Author: Robert Stacy McCain

A HuffPoster’s screed blaming Sarah Palin for an alleged “brewing cauldron of racist anger” inspired my latest American Spectator column: The tactic of blaming Palin for “racist anger” toward Obama developed as a theme during the fall campaign, evidently based on post hoc ergo propter hoc thinking within Team Obama. Threats against Obama increased as […]

This is probably a misinterpretation of events, so take it with a grain of salt: Numerous neocons told me that a vicious purge is being carried out at [the American Enterprise Institute], spearheaded by vice-president for foreign and defense policy studies, Danielle Pletka. There can be no doubting that change is afoot at AEI. Recently, […]

Her rich boyfriend pays her rent, lavishes her with gifts, and takes her on luxury vacations. So why isn’t everyone congratulating Melissa Beech on her good fortune? In a society that long ago discarded the ideal of premarital chastity, youthful fornication has lost its shock power. If Miss Beech were merely sleeping with a college […]

A phrase I coined several years ago, to describe that prejudice which assumes the superiority of all things Northern, applies perfectly to Michael Lind’s proposal for the compulsory unionization of the South. At AOSHQ, Dave in Texas pauses — between moonshine-inspired reveries about his sister — to ponder the ways of Yankee enlightenment. Jonah Goldberg […]

Dan Mitchell of Cato: Michael Moynihan of Reason: (Cross-posted at The Other McCain.)

Political correctness at a Chinese zoo: A pair of gay penguins thrown out of their zoo colony for repeatedly stealing eggs have been given some of their own to look after following a protest by animal rights groups. Last month the birds were segregated after they were caught placing stones at the feet of parents […]

That’s the tag the Weekly Standard‘s John McCormack hangs on colleague Matt Continetti, who writes for NPR: Obama is popular, and his agenda is, too. A recent poll found that 60 percent of respondents support Obama’s plans for massive infrastructure spending. Voters may be split on whether or not to bail out the Big Three […]

Just finished up a brief interview with Andrew Breitbart for The American Spectator: “I think that now is the right time to strike,” Andrew Breitbart says, talking on his hands-free cell phone as he drives through Hollywood. He’s en route to dinner with a screenwriter whose work has been filmed with big names like Michael […]

Day One here and here, in case you’re joining this melodrama in progress. OK, so Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich is under indictment for trying to sell the Senate seat being vacated by the president elect, and the question now is: What did Obama know, and when did he know it? Allahpundit has a good […]

Genghis at AOSHQ rips into leading conservative talk-radio hosts, whom he accuses of being “entrenched in power and way too comfortable for their own good.” Apparently, he’s got no problem with Laura Ingraham or Mark Levin, since their names don’t make his list. Of the six hosts Genghis names, I don’t get to hear Glenn […]

(Cross-posted at The Other McCain.)

The New York Times grants Bill Ayers 845 words on its op-ed page to defend himself. In the 11th paragraph, he twice uses the word “regrets,” but if you think he’s going to apologize or repent, think again: I have regrets, of course — including mistakes of excess and failures of imagination, posturing and posing, […]

No matter what happens — even a 14-point Republican victory — the media geniuses will always find a way to spin it as bad news for conservatives: With time and money on their sides, though, we can expect that Obama and other Democratic leaders will be look to make 2012 the year that the Solid […]

Twent percent of kids are nuts: Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes with everyday life, and even more abuse alcohol or drugs, researchers reported Monday in the most extensive study of its kind. The disorders include problems such as obsessive or compulsive tendencies and anti-social behavior that can […]

Want to be unemployed? Join a union! Toyota, BMW, Kia and others now make 54% of the cars Americans buy. The internationals also employ some 113,000 Americans, compared with 239,000 at U.S.-owned carmakers . . . To put it concisely, the transplants operate under conditions imposed by the free market. Detroit lives on Fantasy Island. […]

Some self-designated “doctor of journalism” decided to take on Mark Steyn, who opens up a can of forensic whupass on the aforesaid professor: Not for the first time you realise that, for the lazy white liberal, driving around with a “CELEBRATE DIVERSITY” sticker absolves one from having to take the slightest interest in other cultures. […]

Oh, this sounds like a splendid idea: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed to help start a nuclear energy program in Venezuela and said Moscow is willing to participate in a socialist trade bloc in Latin America led by President Hugo Chavez. Medvedev used his visit to Venezuela–the first by a Russian president–to extend Moscow’s reach […]

A father and his daughter: The U.S. State Department said on Friday two Americans were among those killed in the attacks by militants in the Indian financial capital Mumbai. Spokesman Gordon Duguid said the department had notified the families of the victims. He did not give details or identify the dead Americans. Earlier, a group […]

Michelle Malkin has a nice column today: In The Year of Bottomless Bailouts, I am most grateful this Thanksgiving for Americans who refuse to abandon thrift, personal responsibility, and self-reliance. When the moochers and entitlement-mongers drive you mad, remember that our nation still serves as home to millions of citizens who do for themselves. Like […]

Citigroup is “a Big Government lovers’ bank that funds just about every trendy left-wing cause in America,” says Matthew Vadum: Long before it started drowning in red ink, the poster child for so-called corporate social responsibility was a longtime donor to left-wing pressure groups such as Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Henry Paulson’s Nature Conservancy. […]

Gay marriage as original intent: Accept civil equality not as a defeat but as an opportunity: to persuade and evangelize for something beyond the civil that still respects the integrity of the civil. That’s what America’s founders intended. It is part of their genius that today’s fundamentalists simply do not understand. Just to make sure, […]

If you believe the federal government: Some 691,000 children went hungry in America sometime in 2007, while close to one in eight Americans struggled to feed themselves adequately even before this year’s sharp economic downtown, the Agriculture Department reported Monday. The department’s annual report on food security showed that during 2007 the number of children […]

He announces his post-National Review plans: Starting over Inauguration Weekend, I’ll be launching a new website, NewMajority.com. It will be a group blog, featuring many different voices. Not all of them identify as conservatives or Republicans. But they – and people like them – are the people conservatives and Republicans need. I hope we will […]

A throw-the-bums out attitude — and Obama Mania in Houston — elects a tattooed ex-cokehead as a district court judge: Fine, a Democrat, campaigned on his life experiences, saying they would make him a better judge than his rival, Republican incumbent Devon Anderson. “She did a good job, but I’m more qualified in the hopelessness […]

Washington Post White House correspondent Chris Cillizza lists five (false) myths that have already sprung up about the election, of which the last two are the most important for Republicans to examine: A Republican candidate could have won the presidency this year. McCain made a huge mistake in picking Sarah Palin. Now, on the first, […]

Instapundit says “blame Catharine McKinnon” (who pioneered the legal theory of sexual harassment as a violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act) for two recent deaths at the University of Iowa: For the second time this year, a professor at the University of Iowa has taken his own life after being accused of sexual harassment. […]

Jennifer Rubin is an excellent young conservative writer, but she needs to stop paying attention to David Brooks, a point on which I elaborate at AmSpecBlog: This panic-struck reaction to the debacle of 11/4 is what I sought to forestall in my columns of Nov. 5 and Nov. 12. First, there is the normal tendency […]

Another shot at the rubes and yahoos who, he says, are ruining the Republican Party: Some of the Republicans’ afflictions are self-inflicted. Some conservatives who are gluttons for punishment are getting a head start on ensuring a 2012 drubbing by prescribing peculiar medication for a misdiagnosed illness. They are . . . unhinged by their […]

P.J. O’Rourke ruminates on “our” failure, applying the first person plural to what “conservatives” did, or did not do. Many of his criticisms are fair, and many of his jokes are funny, but O’Rourke suffers as badly as anyone from the common confusion over who and what is meant by “conservative.” His paragraph on immigration […]

All along, I’ve said that the best strategy for the McCain campaign in the Sarah Palin rollout would have been to put Palin into a press conference, rather than to hide her from reporters for weeks while sending “campaign spokesmen” out to defend her. Let’s put that idea to the test, shall we? Here is […]