Author: Robert Stacy McCain

Earlier this week, David Hogberg filed an important story at Investors Business Daily: FHA-insured loans have more than tripled from 530,000 in fiscal year 2007 to 1.7 million thus far in 2009. The Government National Mortgage Association, which securitizes FHA loans, has boosted its mortgage-related issuance to $287 billion from $85 billion. Yet during that […]

Feeling sorry for the rich and famous isn’t something I do very often, especially when it’s a celebrity bimbo like Kourtney Kardashian. But when she found out she was pregnant and all her scumbag friends were telling her to have an abortion, she went online and found some pro-life Web sites: “I was just sitting […]

Senator Kennedy’s incomparable contributions to American foreign policy, for example, might inspire gasping astonishment to those who have been unaware of the memorable behind-the-scenes role the Massachusetts Democrat played in the Cold War. Today, of all days, Americans should lay aside partisanship and ideology to pay resepctful remembrance to a Democrat who did so much […]

The sad case of “Trig Truthers” — the wacko conspiracy theorists who insist that Gov. Sarah Palin did not give birth to her fifth son, Trig — would be a senseless tragedy if we did not learn the valuable lesson this episode teaches. In reflecting on this situation earlier today, I observed: What is most […]

Nothing is worse than a writer who takes the reader’s interest for granted. This mistake is particularly common in political writing: “I am a conservative, expressing a conservative viewpoint on an issue of interest to fellow conservatives. Therefore, why bother trying to make it interesting?” Bland, boring writing — however sound the political principles or […]

How coincidental that John Hawkins should have addressed this topic just yesterday. OK, so maybe Ms. Espinosa could use a few lessons in HTML coding, but it was this techno-friendly grandmother from Arizona who enabled me to produce a report yesterday about a protest in Phoenix: Had Ms. Espinosa not been in the crowd, I […]

“Gryphen” a/k/a Alaska blogger Jesse Griffin, decides apparently at random to unload on Trig Palin again: Sarah Palin has used this heartrending diminutive prop with such careless abandon, that even people who once supported her are embarrassed at her apparent disregard for the well being of this baby. Leaving behind all of the questions about […]

The question was asked Sunday: “Mommy, Why Does My Kindergarten Teacher Lie About Sarah Palin?” Dan Riehl was puzzled by the tangled web that Jessie Griffin/”Gryphen” has been busily weaving for his numerous friends. NO NEED TO BE PUZZLED NOW! STRONG LANGUAGE WARNING: Please note that the juxtaposition of quotes at that post is intended […]

The ROTFLMAO news that the “Cash For Clunkers” program has gone broke in barely a week was a new example of a very old truth: I’m reminded of something P.J. O’Rourke once said, in regard to “affordable housing”: Every time the government promises to give you something for nothing, imagine the result if you tried […]

David Brooks isn’t really worth the time it takes to denounce him, so please excuse the redundancy: In an era when the newspaper industry is laying off newsroom personnel to the tune of a thousand people a month, David Brooks is paid a full-time salary by Sulzberger. In return for this salary — his compensation […]

Former AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin says this isn’t just about him: “For a second I was thinking, ‘Why do I need all of this?’ I’ll just resign and go back to my good legal practice in New York,” Gerald Walpin told The Washington Times’ “America’s Morning News” radio show Tuesday. “But I would then […]

While AmeriCorps IG Gerald Walpin made headlines Friday with his lawsuit, this week the IG spotlight is on SIGTARP — Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Wall Street bailout rushed through Congress last October. Monday, Barofsky issued a report accusing Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner of “rejecting ‘common sense’ by not requiring banks receiving […]

No one could have predicted it, The world was probably not ready for it. But after I’d posted a response at The American Spectator, I noticed that Ace used the word “integrity,” and figured, what the heck? Like Paul F***ing Anka, Baby

The American Spectator: CNN’s Roesgen Reportedly WillLeave Network; Bias AllegedCNN reporter Susan Roesgen will leave the network, a media-industry Web site reported Thursday, three months after Ms. Roesgen’s coverage of an April protest in Chicago drew widespread criticism. Ms. Roesgen’s “contract will not be renewed and she will be leaving the network,” Chris Ariens, managing […]

Dan Collins, lyrical genius: Take a little closer look, ah will ya huh. Ricci really sticks in my craw, Latina. Reasoning a mystery but empathy Sucking logic into its maw, Latina Read the whole thing. You might say Sotomayor has got the knack. But then again, you would say that, you racist!

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From my latest report for The American Spectator: “We’re not there yet,” one Democratic source on Capitol Hill said last week, when asked about the prospect for hearings on the Obama administration’s firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin. Congressional investigators are still conducting interviews in the case, so the question of whether to “pull […]

Watch this dance scene from Another Cinderella Story starring Disney teen sensation Selena Gomez: Granted, there’s probably more provocative dancing than that at the typical high-school prom nowadays, but is this sexy tango really appropriate for Disney TV? The latest young starlet to roll off the Disney assembly line is 16-year-old Selena Gomez. . . […]

Nothing is more predictable than that Republican defeat will lead to an insistent search for conservative “new ideas,” even though American conservatism is explicitly devoted to very old ideas — limited government, economic liberty, cultural traditionalism, and so forth. I’m old enough to remember the frantic hunt for “new ideas” that followed the 1996 defeat […]

Byron York reported this morning: A top official of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the government agency that oversees AmeriCorps, has refused to answer questions from congressional investigators about the White House’s role in events surrounding the abrupt firing of inspector general Gerald Walpin. I followed up with a report that CNCS General […]

Once you’ve proven you can’t be trusted, not even becoming a Democrat can save your hopless RINO butt: Sen. Arlen Specter continues to pick up support from Democratic party leaders across Pennsylvania. However, a new poll indicates that the five-term incumbent has not convinced a majority of Pennsylvania voters that he should be re-elected. According […]

There is no human quality I admire so much as the courageous force of determined persistence. And I learned that from old No. 27: When he was 16, Bill McCain told his mother, “You won’t ever have to worry about me again.” He left the family farm in rural Randolph County, Alabama, and moved 40 […]