In the last week at least seven newspapers have dropped the syndicated column of conservative firebrand Ann Coulter [3]. Speaking at the American Conservative Union [4]'s annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. on March 2, Coulter said [5] "I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards [6], but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' so I -- so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards." Newspapers that have dropped her column include: Sanford Herald (North Carolina); Daily Chronicle (Illinois); American Press (Louisiana); Lancaster New Era (Pennsylvania); The Oakland Press, (Michigan); The Mountain Press (Tennessee); and The Times (Louisiana). The editorial director of The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi, David Hampton, said that while he disagreed with her opinions, the paper would keep her column. "I think her popularity will continue to wane. I believe ideas rise and fall on their merits, and I haven't seen much depth in hers," he said.