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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

China and the theft, weaponization of intellectual property

Texas A&M apparently has evaluated Chinese and Russian agreements of all kinds and decided that some of those partnerships posed risks that scientists might steal technology on behalf of another country.

August 13, 2022

Congress is broken. It can be fixed

The routine avoidance of regular order and process is a cancer on the Congress.

August 10, 2022

The misnamed Inflation Reduction Act: A pointless giveaway to special interests

There has some talk among the legacy media about how recent legislative victories might give President Biden and congressional Democrats new momentum and help them hold onto their majority, at least in the Senate.

August 6, 2022

Bill Russell would be appalled by today’s NBA

Last Sunday, the greatest basketball player of all time, William Felton Russell, died at the age of 88.

August 3, 2022

Alito, Kavanaugh break down Roe’s ‘egregiously wrong’ interpretation of Constitution

The recently completed term of the U.S. Supreme Court was perhaps the most extraordinary one in memory. The high court addressed numerous constitutional issues, including the scope of the Second Amendment, religious freedom, the reach of the administrative state and, perhaps most importantly, the question of which level of government should regulate abortion.

August 2, 2022

Tiffany Smiley: A fearless mom in the state of Washington

Tiffany Smiley, currently running to represent Washington State in the U. S. Senate, is busy living the American Dream.

July 31, 2022

Why Republicans are having trouble closing the deal with the 2022 midterms

There were two recent votes in Congress that give us some insight into why, despite the epic failings of Team Biden, the elections in November are still very much an open question.

July 27, 2022

Preserve and protect U.S. Constitution from all enemies

A few days ago, a columnist over at Washington's other newspaper decided that the rapidly growing national conservatism movement was not his favorite flavor.

July 23, 2022

Why the Jan. 6 committee is doomed to fail

The Jan. 6 committee is not really a committee of Congress like normal people understand that term, nor is it an arm of the judiciary, nor is it restrained by things like rules of evidence.

July 20, 2022

Justice Gorsuch lays out Constitution’s separation of powers with remarkable clarity

Given the constitutional significance of the Supreme Court's decision last month in West Virginia v. EPA, in which the high court reasserted the essential nature of the government's separation of powers, it is worth sharing the remarkable clarity of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch's concurrence.

July 19, 2022

Celebrating 40 years at The Washington Times

On May 16, 1982, the media world was dominated by the editors and other gatekeepers at just a handful of major media organizations.

July 15, 2022

Biden’s diminished physical and mental capacities pose a risk to the nation

A couple of recent surveys make it obvious that voters are clear-eyed about President Biden's capabilities and deficiencies.

July 13, 2022

Desperate Democrats start pressing for energy taxes

Everything made, everything transported and everything that keeps people warm or provides electricity invariably involves the use of natural gas, oil or coal. No matter where or when it is imposed, a "carbon dioxide" tax is a tax on energy.

July 9, 2022

The ascendance of ‘National Conservatism’

To the surprise of many, it turns out that the idea of a "nation" is still very much alive.

July 6, 2022

Fourth of July truly worth celebrating

Why do we celebrate the Fourth of July and not the 17th of September - the day in 1787 that the Constitution was signed by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention?

July 3, 2022

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, an evangelist for free markets

Hester Peirce's day job is being one of five commissioners at the Securities and Exchange Commission. It is a pretty powerful job.

June 29, 2022

Biden’s energy policy charades

President Joe Biden recently proposed suspending the federal gas tax for three months, the latest in a long line of failed efforts to convince the American people that he cares about high gasoline prices.

June 24, 2022

Trump’s critical deficiency during his presidency

Former President Donald Trump's principal deficiency as president was an inability to hire, retain and just generally have competent people in his personal orbit.

June 22, 2022

U.S. needs to lose the sentimentality about the Ukraine war

There was once a breakaway province, one that had a shared history and language with its mother country, but one that decided it was ultimately time to chart its own course in the world.

June 19, 2022