Actually, I want to thank you (and Dan, below) for making me think a little more carefully about this.

I now think that the constant wrongness of Ann Coulter isn't an accident. She is an almost perfect example of a pure anti-rationalist: someone who will always and only believe things that accord with her ideology. You can predict what she will say about many issues via a simple process.

For instance, take the sentence "Muslims are bad," and apply it simplemindedly to any issue involving Muslims, and you will be able to predict her beliefs. She insists that Muslims had nothing to do with the advance of knowledge; that Islam has never been a religion of peace or tolerance; that Sirhan Sirhan was a Muslim (he wasn't). She writes: "Muslims ought to start claiming the Quran also prohibits indoor plumbing, to explain their lack of it." And on, and on.

Similarly with "liberals are bad." She believes that liberals are always wrong. Among the conclusions she draws: liberals believe in evolution, therefore evolution is false.

I don't know, it's a pretty impressive record she's got going. She will, no doubt, be right about things on occasion, by accident. But I'm starting to feel better about the reliability of my "shortcut to truth." :)