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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

Calls for unity really mean ‘stop disagreeing with Biden’

Religion is divisive. That was the sum of a Twitter comment to a news story that President Biden, like a billion or so of his fellow Catholics, had gone to Mass recently.

March 14, 2021

Republicans must get serious about opposing Democrats expanding welfare state

It turns out that the royal family of our previous rulers is having some troubles.

March 10, 2021

Mike Pence the leading GOP candidate for 2024 nomination

In the likely event that Donald Trump decides to forego running again, the party will need someone who can capture his best traits and avoid his worst ones.

March 5, 2021

Affordable Care Act: The bad idea that will not die

Like many things tried by the federal government, the Affordable Care Act has been a failure.

March 3, 2021

Real failure in Texas blackouts is the failure of responsibility

The recent blackouts in Texas killed at least 80 people, left millions of ratepayers at substantial financial risk, and damaged thousands of companies and small businesses.

February 27, 2021

$Illustration on Republicans and an increased minimum wage by Alexander Hunter\The Washington Times$

Forget the border wall. To reduce illegal immigration, jail employers who hire ineligible workers

The Republicans are learning quickly how to be in the minority in Congress, and that's good news.

February 24, 2021

The new cold war: U.S. must stop China from stealing its intellectual property

One of the most important issues of our competition with the Chinese Communist Party is its theft of intellectual property from leading universities and research institutions in the United States.

February 19, 2021

$Illustration on Mitch McConnell by Alexander Hunter\The Washington times$

Republican voters are tired of a party that simply wants to ‘hold the line’

The intramural tussle between Republicans is not going to be settled by pundits or party platforms or people who write columns. It is going to be settled by candidates and voters and elections.

February 17, 2021

Be grateful for George Washington: America’s ‘indispensable man’

On Monday, we celebrate George Washington's birthday, as we have for almost 200 years.

February 14, 2021

Catholic schools understand education is essential part of salvation

Those of us fortunate enough to be educated in Catholic schools were glad to be so.

February 10, 2021

House marches toward its death with vote to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of committee posts

House Democrats, joined by about a dozen unthinking Republicans, on Thursday voted to do away with the committee system and change the way the House of Representatives has operated since its inception.

February 5, 2021

Pelosi leading nation down dark path by using impeachment as political strategy

On Friday, we commemorate the first anniversary of President Trump's acquittal in his first impeachment trial, even as we look forward to the second trial.

February 3, 2021

What exactly is Biden trying to stimulate with a U.S. economy already in rebound?

As the rough beast of federal "stimulus" legislation slouches toward reconciliation to be born, it is worth noting that the economy doesn't really need any stimulus.

January 30, 2021

Energy industry foolishly welcomes Biden as he initiates ‘produce no more oil’ policy

In Washington, you have to be careful what you say, because even if you're kidding, you never know when people might take you seriously.

January 27, 2021

States must stand up to feds to stop poaching of their power

The word "federalism" does not appear in the Constitution, yet it is the guiding principle that preserves the United States from the defects of unitary governments, like Great Britain, in which all power flows from one central government, and the defects of confederation, in which power is dispersed and consequently attenuated beyond usefulness.

January 26, 2021

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