Michael McKenna

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

The failure of the White House whiz kids

Washington is a company town, and companies love to have meetings.

January 26, 2022

Why are we rushing to defend Ukraine?

The military-industrial complex and its clients sprinkled throughout both political parties seem to have decided that the next place we need to go and kill people is Ukraine, assuming that Russia decides to slice off a section of its former province.

January 22, 2022

Sens. Dole, Reid compared: Why it’s easy to hate Washington

Two men were recently granted the honor of being laid in state in the Capitol. Their lives were each instructive in their own way.

January 19, 2022

American financial institutions’ hypocrisy on China

One of the latest fads on the left is the "environmental, social and governance" or ESG movement.

January 16, 2022

All the fact-checkers in the world can’t save the public health community’s clown show

Last week I wrote, and The Washington Times ran, a column arguing that, whatever else they are, the "vaccines" are not vaccines like you and I understand that term.

January 12, 2022

Joe Biden, the 33% man

The reporting on President Biden's approval rating is a steady-state feature of our national discourse. Right now, Mr. Biden is, depending on who you believe, anywhere from 8 to 17 points underwater.

January 8, 2022

COVID-19 shots are not vaccines

What is a vaccine, anyhow, and at what point is the public health community gaslighting us?

January 5, 2022

Projections for 2022

With Yogi Berra's cautionary note in mind, let's think about the coming year.

January 2, 2022

Year in review: 2021 has been a dumpster fire

A female friend of mine said recently: "Every woman knows there's one eye where your makeup looks great and another where it looks like a mess. The front end of 2021 was the good eye; the back end was the other eye."

December 29, 2021

The melancholy of Christmas

Christmastime is characterized by parties and celebrations, and dinners with friends and family. Why, then, is part of it characterized by melancholy?

December 25, 2021

What is Christmas really about?

God's message of hope and optimism delivered and remembered most pointedly each Christmas endures precisely because it is the antidote to the pathologies and problems we see around us and in us.

December 22, 2021

Rep. Gary Palmer interview transcript

This is the transcript of an interview between Michael McKenna, columnist for The Washington Times, and Rep. Gary Palmer, an Alabama Republican who is chair of the House Republican Policy Committee.

December 20, 2021

Republicans need solid policies and thoughtful leaders in Congress

It is likely that we are going to suffer through a year of triumphalism among some Republicans in anticipation of the party winning control of the House and probably the Senate next November.

December 18, 2021