Michelle Malkin from Creators Syndicate

The Flawed but Useful Iowa Caucuses for 01/03/2008

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

This much is certain on the day after the Iowa caucuses: There will be plenty of kvetching and moaning about the system. The winners will praise the Hawkeye State's voters as the wisest voters in America and celebrate the process as a shining example of democracy in action. The losers will assail it as unfair, exclusive, convoluted, unrepresentative, archaic and in screaming need of reform.

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Updated: Thu Jan 03, 2008

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The "Comeback Gal" Spin for 01/09/2008

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Don't let the "Comeback Gal" spin fool you. Despite the unexpectedly close finish in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton's campaign remains in a tailspin. And the Clintons' pre-Granite State primary finger-pointing has left an indelible mark. It's the media's fault. It's sexism's fault. It's the vast right-wing conspiracy's fault.

Oh, and it's all your fault that you laugh out loud when s ...

Updated: Wed Jan 09, 2008

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Wanted: A "Suck It Up" Candidate for 01/16/2008

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

I need a man. A man who can say "No." A man who rejects Big Nanny government. A man who thinks being president doesn't mean playing Santa Claus. A man who won't panic in the face of economic pain. A man who won't succumb to media-driven sob stories.

A man who can look voters, the media and the Chicken Littles in Congress in the eye and say the three words no one wants to hear i ...

Updated: Wed Jan 16, 2008

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John McCain: The Geraldo Rivera Republican for 01/23/2008

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

After spearheading a disastrous, security-undermining illegal alien amnesty bill last year with Teddy Kennedy, "straight-talking" GOP Sen. John McCain claims he has seen the light. In TV appearances, he vows to put immigration enforcement first. On the campaign trail, he offers a perfunctory promise to strengthen border security and emphasizes the need to restore Americans' trust in t ...

Updated: Wed Jan 23, 2008

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The Politics of Foreclosure for 01/30/2008

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Who says bipartisanship is dead? From President Bush to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards, to Mitt Romney and John McCain, virtually everyone in Washington agrees: The government must Do Something to stop home foreclosures across the country. These leaders agree on the total presumption of homeowner innocence. The borrower-as-victim and lender-as-predator storylines are etched in s ...

Updated: Wed Jan 30, 2008

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Quo Vadis, Conservatives? for 02/06/2008

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

"Quo vadis," conservatives? It's the ancient, apocryphal question the apostle Peter asked Jesus while fleeing persecution in Rome. Where are you going? Where do we go from here?

The contest for the GOP presidential nomination is over. The conservative movement is not. Sen. John McCain's campaign resurrection and Super Tuesday victory leave a diverse group on the right — f ...

Updated: Wed Feb 06, 2008

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Berkeley Vs. America, Again for 02/06/2008

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The troop-bashers in Berkeley are at it once more. But this time, the rest of America lashed back. Message to the Left Coast: It's not the 1960s anymore.

On Jan. 29, the Berkeley city council passed several measures targeting the lone Marine recruitment office in town. The anti-war harridans at Code Pink have been picketing the center for months. Last fall, they defaced the building by s ...

Updated: Wed Feb 06, 2008

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In Defense of Conservative Talk Radio for 02/13/2008

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The most anti-conservative rhetoric against conservative talk radio these days is coming from supposedly free-market conservatives. It's disgusting.

Author Mark Helprin's grenade in The Wall Street Journal stands out. Yesterday, he launched an attack on conservative radio hosts who oppose presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain. Helprin sneered that their "major talent is t ...

Updated: Wed Feb 13, 2008

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Michelle Obama's America -- and Mine for 02/20/2008

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Like Michelle Obama, I am a "woman of color." Like Michelle Obama, I am a working mother of two young children. Like Michelle Obama, I am a member of the 13th generation of Americans born since the founding of our great nation.

Unlike Michelle Obama, I can't keep track of the number of times I've been proud — really proud — of my country since I was born and privile ...

Updated: Wed Feb 20, 2008

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The Suicide of Emma Beck and Silence No More for 02/27/2008

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

She didn't have to die. And neither did her unborn children. Over the weekend, London newspapers reported on the 2007 suicide of 30-year-old Emma Beck, a young British artist who hung herself after the abortion of her twin babies. Perhaps the retelling of her suffering can prevent more needless deaths.

The agony and loneliness in Emma Beck's suicide note resonate across the pond, across ...

Updated: Wed Feb 27, 2008

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The Death Cry of Gloria Steinem for 03/05/2008

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Behold with me the politics of gynocentrism. What a depressing and desiccative sight it is. Just look at Gloria Steinem.

From once-ripe feminist icon to idea-barren harridan, she offers nothing to young women but anachronistic man-hate, anti-military bigotry and woe-is-me wallowing.

Hope and change? Try harp and whinge. Some things get better with age. The women's rights movement ...

Updated: Wed Mar 05, 2008

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The Left's Escalating War on Military Recruiters for 03/12/2008

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Ideas have consequences. Inaction has consequences. For the past several years, I've chronicled the left's escalating war on military recruiters — and the apathetic, weak-kneed response to it. The anti-recruiter thugs on college campuses and in liberal enclaves have thrived thanks to a combination of public indifference, law enforcement fecklessness and left-wing ideological apologism.

Updated: Wed Mar 12, 2008

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Say Goodbye to the Glowbama Mystique for 03/19/2008

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Barack Obama — the self-anointed soul-fixing, nation-healing political Messiah — has lost his glow. That is the takeaway from the beleaguered Democratic presidential candidate's "major" speech in Philadelphia yesterday.

For all of his supposedly unique and transcendent understanding of race in America, Obama's talk amounted to the same old, same old. The Glowbama my ...

Updated: Wed Mar 19, 2008

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The Clintons' Truth Deficit Disorder for 03/26/2008

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Seinfeld's George Costanza famously quipped: "It's not a lie if you believe it." This is how a Clinton — take your pick, Hillary, Bill or Chelsea — makes it through the day. Better living through self-delusion.

Seeking to burnish her foreign policy leadership credentials, Sen. Clinton has repeatedly peddled a harrowing anecdote about dodging sniper fire during a tri ...

Updated: Wed Mar 26, 2008

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Meet a Left-Wing Housing Thug for 04/02/2008

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Last week, a mob of screeching protesters invaded the Bear Stearns headquarters in Manhattan demanding more aid for homeowners. As you know, I oppose federal bailouts of every make and model — and that includes both the Bear Stearns deal and the bipartisan stimulus-palooza in Washington. But the bank-bashers who held their demonstration in New York City against Bear Stearns and JPMorgan a ...

Updated: Wed Apr 02, 2008

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Absolut's Left-Wing Liquor for 04/09/2008

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Is it wise for a global beverage company to pander to radical politics while alienating a much wider consumer base?

Absolut, the Swedish-owned vodka maker, apparently drinks to that. Last week, my e-mailbox lit up with messages from readers and fellow bloggers about a new Absolut ad catering to Mexican drinkers who believe the American Southwest belongs to them. (That extreme ethno-supre ...

Updated: Wed Apr 09, 2008

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Snob-ama Is Not Alone for 04/16/2008

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The odor of elitism is like onion breath: It's quick to acquire, hard to mask. Try as he might, Barack Obama cannot camouflage the political stink he exhaled when he dissed small-town Americans as "bitter" Neanderthals "clinging" to their guns, faith and belief in strict immigration enforcement. It wasn't the first time the effete Snob-ama revealed himself.

In Philade ...

Updated: Wed Apr 16, 2008

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The Democrats' Jimmy Carter Problem for 04/23/2008

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

So much for Jimmy Carter's triumphal peace mission in the Middle East. Like everything else he has done on foreign policy, the world's biggest tool for jihad propaganda created yet another bloody mess. Quick review:

After proclaiming that Hamas terrorists were willing to accept Israel as a "neighbor next door," Carter's Hamas hug buddies flipped him the bird. They gladly accept ...

Updated: Wed Apr 23, 2008

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Obama's Un-Disownable Preacher of Hate for 04/30/2008

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Barack Obama looked pale and wan at what he called his "big press conference" about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Tuesday afternoon. Numb. Chastened. Defeated. Extolled for his eloquence, Obama stuttered and stammered his way through the question-and-answer session. It appeared he was having an out-of-body experience.

Who knew that the greatest threat to his presidential campaign ...

Updated: Wed Apr 30, 2008

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Barack Obama's Bitter Half for 05/07/2008

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Are you ready for hope and change? Barack Obama better hope his bitter half has a change of attitude if she expects to assume the title of first lady in November. She's been likened to John F. Kennedy's wife, what with her chic suits and pearls and perfectly coiffed helmet hair. But when she opens her mouth, Michelle O is less Jackie O and more Wendy W — as in Wendy Whiner, the constantly ...

Updated: Wed May 07, 2008

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