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.

When champions of genetically modified crops come face to face with the organic lobby, any common goals often get drowned out.

Fear of science and mistrust of government oversight have united conservatives and liberals against U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of genetically modified salmon.

For several years now, President Obama and his allies in the environmental movement have promised to usher in a green economy that will create millions of new green jobs that “can’t be outsourced.”

Let’s say that you were a politican with a GM Volt and turned it into an icon of your administration. And let’s also observe that despite giving people (most of whom are wealthy) a whopping $7,500 subsidy to buy a $40,000 car, your union- and government-controlled car company couldn’t sell enough of them to justify keeping the assembly line open. What would you do?

As the president has ramped up into campaign mode, he has studiously avoided mentioning most of his signature accomplishments. One can see why. The one thing President Obama always seems to mention is the auto bailout. His implication that the bailout is succeeding-that it will not ultimately be a loss for taxpayers-is a constant theme of Democrats.

The Obama administration's entanglement in the GM bankruptcy has violated some important tenets of our international trade policy.

President Obama has a huge political debt to the unions and that is why he is avoiding the obvious bankruptcy solution to the auto crisis.