Emission controls are not going to have much impact until a new generation of vastly cheaper technologies becomes available and matures, but in the meantime, geoengineering may offer some help.

Twenty-five top college students will travel to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C. this June to participate in the 2012 American Enterprise Summer Institute. 

Soon-to-be Utah senator Mike Lee is already shaking things up on Capitol Hill by requesting public, recorded voting for earmark legislation.

If Republicans allow the 2012 election to become a referendum on the GOP plan for Medicare, Obama will cruise to reelection. But if Republicans make the election a referendum on the economic failures of Obama's first term--and offer a hopeful alternative vision for our economy--he may not get a second.

While the media has focused on the rise of the Tea Party movement and the success of conservative insurgents in GOP primaries, there is a quiet insurgency taking place under the radar of more moderate Republicans for whom fiscal discipline is not a top priority.

We have to clear a heaping pile of recent and older health policy debris before moving in a careful and determined manner to the "replace" side of long overdue solutions to chronic, preexisting U.S. healthcare conditions. The clock's running, but we can and we will do this much better, and we have to.

Is it really too much to ask Congress to spend half the year--twenty-six weeks--working full-time, five days a week?

Edwin L. Dale Jr., 75, who was widely respected for his mastery of the federal budget in all its mind-numbing complexity, died of cancer May 10 at the Hospice of Washington.