National, state, and even local governments have taken to promising a rapid overhaul of our energy system from its current basis in fossil fuels to a clean energy system based on renewable energy generated by windmills and solar power stations. These pledges translate into ambitious changes over a very short...

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.

Here's a message for Obama and Buffet: Before you "ask" for more money from us taxpayers, raise the $2.2 trillion you already collect each year more fairly and spend it more wisely. Then you'll need less of our money.

President Obama has made green jobs and alternative energy research and development a key fixture of his term. But are these efforts really the right course to stimulate job growth and increase America's energy independence?

Shifts in the Earth's magnetic fields may be the new scare for eco-apocalyptics.

Just as with Horton, the people in our policy debates who spend their time pointing to the not seen, are often ridiculed, slandered, and disrespected. Bastiat observed that when government goes beyond referring free-enterprise to actively interfering with it, the consequences fall into two categories: what is seen, and what is not seen.

Just a year after the BP oil spill, America is on the verge of a new golden era of oil exploration and production -- unless President Obama and his environmentalist friends get their way.

Obama's passivity begs the question, "Is he a golfer playing president, or a president playing golf?"