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A new AP poll confirmed that 70 percent of Republican voters now think that Trump can win the nomination. This is the beginning of a fundamental change: its no longer socially unacceptable to admit to being a Donald Trump supporter.

Be advised, things are about to get uncomfortable.

Shame on you.

The relative few criminals Fidel Castro sent over during the Mariel boatlift cant begin to compare with those hes been sending over recently.

I admit I was suspicious.

This is not meant as an attack on them by any means.

He was in favor, on the record, of an assault records ban. Is that now pro-gun?

Thats why Trump is so popular. So pick it up, Republicans.

Ill get it done before breakfast.

I will bet you by the end of the weekend

Two, four, six, eight, we dont need your racist hate!

Everything Geraldo said is false.

Oops.

Dont insult our intelligence.

Were not going to talk over each other. Its not what we do on this show.

American women are about to realize American men were the best they ever had it

Says immigration is being used as a war technique by Americas enemies: Democrats

When Im in charge of immigration

This undocumented immigrant who has lived in this nation for almost 22 years, wants to as a sign of my humanity and yours

Do you think people are biologically disposed to commit crimes?

Yes, America does owe black America for slavery, for the Democratic policies of Jim Crow.

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Ann Coulter News - The New York Times

Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961) is an American lawyer, conservative social and political commentator, author, and syndicated columnist. She frequently appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public events and private events. Well known for her conservative political opinions and the controversial ways in which she presents and defends them, Coulter has described herself as a polemicist who likes to "stir up the pot" and does not "pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do". Ann Hart Coulter was born in New York City on December 8, 1961, to John Vincent Coulter, a native of Albany, New York, and Nell Husbands Coulter (ne Martin), a native of Paducah, Kentucky. The family later moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where Coulter and her two older brothers, James and John, were raised. She graduated from New Canaan High School in 1980. Coulter's age was disputed in 2002 while she was arguing that she was not yet 40, yet Washington Post columnist Lloyd Grove cited that she provided a birthdate of December 8, 1961, when registering to vote in New Canaan, Connecticut prior to the 1980 Presidential election. Meanwhile, a driver's license issued several years

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Ann Coulter News, Pictures, and Videos | TMZ.com

'Anti-soccer evidence pours in!' she tweeted.

By Sarah Smith

07/01/14 06:12 AM EDT

Updated 07/02/14 11:31 AM EDT

Theres one person and maybe the only person who was not happy about the United States run in the World Cup: Ann Coulter.

Before the U.S. team fell to Belgium on Tuesday, the conservative columnist was getting kicked around even by her fellow travelers on the right for her anti-soccer tweets and a column she wrote headlined: Any growing interest in soccer a sign of moral decay.

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If more Americans are watching soccer today, its only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedys 1965 immigration law, Coulter wrote. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.

Coulter doubled down on Wednesday after the U.S. loss to Belgium that knocked the Americans out of contention as she continued dissing her countrys team without even acknowledging the defeat.

( PHOTOS: World leaders watch the 2014 World Cup)

Doing the job Americans just wont do: Immigrants fill up roster of U.S. soccer team, she tweeted, linking to an article that detailed the U.S. teams connections to other countries. Another tweet cited a Washington Post story with the statistic that only 17 percent of Americans closely watched the World Cup. Coulter contended that of those 17 percent, 100% R unatheletic [sic] journalists.

On Monday, Coulter was on Sean Hannitys show to defend her earlier attacks on soccer.

My critics have apparently tried to persuade me that soccer really is a macho game by throwing one week of hissy fits over my column, Coulter said, speaking on Fox News from Paris.

While Coulters column unfavorably compared soccer to American football (After a football game, ambulances carry off the wounded. After a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box), she thought a players biting of another backed up her views.

More evidence soccer is for girls. Player from Uruguay caught BITING an opponent yesterday, she tweeted last week. Not punching. Not a cross-body block. BITING!

Americans swept up by World Cup fever didnt take kindly to her sentiments including many of Coulters fellow conservatives and Fox News regulars.

Fox News host Steve Doocy brought up the column on Fox & Friends, joking that fellow host Brian Kilmeade might become agitated.

Right, Kilmeade said. I will outline what she said and try to find anything factual in it. That will be an interesting little exercise.

Im told its a sign of moral decay, Fox News host Shep Smith said of soccer after celebrating the U.S. advancing in the World Cup on Thursday after its match against Germany. Its not.

Coulter also took the opportunity to mix in a tongue-in-cheek jab at the Internal Revenue Service, referencing the ongoing scandal over the disappearance of ex-IRS official Lois Lerners emails.

Anti-soccer evidence pours in! she tweeted. Smug creep at IRS, John Koskinen, served as President of the U.S. Soccer Foundation from 2004-2008.

Coulter also faced penalty kicks from the left, with Talking Points Memo writing about how she trolled soccer fans.

Its worth noting that aside from the Olympics, the World Cup is really the only occasion when an American audience gets a chance to cheer on a national rather than a regional sports team, TPM author Catherine Thompson wrote. But apparently that doesnt jibe with Coulters vision of patriotism.

Forbes, under the headline, How Ann Coulter Lost Her Mind Over World Cup Soccer, didnt agree with her view but gave her points for getting attention and being creative.

Maybe Ann Coulter hasnt lost her mind, author Maury Brown mused at the end of his post. Maybe Ann Coulter knows how to play us all up and take advantage of a storyline.

Less surprising is the reaction of sports networks. Colin Cowherd on The Herd chalked up soccer as one more thing conservatives are slower to embrace. New stuff gay marriage, gun law change, immigration, technology theyre a little more reticent to initially embrace it, he said.

On CBS Sports Boomer & Carton, a host said, Everybodys got an opinion. Thats a weird one.

And Twitter certainly paid attention. The most commonly tweeted line asked if Coulters column was meant to appear on satirical news site The Onion.

The Ann Coulter trolling on soccer is so weak, tweeted Business Insider Executive Editor Joe Weisenthal. A big lump of jokes weve all made. Shes lost her fastball.

I care what Ann Coulter thinks about soccer. -No one, ever, Pat Garofalo, assistant managing editor for opinion at U.S.News & World Report, tweeted.

Coulter did not respond to a request for comment for this story.

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Ann Coulter gets red-carded - POLITICO

In a recent appearance on The View to promote her latest book, Ann Coulter reiterated her well-known anti-immigrant stance. Guest host Ana Navarro responded, saying, "Let me point out that you're sitting at this table next to two immigrants ... What is your family's immigration story? Are you a Native American?"

Coulter's reply was curious: "Yes, I am. I'm a settler. I'm descended from settlers. Not from immigrants ... I'm not living in the Cherokee Nation. I'm living in America, which was created by settlers, not immigrants."

Every school child knows that the United States is a nation of immigrants, and genealogists in particular are hyper-aware of this reality since we routinely trace our family trees back to those who came to America from the "old country," so Coulter's peculiar logic and word play provoked my own curiosity about her heritage. I decided to take a peek into her past, starting with her parents.

The obituary she wrote in tribute to her mother, Nell Husbands (Martin) Coulter, revealed that the maternal half of her family history is well known and extends back to colonial times, so I opted to explore the unknown - her father's side of the family.

My research got off to an unexpected start when one of the first documents I consulted - the 1940 census - recorded Coulter's father and grandparents as African American. If you look below in between the columns that note gender and age, you'll see "Neg" (census instructions that year specified this abbreviation for "Negro") for all four family members.

(as seen on Ancestry.com, FindMyPast, and FamilySearch)

This is an error (writing on the page varies, suggesting the enumerator completed some fields from memory after the fact) and the balance of my research led to very different conclusions. Ultimately, here's what I learned about this side of her family:

All eight of her paternal great-great-grandparents (four couples) came to America from Europe. Six of these eight were Famine-era arrivals from Ireland, while the other two were from Germany. Her Irish ancestors wouldn't have been welcomed with open arms as can be seen from these typical 19th century political cartoons showing the Irish as desperately poor, conniving, criminal, lazy, and impossible to assimilate (more examples here).

Many regarded the Irish as being of a different and inferior race, made all the worse by the fact that most were Catholic:

(Thomas Nast Cartoons website, though this is not one of his)

Nor were Germans exempt from anti-immigrant sentiment, as illustrated here where both the Irish and Germans are depicted as running away with the vote.

The occupations of Coulter's ancestors were a cross-section of what was typical for the time - laborer (most likely on steamboats, given the location), brick and tile maker (who later ran a saloon), carpenter, and flagman. Sadly, after working for the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad for roughly 35 years, this last fellow - Peter Keegan - lost his life when hit by a train.

(fultonhistory.com)

Her family lived in a cluster of New York counties - Albany, Ulster and Dutchess (and later Columbia) - formally founded by the British in 1683, though all had a European (mostly Dutch) presence earlier in the 1600s. This area was home to the Lenape, Delaware Indians who had first encountered Europeans in 1524 when Giovanni da Verrazzano arrived. In fact, the Ulster County contingent of Coulter's family resided in Port Ewen, part of the town of Esopus named after a Lenape tribe the Dutch had once traded with there. They undoubtedly knew of Port Ewen's most famous resident, Sojourner Truth, who was briefly enslaved there and began her rise to national attention just as Coulter's Irish ancestors established their new home.

NY counties where Coulter's paternal ancestors resided (diymaps.net)

All four of these ancestral couples had their first American-born child between 1855 and 1860, placing them in this region approximately two centuries after fellow Europeans, some portion of that same 200 years for the more than 15,000 free African Americans who resided in Albany, Dutchess and Ulster counties as of the 1850 census, and an indeterminate period after Native Americans. On a nationwide basis, this timeframe also coincides with the tail end of the importation of enslaved Africans (made illegal decades earlier, but lingering before finally sputtering out), meaning that ancestors of the vast majority of African Americans today arrived well before Coulter's paternal forebears.

Given all this, referring to Coulter's conspicuously immigrant ancestors as settlers is a bit of a stretch - and I say this as someone who also happens to have four great-great-grandparents who left Ireland to escape the Famine and found their way to New York where they worked on the railroads (including one would perish on the job). Her ancestors and mine gave their labor, talents, and even their lives to their adopted country, but they were also the beneficiaries of all those - Native American, African American, and European - who were here long before.

That their contributions came a little later doesn't diminish them, but it's Coulter who wants to carve out a special class of "settlers," so it's inconvenient that she's descended from the kind of immigrants she'd like to deny entry to. Just as the Know-Nothings wanted to slam the door in the faces of Irish Catholics like Coulter's relatives in the 1850s, she wants to cherry-pick who to let in now. But as much as Coulter might wish to, you can't choose your ancestors, so it's worth contemplating that if the Know-Nothings had succeeded in doing what she advocates now, she and almost 12 percent of the American population wouldn't exist today. Still, if Coulter insists on claiming "settler" roots for the paternal half of her family tree, she could always accept her father's 1940 census record at face value.

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