Michael McKenna

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

The real polarization in the United States

By shifting the burden of paying back $20,000 from each person who incurred student loan debt to taxpayers, Team Biden exacerbated the political polarization of the United States.

August 27, 2022

Failed energy policies are already killing people

There were two bits of news last week from the energy world that gave us a peek into the dangerous delusions about energy and how they have led to death.

August 24, 2022

2022 midterm elections’ survey results less precise, more propaganda

Recently, the average of surveys indicated that the previously substantial Republican lead in the House generic ballot test had shrunk to just .1%.

August 20, 2022

Who’s above the law? How about Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton and BLM rioters, for starters

Recently, we have had to endure a series of reminders that "no person is above the law" from a batch of folks, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Rep. Mike Turner.

August 17, 2022

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