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Michael McKenna

Michael McKenna, a columnist for The Washington Times, is the president of MWR Strategies. He was most recently a deputy assistant to the president and deputy director of the Office of Legislative Affairs at the White House. He can be reached at mike@mwrstrat.com.

Columns by Michael McKenna

Memorializing the failures of the ruling class on the National Mall

Sometimes what Americans choose to memorialize is difficult to understand.

October 14, 2022

Politicians’ ‘achievements’ at the expense of taxpayers

A few days ago, Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, overseer of the financial meltdown in 2007 won the Nobel Prize in economics.

October 12, 2022

Don’t let holiday hijackers discount Christopher Columbus’ contributions

As we wander into another Columbus Day, we have to listen to the usual suspects who want to hijack Columbus Day for their own petty political purposes.

October 9, 2022

Why Tiffany Smiley can beat Washington’s incumbent Sen. Patty Murray

Perhaps the most interesting Senate race this cycle is between Tiffany Smiley -- a rookie candidate -- and Patty Murray, a grizzled 30-year Senate veteran.

October 5, 2022

Don’t be gaslit by the left: Hurricane Ian is not an indicator of the apocalypse

You had to expect that a major hurricane striking the state that has become ground zero of the opposition to the current regime would eventually become an occasion for political opportunism of the rankest sort.

October 2, 2022

Americans will get the economy they vote for, so be careful

Survey results this election cycle have repeatedly indicated that voters consistently identify inflation and cost of living as the most important issue facing the United States

September 28, 2022

The assault on national conservatism

There are no coincidences in politics, which is why when three different people attacked the idea of national conservatism from three directions in the span of a day last week, it was worth noting.

September 25, 2022

Ernie Christian: An evangelist for American exceptionalism in all its forms

Washington, D.C. is a terrible place. It is a company town dominated by grasping, aggressive, trivial courtiers who spend their time thinking about the calculus of power.

September 21, 2022

Forget Biden’s propaganda and his unity summits

Lost in the penumbra of the idiocy of Team Biden's celebration of yet another terrible number on inflation was President Joe Biden's "United We Stand" Summit.

September 18, 2022

Why aren’t more Americans defending free speech and the rule of law?

It has been suggested that those on the right have been a bit too energetic in defending the previous president.

September 14, 2022

Rarely observed, Constitution Day honors the founding of America’s greatest document

This year, we will celebrate the 235th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution.

September 13, 2022

Democrats don’t help the poor and won’t tax the rich

Remember back in January 2021 when Democrats spent all their time talking about how now was the moment to use the power of the government to address a variety of troubling societal problems?

September 11, 2022

California decides what cars and trucks Americans can buy

On August 25th, an obscure but powerful agency - the California Air Resources Board - voted to ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars and trucks in California by 2035.

September 7, 2022

President Biden’s fear of irrelevancy

President Joe Biden's speech last Thursday, in which he declared war on those who voted against him in 2020, gave us a peek into the actual status of the 2022 election cycle.

September 5, 2022

Who is the real threat, Biden or Republicans?

President Joe Biden is going to Philadelphia on Thursday to talk about democracy in America and its challenges.

August 31, 2022

The Constitution’s simple but powerful preamble frames the nation’s governance, liberties

As we careen toward the end of the 2022 campaign season, a season now marked by one political party trying its best to disqualify the other party as fascists, it might be worthwhile to reflect on the preamble -- or mission statement -- of the Constitution and the collective and communal nature of the government that it created.

August 30, 2022