Despite great handwringing over America's anemic job creation, the president demonstrates little understanding of the damage his policies are doing to millions of unemployed American desperate to find work.

While there is no such wide-ranging immigration reform bill currently making the rounds in Congress, the "Stopping Trained in America Ph.D.s from leaving the Economy" (S.T.A.P.L.E.) Act, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) has bipartisan support and is a step in the right direction.

As recently as half a century ago, Americans across all classes showed only minor differences on the Founding virtues. When Americans resisted the idea of being thought part of an upper class or lower class, they were responding to a reality: there really was such a thing as a civic culture that embraced all of them. Today, that is no longer true.

Central planners in the United States trying to promote green industry will fare no better at creating jobs or stimulating the economy than they did in Europe.

Under pressure from environmentalists, the coal industry and its supporters are claiming that their fuel can be clean.

The demographics of the United States are changing,butthemajor political parties are struggling to keep up with the changes.

If green technology is profitable, why does the private sector need government subsidies to pursue it?

Presidential candidates may want to be careful as they climb onto FDR's shoulders. The New Deal edifice may look solid, but it doesn't form a good basis for the American future.