Oklahoma's wretched record on wrongful convictions by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2018 “Frontier justice” costs too many citizens of all races, creeds, and backgrounds their freedom and their lives. In the old days of the Wild West, vigilantes worked outside the judicial system to punish rivals regardless of their guilt or innocence. Today, outlaws operate inside the bureaucracy to secure criminal convictions at all costs. Oklahoma — the notorious home of “Hang ‘Em High” execut...

Free Valentino Dixon by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2018 “If it wasn't for my artwork and God, there's no way we'd be having this conversation right now.” I'm in Colorado on a three-way phone call with Valentino Dixon, inmate No. 91B1615 at New York's Wende Correctional Facility, and his 27-year-old daughter, Tina Dixon, a first-grade teacher in Ohio. Faith, family and drawing — golf courses, jazz musicians, landscapes — have kept him alive and sane behind bars. It has been a l...

Shared wisdom on a silver anniversary by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2018 To commemorate my 25th wedding anniversary this week to my husband, Jesse, I asked readers on Facebook to share their own secrets to a long happy marriage. In short, the crowdsourced recipe for marital endurance includes faith, forgiveness, romance, kindness, selflessness and a healthy dose of humor. A union built to last begins with a promise and persists through compromise and commitment. It is about ke...

Ms. Diversity-ConArtista: Boston University's fake-o-nomics darling by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2018 It costs a pretty penny to earn a diploma in stupid. The annual list price to attend Boston University — including tuition, fees, room and board — currently rounds out to $70,000. To acquire a degree in economics from this tony institution of higher learning, an undergrad must complete courses in calculus, microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis, empirical economics, statist...

Jahi's life mattered by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2018 Amid all the raging political headlines and hyperventilating tweets of the Summer of Resistance, a searing ember of news stopped me in my tracks this week. Jahi McMath has passed away. I never had a chance to meet the young California teen, but her fight for life gripped me three years ago and was never far from my mind or heart — especially as my own daughter, the same age as Jahi, battled her own health crisis. Do you...

As my annual public service reminder of the reason for the season, I'm reprinting the Declaration of Independence in its entirety. The transcription comes via the National Archives. IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to...

Connecticut ⁦@SenBlumenthal⁩ joins the protest pic.twitter.com/Csfw2ezEGT — Herb Jackson (@HerbNJDC) June 28, 2018 At Hart Senate atrium right now protesters chanting ‘We care,' holding signs reading ‘abolish ICE' pic.twitter.com/uZroGrDqvz — Herb Jackson (@HerbNJDC) June 28, 2018 Democratic members of Congress have stopped by to rally the crowd including, Sens. Hirono, Markey, Gillibrand & Rep. Jayapal. The crowd went wild when Sen. Warren showed up. Many started yelling “I love you”...

Justin Gaertner is a combat wounded U.S. Marine who continues to serve his country as an ICE computer forensics analyst, helping solve criminal cases & rescue abused children. The tattoo shown here is the symbol for his platoon while he fought in Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/BaOBxaAMHS — ICE (@ICEgov) June 18, 2018 Weapons of mass manipulation by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2018 Confirmation bias damages reputations. It ruins credibility. It destroys lives. When researcher...

NYC's war on academic excellence by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2018 “I also have a dream.” This rallying cry, handwritten on a simple white placard held up by an Asian-American mom at a protest this week against liberal New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to radically transform New York City's public schools, says it all. A new civil rights struggle in education has exploded — yet the national media and the usual celebrity voices for equality and justice are nowhere to be ...

Step One to Stop False Accusations: Exposure by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2018 Incontrovertible fact: People lie. They fudge little things, like their height or weight. They exaggerate their athletic prowess or professional accomplishments. They deceive family, friends, lovers, voters, government officials, business partners and themselves. They lie about murder, theft, kidnapping, rape and discrimination. They lie for attention, deflection, power and profit. Often, the reasons...

(Photo credit: @USArmy) The phrase “Happy Memorial Day” is one of my biggest pet peeves. I hope you all have a reflective, appreciative, patriotic Memorial Day honoring the men and women who served and sacrificed for our freedom. The Missing Man Formation always brings tears to my eyes: *** Here's Civil War Gen. John Logan's Order Number 11 designating “Decoration Day,” the foundation of Memorial Day. Excerpt: We are organized, comrades, as our regulations tell us, for the purpose among other ...

Crapweasel of the week: Educrat Arne Duncan by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2018 Educrat (ED-yoo-krat) noun, usually pejorative. A government school official or administrator whose primary function is to spend tax dollars telling other parents what to do with their children. Beltway education bureaucrats abhor families who choose to keep their kids out of public schools — unless it's to grandstand over gun control. Behold Arne Duncan, longtime pal of Barack Obama and former U.S. D...

Marginalizing Melania by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2018 Need more evidence that there are two Americas? Here: Left-wing hatred of Melania Trump is inversely proportional to flyover admiration for the first lady. In just the last month, late-night clown Jimmy Kimmel mocked Trump's Slovenian accent, CNN contributor April Ryan attacked her as “not culturally American,” former Hillary Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines derided her genteel presence at former President George H.W. Bu...

(L-R: Erica Fuchs, exoneree Anthony DiPippo, exoneree Jeff Deskovic, MM, Jenny Holtzclaw, Jason Flom, Oscar Michelen) #TeamDaniel #Holtzclaw keeps growing! Scientists, lawyers, and activists are joining @MichelleMalkin in asking the simple question: What if he didn't do it? Watch the investigation at #CRTV:https://t.co/1jPKK6ckpH Pt I:https://t.co/hmVGG1I3ru pic.twitter.com/m7OX1mz0UP — CRTV (@CRTV) May 11, 2018 Team Daniel keeps growing. On April 29 in New York City at a Manhattan Film Festi...

Sombreros, qipaos, and Catholic cosplay, oh my! by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2018 The impossibly fickle, selective and whimsical rules of cultural appropriation are hard to keep straight. (Oops! I said “straight.” Apologies to whomever. Oops, can I say “whomever?” Zimever? Verselves? Gah.) According to the white people who run the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center, eating tacos, drinking tequila and wearing sombreros on Cinco de Mayo “are textbook examples of cultural appro...

The “Uncle Tom” card is dead by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2018 Here is a short list of prominent conservatives and independent thinkers who've been accused by their critics of being an “Uncle Tom” or some other vitriolic variation on the overplayed left-wing theme of being a traitor to their race or gender (“Aunt Tomasina,” “Uncle Juan,” “Aunt Jemima,” “Uncle Wong,” etc.): –White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders. –U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley. –HUD Secretary Ben C...

Alfie and Haleigh and Charlie and Jahi by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2018 When British hospital officials tried to pull the plug on 23-month-old toddler Alfie Evans on Monday night in arrogant defiance of his parents' wishes, many Americans took to Twitter to count their blessings that they live in a country that would not allow such tyranny. “Stories like Alfie Evans make me realize how grateful I am to live in America where freedom still exists,” one young social media user w...

My “Michelle Malkin Investigates” team is excited to be screening our episode, “Railroaded: Surviving Wrongful Convictions” at the Manhattan Film Festival this Sunday, April 29, 6pm at the Cinema Village. You can buy tickets here. You can also sign up at CRTV for a chance to win two FREE tickets here. There will be a panel discussion following the screening with exonerees, exoneration lawyers, and family members. I look forward to meeting readers/viewers in the NYC area! *** Here's my Fox and F...

Return of the feckless Chick-fil-A-phobes by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2018 Move over, Trump Derangement Syndrome. Another unhinged liberal pathology is back: Chick-fil-A-phobia. Perhaps, in the interest of public health, the CDC should launch a weekly C-F-A-P surveillance report to map the recurrence of this culturally infectious disease. Early-onset symptoms include fear of pressure-cooked poultry, allergic reaction to waffle potato fries and an irrational hatred of cow cost...

The Student Data-Mining Scandal Under Our Noses by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2018 While congresscritters expressed outrage at Facebook's intrusive data grabs during Capitol Hill hearings with Mark Zuckerberg this week, not a peep was heard about the Silicon Valley-Beltway theft ring purloining the personal information and browsing habits of millions of American schoolchildren. It doesn't take undercover investigative journalists to unmask the massive privacy invasion enabled b...