The decision to extend renewable energy tax credits should be an easy one for the U.S. Senate.
Republicans and Democrats alike have championed these incentives for the s...
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposes lifting the moratorium on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on the Outer Continental Shelf. She won't e...
John McCain and Barack Obama seem to occupy different universes.
In McCain's universe, the planets rotate around the sun in a predictable pattern. In Obama's universe, h...
If you put a dubious baldness remedy on your scalp and find that you get no new hair, you may conclude that you wasted your money. Or, if you're an incurable optimist, y...
An inept, polarized Congress appears incapable of passing significant energy legislation this year despite the powerful political incentive provided by $4 gasoline.
Of c...
Sometimes political parties play to type so perfectly that it's almost charming. Consider the completely predictable responses of Democrats and Republicans to the record...
WASHINGTON — One of the wisest men I ever knew in Washington was the late James H. Rowe Jr. He came out of Montana, went to Harvard Law School and was recruited by Felix...
Congress has a chance to deliver some needed relief at the gas pump before taking its August vacation.
A worthy bill introduced in the Senate would limit the rampant spe...
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama concedes that America's troops have contributed to improvements on the ground in Iraq, but he still stands by his vote against the surge.
Why n...
News that the Treasury is preparing plans to bail out housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (FM2) has infuriated the American people. And rightly so: It's th...
