Michelle Malkin addressed the Campus Leadership Program's inaugural National Activism Conference Friday evening. (Full disclosure: I am the director of the Campus Leadership Program). Malkin contrasted emotion-based arguments employed by liberals with fact-based arguments relied upon by conservatives. Malkin countered the liberal impulse to invoke heart-tugging stories of immigrants with the immigration stories that evoke her own sympathy: the first World Trade Center bombing, the DC sniper killings, 9/11, and the murders at the El-Al ticket counter at LAX. In other words, Neil Diamond's "Coming to America" shouldn't be absorbed without remembering Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, Mohammed Atta, and Bruno Hauptman.

Malkin addressed many points, but here are a few that stood out:

On President Bush's amnesty proposal: "Amnesty would be an abomination" to conservative principles. "It behooves conservatives," Malkin warned, to remind Americans of "the history and reality of the failures of open borders."

On her political transformation: "I considered myself a small 'L' libertarian until September 11."

On bilingual education: "Clearly, English is the ticket to success."

On the Minutemen: "The mother of all neighborhood watch programs." "I don't consider them vigilantes," Malkin explained. "I consider them patriots."

On eroding conservative support for Bush: "Morale is very low. These are people who have supported Bush wholeheartedly, and they feel that he has betrayed them."

She's the best!! Great book too.

chick is hot

If she were an ancient city, she would be Babeallonea. Or, a President, she would be Baberaham Lincoln.

Yes, all that and wicked smaaahgt too!!

She IS the total package.

I've long thought that the REAL total package is the truly brilliant and excruciatingly gorgeous Heather MacDonald. She's got more heft intellectually and more good looks than anybody else going on the conservative side. (That's saying something, given the very strong field we have on the right--a fact attested to by the tendency of all those shrieking, wrinkled left-wing gorgons to refer so often to conservative women as "whores.")

Am not aware of Heather but will have to look her up.

What, you don't think Nancy Pelosi is a substantive babe??

Watched her on the the Bolton hearings. What a witch.