Scott McKay

3 days ago | spectator.org | Scott McKay

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 that precisely nobody thinks was a good idea. We have the lamest opposition in American history.

4 days ago | columbiagorgenews.com | Scott McKay

Summer is a time to enjoy the outdoors and the beauty of the Gorge: fishing on the Columbia, trips to Lost Lake, and hiking the Gorge trails. But as we have experienced, it is also wildfire season, and as you may have heard, the latest forecast is for a significant wildfire potential in the Pacific Northwest starting this month. We don’t need to be reminded to avoid smoke because we know who’s at the greatest risk.

1 week ago | spectator.org | Scott McKay

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 package of rescissions. It didn’t take a genius to notice that was coming.

1 week ago | spectator.org | Scott McKay

This is a big part of why the Democrat Party is losing young people. Young people are genetically skeptical of authority, and here comes a humorless and smug Scott Pelley, all puffed up with himself, lying to them about how America is entering its darkest days under President Trump. Contrast that with Trump himself, who at least has a sense of humor, a sense of playfulness, optimism, and belief in the future. Think of Caddyshack. The Pelley v.

1 week ago | spectator.org | Scott McKay

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, and it’s being heralded in a number of books and essays, most notably a book called Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.