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<title><![CDATA[Michael McKenna - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/42621.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael McKenna]]></description><category domain="42621">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Dems Only Offer More Taxes, Bigger Government]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/29/democrats-offer-taxes-big-government-take-control-house/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Partisans on both sides are anticipating the November elections, although for very different reasons.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Win in November, GOP Must Focus on Seniors]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/8/win-november-republicans-must-focus-seniors/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The news at the end of last week that employment actually fell by 92,000 in February underscored the strong possibility that November may bring difficult midterm elections for Republicans.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What China Learned From Our Raid on Venezuela]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jan/11/chinese-learned-americas-raid-venezuela/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[U.S. military superiority may delay Beijing's worst ambitions'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[3 Trends Set the Stage for America's Unraveling]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/2/gerrymandering-migration-political-violence-set-stage-americas-great/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We live in uncertain times, and three key features of the current landscape increase the likelihood of political violence.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reflecting on Memorial Day&rsquo;s True Meaning]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/25/reflecting-memorial-days-true-meaning/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our leaders must exercise care, forethought before sending our troops into harm's way'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Can Close the Deal With Voters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/aug/17/trump-should-take-reagans-lead-and-release-his-inn/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that former President'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' has started to lean into the policy differences between himself and Vice President Kamala Harris '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' as he did last week in his speech in Asheville, North Carolina, in interviews with Breitbart and X owner Elon Musk and in his news conference...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Candidates Have Changed, But the Fundamentals Haven't]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/aug/11/replacing-biden-with-harris-has-changed-campaigns-/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you are one of those unfortunate souls who are emotionally overinvested in the presidential campaign, it is probably difficult to accept that the race so far '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' despite all the twists and turns and noise and excitement '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' is about where it has been for the last eight months: a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden WH Ignoring the Law Shatters All Norms]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/18/biden-white-house-ignoring-law-shatters-all-norms/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has driven in the United States for more than a few days is fully aware that there are always two speed limits: the posted limit and the limit that is actually enforced by the police. Similarly, anyone who knows the judicial system knows that there are two processes: the one...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Half a Century Into the Fight for Life]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/20/half-century-into-fight-for-life-supporting-mother/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Monday is the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision in Roe v. Wade, which struck down provisions in the criminal codes of all 50 states that made abortion a crime.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Fails Crisis Management, DeSantis Shines]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/sep/9/biden-fails-crisis-management-in-hawaii-desantis-s/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One legitimate measurement of the readiness and capability of a candidate to be president is how he or she responds to a crisis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for DeSantis Over Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jun/24/case-for-desantis-over-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the Republican primary contest becomes more crowded, and in the wake of the indictment of former President Donald Trump, it might be worth taking a look at the results of recent opinion research.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberals Have Become Increasingly Dissatisfied]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jun/17/liberals-have-become-increasingly-dissatisfied-ove/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For a number of years, academics have developed and examined data that clearly indicates that those Americans who identify politically as liberals are less happy than those who identify as conservative.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Did GOP Lose Wisconsin's Supreme Court?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/apr/9/whos-to-blame-for-republicans-loss-of-wisconsins-s/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans moderated or muddied their message on life and lost anyway.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rule of Law on Ballot in WI Supreme Court Race]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/mar/25/rule-of-law-on-ballot-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-j/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most interesting and perhaps most important single political campaign in 2023 is occurring right now over the seventh and decisive seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's IRS Plans To Squeeze Everyone]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/18/bidens-irs-plans-to-squeeze-everyone-even-those-ma/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, Jonathan Chait from New York Magazine gently notified me that a fragment of data referenced in the August note I wrote for friends and families was incorrect.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The DOJ Wants To Select the Next President]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/nov/30/jack-smith-and-doj-want-to-select-next-president/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[About 10 days ago, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as a special prosecutor in the two government investigations of former President Donald Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Tiffany Smiley Can Beat Patty Murray]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/oct/5/why-tiffany-smiley-can-beat-washingtons-incumbent-/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most interesting Senate race this cycle is between Tiffany Smiley '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a rookie candidate '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and Patty Murray, a grizzled 30-year Senate veteran.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Knows Democrats Are in Trouble]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/sep/5/president-bidens-fear-of-irrelevancy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden's speech last Thursday, in which he declared war on those who voted against him in 2020, gave us a peek into the actual status of the 2022 election cycle.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Polarization in the United States]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/27/the-real-polarization-in-the-united-states/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By shifting the burden of paying back $20,000 from each person who incurred student loan debt to taxpayers, Team Biden exacerbated the political polarization of the United States.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Damaging and Misnamed Inflation Reduction Act]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/6/the-misnamed-inflation-reduction-act-a-pointless-g/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There has some talk among the legacy media about how recent legislative victories might give President Biden and congressional Democrats new momentum and help them hold onto their majority, at least in the Senate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gorsuch's Remarkable Constitutional Clarity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jul/19/gorsuch-lays-out-constitutions-separation-powers-r/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Given the constitutional significance of the Supreme Court's decision last month in West Virginia v. EPA, in which the high court reasserted the essential nature of the government's separation of powers, it is worth sharing the remarkable clarity of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch's concurrence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Desperate Dems Start Pressing for Energy Taxes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jul/9/desperate-democrats-start-pressing-for-energy-taxe/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Everything made, transported and keeps people warm or provides electricity invariably involves the use of natural gas, oil or coal. No matter where or when it is imposed, a carbon dioxide tax is a tax on energy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Washington's Birthday, Not Presidents Day]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/feb/20/its-george-washingtons-birthday-not-presidents-day/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the deep of a cold night almost 250 years ago, the remnants of an army waited for their turn to cross a river and head toward their enemy in hopes of surprising them on Christmas.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are We Rushing to Defend Ukraine?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jan/22/why-are-we-rushing-to-defend-ukraine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The military-industrial complex and its clients sprinkled throughout both political parties seem to have decided that the next place we need to go and kill people is Ukraine, assuming that Russia decides to slice off a section of its former province.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Elections Everywhere Went Against the Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/nov/6/lessons-from-the-2021-elections/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How you assess the results of last Tuesday's elections depends in some measure on your personal biases.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What We've Learned About Team Biden's Incompetence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/22/what-afghanistan-tells-us-about-team-bidens-incomp/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last year, during the presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised the American people his administration would be characterized by order, discipline, experience, and, above all, competence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time to Call a Slave a Slave in China]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/27/its-time-to-call-a-slave-a-slave-in-china/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An unwillingness to plainly describe and act on what is happening in China is betrayal, whether done by governments, companies or individuals.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Do-Nothing Mandate &amp; Infrastructure Mess]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/19/infrastructure-bill-mess-shows-why-having-a-voter-/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bidenomics Brings '70s-Style Inflation &amp; Slow Growth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/12/team-biden-transforms-into-the-new-carter-administ/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[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.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Thank Tim Scott for Answering Question 'Is America Racist?']]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/may/9/thank-tim-scott-for-answering-the-question-is-amer/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael McKenna</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thanks in part to Sen. Tim Scott, it looks like we have hit the peak of the America is a systemically racist country craze.]]></description>
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