There are new twists to in the ever-entertaining faux debate over the dangers of shale gas. The New York Times, which turned obscure Cornell University marine ecologist Robert Howarth into an anti-fracking rock star in its questionable spring series on shale gas, and got hammered for it by its own public editor—I‘ll take some of the credit—is finally getting on the science bandwagon.

Of all the verses in the "China-is-Awesome" hallelujah chorus, none is chanted louder than the fact that China is leaving everyone in the dust in "green" energy, especially wind and solar power. However, the real action is revealed when the absolute numbers are posted up.

If the "progressives" get their way on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it will be ordinary Americans who suffer.

The American household is better off financially than you may think, especially given the media frenzy over rising consumer debt.

It appears that our interests were ill-served by the abandonment of Iraq by Barack Obama.

Alarmist climate scientists are increasingly the object of derision by people with enough power to reach even the general public.

The idea that thisportdeal somehow means turning over the ownership of American ports to foreigners makes no sense.

Democrats who complained about how punch-card machines and hanging chads in Florida disenfranchised voters are now complaining about what they earlier insisted was the "cure."