Author: Robert Stacy McCain

“So there seems to be a certain sort of bipartisan consensus that the GOP is now fully committed to pandering to Buchananites, Birchers, goldbugs, gun nuts, Paulistas and sundry fringe types, and yet . . . I dunno. I’m not feeling the love here. . . . “How is it that Charles Johnson and Christopher […]

A 42-year-old immigrant from the Dominican Republic was arrested last week in an Internet sex sting, accused of arranging to meet an undercover cop posing as a 15-year-old girl. This has produced much glee among left-wing bloggers, because Juan Alberto Ovalle was employed by Focus on the Family, thus reinforcing the favorite liberal message that […]

“The obituary of the Religious Right has been written many times before. The defeat of Pat Robertson’s GOP primary bid in 1988, the election of Bill Clinton in 1992, his re-election in 1996, his acquittal by the Senate in the Lewinsky sex-and-lies scandal — all of these were causes for self-congratulatory gloating by opponents of […]

“Over and over, we find ourselves fighting what is essentially a defensive battle against the forces of organized radicalism who insist that ‘social justice’ requires that we grant their latest demand. We know, however, that their latest demand is never their last demand. Grant the radicals everything they demand today, and tomorrow they will return […]

Melissa Clouthier’s post about teen girls imitating computer porn reminded me of a suggestion by my friend Tito Perdue: Instead of registering sex offenders, law enforcement could save taxpayers money by just making a list of the normal people. It would be a much shorter list.

“The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a reaction to Enron-style accounting scandals enacted in 2002 on a Senate vote of 99-0, has been one of the most costly and counterproductive regulations imposed on our economy, hindering innovation, slamming the door shut on initial public offerings (IPOs) in the stock market and driving many companies out of U.S. markets […]

“Labor union bosses are on the verge of passing legislation called the Employee Free Choice Act and denying employees the right to cast their ballot in private in union organizing elections. Rather than holding a monitored workplace election using secret ballots as has been the case for decades, under this proposal the union would automatically […]

With a special shout-out to David Brooks and the Crapweasel Coalition: Here’s a clue for the youngsters: If the New York Times ever offers to publish you, you’re doing something wrong. It is cowardly punks like David Brooks, and all their sorry crapweasel imitators, who make the Ransom Note Method such an effective weapon for […]

That’s what Carter Clews of Americans for Limited Government calls the GIVE (Generations Invigorating Volunteers and Education) Act: [Supporters of the bill] would tell you that all they’re trying to do is help 250,000 wonderful young unemployed volunteers find a way to serve the country. And who could possibly oppose that? Well, perhaps, the wonderful […]

I’ll be in Washington tonight to see David Horowitz’s 7 p.m. speech at the State Plaza Hotel (2117 E Street, NW): The George Washington University Chapter of the Young America’s Foundation is pleased to announce that they will be hosting David Horowitz at a dinner this Thursday, March 26th to discuss his new book, One […]

At least one young activist is considering the Lady Godiva approach to this situation. Via Dave, we see the press is ignoring the Tea Party movement. But can they ignore a naked Tea Party? Ah, the sacrifices that patriots must make for the cause of freedom . . . (Cross-posted at The Other McCain.)

A lot worse, frankly — but just wait, and it will get worse. Idiots and economic ignorati are giddily cheering Monday’s market bounce, but it’s just an upward zig that will make no lasting difference in the a long downward zag. In mid-February, economics professor Peter Navarro predicted the Dow would bottom out at 6,000, […]

“Why do women love Bad Boys? Why do ‘nice guys finish last’ with the ladies, while no woman can resist the charm of a ‘black-hearted varmint’ like Rhett Butler? . . . What if, beneath the rugged veneer of the proud renegade, a woman espies something more tender, honest and decent than is apparent to […]

“Tell you what: You find yourself a thousand David Brookses and a thousand Kathleen Parkers, and you give me one Rush Limbaugh and one Kathy Shaidle and, buddy, we’ll whup your ass before sundown.”

“Do any other old codgers out there in my audience remember back when $1 trillion was a noteworthy figure, rather than the minimum price needed to get people to take your policy seriously?”

Jason Kenney, Canada’s Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, spoke Wednesday at the University of Toronto, and look whose name comes up in the news coverage: Although Mr. Kenney was heckled on the way to his car, and stopped in the hallway by an Iraq war resister who was carrying a baby while pleading her […]

Observing Black History Month with my latest column at Pajamas Media: With so many problems afflicting America today, especially with the economy in crisis, what purpose was served by [Attorney General Eric] Holder’s remarks? Trillions of dollars in asset value were wiped out by the collapse of the housing “bubble” and the ripple effects of […]

California crisis explained by Ed Morrissey: Democrats . . . refuse to consider large-scale rollbacks of state government programs. Doing so would jeopardize their standing among key constituencies, especially public-sector unions like AFSCME and SEIU. Instead, they want to bulldoze Republicans into jacking up taxes even higher, making the state that much less competitive and […]

Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of the Speaker of the House, has an HBO film deal — I mean, wow, what a coicidence, huh? Time/Warner has only given $7.1 million to Democrats since 2000, making 82% of their donations to Democrats in the 2008 election cycle. So HBO pays Alexandra to make a documentary about the election […]

My latest column at Taki’s Magazine: As Valentine’s Day 2009 arrives, the desperate real-estate salesmen of Glengarry Glen Ross are an apt metaphor for the romantic plight of our age. Plenty of prospects out there — there are some 24 million women ages 18-29 in the United States — but guys can’t seem to close […]

“All seductions begin by flirting. Flirting is the key which turns the engine on. It is as simple as that. Without flirting you cannot seduce, and without seduction the race becomes extinct.” — Taki Theodoracopulos (Cross-posted at The Other McCain.)

Michelle Lee Muccio of the Acton Institute will be at CPAC. Will you be at CPAC? (Cross-posted at The Other McCain.)

For years, pro-life activists have warned that abortion and the contraceptive culture were leading us toward a demographic crisis. At least a decade ago, Jim Sedlak of the American Life League was warning: “In order to turn things around . . . young people getting married have to be thinking of having four or more […]

That’s the phone number for Sen. Arlen Specter’s Capitol office, and I’m sure he’d love to hear your reaction to his support of the Pelosi-Reid “stimulus” plan. If you can’t get through — lots of people want to share the love with Specter nowadays — you can also try these numbers: 610-434-1444 (Allentown office) 814-453-3010 […]

“All my life, from birth, it’s been a fight. And it always seemed to be another man’s war. I always seemed to be fighting for someone else. But it always came back to me. The Word says we’re born into sin, and sin always comes back to war.” — Sam Childers Lots of do-gooders want […]

From my latest American Spectator column: . . . The real problem with the stimulus bill is not that it is too big (although it is too big) nor its various objectionable ingredients (although many are objectionable), but rather that it is based on a false economic theory. “The American people…did not vote for the […]

The premiere is tonight at the Kennedy Center. Citizens United produced the documentary, and my friend Matthew Taylor was director of photography. (Cross-posted at The Other McCain.)

R. Emmett Tyrrell: Egads, it is going to be a long four years! It is only two weeks since the Prophet Obama’s inauguration, and already he has revived memories of Boy Clinton’s first 100 days. Political observers with a sense of history might well ask whether the Obama Administration will approximate the adolescent incompetence of […]

Barack Obama, bidding fair to become the 21st century’s Jimmy Carter, lays a heavy downer on us via the the Washington Post op-ed page: By now, it’s clear to everyone that we have inherited an economic crisis as deep and dire as any since the days of the Great Depression. (Via Memeorandum.) Read the rest […]