Policies to promote biofuels are extensive. The political rhetoric justifying them typically takes one of three forms. The first is to support farmer wealth.  The second is to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. And the third is to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs).

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton of Michigan on repealing ObamaCare, confronting the EPA, and regulating the Internet.

The old saying that Americans have been moving from the Snow Belt to the Sun Belt fails to capture what has been happening from 1990 to the onset of the current recession in 2007.

There’s no need to be defensive; the president made a good call on bin Laden, but his courage in that instance pales next to a record that includes his embrace of American decline, his fear of American leadership, his degradation of the military (and not just the Navy, as the Romney campaign appears to think).

California and Texas are at odds over energy, the Bush presidency, and just about everything else these days.

The other day former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell said California and New York were the largest states in America, that no Republican had ever won the presidency without winning at least one of them, that George W. Bush would lose both, that Al Gore would be the next president.

The voting returns in a cluster of five key states—Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania—will likely decide whether George W. Bush or Al Gore is our next president.

It is not a moment too soon for the IMF to start planning how to respond to a spate of Euro-zone sovereign debt defaults, and the possible Euro exit of a few countries within the next year or so.