Yesterday, at remarkably short notice, a new group calling itself New Yorkers for Term Limits convened a press conference at City Hall. Their case was simple: New Yorkers decided twice, in consecutive referenda, that they want the terms of their servants to be limited to two, and that nothing short of a referendum suffices to repeal them, as a matter of basic small-D democratic integrity.

Norman Siegel in his remarks pointed out that the current mayor is only in office due to term limits, which prevented his predecessor from seeking a third term. The same applies to members of the Council. As Siegel spoke, he was surrounded by several candidates for seats that were expected to be vacant in 2009.

State Senator Eric Adams (D-SD-20) went one step further and demanded term limits at the state legislative level, saying that "there comes a time to pass the baton". That should ruffle some feathers, one would imagine.

Councilman Bill DeBlasio, the only sitting member of the Council to make an appearance - wonder how that happened - said this:

There is no way I will vote to extend the terms of current legislators. If we change term limits this way, at the eleventh hour, we can't expect the people to have faith in their democratic system. I will vote no.

Another speaker, Michael Myers, an activist with a civil rights group, decried the thinking-out-loud on term limits of the mayor and various members of the Council - in short, of the beneficiary class - as "desperate, despicable, shameless idiocy", characterized them as "an arrogant abuse of power", adding "not only are eight years enough, enough is enough".

Members of the coalition will be active in rallying the support of New Yorkers. There's a web site planned, and apparently, a Facebook group.

I know she shouldn't be given any publicity whatsoever, but Ann Coulter's most recent oeuvre - "Godless: the church of liberalism" - is just too good an example of how the right hates everything that is decent and good in this country to simply pass on by.

In particular, I'd direct your attention to a this excerpt of her book, from an exchange she had with Matt Lauer this morning, as quoted on her Amazon page.

LAUER: On the 9-11 widows, and in particular a group that had been critical of the administration:

" These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9-11 was an attack on our nation and acted like as if the terrorist attack only happened to them. They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. Apparently, denouncing bush was part of the closure process."

"These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by griefparrazis. I have never seen people enjoying their husband's death so much."

Coulter is, in all fairness and objectivity, a hateful shrew. She thrives on publicity, even if that involves mocking widows. Perhaps especially if it involves mocking widows.

That's why I strongly suggest to interested New Yorkers that they go to her Amazon page and write a few notes on her book; Amazon has a nifty feature that allows you to write such reviews. The page is here.

So another tedious winger writes another book about how the all-powerful left is destroying America, molesting children, giving blowjobs to terrorists, propgandizing for communism, blah blah blah.

Read the reviews, and perhaps add one of your own, here.

Indeed, the onslaught of negative reviews has been such that the author put out a call to his acolytes on his web site, here, for some more partial, kinder words.

While you're there, take a look at the development of the retail price of this wondrous work of the imagination; list price $27.95; discount price $18.45; used $12.99. Pretty soon, they'll be pricing it like the online WSJ Op-Ed page, which is still too costly for free. Odd how winger drivel never seems to do well in the marketplace, hmmm?