Not the most auspicious start to this blog

YOU ARE VISITING THE OLD MALKIN(S)WATCH. THAT'S FANTASTIC. PLEASE VISIT THE NEW MALKIN(S)WATCH WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE.

I just had a long post about the O'Reilly appearance obliterated by a browser crash - on Linux, no less. I can't write it again, I really can't. I'm sorry, but here are the highlights:

• Malkin accuses Dr. Juan Hernandez of everything short of high treason


• She defends Arizona's Prop 200, a deeply flawed bill.


• She makes the dubious and misleading claim that amnesty programs increase illegal immigration, a statement with which federal studies tend to disagree. It's a debatable point, at least the most debatable she made tonight, but it seems to MalkinWatch that if illegal immigration will tend to stay the same either way, why not get them on the tax rolls?

This was all much more cohesive and pithy the last time around, but you take what you can get.

Update: Okay, I stand corrected. Apparently there's a newer study by the INS which finds that amnesty does correspond to increased illegal immigration.