I haven't sent a bouquet Ann Coulter's way in a while, but today she's earned it.

Always bombastic and usually entertaining, she focuses today on the New York Times' opposition to California Supreme Court Justice Janet Rogers Brown, one of President Bush's nominees to the federal bench. Once again, the Times has proclaimed a Bush nominee "out of the mainstream." Says Coulter:

According to the Times, Brown has "declared war on the mainstream legal values that most Americans hold dear." What the Times means by "mainstream legal values" is: off-the-charts unpopular positions favored by NAMBLA, the ACLU and The New York Times editorial page.

Thus, for example, opposition to partial-birth abortion – opposed by 70 percent of the American people – is "out of the mainstream."

Support for the death penalty – supported by 70 percent of the American people – is "out of the mainstream."

Opposition to government-sanctioned race discrimination – which voters in the largest state in the nation put on an initiative titled Proposition 209 and enacted into law – is "out of the mainstream."

Opposition to gay marriage – opposed by 60 percent of the American people – is "out of the mainstream."

Failing to recognize that totally nude dancing is "speech" is "out of the mainstream."

Questioning whether gay Scoutmasters should be taking 14-year-old boys on overnight sleepovers in the woods is "out of the mainstream."

I know, I know. Coulter is not particularly nuanced, and she sometimes jettisons facts in favor of a good insult. But what she points out here is inarguable.

When will the American people wake up and demand that their legislators approve judges who reflect the Constitution and their own basic views?