Members of the audience seemed startled, then many clapped, and she proceeded to open the floor to questions, reported EditorandPublisher.com  —  After her comments, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued a press release expressing his outrage.  Dean called Coulter's remarks 'hate-filled and bigoted.'

THE PURGE OF U.S. ATTORNEYS (PARTIALLY) EXPLAINED.  —  The more we learn about the purge of at least eight U.S. attorneys around the country, the bigger the mystery becomes.  Not so much the "how" of it all: It's clear that GOP staffers slipped unnoticed language into the about-to-be-reauthorized Patriot Act …

Noticeably Absent From the Giuliani Campaign: His Children  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani at his inaugural as mayor of New York in 1994, where his son, Andrew, 7, captured the show.  But Andrew was not at events like the one in Spartanburg, S.C., last month, right, part of Mr. Giuliani's bid for the presidency …

Bill Maher is Sorry the Assassination Attempt on Dick Cheney Failed  —  In 2002, ABC made the decision to not renew Bill Maher's contract after he made some disgraceful comments on his program "Politically Incorrect" concerning America's military response to 9/11.

Los Angeles Times Smears Medal of Honor Winner  —  An ignorant hack.  —  That's all I can think of to say about the author of this Los Angeles Times column, The Lunatic Right Returns, excoriating conservatives for adhering to "discredited swift-boaters" like George "Bud" Day. … Amazing.

Remember: for Cambodia, read Iraq  —  The Killing Fields illustrates brilliantly part of the long disaster that has been Cambodia over recent decades.  It is a compelling film that follows the story of a young Cambodian, Dith Pran, who worked for the New York Times reporter Sidney Schanberg …

Since you asked  —  A left-wing extremist exhibits many, but not necessarily all, of the following attributes:  —believes that the decision to go to war in Iraq was not an individual case of monumental stupidity, but a consequence of America's fundamental imperialistic nature.

U.S. Predicting Steady Increase for Emissions  —  The Bush administration estimates that emissions by the United States of gases that contribute to global warming will grow nearly as fast through the next decade as they did the previous decade, according to a long-delayed report being completed for the United Nations.

Army Secretary Is Ousted in Furor Over Hospital Care  —  Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey was forced to resign Friday over the handling of revelations that wounded soldiers were receiving shabby and slow treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.  —  Even as the grim-faced defense secretary …

Activists' expulsion cited as Bush rule  —  2005 FORUM IN DENVER  —  A former White House official who ordered three activists expelled from a 2005 Denver public forum with President Bush says it was White House policy to exclude potentially disruptive guests from Bush's appearances nationwide.