Michelle Malkin from Creators Syndicate

Illegal Immigration and The Mortgage Mess for 09/24/2008

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Mother of All Bailouts has many fathers. As panicked politicians prepare to fork over $1 trillion in taxpayer funding to rescue the financial industry, they've fingered regulation, deregulation, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Community Reinvestment Act, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, both Bushes, greedy banks, greedy borrowers, greedy short-sellers and minority home ownership mau-mauers (can' ...

Updated: Wed Sep 24, 2008

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The Ant and The Grasshopper, 2008 Edition for 09/26/2008

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

With what looks like imminent passage of the Mother of All Bailouts (following on the heels of a year's worth of government-funded rescues of private homeowners, lenders, insurers and automakers), Washington has turned Aesop's famous fable about prudence and hard work on its head. The time is ripe for a revised 2008 edition of "The Ant and the Grasshopper:"

In a meadow on a hot ...

Updated: Fri Sep 26, 2008

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A Debate "Moderator" in the Tank for Obama for 10/01/2008

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

My dictionary defines "moderator" as "the nonpartisan presiding officer of a town meeting." On Thursday, PBS anchor Gwen Ifill will serve as moderator for the first and only vice presidential debate. The stakes are high. The Commission on Presidential Debates, with the assent of the two campaigns, decided not to impose any guidelines on her duties or questions.

But th ...

Updated: Wed Oct 01, 2008

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Dear Congress: Put the Gun Down Now for 10/03/2008

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Will 2008 be the year of the Chicken Little Congress? Or can the House of Representatives show the panic-driven Senate what it really means to be a deliberative body?

On Sept. 19, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson put a gun to America's head: Pass his $700 billion bailout of the banking industry and give him unfettered new powers to buy up an ocean of privately held toxic assets, or all he ...

Updated: Fri Oct 03, 2008

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The ACORN/Obama Voter Registration "Thug Thizzle" for 10/08/2008

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Systemic corruption of our election process continues. Barack Obama and his old friends at ACORN and Project Vote are leading the way. This radical revolution is taking place in your backyard. And as I've reported before, this voter-fraud racket is on your dime.

On Monday, the two liberal groups announced the wrap-up of a 21-state voter registration drive targeting low-income people and ...

Updated: Wed Oct 08, 2008

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The Obama Witch Project for 10/10/2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Republicans don't need to dress up for Halloween this year. They're scaring the pants off Barack Obama's followers by their mere presence. Anything they say, wear or do provokes instant cries of "RAAAAACISM!" Wink, blink or think critical thoughts about Obama? You're a bigot!

How many racial bogeymen have Obama operatives and sympathetic journalists discovered lurking in " ...

Updated: Fri Oct 10, 2008

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The Rage That's Not On Your Front Page for 10/15/2008

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

When a few unruly McCain-Palin supporters show their anger at campaign rallies, it's national news. It's an epidemic of "Weimar-like rage" and "violent escalation of rhetoric," according to New York Times columnist Frank Rich. It's the "re-emergence of the far right as a power in American politics," according to Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne. It's a mass mo ...

Updated: Wed Oct 15, 2008

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The Left Declares War On Joe the Plumber for 10/17/2008

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Six-term Sen. Joe Biden's got some nerve going after citizen Joe the Plumber. But the entrenched politician from Delaware, who fancies himself the nation's No. 1 Ordinary Joe, had no choice. Obama-Biden simply can't tolerate an outspoken citizen successfully painting the Democratic ticket as socialist overlords. And so a dirty, desperate war against Joe Wurzelbacher is on.

The left's pol ...

Updated: Fri Oct 17, 2008

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The Increasingly Erratic, Super-Gaffetastic Joe Biden for 10/22/2008

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

If the prospect of Joe Biden sitting a heartbeat away from the presidency doesn't give you palpitations, you are not paying attention.

Hysterical Sarah Palin-bashers on the unhinged left and elitist right have dominated campaign press coverage and pop culture. They've ridiculed her family, her appearance and her speech patterns. They've derided her character, her parenting skills, her re ...

Updated: Wed Oct 22, 2008

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Boot Murtha: The Change America Deserves for 10/24/2008

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

A real referendum on hope and change is taking place in western Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district. If the change agent in the race were a Democrat and the status quo defender were a Republican, this battle would be all over the nightly news. The challenger would be heralded as a maverick and photographed with halo effect and angel wings. Instead, the national media have ignored him.

Updated: Fri Oct 24, 2008

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Notorious Obamedia Moments of 2008 for 10/29/2008

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

To paraphrase Queen Elizabeth II, 2008 is not a year on which honest journalists shall look back with undiluted pleasure. This has turned out to be even more of an annus horribilis than 2004, when Dan Rather's fake Bush/National Guard memo fiasco redefined the "BS" in CBS News. There were so many mainstream journalists swimming in the Democratic tank this year, the nation's newsrooms ...

Updated: Wed Oct 29, 2008

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Plundering the Plumber's Records for 10/31/2008

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

If Joe the Plumber were Jawad the Suspected Terrorist, civil liberties activists would stampede the halls of Congress on his behalf. Liberal columnists would hyperventilate over the outrageous invasions of his privacy by Ohio state and local employees. The ACLU would demand the Big Brother snoopers' heads. And Democratic leaders would convene immediate hearings and parade him around the Beltway ...

Updated: Fri Oct 31, 2008

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And the Winner Is … Peggy the Moocher for 11/05/2008

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

Sorry to break the bad news to Joe the Plumber. But the winner of Campaign 2008 is Peggy the Moocher. No matter who moves into the White House, Peggy has good reason to do a happy dance. The plain, ugly fact is that both major political parties are committed to spreading the wealth in one form or another. It's all just a question of how much and how quickly.

Who is Peggy the Moocher? She ...

Updated: Wed Nov 05, 2008

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The Cowardly Character Assassination of Sarah Palin for 11/07/2008

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Sunken ships loosen bitter lips. The failed McCain campaign, for all its high-minded talk of honor, duty and courage, is now teeming with unscrupulous gossipmongers. Seems the dishy staffers forgot to crack open their copies of Sen. McCain's bestseller, "Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember."

Rest assured: Their ...

Updated: Fri Nov 07, 2008

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Obama's Illegal Alien Aunti: The Rest of the Story for 11/12/2008

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

I hope Barack Obama remembered to thank George Bush on behalf of his illegal alien aunt this week. The lame-duck Republican president did the Democratic president-elect a generous — and dangerous — favor right before Election Day: Putting politics above homeland security, the Bush administration ordered immigration authorities across the country to halt all deportation enforcement a ...

Updated: Wed Nov 12, 2008

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Hank Paulson, Naked Emperor for 11/14/2008

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson finally confirmed what lonely bailout opponents tried to tell the American public all along: The man doesn't know what the hell he's doing.

Paulson held a bazooka to taxpayers' heads. He groveled on his knees in front of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He lured leaders from both political parties into linking arms in a panicked Chicken Little line d ...

Updated: Fri Nov 14, 2008

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The Insane Rage of the Same-Sex Marriage Mob for 11/19/2008

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Before Election Day, national media handwringers forged a wildly popular narrative: The right was, in the words of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, gripped by "insane rage." Outbreaks of incivility (some real, but mostly imagined) were proof positive of the extremist takeover of the Republican Party. The cluck-cluckers and tut-tutters shook with fear.

But when the GOP too ...

Updated: Wed Nov 19, 2008

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The eHarmony Shakedown for 11/21/2008

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Congratulations, tolerance mau-mauers: Your shakedown of a Christian-targeted dating website worked. Homosexuals will no longer be denied the inalienable "right" to hook up with same-sex partners on eHarmony. What a landmark triumph for social progress, eh?

New Jersey plaintiff Eric McKinley can now crown himself the new Rosa Parks — heroically breaking down inhumane barr ...

Updated: Fri Nov 21, 2008

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Playing Games at Gitmo for 11/26/2008

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The human rights crowd is right: Life is hard for a Guantanamo Bay detainee. The deprivation is unspeakable. According to the facility's "cultural adviser," their brains have not been "stimulated" enough. So this Thanksgiving, America is drawing up plans to provide the 250 or so suspected jihadists at the "notoriously Spartan" detention camp with basic sustenance i ...

Updated: Wed Nov 26, 2008

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Giving Thanks for Self-reliant Americans for 11/28/2008

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

In the Year of Bottomless Bailouts, I am most grateful this Thanksgiving for Americans who refuse to abandon thrift, personal responsibility and self-reliance. When the moochers and entitlement-mongers drive you mad, remember that our nation still serves as home to millions of citizens who do for themselves. Like our Founding Fathers, they are God-fearing people — the ones elitist pundits ...

Updated: Fri Nov 28, 2008

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