Michael McKenna

Lame-duck Congress and America’s discontent

Now that the 2022 election is mercifully (mostly) in the rearview mirror and the Republicans have won the majority in the House and perhaps the Senate, it is time to refocus and get back to work.

November 11, 2022

Election Day winners and losers

As cruel as it may seem in the era of participation trophies and college admissions without tests, there are winners and losers in each election cycle, even when the election -- like this one -- is pretty much a status quo election.

November 9, 2022

GOP Senate majority closer to reality because of Rick Scott’s leadership

But if the Republicans do gain the majority, it will be in large measure because Sen. Rick Scott had a plan and stuck with it.

November 4, 2022

Last stand to save New York: Zeldin closes gap with Hochul

Lee Zeldin, combat veteran, lawyer, father, husband and New York native, is on a mission to save the Empire State.

November 2, 2022

Republicans must win state legislatures to stop Democrats’ radical liberal agenda

In a cycle in which Republicans are likely to seize control of Congress, it is important for the national party to remain focused on state legislatures.

October 30, 2022

Midterm predictions: Republicans will roll

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has spent the last few weeks playing Frank Skeffington, careening around the nation in the waning days of her final, sad, losing campaign.

October 26, 2022

An open letter to President Biden

Mr. President, many of us who share your Catholic faith are worried about the condition of your soul.

October 21, 2022

Pete Stauber is not your typical member of Congress

Minnesota Republican Pete Stauber is the kind of person that the Framers had in mind when they thought about the House of Representatives.

October 19, 2022

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