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Scott McKay

Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator  and publisher of the Hayride, which offers news and commentary on Louisiana and national politics, and RVIVR.com, a national political news aggregation and opinion site. Scott is also the author of The Revivalist Manifesto: How Patriots Can Win The Next American Era, and, more recently, Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It's All Obama, available November 21. He’s also a writer of fiction — check out his four Tales of Ardenia novels Animus, Perdition, Retribution and Quandary at Amazon.
by | Jun 3, 2025

You might have seen the headline already. It comes from an X post by the Vice President, who was reacting to a photo op/attention-seeking stunt from the Democratic National Committee, which has somehow settled on a new line of messaging…

by | May 29, 2025

It’s fun for the columnist when the columns prove prescient. Not that my column last week encouraging conservatives to take the win on the House passage of the Big Beautiful Bill was particularly earthshattering in its reference to a coming…

by | May 28, 2025

Over the weekend, a friend of mine whom I haven’t seen in a while but who’s aware of what I do, and happens to be an alumnus of Wake Forest University, sent me a message: “Scott Pelley (60 mins clown)…

by | May 26, 2025

Of late, as Democrats contemplate their existence on the political Tree of Woe that the public has banished them to, something apparently new (but not particularly so) is beginning to percolate among their policy wonks. It’s called the Abundance Agenda,…

by and | May 23, 2025

President Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against CBS News for manipulating Kamala Harris’s 60 Minutes interview continues to shed light on the distrust of legacy media. (READ MORE: Kamala Harris’s 60 Minutes Interview, for Real) The Spectacle Podcast hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay discuss how…

by | May 22, 2025

Late Wednesday night — actually early Thursday morning — H.R. 1 finally cleared its final hurdles and scraped through to passage in the House of Representatives by a 215-214 vote. This is the Big Beautiful Bill you’ve heard so much…

by and | May 22, 2025

Ex-FBI Director James Comey’s “86 47” post continues to be widely criticized for threatening to harm President Trump. On this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay explain why Comey deserves to be prosecuted for his post…

by | May 21, 2025

One of my favorite films is The Bonfire of the Vanities, a 1990 adaptation of the 1987 Tom Wolfe novel of the same name, with Tom Hanks and Melanie Griffith heading up an all-star cast. The film, as did the…

by and | May 21, 2025

Former President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis opens up further criticism of the liberal media, the Biden administration, and leftist politicians for being complicit in covering up his health. Jake Tapper is dead. Megyn Kelly just put like ten bullets…

by | May 19, 2025

We will differentiate, in this column, between two entities that are related but not one and the same. Those are the actual Joe Biden and the corporate Joe Biden. Because the actual Joe Biden has not existed, in any real…

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