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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

Mike Pence makes strong opening bid for president with Freedom Agenda

Last week, Mike Pence and his experienced team at Advancing American Freedom released their thoughts about what the Republicans need to do in the event they ever again control some portion of the federal government.

April 3, 2022

We need to reassess the conduct of the CIA, FBI, DHS and DOJ

In 1975, Sen. Frank Church, a Democrat from Idaho, gaveled in a new committee constructed specifically to examine legal and other transgressions engaged in by the CIA and other elements of the American foreign policy apparatus.

March 30, 2022

Voters reject Team Biden’s energy policies

There has been a lot of talk lately about rising energy prices, the supposed energy transition and the federal government mandating electric vehicles.

March 26, 2022

Lia Thomas and Rachel Levine are men

Last week, Adm. Rachel Levine and Lia Thomas -- both of whom are men in any measurable, objective way -- were given awards specifically designated for women and denominated as awards for women.

March 23, 2022

Yale law students and Putin line up against free speech

The students at Yale Law School and Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine have recently given us a peek into the troubled relationship that some have with free speech.

March 19, 2022

What China is learning from Biden’s response to the invasion of Ukraine

What lessons is the acquisitive and aggressive communist regime in China taking from the war in Ukraine and our response to the equally acquisitive and aggressive Russians?

March 16, 2022

Team Biden gaslights us on energy prices

Over the next few months, Team Biden will try to convince us that the answer to rising energy prices is to accelerate the rush toward alternative sources of energy (wind and solar).

March 11, 2022

Why are we all watching the war in Ukraine?

The invasion of Ukraine has turned out to be pretty good television and great media content. Ratings for both cable and network news have increased dramatically.

March 9, 2022

$FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2015, file photo, pumpjacks operate in Bakersfield, Calif. California regulators are citing climate change for the first time as they deny new permits for hydraulic fracturing, a process used to extract oil and gas from the ground. In denying 50 fracking permits this year, the state's oil and gas supervisor said he was using his discretion to protect public health, safety and environmental quality and to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)$

America’s energy problem was not the death of the Keystone pipeline

In the last few weeks, much of the rhetoric about energy has focused on the president's cancellation of the Keystone pipeline and his de facto suspension of new oil and gas leases.

March 5, 2022

The confidence of Sen. Rick Scott

Representative government is pretty simple. Candidates explain to voters what they will try to do once in office. Voters decide whether they think those things are good or bad and proceed accordingly.

March 2, 2022

The end days of climate hysteria

In the last few weeks, it seems as if the entire intellectual and propaganda infrastructure of climate alarmism has crumpled.

February 26, 2022

Patrick Morrisey: The most consequential West Virginian

Many people no doubt believe that Senate Democrat Joe Manchin is the West Virginian who will have the greatest influence on national policy and the federal government in the coming years. Maybe. Maybe not.

February 23, 2022

It’s George Washington’s birthday, not Presidents Day

In the deep of a cold night almost 250 years ago, the remnants of an army waited for their turn to cross a river and head toward their enemy in hopes of surprising them on Christmas.

February 20, 2022

What it will take for California to meet its climate goals

Southern California Gas, which is North America's largest gas distribution utility, announced that it intends to construct what it is calling the Angeles Link. The Link is a project designed to transport green hydrogen.

February 17, 2022

Was Jan. 6 really a ‘violent insurrection’?

The Department of Justice likes to remind us occasionally that, since Jan. 6, 2021, more than 725 people have been arrested for crimes related to the events of that day.

February 12, 2022

Team Biden comes for your cars

Who should decide what cars you buy? Is it right for some consumers to subsidize the purchases of others?

February 9, 2022

Some senators think voters are idiots

Last week, 10 United States senators, all Democrats, sent a letter to Jennifer Granholm, the secretary of energy, asking her to limit the export of American natural gas to other nations.

February 6, 2022

Biden and his pro-criminal Democrats

For two years, we have endured what the media has described efforts to defund, reform or otherwise neuter the police.

February 2, 2022

China’s genocide games and the American establishment

As we wander toward the start of the genocide Olympics later this week, it might be worth thinking about what the business and political elites in the U.S. have done and are doing to enable the Chinese Communist Party.

January 29, 2022