Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly.

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Malkin a Roman Catholic attended Holy Spirit Roman Catholic High School where Michelle Malkin edited the school newspaper and aspired to become a concert pianist. The students asked Malkin to remove the contact details from her blog but Malkin reposted them several times writing in her blog: "I am leaving it up. In August 2004 following claims by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that presidential candidate John Kerry had lied about his record during the Vietnam War Malkin appeared on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and stated that there were "legitimate questions" over whether one of Kerry's wounds was "self-inflicted.

Malkin has written four books publiMichelle Malkind by Regnery Publishing. Her weekly syndicated column appears in a number of newspapers and websites.