Michael McKenna

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

Catholic churches under siege around the world

About a week ago, for reasons known only to them, Israeli forces attacked Holy Family, the only Roman Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip.

July 23, 2025

Trump’s quiet revolution changed everything, now it must survive its own zealots

In the wake of the first victories of the French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre decided that the threats to the revolution were too numerous and too serious to allow for due process.

July 20, 2025

Republicans must prepare for a post-Trump future now

Now that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act has become law, the Republican Party is faced with a few uncomfortable facts.

July 16, 2025

The Justice Department’s Orwellian about-face on Epstein

Last week, Team Trump decided and announced, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, that Jeffrey Epstein didn't engage in blackmail, didn't have a customer list and died by suicide.

July 13, 2025

Why is Trump’s energy supremacy important?

In 1973, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries imposed a complete oil embargo against the United States in direct response to America's support for Israel during the Yom Kippur War.

July 9, 2025

Trade deals, tariffs, and tall tales: Trump’s negotiating circus continues

One of the few entertaining elements of living and working in Washington is that every once in a while, someone says something so aggressively ridiculous and nonsensical that it cannot be ignored.

July 6, 2025

They died for freedom, not federal control: The forgotten price of American independence

As we careen toward the final July 4 before the quarter-millennial celebration of the Declaration of Independence, we should think about the real cost of the Revolution paid by those who fought it.

July 2, 2025

Mamdani is a gift to Trump and the Republican Party

Zohran Mamdani won the New York City Democratic primary for mayor, immediately becoming the favorite to win the general mayoral election -- and an object of both adulation and concern.

June 29, 2025

Destruction won’t kill ideology: Why bombing Iran won’t stop its nuclear ambitions

A lot of people are confidently predicting that President Trump has successfully threaded the needle between corroding Iran's ability to build and launch nuclear weapons and destabilizing the regime in Tehran.

June 25, 2025

Environmentalist goon squad Greenpeace learns a lesson

In 2016, Greenpeace deployed operatives and assorted stooges to North Dakota to organize opposition to a pipeline being constructed by Energy Transfer, based in Texas.

June 18, 2025

Happy birthday to the U.S. Army

In the depths of a cold night almost 250 years ago, a handful of soldiers waited their turn to cross a river and head toward their enemy in hopes of surprising them on Christmas.

June 15, 2025

Democrats: Doubling down on stupidity in California

Most Democrats, at least elected ones, seem to be fundamentally unbright when it comes to anything involving President Trump.

June 11, 2025

Trump should have ditched Musk long ago

Watching President Trump and Elon Musk turn their relationship into one impressively aggressive and large dumpster fire and scream at each in the middle of the street was kind of entertaining.

June 8, 2025

Red tape reckoning: Team Trump needs to overhaul America’s obsolete environmental laws

Recently, the Supreme Court came to two clear conclusions in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County about how federal agencies should implement the National Environmental Protection Act.

June 4, 2025