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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 | Mar 25, 2025

As a proud Gen Xer, I’ve always found Watergate to be quite a peculiar scandal. Especially as a kid and a young adult. Peculiar in the sense that Watergate never really seemed like all that big a deal. At the…

by | Mar 24, 2025

It’s been rumored for quite some time, and on Monday it popped all over X: Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce very soon that pharmaceutical advertising on television will be a thing of…

by | Mar 20, 2025

Well, it’s been a pretty clarifying week, more or less. There is so much going on that trying to decide what to include and exclude in this week’s installment of the 5QT is an exercise in paralysis by analysis, but…

by and | Mar 20, 2025

Good quality entertainment is hard to come by in recent years, and season two of 1923 and the Wheel of Time are no exception. Join Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay in this episode of The Spectacle Podcast as they critique these shows for their lack…

by and | Mar 19, 2025

The recent deportation of Tren de Aragua terrorists back to El Salvador sparked a greater controversy about judicial overreach, judicial activism, and executive power. Join Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay on this episode of The Spectacle Podcast as they inquire into the judicial branch…

by and | Mar 18, 2025

President Trump has raised questions about the legitimacy of former President Joe Biden’s pardons, referring to the use of an autopen for Biden’s signature. (RELATED: Autopen on Autopilot) In this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay…

by | Mar 18, 2025

Several days back, when one of the near-countless cases of judicial overreach in which partisan Democrat operatives in black robes issued absurd orders delaying presidential orders involving immigration issues or spending reforms or other changes well within the sole purview…

by | Mar 17, 2025

This column has done the not-so-important work of chronicling the ignominious performance of CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan, at least since she made herself noticeable by marching into the rhetorical jackpot that is JD Vance by attempting to shill for…

by and | Mar 14, 2025

On Tuesday, by a 217-213 vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution for the federal budget through September. (READ MORE: Five Quick Things: Welcome to the Briar Patch, Chuck Schumer)  In this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, hosts Melissa…

by | Mar 13, 2025

I’m writing this installment of the 5QT on a Thursday afternoon, one day before we’re supposed to see a showdown in the U.S. Senate over a 99-page continuing resolution covering federal spending between now and September. Nobody on the Right…

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