Michael McKenna

Student-loan bailout violates basic morals: Pay your debts

The federal student loan program is, at its very core, regressive and inequitable, and a loan amnesty will make it even more regressive and inequitable.

November 18, 2020

RNC should not rubber-stamp Trump’s pick of Ronna McDaniel as chairwoman

The Republicans had a pretty good election cycle, with one material exception.

November 14, 2020

Political defeats, as well as victories, are temporary in U.S.

In the wake of any electoral defeat, it is tempting for those who voted for the loser -- or non-winner if you want to be gentle -- to spiral a bit into depression and despair. They should not.

November 11, 2020

Liberal propagandist pollsters predicted blue wave that was never going to happen

One of the recurring themes from the left about the election results is that they lost -- or didn't do as well as they had hoped -- because about half of all Americans are racists or morons or illiterate or just plain bad people.

November 7, 2020

Winners and losers in the 2020 election

Despite the current status of the 2020 elections, it is not too early to identify the losers and one very big winner.

November 4, 2020

Virginians should vote against ‘independent’ redistricting commission

One of the most important reasons to be careful in voting this year is because those who are elected to statehouses or state legislatures will control, or at least initiate, the reapportionment process in which the contours of congressional districts are determined.

October 31, 2020

New York Times asleep at the switch over journalistic ethics

In the late first century after the birth of Christ, the Roman poet Juvenal asked a simple question: "Quis custodes ipsos custodiet?" Who will guard the guardians themselves?

October 28, 2020

Doug Collins the right candidate to fill Georgia’s Senate seat

Governors tend to be lousy judges of political talent, at least with respect to appointed senators.

October 24, 2020

Handful of indicators suggest Trump can win election

We have yet to hear a single responsible adult come right out and say that Joseph R. Biden will be the next president. Why? Because even at this late date, there are several indications that President Trump still has a chance to win.

October 21, 2020

Senate COVID-19 relief fight really about control of Republican Party

For the last six months, Republicans in the Senate, ably led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have been remarkably consistent about their unwillingness to expand the strike zone for COVID-19 relief.

October 18, 2020

Biden will eventually have to answer to the media and the public about his ‘nothing’ campaign

Why won't Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden answer the simple question about whether he is in favor or opposed to packing the Supreme Court?

October 14, 2020

Were COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns worse than doing nothing?

One of the more informative moments of last week's debate was Sen. Kamala Harris's inability to identify anything that Biden would have done differently than Trump with respect to the coronavirus.

October 11, 2020

Tracking surveys show presidential race closer than one-off polls suggest

The media is placing an unfortunate amount of emphasis on results from single surveys and single survey questions about the presidential election. Any specific survey can be wrong, and any survey question can be taken out of context.

October 7, 2020

Trump must stop talking and let Biden expose himself as empty vessel being filled by far-left

Many times in life, the hardest thing to do is to remain quiet, listen and let someone else talk. That's especially difficult when the other person is talking nonsense.

October 2, 2020

Supreme Court with Amy Coney Barrett would strengthen a broken Congress

Congress is a broken, fading, branch of government. Fortunately, if she is confirmed, federal appeals court Judge Amy Coney Barrett will help fix that and strengthen Congress.

September 30, 2020

Forget Dems griping, if you have the votes Mr. McConnell, call the vote for Supreme Court nominee

There has been an excessive amount of talk about the U.S. Senate, Judge Merrick Garland, and the pending confirmation of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's replacement.

September 27, 2020

Ginsburg’s death punctures Biden’s carefully crafted ‘Seinfeld’ campaign

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death poses the most daunting challenge to the Biden campaign's careful and brilliant strategy.

September 23, 2020

Mike Pompeo deserves credit for the Abraham Accords

The Abraham Accords signed last week, normalizing relations between Israel and two more Arab states, are rightly considered a triumph for the Trump administration.

September 18, 2020

Donald Trump still has pathways to Electoral College victory

Despite President Trump's steady and durable deficit in nationwide surveys, a closer look at the Electoral College map indicates that his pathways to victory remain open.

September 16, 2020

Normalizing trade with China back in 2000 was a colossal mistake

Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of arguably the worst congressional vote in this century. On that day in 2000, the Senate approved Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) with the People's Republic of China by a vote of 83-15.

September 11, 2020