liberal foundlings of East Hampton to Page Six after being accused by attendees at the East Hampton Librarys Authors Night of pocketing money meant to go to the library by selling her own DVDs for cash.

The right-wing pundit had a booth at the benefit along with attendees such as Alec Baldwin and Jessica Seinfeld to promote her tome In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!

Authors sold their books with all proceeds going to the library. But a spy huffed that Coulter made a handwritten sign and sold her DVD for cash.

The source said the DVDs were going for $25 . . . When an organizer approached and removed the sign, [Coulter] threw a fit and said, It doesnt matter anyway, I just sold out of all of them.

A library rep said, If she was doing that, we werent aware. If someone saw this, we apologize . . . She might not have been aware of the standard operating procedure. When asked if the library received money from the DVD sales, event co-chair Sheila Rogers told us, No.

But Coulter initially told us: This is not true . . . You need better sources in the outpost of the resistance. Liberals are calling in nonsense.

When we mentioned wed seen a picture of her handwritten sign reading cash only although all other authors books were paid for by attendees at one library register Coulter said (referring to herself in the third person): The 80 books that were donated for the book fair were signed and sold, and all the proceeds donated . . . The idea that she pilfered from the poor liberal foundlings of East Hampton is absurd.

She added, Coulters books sold out one hour into the two-hour event long before any other author sold out. Instead of disappointing her fans who couldnt get into the sold-out dinner [afterward], she allowed fans to get signed DVDs at cost intended for the private dinner later. Your snotty liberal correspondent would be surprised at how many secret right-wingers there are in East Hampton. A source said authors do give out items at the dinner but proceeds still go to the library.

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Apparently, as long as violent leftists label their victims fascists, they are free to set fires, smash windows and beat civilians bloody. No police officer will stop them. They have carte blanche to physically assault anyone they disapprove of, including Charles Murray, Heather Mac Donald, Ben Shapiro, me and Milo Yiannopoulos, as well as anyone who wanted to hear us speak.

Even far-left liberals like Evergreen State professor Bret Weinstein will be stripped of police protection solely because the mob called him a racist.

If the liberal shock troops deem local Republicans Nazis because some of them support the duly elected Republican president Portland will cancel the annual Rose Festival parade rather than allow any Trump supporters to march.

Theyre all fascists! Ipso facto, the people cracking their skulls and smashing store windows are anti-fascists, or as they call themselves, antifa.

We have no way of knowing if the speakers at the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally last weekend were Nazis, white supremacists or passionate Civil War buffs, inasmuch as they werent allowed to speak. The Democratic governor shut the event down, despite a court order to let it proceed.

We have only visuals presented to us by the activist media, showing some participants with Nazi paraphernalia. But for all we know, the Nazi photos are as unrepresentative of the rally as that photo of the drowned Syrian child is of Europes migrant crisis. Was it 1 percent Nazi or 99 percent Nazi?

As the Unite the Right crowd was dispersing, they were forced by the police into the path of the peace-loving, rock-throwing, fire-spraying antifa. A far-left reporter for The New York Times, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, tweeted live from the event: The hard left seemed as hate-filled as alt-right. I saw club-wielding antifa beating white nationalists being led out of the park.

Thats when protestor James Fields sped his car into a crowd of the counter-protesters, then immediately hit reverse, injuring dozens of people, and killing one woman, Heather Heyer.

This has been universally labeled terrorism, but we still dont know whether Fields hit the gas accidentally, was in fear for his life or if he rammed the group intentionally and maliciously.

With any luck, well unravel Fields motives faster than it took the Obama administration to discern the motives of a Muslim shouting Allahu Akbar! while gunning down soldiers at Fort Hood. (Six years.)

But so far, all we know is that Fields said he was upset about black people and wanted to kill as many as possible. On his Facebook page, he displayed a White Power poster and liked three organizations deemed white separatist hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center. A subsequent search of his home turned up bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition and a personal journal of combat tactics.

Actually, none of that is true. The paragraph above describes, down to the letter, what was known about Micah Xavier Johnson, the black man who murdered five Dallas cops a year ago during a Black Lives Matter demonstration. My sole alteration to the facts is reversing the words black and white.

President Obama held a news conference the next day to say its very hard to untangle the motives. The New York Times editorialized agnostically that many possible motives will be ticked off for the killer. (One motive kind of sticks out like a sore thumb to me.)

In certain cases, the media are quite willing to jump to conclusions. In others, they seem to need an inordinate amount of time to detect motives.

The media think they already know all there is to know about James Fields, but they also thought they knew all about the Duke lacrosse players, gentle giant Michael Brown and those alleged gang-rapists at the University of Virginia.

Waiting for facts is now the Nazi position.

Liberals have Republicans over a barrel because they used the word racist. The word is kryptonite, capable of turning the entire GOP and 99 percent of the conservative media into a panicky mass of cowardice.

This week, Mitt Romney and Sen. Marco Rubio among others instructed us that masked liberals hitting people with baseball bats are pure of heart provided they first label the likes of Charles Murray or some housewife in a MAGA hat fascists.

Luckily, the week before opening fire on Republicans, critically injuring House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, Bernie Sanders-supporter James Hodgkinson had used the vital talisman, calling the GOP fascist. So you see, he wasnt trying to commit mass murder! He was just fighting Nazis. Rubio and Romney will be expert witnesses.

And lets recall the response of Hillary Clinton to the horrifying murder of five Dallas cops last year. The woman who ran against Trump displayed all the moral blindness currently being slanderously imputed to him.

In an interview on CNN about the slaughter that had taken place roughly 12 hours earlier, Hillary barely paused to acknowledge the five dead officers much less condemn the shooting before criticizing police for their implicit bias six times in about as many minutes.

What she really wanted to talk about were the two recent police shootings of black men in Baton Rouge and Minneapolis, refusing to contradict Minnesota Gov. Mark Daytons claim that the Minneapolis shooting was based on racism.

Officers in both cases were later found innocent of any wrongdoing. Either the left has had a really bad streak of luck on their police brutality cases, or bad cops are a lot rarer than they think.

Some people would not consider the mass murder of five white policemen by an anti-cop nut in the middle of a BLM protest a good jumping-off point for airing BLMs delusional complaints about the police. It would be like responding to John Hinckley Jr.s attempted murder of President Reagan by denouncing Jodie Foster for not dating him.

Or, to bring it back to Charlottesville, it would be as if Trump had responded by expounding on the kookiest positions of Unite the Right just as Hillarys response echoed the paranoid obsessions of the cop-killer. Trump would have quickly skipped over the dead girl and railed against black people, Jews and so on.

That is the precise analogy to what Hillary did as the bodies of five Dallas cops lay in the morgue.

Thank God Donald J. Trump is our president, and not Mitt Romney, not Marco Rubio and not that nasty woman.

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