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Ann Hart Coulter
December 8, 1961 New York City, U.S.
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Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961) is an American conservative writer, speaker, and lawyer. She became well-known in the late 1990s. She appeared in newspapers and on TV news shows. She was a strong critic of the Clinton administration.
Her first book was about the impeachment of Bill Clinton. This book came from her work writing legal papers for lawyers involved in a case against Bill Clinton. She also wrote newspaper columns about these cases. Ann Coulter's columns are published in newspapers and on conservative websites. She has written 13 books.
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Early Life and Education
Ann Hart Coulter was born on December 8, 1961, in New York City. Her father, John Vincent Coulter, was an FBI agent. Her mother, Nell Husbands Coulter, was from Kentucky.
Ann's family later moved to New Canaan, Connecticut. She grew up there with her two older brothers, James and John. She finished high school at New Canaan High School in 1980.
Ann went to Cornell University. There, she helped start a student newspaper called The Cornell Review. She graduated from Cornell in 1984 with a degree in history. She then earned her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1988. While at Michigan, she was an editor for the Michigan Law Review.
Career as a Writer and Speaker
After law school, Ann Coulter worked for a judge in Kansas City, Missouri. She also worked as a lawyer in New York City, focusing on business law. In 1994, she joined the United States Senate Judiciary Committee. She worked on issues like crime and immigration. She helped create laws to make it easier to deport people who had committed serious crimes.
Ann Coulter has written 13 books and a regular newspaper column. She is known for her strong and direct writing style. She has said that she likes to "stir up the pot" and does not pretend to be neutral.
She often speaks on TV and radio shows. She also gives speeches at colleges. She travels for several weeks each year to give speeches. Her speeches cover topics like modern conservatism and what she sees as problems with modern American liberalism.
Ann Coulter's Books
Ann Coulter has written many books that have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. By 2009, her books had sold over 3 million copies.
Her first book, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, was published in 1998. It became a New York Times Bestseller. The book explains her arguments for impeaching President Bill Clinton.
Her second book, Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, came out in 2002. It reached the number one spot on The New York Times non-fiction bestseller list. In this book, Coulter argued that President George W. Bush received unfair negative media coverage.
In 2003, she published her third book, Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism. This book looked back at the Cold War. She argued that liberals were wrong in their views and decisions during that time.
Her fourth book, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter, was a collection of her columns published in 2004.
In 2006, Coulter's fifth book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, was released. In this book, she argued that American liberalism rejects the idea of God. She also said it acts like a religion itself. Godless was also a number one New York Times Best Seller.
Other books by Ann Coulter include If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans (2007) and Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America (2009). Both also became bestsellers.
Her eighth book, Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America, was published in 2011.
In 2012, she released Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama. This book argued that liberals and Democrats have taken too much credit for civil rights in America.
Her tenth book, Never Trust a Liberal Over 3 – Especially a Republican, was a collection of her columns. It came out in 2013. Her eleventh book, Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole, was published in 2015. This book discusses topics like immigration and border security in the United States.
Newspaper Columns
Ann Coulter's weekly column began appearing in the late 1990s. Her columns are published on several conservative websites. Her syndicator, the company that distributes her columns, says that newspapers continue to publish her because she has many loyal readers.
She also wrote columns for George magazine and Human Events. In her columns, she wrote about court decisions, constitutional issues, and legal matters affecting the government.
In 2001, she had a disagreement with National Review Online (NRO) over editing one of her articles. NRO stopped publishing her column after this.
Some newspapers have stopped publishing Coulter's column due to reader complaints. For example, in 2005, the Arizona Daily Star stopped her column. They said many readers found her writing "shrill, bombastic, and mean-spirited."
Television and Film Appearances
Ann Coulter first appeared on national TV in 1996 as a legal reporter for MSNBC. She later appeared on CNN and Fox News. She has been a frequent guest on many TV and radio talk shows. In 2015, she also appeared in the film Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!, playing the vice-president of the United States.
Political Views
Ann Coulter is a conservative writer. She supports federalism, which means power is shared between the national and state governments. She also supports originalism, which means interpreting the Constitution based on its original meaning. She is a registered Republican.
Views on Christianity
Ann Coulter is a Presbyterian. She was raised by a Catholic father and a Protestant mother. She has said that her Christian faith guides everything she writes. She describes herself as "a Christian first and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second."
Views on the Confederate Flag
She supports displaying the Confederate flag. She has made controversial comments about former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley regarding the flag.
Views on Evolution
Coulter supports teaching intelligent design alongside evolution. Intelligent design is a belief that life is too complex to have developed by evolution alone and must have been created by an intelligent being. In her book Godless: The Church of Liberalism, she called the theory of evolution "bogus science."
Views on Immigration
Coulter has criticized past immigration proposals. She strongly opposes giving amnesty to undocumented immigrants. In 2018, during a debate about families being separated at the border, she dismissed immigrant children as "child actors."
She has also expressed views that some consider controversial regarding immigration and demographics.
Views on Civil Liberties
Coulter supported the NSA's program to monitor suspected terrorists. She also supports the PATRIOT Act and the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. She opposes hate crime laws, calling them "unconstitutional."
Views on Civil Rights
Coulter supported the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which ended segregation in schools. However, she is critical of forced busing to desegregate schools. She supports literacy tests for voting, which she believes are not against the Constitution. She supports the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Views on Women's Rights
Coulter has expressed opinions that some feminist critics say play into negative stereotypes about women. She believes that gains made by women have gone too far and created an anti-male society. She has also said that women should not be allowed to vote.
Views on LGBT Rights
Ann Coulter has many friends in the LGBT community. She has called herself "the Judy Garland of the Right," referring to Judy Garland's large fan base among gay people.
Coulter opposes same-sex marriage. She believes that marriage should be defined as a union between one man and one woman. She has argued that her opposition to same-sex marriage is "pro-marriage" rather than "anti-gay." She also opposes civil unions.
She has stated that she believes Republican policies are more beneficial for gay people than Democratic policies. .....
Candidate Endorsements
Ann Coulter initially supported George W. Bush as president but later criticized his immigration policies. She supported Mitt Romney in the 2008 and 2012 Republican presidential primaries. In the 2016 Republican primaries, she endorsed Donald Trump.
She later distanced herself from Trump due to disagreements over immigration policies. In September 2017, she called for his impeachment. She described herself in 2018 as a "former Trumper." In 2020, she suggested that the "Trump agenda without Trump" would be a winning strategy. She blamed Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, for Trump's 2020 election loss.
In August 2024, Coulter spoke against Donald Trump, calling him an "awful, awful person." However, she said she would vote for him in the 2024 election because she liked his running mate, JD Vance, and wanted "a wall on the border."
Personal Life
Ann Coulter has been engaged several times but has never married and does not have children. After the September 11 attacks, she dated a Muslim boyfriend. She has also dated Spin founder Bob Guccione Jr. and conservative writer Dinesh D'Souza. In 2007, she dated Andrew Stein, a former president of the New York City Council. Their relationship ended in 2008.
In 2013, there were rumors that Coulter was dating actor Jimmie Walker. Coulter said they were "great friends" and that he was "hilarious," but they were not "technically dating." In 2017, Norman Lear, who created the TV show Good Times (which Walker starred in), said Walker dated Ann Coulter. Coulter again responded that they were "great friends" and that the rumor was "never been true."
Ann Coulter owns a house in Palm Beach, Florida, a condominium in Manhattan, and an apartment in Los Angeles. She votes in Palm Beach.
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In Spanish: Ann Coulter para niños
