Michelle Malkin from Creators Syndicate

Obama's Classroom Campaign: No Junior Lobbyist Left Behind for 09/02/2009

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

"ABC" stands for All Barack's Children. On Sept. 8, young students across the country will be watching television. Yes, they'll be parked in front of boob tubes and computer screens watching President Obama's address on education.

Instead of practicing cursive, reviewing multiplication tables, diagramming sentences or learning something concrete, America's kids will be lectured ...

Updated: Wed Sep 02, 2009

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Why Parents Don't Trust the Educator-in-Chief and His Comrades for 09/04/2009

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

They think we're crazy. "They" are the sneering defenders of Barack Obama who can't fathom the backlash against the president's nationwide speech to schoolchildren next Tuesday. "We" are parents with eyes wide open to the potential for politicized abuse in America's classrooms.

Ask moms and dads in Farmington, Utah, who discovered this week that their children sat thr ...

Updated: Fri Sep 04, 2009

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The K Street Tax Cheat Who's Lobbying to Save Obamacare for 09/09/2009

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Tom Daschle is the human toe fungus of Washington — a persistent infection that may disappear from time to time, but always comes back with a vengeance.

Despite abandoning his secretary of health and human services nomination in disgrace in February 2009, the K Street tax cheat who evaded IRS rules for years remains a top White House confidante and policy strategist. In fact, he's ...

Updated: Wed Sep 09, 2009

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How Obama Cronyism Threatens Rail Security for 09/11/2009

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Delhi. Mumbai. Chechnya. Madrid. London. The question isn't whether America will suffer a jihadi attack on our passenger rail lines, but when. So, why has President Obama neutered the nation's most highly trained post-Sept. 11 counterterrorism rail security team?

All signs point to business-as-usual cronyism and pandering to power-grabbing union bosses.

Amtrak's Office of Secu ...

Updated: Fri Sep 11, 2009

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ACORN Watch: A "Sting"-ing Indictment of Media Hypocrisy for 09/16/2009

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Undercover journalism is only acceptable when it fits a liberal agenda. That is the message from "professional" reporters and left-wing activists outraged about three successful video stings targeting President Obama's old friends at the left-wing tax-subsidized outfit ACORN.

Conservative documentarian James O'Keefe and writer Hannah Giles, working for the BigGovernment.com web ...

Updated: Wed Sep 16, 2009

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ACORN's Illegal Alien Home Loan Racket for 09/18/2009

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

There's one thing more shocking than the illegal alien smuggling advice that an ACORN official in San Diego gave undercover journalists James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles. It's the illegal alien home loan racket that ACORN has already been operating with the full knowledge of the U.S. government.

On Wednesday, O'Keefe and Giles published the fifth in a series of BigGovernment.com sting video ...

Updated: Fri Sep 18, 2009

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Still Handling Homeland Security With a 9/10 Attitude for 09/23/2009

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Terror suspect Najibullah Zazi has done us all a favor. But is it enough to rouse a nation in permanent snooze-button mode?

The arrest of Zazi, a Colorado-based Afghan airport shuttle driver who counterterrorism officials believe may have been plotting bomb attacks on New York City mass transit trains, raised alerts on rail lines across the country. A joint FBI-Department of Homeland Sec ...

Updated: Wed Sep 23, 2009

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The Three R's in the Age of Obama: Rappin', Revolution and Radicalism for 09/25/2009

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

When the White House announced plans for the president's nationwide address to schoolchildren two weeks ago, worried parents were dismissed as "kooks." We pointed to the subtext of "social justice" activism rampant in American classrooms. It's time for a big fat Told You So.

Out of the spotlight, politicized lessons continue to supplant core academics.

Earlier ...

Updated: Fri Sep 25, 2009

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All the President's Olympic Cronies for 09/30/2009

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

When government officials play the Olympic lottery, taxpayers lose. That has been the disastrous experience of host cities around the world. (Forbes magazine even dubbed the post-Olympic financial burden the "Host City Curse.") So, why are President Obama and his White House entourage headed to Copenhagen, Denmark, this week to push a fiscally doomed Chicago 2016 bid? Political paybac ...

Updated: Wed Sep 30, 2009

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The Noble "Sacrifice" of Michelle Obama for 10/02/2009

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

It's hard out there for a first lady of the United States. Take it from travel-weary Michelle Obama. On Tuesday night, she boarded a luxury 757 for Copenhagen. Think of the stairs she had to climb. Oh, the agony of the feet!

Upon arrival, Mrs. O, her "chit-chat buddy," Chicago-based talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey, and Chicago powerbroker/interest-conflicted real estate mogul/sen ...

Updated: Fri Oct 02, 2009

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Spin Doctors for Obamacare for 10/07/2009

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Lights, camera, agitprop! The curtains opened on yet another artfully staged performance of Obamacare Theater this week. One hundred and fifty doctors took their places on the plush lawn outside the West Wing — many acting like "Twilight" groupies with cameras instead of credible medical professionals. The president approved the scenery: "I am thrilled to have all of you he ...

Updated: Wed Oct 07, 2009

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Crime, Census and Censorship for 10/09/2009

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

There are serious problems with the administration of the U.S. census. Americans have good reason to be wary of the stranger's knock on the door. Unfortunately, anything critics say about the federal census can and will be used against them in the court of left-wing opinion.

First, the disturbing news about the government's most recent census travails: According to a new General Accounti ...

Updated: Fri Oct 09, 2009

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Who's Behind the White House War on Fox News? for 10/14/2009

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

White House interim communications director Anita Dunn assumed the role of lead Fox News Channel-basher this weekend. The attack was a dud. The left-leaning Nation magazine ridiculed President Obama's press shop for turning him into the "whiner-in-chief." AOL media columnist Jeff Bercovici called the war on Fox a "loser's strategy" that "signals weakness." And that ...

Updated: Wed Oct 14, 2009

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An ACORN-Friendly, Big Labor-Backing, Tax-and-Spend Radical in GOP Clothing for 10/16/2009

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Here's the dirty little secret about political candidates and officeholders labeled by the mainstream media as "moderate Republicans": There's usually nothing moderate about them. Consider the case of "moderate Republican" Dede Scozzafava, the GOP nominee in the New York 23rd congressional district's special election.

Handpicked by local party pooh-bahs and supported ...

Updated: Fri Oct 16, 2009

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The Volunteerism Scandals Hollywood Won't Be Broadcasting for 10/21/2009

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Hollywood hearts Obama. Obama hearts government-directed national service. That is why you won't be able to change the TV channel all week without getting lectured about the need to get off the couch and Do Something. (After your favorite shows are over, of course.) Creeped out? You should be.

The entertainment industry, inspired by Obama's $6 billion expansion of government volunteerism ...

Updated: Wed Oct 21, 2009

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The Bogus Death Statistic That Won't Die for 10/23/2009

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida has found his calling: death demagogue. First, he accused Republicans of wanting sick patients to "die quickly." Next, he likened health insurance problems to a "holocaust in America." Now, he's unveiled a new website entitled "namesofthedead.com" in memory of the "more than 44,000 Americans [who] die simply because they ...

Updated: Fri Oct 23, 2009

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How the FCC and Liberal Churches Are Scheming To Shut You Up for 10/28/2009

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The war on conservative speech has moved from the White House to your neighborhood pews. Left-wing church leaders want the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on "hate speech" over cable TV and right-leaning talk-radio airwaves. President Obama's speech-stifling bureaucrats seem all too happy to oblige.

Over the last week, an outfit called "So We Might See" ...

Updated: Wed Oct 28, 2009

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The Obama White House: Bundlers' Paradise for 10/30/2009

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Like Capt. Renault in "Casablanca," I am shocked, shocked to discover that access peddling is going on in the Obama White House. Perks for deep-pocketed donors? Presidential meetings for sale? The stale Chicago odor of pay-for-play wafting from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Knock me over with a feather.

Despite the president's claimed distaste for the campaign finance practice know ...

Updated: Fri Oct 30, 2009

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Who Are You Calling "Extremist"? for 11/04/2009

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Here is one of the loudest messages of the 2009 off-off-year elections: Conservatives in America will no longer let their opponents define them as outside of the mainstream. They will not submit to Democrats. Or to the media. Or to Beltway Republican capitulationists. They will not "rebrand." They will not sit down. They will not shut up.

Just this past weekend, Democratic Rep. ...

Updated: Wed Nov 04, 2009

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The Death of Deliberative Democracy for 11/06/2009

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

In 2006, the minority party in Congress issued a dire report on the "unprecedented erosion of the democratic process." Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter, then the ranking member of the House Rules Committee, authored the scathing document. She blasted the majority Republicans' violations of "procedural fairness," short-circuiting of debate, and late-night meetings "to di ...

Updated: Fri Nov 06, 2009

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