A House Energy and Commerce Committee subcommittee months ago asked President Obama's Office of Management and Budget for documents concerning a $335 million federal loan guarantee given to a politically correct clean energy firm. Some of the documents were provided, but many more have been withheld without explanation. Read More

President Obama’s proposals to raise taxes on oil and gas industries to reduce the federal government's $1.3 trillion annual deficit will cause a loss of 155,000 jobs, $68 billion in lost wages, and $83.5 million in reduced tax revenues. So says Louisiana State University economist Joseph Mason who released a study today that examined the effects of Obama’s proposition to eliminate tax deductions on oil and gas companies. Obama has suggested that such revisions will raise about $30 billion in tax revenue over the next 10 years. But that’s not the whole story. Read More

America's energy-rich western states stretching from North Dakota and Montana on the Canadian border to New Mexico on the Southern border can produce enough oil and natural gas to replace what America presently imports from Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Columbia, Algeria, Iraq, Russia, Venzuela, and Kuwait, according to a new study conducted for the Western  Energy Alliance. The study was conducted for the alliance by EIS, with data analysis provided by ICF.    Read More

Mark Fitzgibbons, an Examiner oped contributor and president for corporate and legal affairs of  American Target Advertising, Inc., has launched an important new blog, CharityRegulatorWatch.com, that is a rarity on the Right side of the Blogosphere. Fitzgibbons is focusing on abuses and potential abuses by state regulators entrusted with overseeing charities, non-profits, and other philanthropic organizations. While the IRS has tremendous power in this field and has not infrequently gone off in terrible regulatory directions, state governments also have great power. Read More

Soon after the Deepwater Horizon disaster began, with raw crude pumping out of the seabed into the Gulf of Mexico in the worst oil spill in American history, foreign nations began offering help with the clean up. Especially notable was the Belgian firm DEME, which specializes in ocean-going clean-up work and which offered to bring the best equipment in the world for the operation to the Gulf. But it didn't happen because President Obama refused to waive the Jones Act, a protectionist law sought by the maritime unions to keep foreign-crewed vessels out of U.S. waters. Read More

Did you know the U.S. depends upon 104 nuclear reactors to produce about 20 percenbt of this country's massive and growing electrical power generation? Did you also that the U.S. imports roughly 90 percent of the uranium required to keep those 104 reactors humming? Read More

RedState.com's Erick Erickson says the time for talking about cutting federal spending and stopping the growth of the national debt is over, the time for actually doing something about them is here. And Erickson thinks too many conservative organizations in the nation's capital are part of the problem because they are addicted to talking instead of acting. In a post this morning, Erickson declares: "The time for nuancing and diplomatic niceties in Washington are over. Read More