Michael McKenna

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

Biden’s ‘defending democracy’ narrative is just plain dangerous

Last week, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to prevent the Biden administration from shipping $6 billion to the regime in Iran.

December 6, 2023

Republicans’ weakness on China: Congress more interested in caressing the problem than solving it

Why are some Republicans so consistently weak on the slaving, genocidal regime in China?

December 1, 2023

Two paths: Will Trump or DeSantis win the GOP presidential nomination?

As we careen toward the Iowa caucuses, now about 45 days away, and the New Hampshire primary, only eight days after that, the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has been reduced to its essentials.

November 29, 2023

Abortion access and 2024 elections

The recent defeat of the pro-life cause in Ohio has been identified as the ratification of a new moment in American politics, one in which red states ultimately are turned blue over the issue of access to abortion.

November 26, 2023

Richard Warren’s brave journey to America and the miracle of Thanksgiving

As we celebrate another Thanksgiving, it is worth reflecting on how we got here, literally.

November 22, 2023

Expect Youngkin to run for president in 2028 after GOP progress in 2023 elections

Expectations are what demoralize people.

November 19, 2023