Michelle Malkin is a well-known conservative author, blogger, columnist, and entrepreneur. She began her career in newspaper journalism with the Los Angeles Daily News, where she worked as an editorial writer and weekly columnist from 1992-94. In 1995, she was named Warren Brookes Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. In 1996, she joined the editorial board of the Seattle Times, where she penned editorials and weekly columns for three and a half years. Mrs. Malkin has been a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate since 1999. Her twice-weekly column is carried by the New York Post, National Review, Townhall.com, and many other newspapers and websites. She is the author of four best-selling books. Her first book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists Criminals & Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores, published in 2002, was a New York Times bestseller. Her fourth book, Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies, was #1 on the New York Times hardcover non-fiction bestseller list for six weeks in a row. Malkin founded three successful conservative websites: michellemalkin.com, HotAir.com (sold to Salem Communications in 2010), and Twitchy.com (Sold to Salem in 2013). HP Labs’ Social Computing Lab ranked Malkin’s Twitter feed as one of the “most influential” in the Twitterverse. The liberal-leaning web site Mediaite ranks her as one of the most influential conservative print/online columnists in the U.S. The conservative-leaning U.K. Telegraph ranked Malkin the third-most influential female conservative in the U.S. Internet search company PeekYou determined that Malkin had the largest digital footprint on the Internet among political bloggers. The daughter of Filipino immigrants, Malkin was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1970 and was raised in southern New Jersey. She has worked as a press inserter, tax preparation aide, and network news librarian. She is also a lapsed classical pianist. She lives with her husband and two children in Colorado Springs, CO