Michael McKenna

If you want to solve immigration crisis, put business executives in jail

The great Roman judge Lucius Cassius, who lived in the first century B.C., routinely sought to cut to the heart of a case or controversy by asking "cui bono?" ("who benefits?").

May 10, 2023

Florida is a model for conservatives to win again

We interrupt the usual news of Washington to report that, back in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican legislature just wrapped up a productive legislative session.

May 7, 2023

How long is long enough? Time for term limits for professional officeholders

Earlier this week, Ben Cardin, Maryland Democrat, announced he was not going to run for a fourth term in the Senate, deciding, one supposes, that being in public office for a mere 56 years is enough.

May 3, 2023

The 2024 presidential race begins: Will it be a repeat of 2020?

Recently, there has been a rash of informative polling focused on the 2024 presidential campaign.

April 30, 2023

Biden’s ‘freedom’ campaign favorable to Republicans

In announcing his intention to seek reelection, President Biden extended two great courtesies to voters.

April 26, 2023

White House is doing its best to help Speaker McCarthy

In its haste to humiliate and marginalize Mr. Manchin over what it thought were unnecessarily restrictive provisions in the legislation, the Biden administration might have played itself into a disaster.

April 22, 2023

Chinese Communist Party cash ultimately corrupts both Democrats and Republicans

Earlier this week, Rep. Jason Smith, Missouri Republican and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, gaveled in a hearing on countering China's trade and investment agenda.

April 19, 2023

Silence is not an option in long march to pro-life America

The Republican Party and the pro-life cause have recently enjoyed a series of victories in the judicial arena (Dobbs) and suffered a series of setbacks (the latest in Wisconsin) in the electoral arena.

April 16, 2023

Democrats want to run against Trump in 2024

Despite his best efforts, former President Donald Trump is in a good spot with respect to the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.

April 12, 2023

Who’s to blame for the Republican loss of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court?

Republicans moderated or muddied their message on life and lost anyway.

April 9, 2023

Have a reverent Good Friday and Easter Sunday

This coming weekend, the world's 2.5 billion Christians will celebrate -- emphasis on "celebrate" -- the torture, execution and resurrection of an obscure Jewish carpenter.

April 5, 2023

Holy Week reminder, dwell on love, not loss

Fretting about the amount of time we have with those we love is pointless. The best thing we can do is to love whoever God has put in our path for as long as they remain with us.

March 31, 2023

Congress should get a raise as well as term limits

The bad news, as always, is that another presidential election cycle is upon us. The good news is that means we are finally getting some new ideas injected into the civic debate.

March 29, 2023

Rule of law on the ballot in Wisconsin Supreme Court justice runoff election

The most interesting and perhaps most important single political campaign in 2023 is occurring right now over the seventh and decisive seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

March 25, 2023

Wall Street ESG ‘goon squad’ a direct threat to economic freedom

Last Monday, President Biden came down squarely on the side of those who believe that all investing should include the left's preferences with respect to environmental, social and governance considerations.

March 22, 2023

Team Biden may as well be a bunch of Soviets

A lot of energy has been expended on debating whether the Silicon Valley Bank rescue was a bailout.

March 17, 2023

Banning gas and diesel-powered cars and trucks a really bad idea

A few weeks ago, UC Davis issued a report about the likely outcome of attempts to mandate electric vehicles or ban their competitors, cars and trucks powered by gasoline or diesel fuel.

March 15, 2023

Gov. Dunleavy and the Last Frontier: How worshiping extreme environmentalism is hurting Alaska

Mike Dunleavy, a true son of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and one of the last American pioneers, has one of the more challenging and great jobs in American governance.

March 10, 2023

Tucker Carlson blows up left’s Jan. 6 narrative

On Monday, Fox News' Tucker Carlson opened his show with the first of what are likely to be many segments examining how the public was misled about what happened on Jan. 6, 2021.

March 8, 2023

Pence fails to see nuance in Ukraine war, sides with military-industrial complex

A few days ago, former Vice President Mike Pence said: "There can be no room in the leadership of the Republican Party for apologists for Putin. There can only be room for champions of freedom."

March 4, 2023