Michael McKenna

IEA’s peak oil narrative exposes peak idiocy in global energy policy

Back in 2020, the International Energy Agency, created in 1974 to address OPEC and the risk it then posed, openly joined the environmental crazies to embrace and amplify the narrative of scarcity.

October 1, 2025

Israel seems intent on undoing the Abraham Accords

Without a doubt, the most impressive foreign policy achievement of President Trump's first term were the Abraham Accords.

September 28, 2025

America’s future depends on rejecting politics of recrimination

Right before he left the White House after having resigned, President Nixon encouraged his soon-to-be former staff not to give in to hate.

September 24, 2025

Conroe’s natural gas pipeline lawsuit delivers national consequences

Montgomery County, Texas, is way on the northern border of the Houston/Woodlands metroplex.

September 21, 2025

What does the Constitution’s oath of office mean?

Now that the Trump administration has let us know it has attacked and sunk a third boat in the Caribbean, perhaps it is time to think about the value of due process.

September 17, 2025

America stands at crossroads between civil discourse and political violence

In the immediate wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a friend of mine posted on social media that she looked forward to similar levels of outrage for the recent shootings of schoolchildren.

September 14, 2025

Due process protections matter even for terrorists and drug dealers

One morning at the end of September 2011, a young American who had been born in New Mexico and was residing in and traveling through Yemen was killed by a drone strike while having breakfast.

September 10, 2025

Fans fund failure as teams like Cowboys and Yankees chase only franchise value

The end of summer means more important things are afoot -- namely, pennant races in baseball and the start of football.

September 7, 2025

America’s postwar dominance built the modern world

There has been little official fanfare about this, but 80 years ago Tuesday -- Sept. 2, 1945 -- the Japanese government formally surrendered to the Allied forces (which consisted primarily of Americans).

September 3, 2025

Gimmicks won’t shrink the federal government

The Congressional Budget Office projected in August that the tariffs imposed by the administration would raise nearly $4 trillion over 10 years.

August 31, 2025

Buchanan deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom

A few days ago, Rep. Riley Moore sent a letter to President Trump suggesting that now would be an optimal moment to give the presidential Medal of Freedom to Patrick Buchanan.

August 27, 2025

Why silence beats strong opinions in today’s political circus

At least officially, the presidential election of 2020 had the highest rate of turnout (of voting-age population) since the 1968 presidential election.

August 24, 2025

Little of DOGE’s work likely to survive

The DOGE guys seemed well-meaning, but hardly anything they did will survive.

August 20, 2025

Finding hope in the middle of life’s journey

In the face of loss, the great poet William Wordsworth encouraged us to reconcile the nostalgia and sadness with our primal impulse to keep going.

August 17, 2025

Silicon Valley’s China chip problem undermines America’s AI dominance strategy

Despite saying in April that it would restrict the sales of Nvidia's advanced H20 chips to China, Team Trump has decided to grant export licenses that allow Nvidia and AMD to sell those chips to China.

August 13, 2025

Trump’s TikTok delays undermine his China hawks while Intel controversy grows

Sen. Tom Cotton sent a letter last week to the chairman of the board at Intel asking questions about the chipmaker's new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan and Mr. Tan's ties to Chinese companies.

August 10, 2025

Gerrymandering is destructive no matter who does it

A few weeks ago, Team Trump decided that reopening the redistricting of House districts in Texas would be a good idea, ostensibly because it would provide an extra five GOP votes in the House.

August 6, 2025

E-Verify, a choke point for stopping illegal immigrant employment in America

President Trump promised during his campaign that, if elected, he would finish the job he had started in the first term -- namely, he would fix America's broken immigration system.

August 3, 2025

How many dead are enough in Gaza?

A few days back, this column addressed the attack by Israeli soldiers on Holy Family, the only Roman Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip. The Israelis killed three people and wounded several others.

July 30, 2025

American energy is essential to American dominance

I recently wrote a column arguing that increased American production of oil and gas was part of the reason we were able to attack Iran with impunity a few weeks ago.

July 27, 2025