Michelle Malkin (born October 20, 1970 in Philadelphia) is an American journalist, author, and political commentator. She is regarded as a political and social conservative.

Malkin, born Michelle Maglalang, the daughter of Filipino immigrants, grew up in southern New Jersey, and graduated from Oberlin College. She began her journalism career at the Los Angeles Daily News and later moved to the Seattle Times before becoming a nationally syndicated columnist.

Malkin's column, syndicated by Creators Syndicate , appears in over a hundred newspapers nationwide. She is also a commentator for FOX News Channel. Her first book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces, was published by Regnery Publishing in 2002 and was a New York Times bestseller. She is an occasional contributor to the VDARE.com "writers collective". In 2004 she wrote a book entitled In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror, defending Japanese American internment by the United States Government in the West Coast during World War II and relating this theme to today's "War on Terror."

Malkin has been accused of hyperbole and writing to an audience that is already in concordance with her opinions. Columnist and blogger Andrew Sullivan gives out the parody Malkin Award [1] for what Sullivan believes is "cliché-ridden writing from the left and right intended to insult." Malkin's writing style has been compared to Ann Coulter's. [2] A blogger recently accused Malkin of having her husband co-write blog posts and her book under her name, calling into question the influence he has upon her. [3]

She currently lives in Maryland with her husband Jesse and their two children, a daughter and a son.

External links

• Malkin's official site

• The Immigration Blog

• Malkin's columns on TownHall.com
• MalkinWatch
• CampusProgress.org article