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I, too, appreciate the Star Democrats presenting columnists of opposing viewpoints. I want to hear what both the right and the left have to say. How else can we come to agree on issues?

But please, not Ann Coulter. Her over-long Aug. 14 piece was an undisciplined rant full of graceless invective. I agree that the media pay too much attention to the presidential tweet and not enough to what Congress is doing, or undoing, on our behalf. Ms. Coulter could have made up for the failure of the media by explaining whats in the bill in plain language, with relevant statistics. Instead, she writes of often specious family ties and idiotic family reunification laws. Mean, sloppy writing.

She didnt do her homework not even long ago in English class when she was supposed to learn verb moods and tenses, such as how you use the conditional tense (I, you, he, she, it would) in a clause following an if clause of condition contrary to fact in which the verb takes the subjunctive mood. Ms. Coulter wants her idol, President Trump, to talk about the RAISE Act and nothing else. Great idea! Lets hear all about it! So she writes, If he were smart, hed [he would] talk about nothing else. In her last line the punch line she inadvertently implied that her idol is not smart.

I hope for her sake the president doesnt read her column.

She should have written, If hes smart, he will talk about nothing else. But maybe the fact is that shes thinking, like much of humankind these days, that President Trump is not so smart.

One more thing this is too delicious. Next to Coulters website, she is quoted as saying, I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.

Reader, she called herself stupid. Star Democrat, my newspaper of record, spare me the work of stupid pundits. This is fun, but in the weeks and months to come, we need earnest columnists sincere in their zeal to help us learn from the heartbreak of Charlottesville. And we need someone who can sort out the RAISE Act.

MARGARET BARTON DRIGGS

Easton

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President Trump is allowing his "little tiny ego" to get in the way of White House staffing decisions, according to conservative commentator Ann Coulter.

"I'm ticked off at the Emperor God," Coulter told the Daily Beast, referring to Trump.

After White House strategist Steve Bannon's firing Friday, Coulter is warning Trump that he now must show "he didn't get the good ideas from Bannon" by putting the "pedal-to-the-metal on deportations, the wall, that tax hike on people who make more than $5 million a year."

Coulter, who has mostly been a staunch supporter of Trump's, also dinged the president for being "obsessed" over people giving Bannon credit for the 2016 election victory.

"Every time he's asked about Bannon, the Emperor God goes, He didn't win it for me! He only came in August! I already wrapped up the nomination!' You don't have to be a very sensitive person capable of reading body language to understand that Trump is obsessed by that. It's driven him crazy," she said.

"We all know that [Jared] Kushner is the one who won the White House for him," Coulter added, also giving credit to interim communications director Hope Hicks and former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski for Trump's political success.

Coulter suggested that the media manipulated Trump into firing Bannon by putting the former chief strategist on the covers of magazines and by the way he was portrayed on "Saturday Night Live."

"All you have to do with whatever White House staffer the media would like to get fired just put him on the cover of a magazine and call him President Whatever the Guy's Last Name Is.' It's not good to show the media that you are so easily manipulable The media is running the staffing at the White House now," Coulter said.

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Ann Coulter: 'The media is running the staffing at the White House now' - Washington Examiner

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter praised President Trump'scomments at a press conference on Tuesday, saying "we got our leader back" after Trumpsaidthere was "blame on both sides" forviolence in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.

Coulter tweeted a video of Trump's remarks at the Trump Tower press conference held on Tuesday, comparing Trump to the biblical military leader, judge and prophet Gideon.

"We were Gideon's army without Gideon. Today, we got our leader back!@realDonaldTrumppress conference," Coulter tweeted.

She shared another clip as well, captioning it, "includes fun part at the end where [Trump] brags about his winery in Charlottesville."

We were Gideon's army without Gideon. Today, we got our leader back! @realDonaldTrump press conference: https://t.co/NiR2kwJkjT

Better video! Includes fun part at the end where @realDonaldTrump brags about his winery in Charlottesville - https://t.co/AAEzI5ym9h

During his Tuesday press briefing, Trump appeared to defend white supremacistand neo-Nazi groups protesting the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville.

"George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So, will George Washington now lose his status?" Trump said Tuesday. "Are we going to take down ... statues to George Washington?"

Trump made the remark in a heated news conference, in which he defended himself against bipartisan criticism that he was too slow and equivocal in condemning white supremacistgroups for inciting violence during the Charlottesville protests.

In that press conference, the president sparred with reporters and criticized the "alt-left" for being "very, very violent" in confronting white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups.

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Ann Coulter applauds Trump on Charlottesville: 'We got our leader back!' - The Hill

She canceled her appearance after losing the support of an on-campus sponsor.Michael TranFilmMagic

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter has cancelled her plans to deliver an outdoor address at U.C. Berkeley after losing support from the campus group that had sponsored her speaking engagement.

Coulter had initially been scheduled to address the campus on Thursday on the invitation of college Republicans, but university administrators were forced to cancel her appearance due to security concerns. Administrators later offered to reschedule Coulters appearance after facing widespread criticism and a lawsuit for curtailing free speech on campus. But Coulter, undeterred, vowed to appear on the original date anyway.

On Wednesday, however, the Young Americas Foundation, the group supporting her continued fight to appear on campus, said it would no longer be involved in her case due to a lack of assurances for protections from foreseeable violence, according to The Daily Californian, the college newspaper. The group's withdrawal forced Coulter to call off her appearance.

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They want to destroy and squelch free speech, Coulter told Sean Hannity during an appearance on Fox News . All of the people who should have been standing up for the First Amendment here all ran away with their tails between their legs.

Berkeley has recently become the center of violent clashes between local groups. The university had prepared to call up hundreds of police officers to provide security for Coulters appearance, fearing it would be met by an outbreak of violence similar to the riots that occurred during former Breitbart News writer Milo Yiannopouloss campus visit in February. As the New York Times reports , Outside groups representing the far left and far right have clashed in the city several times over the past few months in a fight club atmosphere that university administrators say they have not seen in many years, if ever.

Berkeleys historic role as the center of the free speech movement has been widely remarked upon amid the controversy surrounding both Yiannopouloss and Coulters appearances. Beginning in 1964, students began engaging in peaceful sit-ins and protests to defend free expression on campus, but demonstrations turned violent in the following years as students began protesting the Vietnam War; hundreds of students were arrested during that period. Particularly in light of this history, the university has underscored its responsibility to protect the safety of campus speakers, and administrators cited very specific intelligence of threats to both the speaker and students.

The university has two non-negotiable commitments, one to Free Speech the other to the safety of our campus community, U.C. Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks wrote in a letter to the campus.

Dirks defended the universitys position in an op-ed in the New York Times today, writing, the far right accuses us of indoctrinating students into what they call a mind-set of political correctness. The far left accuses us of allowing the promotion of ideas, such as intolerance and exclusion, which are at substantive odds with the inclusive principles of the campus community...Free speech may be the new clarion call of the far right, but the real subtext of those who try to disrupt institutions built on principles of openness and inclusion with violence is only barely disguised. Berkeleys status as a symbol of free speech and protest makes it a tempting site for the staging of physical confrontations between both sides.

While Coulter will not be officially speaking at Berkeley on Thursday, she hinted that she may turn up on campus regardless. In an email to the Associated Press , she wrote , I have my flights, so I thought I might stroll around the graveyard of the First Amendment.

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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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