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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

‘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.

September 8, 2021

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.

September 6, 2021

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.

September 1, 2021

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.

August 28, 2021

Team Biden tired of talking about Afghanistan

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

August 25, 2021

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.

August 22, 2021

Failure in Afghanistan: Undeclared wars can’t be won

In 105 AD, the Roman Emperor Trajan, anxious to control gold mines north of the Danube, built a bridge - the Bridge of Apollodorus -- just downstream from Belgrade.

August 19, 2021

GOP senators that voted for infrastructure bill need to be held accountable

There are plenty of reasons not to like the infrastructure legislation that recently cleared the Senate.

August 14, 2021

Making energy more expensive is regressive and stupid

You may have missed it or more likely not cared about it, but a few days ago, an outfit that calls itself the Climate Leadership Council suspended Exxon, which had been a member in good standing.

August 11, 2021

Stop the infrastructure bill madness

A few days ago, the Congressional Budget Office was rude enough to release its assessment of the actual cost of the infrastructure legislation being considered by the United States Senate.

August 6, 2021

Senate’s infrastructure bill is a disaster: New energy taxes, no new roads

In an attempt to (again) make their intention to raise consumers' energy prices as explicit and obvious as possible, a handful of Senate Democrats earlier this week announced legislation that would impose a carbon tax on large companies.

August 4, 2021

The infrastructure deal stinks like a dead fish

This week, the United States Senate will debate, vote on amendments, and perhaps vote on final passage on "infrastructure" legislation that will spend at least $1.2 trillion of taxpayer money.

July 30, 2021

America’s book burning: The time for silence about free thought and expression is over

There is an unfortunate and unhealthy debate raging over a book published by journalist Abigail Shrier about the surge in females under the age of 18 who have sought or are seeking medical interventions for gender reassignment.

July 28, 2021

The importance of education in the Virginia governor’s race

July has been an eventful month for education in Virginia, although if you get your news from the mainstream media, you might have missed it.

July 25, 2021

Eric Holder and Democrats’ gerrymandering

When it comes to gerrymandering -- the practice of representatives choosing their voters rather than voters choosing their representatives - there's a lot of propaganda out there.

July 21, 2021

Republicans must vote no to the $3.5 trillion fleecing of U.S. taxpayers

Last week, the Democratic Party reaped the fruits of outsourcing its budget-writing to self-identified socialist Bernie Sanders.

July 18, 2021

Florida Republicans lead way out of wilderness

In the wake of last year's election, there was a sense on the right that the Republicans would never win another election and that the nation was doomed to a bleak and ever-deteriorating future.

July 14, 2021