Author: Robert Stacy McCain

From my special report today in The American Spectator: Neil Barofsky is “SIGTARP,” the special investigator general whose job is to keep an eye on disbursement from the Troubled Assets Relief Program, the $3 trillion financial bailout that was rushed through Congress in October. Last week, Grassley sent a stern letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy […]

The notorious “Chicago Way” of political corruption seems to have arrived full-force in Washington, as both Michael Barone and John Kass observe in regard to the inspectors general who seem to be dropping like flies these days. Meanwhile, good-government activists are “dismayed” to discover that Barack Obama’s promises of “transparency” were just so much more […]

Nothing bothers me quite as much as a troll. It is one thing to argue about politics. It is something else — something evil — to hijack somebody’s bandwidth and use it dishonestly to attack them, their friends and everything they believe in. Wednesday, I posted an essay at the Hot Air Green Room, which […]

What does the long-ago death of a matinee idol tell us about the likely results of Obamanomics? Glad you asked! Actual science involves the ascertaining and application of facts, with the knowledge that there are more facts in the universe than any person can ever possibly know. The pseudo-religion of Science, by contrast, involves the […]

“If you allow yourself to be slapped around like a punk, whose fault is it that you’re treated like a punk?” Just some friendly family advice to conservatives tired of being disrespected by Republican “leaders” who try to curry favor with the liberal Moe Greens. Matt Lewis is not Fredo, and he’s not going to […]

Who is to blame for today’s shooting at the Holocaust Museum? As Michelle Malkin and Donald Douglas observe, many are rushing to blame “right-wingers.” But you guys are blameless, because it’s all my fault. Why? Because I suck, that’s why. Dan Collins was the first to connect the dots of this theory. Not everyone gets […]

In a private e-mail exchange, one very shrewd financial analyst used the phrase “the current weirdness” to describe the economic moment we’re in. “[T]he overall story in the media is wrong, which isn’t unusual,” said my correspondent. The problem is that our situation is so unprecedented, even the most astute observers are somewhat mystified. What […]

Today’s “300 Words Or Less” editorial at NTCNews: Obscene insults and raw hatred are not new in the online world. What made Guy Cimbalo’s article about “hate-f***” fantasies so shocking was that it was published by Playboy. Did no one in the editorial process at Playboy.com think twice before hitting the “publish” button on an […]

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That colorful expression by the late Lewis Grizzard can be roughly translated as, “Don’t tell me about my business.” Which is exactly what’s wrong with Rod Dreher presuming to criticize Mark Levin: Most people never really think about the craft of talk radio, just like they never think about the craft of journalism, or the […]

Wayne Allyn Root, the 2008 Libertarian Party vice-presidential candidate, likes to brag on his daughter Dakota: To illustrate the remarkable talent, creativity and intelligence of home-schooled children, I offer Exhibit A: My 17-year-old daughter Dakota Root. She is beautiful; well mannered; disciplined; articulate; poised beyond her years; treats adults with respect; maintains a straight A+ […]

The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s attempt to lock up a Senate seat for Obama’s favorite Republican, Charlie Crist, is naturally causing trouble in the Florida GOP. But the guy who is actually responsible for the NRSC’s “pay up and shut up” policy is Texas Sen. John Cornyn. This raises question for Texas Republicans: Remember the […]

Florida Senate Endorsement Causes GOP Grassroots Rebellion WASHINGTON, DC, May 21 – Conservative activists are sparking an online grassroots uprising in response to the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s decision to endorse Charlie Crist in the 2010 Florida Senate race 15 months before the GOP primary for the seat currently held by Republican Sen. Mel Martinez. […]

(BUMPED; UPDATES BELOW) St. Petersburg Times reports: Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer, facing intense and growing backlash over meddling in the U.S. Senate primary, is backing off. In a letter to party supporters [Wednesday], Greer defends his actions but said the party is now “neutral” in the contest between Charlie Crist and Marco […]

If you want to know why the NRSC’s endorsement of Charlie Crist was such a blunder, just click here.

Why does multiculturalism advance like a conquering army? Why is Barack Obama invited to speak at Notre Dame? It has a lot to do with ambition, prestige and the structure of the American elite: Such is the nature of this elite that only cowards ever apply for membership. No one expects honesty from the New […]

John Hawkins of Right Wing News called for Sen. John Cornyn to resign from the National Republican Senatorial Committee after Tuesday’s endorsement of Charlie Crist in the 2010 Florida Senate race. Then Erick Erickson of Red State vowed “not one dime for the NRSC,” but that seemed like about nine cents too much for me. […]

Ace of Spades has a round-up of very gloomy economic forebodings. Frankly, Ace is an optimist, compared to me. During the campaign last year, Democrats kept bashing the Bush administration for its nearly $200 billion budget deficit. So now they’ve moved the declmal point to the right: $2 trillion in deficits, and I’m seeing nightmare […]

Since November, liberals have used Barack Obama’s personal popularity as a weapon to intimidate Republicans into supporting Democratic policies. For example, when Florida conservative Senate candidate Marco Rubio debuted a TV ad criticizing his Republican rival Charlie Crist’s support of Obama’s $789 billion “stimulus” bill, liberal blogger Greg Sargent pretended to be astonished: Another mark […]

Naked beauty queens? Nuclear Pakistan? Bank of America $35 billion short? Forget all that silly crap. DIJONGATE! Barack Obama ordered a burger with dijon mustard! Just what we can expect from one of those snooty un-American law professor types, y’know. Fact: Dijon mustard comes from France. Fact: From 1843-45, Karl Marx lived in France. Fact: […]

What did he say? I’m going to give all the women out there a piece of advice that your parents are probably too uncomfortable to give to you: do not let your boyfriend take naked pictures of you. You know why? Because even if you disregard the moral issues, if the two of you break […]

“Apparently, giving a woman a compliment on her good looks is inherently an insult now, no matter the context, at least if politics and the media are involved in any way. . . . It’s one thing to point out blatant sexism in its true form. It’s completely silly on the other hand to misconstrue […]

“The stimulus-and-bailout policies have not addressed the fundamental problems of the economy — namely, an excess of debt and a shortage of capital to spur job creation — while the entitlement trainwreck of Social Security and Medicare loom immediately ahead. By piling on new trillion-dollar deficits, at a time when the recession will result in […]

“Common-sense observations about human nature are now politicized as ‘conservative,’ so that every knocked-up 15-year-old can be said to be engaged in liberal activism and her baby-daddy is a ‘community organizer’ of sorts. One imagines that nowadays the high-school Lothario, encountering resistance as he tries to get to second base with his would-be conquest, chides […]

One of the oddities of my career in the blogosphere is that, even though I’m a hard-boiled Protestant, my writings on cultural issues have earned me legions of Catholic admirers . . . . My ancestors were Ulster Scots and Covenanters, and respect for the sacrifices they made to defend their independent faith requires me […]

As executive of King County, Washington, Ron Sims was at the center of scandal after scandal. So naturally, Barack Obama nominated Sims for Deputy Secretary of HUD. Given the abundant evidence that Sims is either corrupt or incompetent (or possibly both), what does the senior Republican have to say to the nominee at his confirmation […]

“The problem with the ‘homophobia’ smear is that this allegedly dangerous tendency does not correlate with any actual evil. Nearly all ‘homophobes’ are peaceful, law-abiding citizens who treat the objects of their supposed ‘phobia’ with civility and courtesy. It is the object of the Left to convince homosexuals that they suffer oppression as the result […]

“Real poverty . . . is never to be recommended. Impossible to live a thoughtful and productive life if one is locked into a cycle of unremitting drudgery which would entail the end of literature and music, romance and adventure, and everything good. It isn’t poverty I wish, but rather the end of the sort […]

“No, don’t start asking questions like that, Oliver Willis. Don’t begin wondering what kind of travel, food and lodging David Brock and Eric Burns bill to their Media Matters expense accounts. Don’t concern yourself with the kind of “swag” freebies and useful connections they accrue as executives atop the pyramid where you remain down at […]

E.D. Kain asserts that “many neocons and movement conservative types are suffering from a total break with reality.” This gets him linked by Andrew Sullivan, naturally, since the Trig Truther loves nothing better than this armchair Adorno trick of treating conservative dissent as a symptom of psychopathology. Kain’s implicit syllogism is this: All reasonable men […]