Author: Michelle Malkin
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MALKIN: Twists and turns through 20 baffling takes in ‘The Fog of Fog’
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” reality-show star. President Barack Obama’s allies attribute the bungled “narrative” (their word, not mine) to the “fog of war.” But each passing day — and each new set of hapless…
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MALKIN: The Donald’s eminent-domain empire tells us a great deal
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. All through my childhood, casino developers and government bureaucrats joined hands, raised taxes and made dazzling promises of urban renewal. Then we…
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MALKIN: Seventy is the new 65; everything old is new again
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 gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age, Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers. Since then, American…
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MALKIN: TSA follies — See SPOT run and fail to catch up to anyone
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 doing — or rather, not doing — lately? A federal watchdog revealed this week that TSA’s counterterrorism specialists failed to detect 16 separate jihad operatives who moved through…
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MALKIN: Stimulus-funded border nightmare runs amok
Buried in Barack Obama’s failed trillion-dollar stimulus program was a $10 million border racket that has now cost American lives. This goes far beyond the usual waste, fraud and abuse underwritten by progressive profligacy. It’s bloodstained government malfeasance overseen by anti-gun ideologues — and now anti-gun ideologue Attorney General Eric Holder will “investigate.” Welcome to…
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MALKIN: Another Obamacare waiver wormhole
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, one-size-fits-all mandate. Ostensibly one of the federal health care law’s staunchest defenders, Weiner exposed its ultimate folly by pushing for a special cost-saving regulatory exemption for New York City. If…
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MALKIN: Democrats let Woolsey undermine the morale of our troops
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 Woolsey has never shown any restraint when it comes to trashing America’s military leaders before the world. That’s because being a Code Pink liberal — like being…
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MALKIN: Kerry concocts recipe for recycled government slush fund
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 to America’s fiscal profligacy is … more fiscal profligacy, of course, Lovey! On Tuesday, Kerry introduced a $10 billion infrastructure bank bill that would engineer yet…
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MALKIN: A lesson in Teachers Unions 101: ‘A’ stands for ‘Agitation’
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 they do. Before the Big Labor bosses start complaining about “teacher-bashing,” let’s be clear: An increasing number of rank-and-file teachers feel exactly the same way. Retired New York teacher…
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MALKIN: As Wisconsin goes, so goes the nation
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 not go the way of the decrepit welfare states of the European Union. The lowdown: State government workers in the Badger State…