Michael McKenna

The threat from China and its bipartisan enablers

It is so difficult sometimes to take either of the parties seriously. Both have an unfortunate tendency to say one thing and do another, and in the process damage the United States.

February 14, 2024

Taking votes: House Speaker Mike Johnson has the right idea

The political commentariat has been working overtime in the last few days trying to convince people that a handful of bumpy votes in the House of Representatives are dispositive signs of the eschaton.

February 10, 2024

Trump campaign will undoubtedly take advantage of border crisis

So, the unconscionable border deal is dead, and the incomprehensible effort to impeach the leader of the Department of Homeland Security is hopefully equally dead. Good riddance to both of them.

February 7, 2024

Biden mollifies Marxist wing of his party

What do President Biden's recent pause in licensing of liquefied natural gas exports (because of the climate) and the administration's long-standing resistance to securing the southern border have in common?

February 2, 2024

How to fix the Dallas Cowboys and the border mess: Fire the boss

Like the Dallas Cowboys, American governments -- led by both Republicans and Democrats -- have failed at their fundamental mission for the last 30 years.

January 31, 2024

No immigration deal: Laws do not enforce themselves, and Biden isn’t trustworthy

This month, The Wall Street Journal, joined the chorus of businesses and encouraged the Republicans to take the immigration deal -- which, to be clear, no one outside the negotiations has seen.

January 30, 2024

Why Trump is winning: He’s staying focused on the issues

The fundamental lesson of former President Donald Trump's recent wins in New Hampshire and Iowa is that issues matter.

January 24, 2024

Half a century into the fight for life: Supporting mother and child

Monday is the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, which struck down provisions in the criminal codes of all 50 states that made abortion a crime.

January 20, 2024

Sen. Kevin Cramer’s energy tax would hit the poor, the old, those on fixed incomes

On Thursday, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is meeting to consider legislation that would set the stage to impose a carbon dioxide tax on American families, workers and consumers.

January 17, 2024

Neither Trump nor Biden talking about managing taxes, spending and debt in 2025

Watching the two leading candidates for president nurse their resentments can be entertaining, but it would be more helpful if one or both of them started to talk seriously about governing in 2025.

January 13, 2024

With the Republicans fractured, why haven’t Democrats become the majority party?

Democrats are every bit as riven as the Republicans; they just do a better job of hiding it -- no doubt a result of 200 years of experience in managing a coalition party.

January 10, 2024

Biden, China and the Inter-American Development Bank

For years, in an effort to destabilize our immediate neighborhood, the regime in Beijing has been creeping closer to nations in the Western Hemisphere.

January 6, 2024

Predictions for 2024: Trump will win the election, and the Dow will close above 40,000

Everyone makes predictions, but only a few of us are foolish enough to write them down. So here goes.

January 3, 2024

Colorado and Maine bumbling U.S. into an election civil war

Right after Christmas, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley threw up on her shoes trying to answer a typically simple question from a typically simple voter in New Hampshire: What was the Civil War about?

December 31, 2023

How well this columnist’s predictions for 2023 reflected reality

In the interests of full disclosure and a correct record, it is important to assess how well this columnist's predictions for 2023 (originally published Dec. 31, 2022) reflected reality.

December 27, 2023

Christmas is a season of hope and salvation

In case my friend Luke isn't clear enough here, Christmas is about the hope of salvation.

December 24, 2023

The sadness of Christmas

It's OK to be reflective and a little sad at Christmastime.

December 20, 2023

Why is the Christmas song ‘Silent Night’ so popular?

In 1816, near the starving and ruined city of Salzburg, Austria, a 24-year-old priest named Joseph Mohr suffered, along with his parishioners, in the wreckage of the Napoleonic Wars.

December 17, 2023

Power corrupts: Speech codes for universities is a dangerously subversive idea

Here's what bothers me about the debate over the performance of the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at last week's congressional hearing.

December 13, 2023

Republicans and the lack of free speech

Last week, the House Committee on Education held a hearing at which the presidents of Harvard, MIT and Penn testified about the hatred and invective and sometimes actions directed at Jews on the campuses of those schools.

December 9, 2023