Scott McKay

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  • Aug 28, 2025
    On Wednesday morning, the students at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis were attending a Mass in the church next to the school when, suddenly, the stained-glass windows...
  • Aug 22, 2025
    I’m not going to recite the whole thing, because it was banal and stupid on a level you good people shouldn’t be subjected to, but on social media Thursday after I noted the...
  • Aug 19, 2025
    A terrible story out of Florida, on the opposite side of the country from where California governor Gavin Newsom busily plies his trade as one of America’s leading examples of...
  • Aug 14, 2025
    I haven’t really followed the controversies over what’s going on at the Smithsonian or Kennedy Center, so I don’t pretend to be an authority on either. If you know less than I...
  • Aug 8, 2025
    This is one hell of a week for conservatives, isn’t it? It’s a shame that time and space conspire to limit this entry of the 5QT to five, because this one could be a 20QT. And it...
  • Aug 7, 2025
    On Monday, a crime that would be shocking in most of America happened in Washington, D.C. That crime, where it occurred, wasn't shocking at all. And this fact should create...
  • Aug 1, 2025
    About half the country has almost a decade's worth of rage that has been building and building over the utter lawlessness atop the Democrat Party. What's sad is that the angry half...
  • Jun 4, 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...
  • May 30, 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...
  • May 29, 2025
    "Scott Pelley (60 mins clown) gave the commencement speech at WF. Have you seen this d'bag?"
  • May 27, 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...
  • May 23, 2025
    This is the Big Beautiful Bill you’ve heard so much about. And it’s certainly big — over 1,100 pages. Is it beautiful? Not really. But it is the bill. And it isn’t all that...
  • May 22, 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...
  • May 20, 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 ....
  • May 15, 2025
    This week, President Donald Trump generated a significant amount of attention by focusing on something the world has abjectly refused to focus on for the past 30 years or so.
  • May 3, 2025
    The Trump administration does not pull any punches with the White House press pool.
  • May 2, 2025
    The Trump administration does not pull any punches with the White House press pool.
  • Apr 24, 2025
    If you haven’t seen the delicious, burgeoning feud between the ancient James Carville and the infantile David Hogg, then boy, do I have a story for you.
  • Apr 15, 2025
    Last week Breitbart had an article covering a pair of interesting developments centered on the fashion industry and how market conditions are affecting international trade in...
  • Apr 8, 2025
    This column isn’t what you probably expect it to be. I’m sure you read that headline and expected we’re going to be decrying the legacy corporate propaganda press...
  • Apr 5, 2025
    From the time I found out about her, I’ve had a positive opinion of Ann Paulina Luna. She seems pretty conservative, and she seems pretty, well … pretty. So those are a...
  • Apr 4, 2025
    From the time I found out about her, I’ve had a positive opinion of Ann Paulina Luna. She seems pretty conservative, and she seems pretty, well … pretty. So those are a...
  • Mar 25, 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...
  • Jan 16, 2025
    I’ve been saying for a while that Pete Hegseth’s confirmation process was going to mark a major change in American politics that was facilitated and caused by the...