Michael McKenna

COVID-19 lockdowns caused more deaths instead of reducing them, study finds

As we begin to pick through the rubble of the early days of the coronavirus, it is important that we assess our public health approaches to the disease.

June 30, 2021

It’s time to call a slave a slave in China

An unwillingness to plainly describe and act on what is happening in China is betrayal, whether done by governments, companies or individuals.

June 27, 2021

While celebrating June 19, remember that slavery still exists across the globe

It is good that the United States is celebrating the outcome of the Civil War again, after effectively trading President Lincoln's holiday for the Rev. Martin Luther King's holiday.

June 23, 2021

Infrastructure bill mess shows why having a voter mandate matters

One of the problems with running a campaign about nothing, like the one run by President Biden, is that if you win, your mandate from the voters is to do nothing.

June 19, 2021

Iowans fight back against government encroachment in opposing ethanol expansion mandate

Most gasoline sold in the United States is only about 90% gasoline. The other 10% is corn-based ethanol.

June 16, 2021

Team Biden transforms into the ‘new Carter administration’

The Consumer Price Index report for May indicated a 5% increase in consumer prices over May 2020. The report suggests that the United States is on track to experience a 9.0% increase in consumer prices in 2021.

June 12, 2021

Thanks to Manchin and moderate Dems, Biden administration slips into irrelevance

It was inevitable that President Biden's indifferent relationship to the truth eventually would catch up with him. At a recent event in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it did.

June 9, 2021

Chinese communists too late to save regime with new birth policy

The Chinese Communist Party recently announced that it will now allow each family to have three children.

June 5, 2021

Don’t believe the environmentalists’ hype

Recently, the environmental community and its allies in the media were in a tizzy over the change of two members of Exxon Mobil's board of directors.

June 2, 2021

Expect Biden’s tax proposals to collapse

The good news today is that, despite the fears of some, the Biden administration is subject to the laws of entropy, decay, gravity and inertia.

May 28, 2021

Culture wars are important to America and worth the political fight

Politics is downstream from culture. That insight, from the late Andrew Breitbart, is simple, true and powerful.

May 26, 2021

Beware of Google’s interest in the electricity system

How excited would you be about the possibility of Google owning and operating your local electric utility? Or controlling how electricity gets to you?

May 21, 2021

Trump midwifed a new GOP, but his moment is fading

A month ago, this column predicted that we had seen the peak of the Biden administration.

May 19, 2021

Team Biden failing on climate change initiatives

If you blinked, you may have missed it, but as part of his climate summit in April, President Biden promised to reduce U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases by 50% by 2030.

May 16, 2021

Let’s crowdsource a platform for the new Republican Party

In the last 12 months, the Republican National Committee and its cognates have declined to create a platform and seem uninterested in conducting an assessment of their losses.

May 12, 2021

Thank Tim Scott for answering the question ‘Is America racist?’

Thanks in part to Sen. Tim Scott, it looks like we have hit the peak of the "America is a systemically racist country" craze.

May 9, 2021

Biden’s tax and spending plans are laying the groundwork for an economic disaster

This may shock you, but the Biden administration is not telling the complete truth, or really much of the truth at all, when it comes to its proposed tax and spending increases.

May 5, 2021

Lee Zeldin interview transcript

This is the transcript of an interview between Michael McKenna, columnist for The Washington Times, and Rep. Lee Zeldin, a New York Republican who is running to replace Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2022.

May 2, 2021

Republicans would be wise to pick Zeldin in New York governor’s race

Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Republican who represents the eastern end of Long Island, in April announced his intention to run for governor of New Yo

May 1, 2021

GOP’s shallow attacks on Biden and Dems will only lead to more losing

How many times can you call your competitors socialists, idiots, sleepy, etc., before ordinary voters discover you have nothing material to say and stop listening?

April 28, 2021