Michael McKenna

Virginia and New Jersey turn ugly for the Democrats

Govs. Terry McAuliffe and Phil Murphy seem to need a lot of help.

Democrats’ time for magical energy thinking is over

Unfortunately for the United States, one of its political parties has become the home of magical thinking with respect to energy. Here's a hint: it's not the Republicans.

Death awaits in Europe this winter

As Team Biden prepares to go to Glasgow at the end of October, it is worth noting that more than a few people in Europe will likely die this winter because of their governments' fixation on climate change.

America’s strength doesn’t reside in the system, it resides in the people

Most of the public discourse in this country is about what is wrong, what needs fixing. This is as it should be. Things that are going well should be mostly left alone.

Progressives want the State to own your child

The addition of suburban moms to the list of domestic terrorist threats seems a bit excessive, even for the crew that brought you Ruby Ridge and Waco.

Republicans should be in favor of getting rid of the filibuster

This week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell postponed a legislative showdown over the debt ceiling and took one ugly and difficult chore off the plate of congressional Democrats by making a deal to raise the debt ceiling.

Virginia voters can stop congressional Democrats’ entire legislative agenda

For progressives, takedown of infrastructure legislation makes perfect sense

Why are the progressives in the House prepared to turn down free money in the infrastructure legislation?

Time for Trump and GOP to get over 2020 election

The party and the man both need to get back into the fight and stop worrying about yesterday's game. The 2020 elections were lost.

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ takeover of American health care

The reconciliation legislation has so many bad features, it is easy to lose track of some of them.

House Democrats voted for child slave labor (you read that right)

As we careen downhill towards the finish line of reconciliation/debt ceiling/FY 2022 appropriations, things happen that make you wonder.

Politicizing January 6th: Fences versus the Constitution

Last Thursday, in a bit of theater fit for our times, Congressional leadership ordered the fencing around the Capitol reinstalled, ostensibly to protect against the several dozen protestors anticipated on Saturday.

Bush’s failures radicalized an entire generation of GOP voters

In case you missed it, President George W. Bush re-entered American politics by equating Trump voters with the 19 murderers who hijacked the four planes and used them to kill 3,000 Americans.

Americans should build U.S. Navy ships in the United States

In the House Armed Services Committee recently, something very terrible, very damaging, and very Washington happened.

‘Devout’ Biden using Catholicism as a political tool

If the question about preserving innocent human life ever crossed President Biden's mind concerning the Texas law, he made sure no one knew about it.

Let the incompetent Democrats own the shutdown

Lost in the mess that is the Biden administration and its enablers in Congress is the fact that Congress has yet to pass appropriations for the fiscal year 2022.

Remembering Sept. 11: Each generation has to preserve all that has been gained

As the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11 approaches, and we are inundated with competing narratives about what should be remembered and learned from that day, it is important to take a moment and reflect on a few things.

Next time you vote for a president, vote as if the lives of our soldiers depend on it

A few hours after the bombing of a checkpoint at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul last Thursday, President Biden presided over his version of a press conference.

Team Biden tired of talking about Afghanistan

To borrow from a friend, Team Biden seems in some disarray.

What Afghanistan tells us about Team Biden’s incompetence

Last year, during the presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised the American people his administration would be characterized by order, discipline, experience, and, above all, competence.