Michelle Malkin

Every summer, the stories come. And the tiny bodies pile up. “Toddler trapped in hot van dies.” “Kids die from heat in SUV.” “Baby boy dies in hot van.” Some of the tragedies involve outright parental neglect — a father who...

Did Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden have access to a U.S. computer tracking program that enabled them to monitor our intelligence-gathering efforts and financial transactions? If so, who is responsible for allowing the program to fall into their hands? And who else...

Thousands of people from around the world will raise their right hands, swear allegiance to the United States, and become proud American citizens this weekend. They will become Americans because they choose to do so, they love what we stand for, and they are willing...

To civil-liberties alarmists, Viet Dinh is a traitor. To me, he is an American hero. Dinh, 35, is widely known — and reviled — as the primary architect of the Patriot Act. Until May, he was an assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Policy in...

Exploiting junk science is great for re-election campaign coffers. Thus, one of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s first major crusades after she took office was to whip up public health hysteria on Long Island, where some activists have blamed slightly elevated breast...

One of the things that drove me craziest when I lived in Seattle several years ago was the astounding ability of the city’s politicians to suck the plain meaning out of words-and to replace them with a rhetorical muddle as gray and hazy as the city’s...

For those few of us in the mainstream media who openly support Second Amendment rights, research scholar John Lott has been — or rather, had been — an absolute godsend. Armed with top-notch credentials (including stints at Stanford, Rice, UCLA, Wharton,...

He struck during morning rush hour. He used an AK-47 rifle. He killed two people and wounded three outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. Then, he slipped out of the country and eluded authorities for four, long years. He was the other Beltway shooting spree...

Amiri Baraka hates America. Yet, in the land of the free that he despises so deeply, this black nationalist writer has had no trouble finding fellow Americans to show him love. At the top of Amiri Baraka’s donor list: The American taxpayer. In the 1960s, Baraka...

Democrat Sen. Bob Torricelli of New Jersey is not through yet. While media pundits are busy writing his obituary, the Torch and his colleagues continue to make America safe for lawbreakers. On Sept. 23, Torricelli and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D.,...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. — Some profiling experts are convinced that the roving sniper who has terrorized my neighborhood and surrounding communities is a white male. — Dr. Michael Welner, a forensic psychiatrist at New York University Medical Center,...

NPR liberals are horrified. Across the country, thousands of radio listeners are tuning out conservative-basher Nina Totenberg, and tuning in conservative heroine Phyllis Schlafly. The growing Christian radio audience is bidding “adieu” to “Morning...

Here’s another item to add to Dr. Laura’s list of “10 Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives”: Stupid treachery. An alarming number of American women have ruined their lives — and threatened the lives of their fellow citizens...

What does fighting terrorism have to do with stemming massive illegal immigration? Much more than government officials have been willing to let on over the past year. When September 11 hijackers Hani Hanjour and Khalid Almihdhar needed help getting fraudulent...

Good riddance to James Ziglar, the hopeless head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) who announced his resignation last month. This is a man whose main qualifications for the nation’s top immigration enforcement job were his boyhood friendship...

Being a feminist means never having to say you’re sorry. Witness The Great Clitoridectomy Hoax — brought to you by the unapologetic, estrogen-fueled brigade of Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts and Hillary Clinton. In 1997, a West African woman calling herself...

Criminal aliens and their lawyers are rooting mightily for the Senate’s version of the Homeland Security bill now being debated in Washington. That’s because buried in the legislation is a very dangerous proposal to grant unprecedented power to a...

Prosecutors snagged their first guilty plea in the Enron energy scandal last month. Former executive Michael Kopper admitted to money laundering and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He has promised to forfeit $12 million in illegal profits, which will be distributed...

The U.S. Olympic Committee made grown men and women cry last month when it eliminated Houston and Washington, D.C., from the running to host the 2012 summer games. Texas-sized tears rolled in both towns. D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams looked more crushed than Charlie...

On Aug. 12, CNN aired a “breaking” news conference to update viewers on a matter it considered of global importance: the medical condition of Jason Priestley — a washed-up, 32-year-old former TV idol who sustained moderate injuries during a Kentucky...