A Nail In His Place

One crack about 9/11 widows and the author of Godless loses her audience. Too bad

MARK STEYN
www.macleans.ca
21 June 2006

Ann Coulter’s new book Godless: The Church of Liberalism is a rollicking read very tightly reasoned and hard to argue with. After all, the progressive mind regards it as backward and primitive to let religion determine every aspect of your life, but takes it as advanced and enlightened to have the state determine every aspect of your life. Lest you doubt the left’s pieties are now a religion, try this experiment: go up to an environmental activist and say “Hey, how about that ozone hole closing up?” or “Wow! The global warming peaked in 1998 and it’s been getting cooler for almost a decade. Isn’t that great?” and then look at the faces. As with all millenarian doomsday cults, good news is a bummer.

But nobody’s talking too much about the finer points of Miss Coulter’s argument. Instead, everyone….

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The Dems Will Lose
Fearless November 2006 predictions.
By Michael Novak

Just think how crushed the Left is going to be when they lose seats in the onrushing congressional elections this November. They have been so certain they would win big.

They have been blowing hot air.

Now, I remember when NRO editor Kathryn Lopez did not believe my prediction that Cardinal Ratzinger would be elected the new pope — and much earlier and more decisively than anyone was writing at the time. (I also remember that she still hasn’t bought me the lunch she promised then, in case I was, improbably, right.)

I remember, too, the hundreds of angry notes

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