Library loan book
but with eAudio from my local library.

From "How Democracies Die"
p156 Among the brazen agents of partisan intolerance in the early 2000s was Ann Coutler. Coulter wrote a series of bestselling books attacking liberals and Democrats in a McCarthyrite voice. The books' title speak for themselves: Slander (2002); Treason (2003); Godless(2006); Guilty (2009); Demonic (2011); Adios, American (2015). Treason, published around the time of the U.S invasion of Iraq, defend Joseph McCarthy and embrace his tactics. The book claims that anti-Americanism is "intrinsic to [liberals]'] entire worldview" and accuses liberals of having committed "fifty years of treason" during the Cold War. While doing publicity for Treason, Coutler declared, "There are millions of suspects here ... I am indicting the entire Democratic Party."

Quotes -from google search
--I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.
--If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?
--Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.
My comments: really? She is intelligentsia, look like her words come out of white supremacy.

Summary: To be honest, Daniel Ziblatt 's words about Ann Coulter is fair. Never see a person with so much hatred in the heart, so venomous words, so distorted view. Everyone's thoughts is the mirror his/her own soul. Cling to Bible or literally to be a Christian does not make anyone close to God. To be with God, it is a spiritual journey engaged in deeply reflective thinking. The book title "Godless", with a soul full of hatred, who really is godless? Her book serves a example to show how sick one's mind and soul can be.
No matter what believing you hold, to be a intelligentsia means it should be intelligence engaging, free spirit pursuing, not shallow picking name games. Please write with vigorous reasons, suitable for educated person who graduated from Cornell University, no shallow, narrow, ridiculous accusation. Beware of everything she wrote in this book, it is fair to say all are distorted. Only go through first several chapters, not finished, without intensive background knowledge, it is hard to read, often I need do a lot of google searching. Not worth it, so I didn't even rate the book.

Those is just only beginning of her book, read it for yourself. Her book are full of those remarks.
e.g
p4 The core of the Judeo-Christian tradtion says that we are utterly the distinctly apart from other species. We have dominion over the plants and animals on Earth. God gave it to use, it's ours - as states succinctly in the book of Genesis..... Environmentalists want mass infanticide, zero population growth, reduced standards of living, and vegetarianism, The core of environmentalism is that they hate mankind.... Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, the original environmental hoax.
--my words: dominion, hate mankind, environmental hoax? really?

p14 inculcating students in the religion of hating America and hating God.
--my words: really? hating their own country?

why slash environmentalists, what is wrong with saving water, even personal use. Even personal water usage count for 10% of total water usage, agriculture 70%, industry 20%, did she notice severe droughts these years? Global Water shortage.
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The cases in chapter 2 are much more complicated, at least not like in author's distorted interpretation, check on Wikipedia.

The Warren Court, 1953-1969 liberal activism.

Miranda v. Arizona (1966) in creating the "Miranda Rights" we take for granted today, reconciled the increasing police powers of the state with the basic rights of individuals.
Not like she addressed in the book , it is more about individual right.

Escobedo v. Illinois (1964), was a United States Supreme Court case holding that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment.

Brewer v. Williams (1977) is a decision by the United States Supreme Court that clarifies what constitutes "waiver" of the right to counsel for the purposes of the Sixth Amendment.

Massiah v. United States (1964),a principle that an attempt to elicit incriminating statements from a suspect whose right to counsel has attached but who has not waived that right violates the Sixth Amendment.

In Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution requires the states to provide defense attorneys to criminal defendants charged with serious offenses who cannot afford lawyers themselves.
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Vocabulary:
PETA: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

As for Ann Coulter, she should question herself to be called a intelligentsia, a noble person, a torch lead people out of ignorance and darkness, or otherwise, her words bury people forever. A very serious consequence. Beware of word power.

Ann is brilliant in this one exposing the hypocrasy of the left's views of democracy and the American Dream.

Audiobook this to hear the author read her own book. If you can audiobook a book narrated by the another themselves, it's always extra special, especially with Ann's tone and delivery.

Superb book (like all her books) that are illuminating teaching/informing us about government scams and lies. Leftist demoncrap absolute corruption is worse than I imagined. Ann doesn't spout opinions, but FACTS (anathema to libtardo dems).

Especially enlightening is Ann discussing "Inherit the Wind" and the Scopes trial. Fantastic example of much of what we are 'taught' i.e. brainwashed is a giant lie (like Civil War causes etc). The Scopes trial scam was nothing but political theater for TOURISM. ACLU funded the trial scam. Trial was about tourism, Scopes was a FOOTBALL coach and substitute teacher who never taught biology, etc.

Love AC's dig on Al Franken looks like a monkey. He really does. My sidenote Ann didn't go into but applicable and indicative of dems Franken is a NEBBISH sexual harasser of women who was NEVER a comedic talent. I never understood why he had any role (albeit limited) on SNL. He sux and is the opposite of funny. He had no talent or future in showbusiness which is why he entered politics. Like most politicians they can't perform real jobs.

I had to dig to find this:

https://tnmuseum.org/junior-curators/...

This book has a biting wit that is pervasive throughout the entire novel. You either love Ann Coulter or you want her to die...

Have never read it. Never will. But I can guarantee that it sucks.

THIS POOR WOMAN NEEDS PSYCHIATRIC HELP --- NOT MEDIA ATTENTION!

This venomous tome is a logician's worst nightmare. Here --- for the torture of anyone who values clear thinking and reasoned, convincing, step-by-step logical argument --- are 310 pages of hasty generalizations, contra-hominem attacks, weak analogies, irrelevant arguments, loaded words, slogans repeated ad nauseam in the belief that the audience is dumb enough to believe anything to be true if told often enough in a harsh enough tone of voice, unproven assertions, red herrings, name calling, and demagoguery. I can not remember the last assault on the senses of the American public to equal this vitriol.

Ms. Coulter's personal attacks on the widows of the tragedy of September 11 are nothing short of blasphemy. However, when she goes on to insinuate that the pompous hypocrites who harbored and covered up for predators who molested children in the American Roman Catholic Church should be given a pass, according to her, because the public school system is worse by far, she exposes the total depravity of her outlook. No, Ms. Coulter. Two wrongs do not make a right. Nor do three. Persons who hurt children deserve to be in jail. Persons who shelter and cover up for such persons and transfer such persons to other assignments where they can hurt more children deserve to be in jail with them. If you can substantiate your claims regarding the public school system, by all means, help make our children safe.

The prestige of no institution is worth the sacrifice of the lives, integrity and innocence of its members. The Dreyfus case showed us that in large letters. No institution which is beyond critical self examination has a snow flake's chance in hell of survival with its soul intact. Unbridled arrogance brought on the shedding of how much blood in how many wars and religious schisms? Those who question are not disloyal, Ms. Coulter. The heroes on flight 93 had the real American attitude. They were willing to sacrifice their right to life to protect the safety of others. They were peace makers. The beatitude says "blessed are the peace makers" not the peace lovers. Persons who believe that everyone who disagrees with them or their party's point of view should just shut up are clearly not in tune with the American tradition of freedom.

If read this book you must, by all means do so in a book shop that will allow you to sit as comfortably as you can be while you inhale such noxious fumes. This sort of ideological pornography does not deserve to be supported financially, so for the sake of decency, don't buy it. And be careful. Pace yourself. Know how much you can take. If you throw up on the book, chances are they'll make you buy it!

Terry Pratchett can do it. P G Wodehouse can do it. So can Robert Rankin, Aristophanes, Lenny Bruce and Tom Sharpe. But few of them managed it like this book. What they can do of course, is make me laugh out loud, helpless with mirth. Frankly, if this book had been as intentionally funny as I did, in fact, find it, it would have been a shoe-in five-starrer!

Had I not been familiar with Ann Coulter, America's slender-limbed conservative sweetheart, and her ultra-rightist agenda, I might have suspected this to be satirical, and applauded the cleverness of the writing. Unfortunately, however, the preposterous and medieval ideas in this book are apparently intended to be serious!

Coulter's basic idea seems to be that Liberalism (even the American brand, which most nations would regard as a sort of moderate conservatism)is a form of religion. Really?

Apparently such Satanic ideas as letting women choose what they do with their own bodies (Roe v Wade)), teaching that the world wasn't knocked up in seven days by God , belief in giving the poor any sort of break by means of social security, daring to suggest that Darwin might have had a point, or even giving the time of day to schoolteachers - all these ideas, it seems are pillars of the black- magic anti-American conspiracy that threatens to wipe out all wholesome, all-American God-fearing sex-is-for-making-babies decency... and this conspiracy is, in fact a RELIGION!

I repeat - this isn't some satirist, posing as a right winger, deliberately to discredit the American right - Coulter really believes these ideas!

Coulter gets particularly hilarious when she pretends to some kind of scientific expertise and "proves" that Darwinism is wrong, by citing the Piltdown Man hoax! Urm, Annie, my dear - people who believe in the Theory of Evolution already know that. Let's be fair to the girl though - anyone who believes that women were cloned from a man's rib and that all the evils of the world are caused by hallucinogenic fruit and a talking snake is hardly equipped to conduct any form of serious scientific argument, and one has to give her marks for trying!

Read this for a good belly laugh by all means. But I can't help feeling that even devout Christians, convinced conservatives and patriotic Americans are going to find this one a little outre!

Granted- a polemicist, but the important issues she raises are not going away. Bring a strong stomach and an open mind. Sometimes there are gems hidden under a porcupine, and although the quills sting, the gems still shine. No wimps need apply!

If you are an extreme right-wing Christian you will love everything Coulter is saying. I needed more notes and references, like her claim that Liberals are all about teaching 4th graders about anal sex and fisting. Quite a few of her other statements she will have 2 or 3 news articles referenced. I always need more notes. It really helps me get a true understanding of what the author is trying to say. I was also unfamiliar with Coulter before reading this book. I didn't realize this was a humor book until a few hundred pages in. I just though her writing style wasn't capturing me. I guess I have a hard time mixing many serious subjects with random jokes mixed in.

Coulter also references the Bible quite a bit. She discusses how God gave us dominion over the earth but that liberals think we should recycle. I have not read enough of Coulter to know if she is trying to make a joke or if she thinks that recycling is dumb. I have always viewed recycling as a stewardship issue. I also didn't know if she was writing this book for her own people (like minded, and on the same page) or if she is trying to convert liberals to a more conservative mindset.

This book covers a wide range of topics, from science, to war, to education, to law. She talked a lot of liberals hating war, and not supporting heroes. This book was written in 2007, but I would be curious if when she updated it if she would call out President Trump's comments about John Mccain being captured when Trump was able to get a few deferments from the Vietnam war. I was also thinking she would have almost twice the material in the 10 years since this book was put out to give commentary on.

"Democrats are constitutionally entitled to be stupid. They are, after all Democrats."

Referencing Michael Moore as a Coulter does for anything loses all credibility with me.me. Even some conspiracy theorist think he is a crackpot. This book reminds me of the books by atheists that I have read, they point out how stupid God is based on Westboro Baptist and snake handlers. Coulter has been around a long time and this book gives years of topics that I was unfamiliar with. Her take on the public education system was very surprising. Coulter references teachers as "taxpayer-supported parasites. " "How about this when bus drivers rates of getting a child to school are 50%, which is the teachers' failure rate of teaching kids, then we can talk about equal pay for teachers and bus drivers. "

As I continued to read I was surprised by the lack of compare and contrast that would have been very easy for her to do. She could have given the Liberal idea, why it didn't work and then given her Conservative idea and why she feels her idea would work. It is very tough reading books that only points fingers 100% of the time without giving any kind of ideas on how to solve the problem.

From this book, it appears Coulter is on the far-right and believes all liberals are on the far-left. But I believe that most people are in the middle thinking that both the far sides are slightly crazy!

Ann tells it like it is!

Good and well researched as is usual for Coulter.
A conservative will probably like it.
A liberal will probably not like it.
Either will have to read it with an open mind and exercise critical thinking while reading.
Ann Coulter is one of the sharpest minds around.

Opens your mind to different things.