It's tempting to call the shameful taxpayer subsidy for electric cars - vehicles that are unaffordable for all but a small number of wealthy Americans - this nation's costly little secret.

Is it panic time at Obama headquarters in Chicago? You might get that impression from watching events -- and the polls -- over the past few weeks.

Renewables have their uses, but they are a distraction from our goal that should be to expand our supply of affordable energy.

Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-Va.) has long been on almost everyone's short list for the Republican vice presidential nomination. But now McDonnell's national security credentials have come into question, thanks to his mishandling of a bill passed by the Virginia General Assembly.

What are the ups and downs of multilingual voting?

No state or federal legislative body has voted for same-sex marriage, and most have voted against it by large margins. So the prospect that the courts will make it the law of the land on their own raises issues of constitutional law and judicial activism that go beyond the issue...

The protests over the president"s decision to authorize military tribunals to try terrorists call to mind Barry Goldwater"s remark that "extremism in defense of liberty is no vice."