The adjective “Orwellian” can be overused in our political discourse. But how else to describe a situation in which the federal government abdicates its responsibility to secure the nation’s wide-open border and then, when a state steps up to help…
Walter Samuel, a pseudonym for “a prolific international affairs writer and academic,” penned a quite interesting piece for the website of AMAC, the Association of Mature American Citizens (perhaps best described as the conservative version of AARP) last week. Samuel’s…
With the week we’re having in America, this could easily have been a 50 Quick Things instead of the regular-ole 5QT that it is. And yes, I expect thanks from you for my brevity and restraint. A simple subscription to…
In this week’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, American Spectator publisher Melissa Mackenzie and contributing editor (and publisher of TheHayride.com and RVIVR.com) Scott McKay talk about how President Joe Biden; his family — daughter Ashley, son Hunter, and brother James; and nearly all of the D.C. elites…
Why is the Left in such a fit of pique over the transporting of illegal aliens from Arizona, Florida, and Texas to sanctuary cities? While sending illegals to places like New York City, Washington D.C., Chicago, and Martha’s Vineyard must…
Amid the ceaseless cultural and political aggressions of America’s malign Left, occasionally there are moments of sublime entertainment. Perhaps not so much for the few acts, in themselves, of political recrimination and revenge the Right is able to summon up,…
Any highly publicized election is going to have a juicy soundbite or two, and the midterm elections in Texas appear particularly succulent. Mike Collier, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, told delegates at the Democratic state convention that he intends…
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw testified on Tuesday at a state hearing that Uvalde police officers had sufficient numbers, weaponry, and protection to stop the Robb Elementary School shooter in minutes. Despite this, the shooter was able to continue…
Every time some lost soul with writhing snakes in his head does something wretched with a gun, as happened in Uvalde, we’re immediately buried in loud, public non-sequiturs: howls to DO SOMETHING! Even though the somethings called for have no…
If you missed it, Robert Francis O’Rourke, the privileged white leftist who pretended to be Mexican in an attempt to fleece the voters of Texas into a spot in the U.S. Senate in 2018 and the Democratic presidential nomination in…