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Michelle Malkin is a conservative blogger, syndicated columnist, Fox News Channel contributor, and author of
Culture of Corruption.
Michelle Malkin started her journalism career at the Los Angeles Daily News in 1992 and moved to the Seattle Times in 1996. Her popular newspaper column has been syndicated nationally by Creators Syndicate since 1999.
Malkin publishes her widely read conservative blog -- michellemalkin.com (her personal site) -- and founded hotair.com, a leading news and opinion group blog on the right.
Michelle Malkinhas worked as a Fox News Channel contributor since 2001, where she appears frequently on "The Sean Hannity Show," "Fox & Friends" and other programs.
Michelle Malkin has written four best-selling books: "Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and other Foreign Menaces to Our Shares (Regnery 2002), "In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror" (Regnery 2004), "Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild" (Regnery 2005), "Culture of Corruption" (Regnery 2009).
Michelle Malkin is a Philly-born, New Jersey-raised alumna of Holy Spirit High School and Oberlin College. Malkin lives in Colorado Springs with her husband and two children.
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Michelle Malkin (Dec 28, 2011)
With 2011 drawing to a close, it is time to account. As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of... more
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Michelle Malkin (Dec 23, 2011)
They just don't know when to quit. Consumed with the singular task of re-electing Barack Obama, progressives across the country will use the holiday season to propagandize... more
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Michelle Malkin (Dec 21, 2011)
The road to gastric hell is paved with first lady Michelle Obama's Nanny State intentions. Don't take my word for it. School kids in Los Angeles have blown the whistle on the... more
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Michelle Malkin (Dec 16, 2011)
As a rueful Queen Elizabeth once said of a particularly rough year for the royal family, 2011 is "not a year on which" Queen Nancy Pelosi "shall look back with undiluted... more
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Michelle Malkin (Dec 14, 2011)
Scruffy progressive protesters locked themselves together across railroad tracks, blocked traffic and shouted profanities at police on Tuesday in a coordinated "West Coast... more
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Michelle Malkin (Dec 09, 2011)
It was a rough week for the corruptocracy. White House officials better ho-ho-hold on tight because the sleigh ride isn't going to get any smoother.
On Wednesday,... more
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Michelle Malkin (Dec 07, 2011)
Wrapping himself in the mantle of Theodore Roosevelt's "National Greatness" agenda, President Obama urged the nation to stand strong and unite behind ... his umpteenth... more
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Michelle Malkin (Dec 02, 2011)
She's perfect. Miley Cyrus, Hollywood's perpetually half-dressed wild child with an insatiable appetite for attention, jumped in front of the Occupy Wall Street bandwagon... more
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Michelle Malkin (Nov 30, 2011)
At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: "A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency." Magical rays of white-hot sunlight... more
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Michelle Malkin (Nov 23, 2011)
On March 5, my 18-year-old cousin disappeared from her University of Washington campus in Seattle. Marizela Perez -- 5-foot-5, 110 pounds, short black hair with brown/red... more
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Michelle Malkin (Nov 18, 2011)
You can't spell "accountability" without "A," "C" and "T." But in Washington, government officials routinely get away with... more
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Michelle Malkin (Nov 16, 2011)
What do you get when you mix Democratic fat-cat donations, Big Labor favors, pharmaceutical lobbying and Beltway business as usual? Answer: another toxic half-billion-dollar... more
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Michelle Malkin (Nov 11, 2011)
The bipartisan debt panel to nowhere is exactly where K Street lobbyists want it to be: hopelessly deadlocked. A November 23 deadline for agreement on $1.2 trillion in... more
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Michelle Malkin (Nov 09, 2011)
The White House laments that America hasn't built enough massive government infrastructure projects. Nonsense. At the rate it's growing, the Great Stonewall of... more
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Michelle Malkin (Nov 04, 2011)
President Obama couldn't wait to trample over the legislative process again. This week, he issued his 98th executive order on an irresistibly exploitatable policy... more
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Michelle Malkin (Nov 02, 2011)
The next stage of the Aimless Occupation of America is upon us: On Wednesday, rabble-rousers in the San Francisco Bay Area will walk off jobs they don't have and encourage... more
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Michelle Malkin (Oct 28, 2011)
If a private health insurer had engaged in the kind of criminal obstruction that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been tied to in her home state... more
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Michelle Malkin (Oct 26, 2011)
Last fall, before the midterm shellacking, Vice President Joe Biden admonished rank-and-file Democratic voters to "stop whining." Uncle Tough Guy should practice what he... more
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Michelle Malkin (Oct 21, 2011)
We have entered a new phase of the endless Occupy Wall Street sleepover. Not working is hard work. After a month of tying up the police, generating mounds of trash, railing... more
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Michelle Malkin (Oct 19, 2011)
One of my son's Suzuki violin teachers had a wise twist on an old saying: "If at first you don't succeed, try something else." The corollary? "When you do succeed, don't... more
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Michelle Malkin (Oct 14, 2011)
The trash generated by the "Occupy Wall Street" protests keeps piling up. So do the bills. Liberal media outlets claim the anarchic, anti-capitalist movement is... more
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Michelle Malkin (Oct 12, 2011)
President Obama blames Republicans for the collapse of his latest government jobs bill. But in the end, he has only his tall tale-telling tongue to blame.After hyping the... more
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Michelle Malkin (Oct 07, 2011)
Here is your high-resolution teachable moment of the week: anti-capitalist, anti-corporate extremists of "Occupy Wall Street" mourning Apple Inc. founder Steve... more
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Michelle Malkin (Oct 05, 2011)
The Washington Post's stoning of Texas GOP Gov. Rick Perry is journalistic malpractice. Instead of calling the newspaper to task, other national media outlets have joined in.... more
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Michelle Malkin (Sep 30, 2011)
The Obama administration's crony green subsidy scandal is erupting like a solar flare in Washington. But do you know what your kids are learning in their environmental... more
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Michelle Malkin (Sep 28, 2011)
Spin, baby, spin. Throughout his frenetic jobs tour across the West this week, President Obama tried to seize the narrative. Republicans, he told champagne-sipping, tea... more
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Michelle Malkin (Sep 23, 2011)
President Obama still hasn't learned the classic First Rule of Holes: When you're in one, stop digging. Up to his earlobes in failed stimulus grants and tainted... more
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Michelle Malkin (Sep 21, 2011)
If you thought the half-billion-dollar, stimulus-funded Solyndra solar company bust was a taxpayer nightmare, just wait. If you thought the botched Fast and Furious border... more
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Michelle Malkin (Sep 16, 2011)
As part of his warmed-over jobs plan, President Obama is repackaging "Buy American" stimulus subsidies to help hard-hit homegrown businesses. At the same time,... more
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Michelle Malkin (Sep 14, 2011)
With the scandalous bankruptcy of Solyndra (a shady California solar power company that received $535 million in stimulus funds and is now under investigation by the FBI)... more
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Michelle Malkin (Sep 09, 2011)
Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been... more
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Michelle Malkin (Sep 07, 2011)
Barack Obama and Jimmy Hoffa are like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Lady Gaga and hype, the "Jersey Shore" cast and hairspray: inseparable. The president can no more disown the... more
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Michelle Malkin (Sep 02, 2011)
"Always remember. Never forget." The phrase is now emblazoned in red across the U.S. Department of Homeland Security website. But as the Obama administration disseminates its... more
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Michelle Malkin (Aug 31, 2011)
There are now enough Operation Fast and Furious officials playing hide-and-seek in the Obama administration to fill a "rubber room."
That's... more
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Michelle Malkin (Aug 26, 2011)
Blunt. Brash. Bold. Politically incorrect. Unapologetically patriotic. Philadelphia cheese-steak king Joey Vento was all that and a side of freedom fries. The 71-year-old... more
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Michelle Malkin (Aug 24, 2011)
Hey, you know what the beleaguered American economy could really use right now? More special-interest mandates imposed by the White House on employers and taxpayers. Team... more
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Michelle Malkin (Aug 19, 2011)
Is there anything more condescending than a porcelain-skinned Hollywood liberal who attempts to show her presumed solidarity with minorities by referring to them as... more
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Michelle Malkin (Aug 17, 2011)
Texas, we have a problem. Your GOP governor is running for president against Barack Obama. Yet, one of his most infamous acts as executive of the nation's... more
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Michelle Malkin (Aug 12, 2011)
Everything that's wrong with the so-called debt "super-committee" can be summed up in the person, partisan hackery and policy ignorance of Washington... more
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Michelle Malkin (Aug 10, 2011)
Van Jones, President Obama's disgraced green jobs czar, is back with a radical progressive plan to rescue America ... from his old boss.The problem, posits Jones, is that his... more
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Michelle Malkin (Aug 05, 2011)
Actor Matt Damon is a walking, talking public service reminder to immunize your children early and often against La-La-Land disease.
In Damon's world, all public school... more
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Michelle Malkin (Aug 03, 2011)
The American Age of Austerity lasted approximately three minutes, give or take a nanosecond. Immediately after the Senate approved the bipartisan "Budget Control Act... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jul 29, 2011)
"Millionaires and billionaires," President Obama says derisively, must make more "sacrifices" and live by the same rules the rest of America lives by. But there are seven... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jul 27, 2011)
Wu-hoo! Welcome to another freaky ethics fiasco brought to you by the D.C. den of dysfunctional Democrats. This one comes clothed in a Tigger costume, wrapped in blinders... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jul 22, 2011)
Dodd-Frank, the 2,300-page financial "reform" monstrosity spearheaded by Capitol Hill corruptocrats, turned 1 this week. It made too-big banks bigger. It made too-risky... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jul 20, 2011)
Immediately after President Obama took office, his Hollywood benefactors clamored for the creation of a "Secretary of Culture." Tinseltown was disappointed with... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jul 15, 2011)
Is there a health insurance horror story disseminated by the White House and its allies that ever turned out to be true? Obamacare advocates have exercised more artistic... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jul 13, 2011)
A rising chorus of repeal-mongers, outraged at the Obama administration's federal health care power grab, took over Washington this week. Nope, it's not the tea... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jul 08, 2011)
Splendid news: Our homeland security officials have sent fresh warnings to foreign governments that "human bombs" may try to board planes with surgically implanted... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jul 06, 2011)
First rule of Obama transparency: If it's a holiday, it's time for a White House document dump. Over the Independence Day weekend, the administration released its... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jul 01, 2011)
LONDON -- Big Labor looks the same wherever you go: petulant, irrational and wholly aggrieved beyond its means. I'm here on vacation with family as some 750,000... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jun 29, 2011)
A prominent Democratic politician who was banned from receiving federal aid three years ago over fraud charges is once again raking in government funds from the very same... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jun 24, 2011)
With great fanfare and elite media sympathy, Jose Antonio Vargas publicly declared himself an "undocumented immigrant" this week. "Undocumented" my you-know-what. In the... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jun 22, 2011)
Jon Huntsman wants you to know he rides a dirt bike. On real dirt! He's Salt of the Earth. Grease of the Garage. Dragster on the Dunes. Huntsman's runnin' and... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jun 17, 2011)
"There is life after Congress for Anthony Weiner," New York Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey grimly assured reporters on Thursday before his resignation announcement. But Weiner's... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jun 15, 2011)
The same congressional panel that launched a preliminary inquiry into Weiner-gate this week has been diddling around with several other Democratic ethics scandals for... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jun 10, 2011)
President Obama campaigned this week for "new and innovative approaches" to America's economic crisis. So naturally, the futurist-in-chief filched his fresh, bold ideas... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jun 08, 2011)
Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jun 03, 2011)
How long before Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner conducts his next meltdown press conference flanked by two adult-movie "goddesses" a la Charlie Sheen? Like the delusional... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jun 01, 2011)
In the 1970s, "The Boys on the Bus" exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an... more
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Michelle Malkin (May 27, 2011)
If you want to watch a corruptocrat start sputtering like Porky Pig with allergies, confront him with three simple words: conflict of interest. Asked this week about his role... more
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Michelle Malkin (May 25, 2011)
When President Obama signed the trillion-dollar stimulus law in 2009, he proclaimed that he was "keeping the American dream alive in our time." The... more
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Michelle Malkin (May 20, 2011)
Welcome to the land of the freeloaders and the home of the depraved. No image captures America's regressive ethos better than that of 30-year-old Stanley Thornton Jr.,... more
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Michelle Malkin (May 18, 2011)
Hear that? It's the escalating cry of American employers and workers trying to hold on to their health care benefits in the age of stifling Obama health insurance mandates:... more
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Michelle Malkin (May 13, 2011)
If you listen to the passengers and crew who flew on American Airlines Flight 1561 last weekend, there's no doubt about what happened on their harrowing trip: A Yemeni man... more
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Michelle Malkin (May 11, 2011)
The public relations campaign for President Obama's latest revival of "immigration reform" makes one thing crystal clear: This is not, and never has been, about homeland... more
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Michelle Malkin (May 06, 2011)
The official White House account of Osama bin Laden's demise has seen more slapdash cosmetic surgery over the past week than your average "Real Housewives"... more
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Michelle Malkin (May 04, 2011)
In the spirit of post-bin Laden peace, love and harmony, President Obama has asked all Americans to "harness" national good will and stand together. The commander in chief... more
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Michelle Malkin (Apr 29, 2011)
On May 1, left-wing vigilantes will target companies across the country that have committed a mortal sin: sending donations to GOP Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Rest... more
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Michelle Malkin (Apr 27, 2011)
Confirmed: "Drain the swamp" is Washington-speak for "Let it fester." While House ethics watchdogs dither, it's shady business as usual for ethics scandal-plagued Democratic... more
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Michelle Malkin (Apr 22, 2011)
Don't be fooled by The Donald. Take it from one who knows: I'm a South Jersey gal who was raised on the outskirts of Atlantic City in the looming shadow of Trump's towers.... more
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Michelle Malkin (Apr 20, 2011)
Ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching. President Obama's perpetual campaign cash-o-matic machine kicks into high gear again this week as the celebrity-in-chief heads to Hollywood for... more
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Michelle Malkin (Apr 15, 2011)
So much for the new era of fiscal responsibility. The federal government's dependency drones have been spared the chopping block. After vowing to eliminate funding for... more
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Michelle Malkin (Apr 13, 2011)
It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so... more
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Michelle Malkin (Apr 08, 2011)
Air traffic controllers have been catching a lot of grief for sleeping on the job lately. But do you know what Transportation Security Administration officials have been... more
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Michelle Malkin (Apr 06, 2011)
As the budget stalemate in Washington continues, Democrats are ratcheting up their class-warfare caterwauling. Time to bring out your earplugs and hypocrisy meters.Liberal... more
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Michelle Malkin (Apr 01, 2011)
For 30 years, Chicago banned handguns. The crime rate skyrocketed. Murders soared. Gangs blossomed. Desperate city officials even considered calling the National Guard to... more
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Michelle Malkin (Mar 30, 2011)
Buried in Barack Obama's failed trillion-dollar stimulus program was a $10 million bloody border racket that has now cost American lives. This goes far beyond the usual... more
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Michelle Malkin (Mar 25, 2011)
New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner toasted the one-year anniversary of Obamacare this week -- and accidentally spilled his champagne glass all over the disastrous,... more
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Michelle Malkin (Mar 23, 2011)
After two years of practicing unrepentant contempt for science, jobs, law and truth, why should Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's words mean anything anymore? While President... more
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Michelle Malkin (Mar 18, 2011)
A grown woman in public office who acts like Lindsay Lohan has no business comparing one of America's finest generals to Charlie Sheen. But anti-war Democratic Rep. Lynn... more
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Michelle Malkin (Mar 16, 2011)
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., has once again earned his nickname: Thurston B. Howell III. He's elite, effete and so hopelessly out of touch with reality that his latest solution... more
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Michelle Malkin (Mar 11, 2011)
Editor's Note: The following column by Michelle Malkin is an updated version of a Malkin column originally published in February 2009.Liberal media outlets did their best in... more
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Michelle Malkin (Mar 09, 2011)
Editor's Note: Michelle Malkin is on vacation. The following column was originally published in March 2007."The Second Amendment," Charlton Heston used to say, "is America's... more
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Michelle Malkin (Mar 04, 2011)
My fellow Americans, who are "your people"? I ask because U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who is black, used the phrase "my people" in congressional testimony this week.... more
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Michelle Malkin (Mar 02, 2011)
If public school teachers spent more time teaching in classrooms and less time community-organizing in political war rooms, maybe taxpayers wouldn't feel as ripped off as... more
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Michelle Malkin (Feb 25, 2011)
Barack Obama's new era of civility was over before it began. You wouldn't know it from reading The New York Times, watching Katie Couric or listening to the Democratic... more
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Michelle Malkin (Feb 23, 2011)
First lady Michelle Obama said, "Let's Move!" Who knew Democratic politicians in Wisconsin and Indiana would take her literally?Faced with stifling debt, bloated pensions and... more
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Michelle Malkin (Feb 18, 2011)
Welcome to the reckoning. We have met the fiscal apocalypse, and it is smack dab in the middle of the heartland. As Wisconsin goes, so goes the nation. Let us pray it does... more
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Michelle Malkin (Feb 16, 2011)
While her husband may have paid lip service to ending the abuse of science for "politics or ideology," first lady Michelle Obama gave herself a super-sized waiver. Two of her... more
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Michelle Malkin (Feb 11, 2011)
Thanks to the persistent investigative work of young pro-life journalists, Planned Parenthood's ruthless, money-grubbing colors are on full, fresh YouTube display. But as... more
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Michelle Malkin (Feb 09, 2011)
At Philadelphia's 30th Street Station on Tuesday, lifelong government rail promoter Vice President Joe Biden unveiled a $53 billion high-speed train initiative and... more
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Michelle Malkin (Feb 04, 2011)
Oops, they did it again. President Obama's grabby-handed environmental bureaucrats have earned yet another spanking from the federal judiciary over their "determined... more
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Michelle Malkin (Feb 02, 2011)
Here's a modest proposal for liberals who say they support job creation: Stop smearing successful, law-abiding private companies whose values don't comport with yours. I'm... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jan 28, 2011)
President Obama's storytellers recently launched a White House blog series called "Voices of Health Reform," where "readers can meet average Americans already benefiting from... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jan 26, 2011)
"We're going to have to out-educate other countries," President Obama urged this week. How? By out-spending them, of course! It's the same old quack cure for America's fat... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jan 21, 2011)
Let's give the "climate of hate" rhetoric a rest for a moment. It's time to talk about the climate of death, in which the abortion industry thrives unchecked. Dehumanizing... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jan 19, 2011)
There isn't a shred of evidence that deranged Tucson massacre suspect Jared Loughner ever listened to talk radio or cared about illegal immigration. Indeed, after... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jan 14, 2011)
I agree with President Obama. When it comes to politicizing random violence, he and his supporters have been "far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jan 12, 2011)
There are many heroes who showed indomitable courage and grace under fire during this weekend's horrific Tucson massacre. Blowhard Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik was not... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jan 07, 2011)
Fun fact: Bill Daley isn't the only new chief of staff in the White House with longtime ties to the Chicago Way. Yep, it's No Windy City Corporate Lawyer Left Behind Week in... more
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Michelle Malkin (Jan 05, 2011)
No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.Ready for the latest topping on this moldy... more