By Marita Noon First, Saudi Arabia drove down the price of oil by increasing its production, which gave Americans a welcome drop in prices at the pump. Could the kingdom now be pushing them back up? Prices at the pump have gone up nearly 40 cents […]

By Marita Noon “If you don’t call it something, you can’t connect the dots,” said Rudy Giuliani talking about Islamic State. “If you can’t connect the dots, you can’t really combat it … you can’t have the battle of ideas … If you are going to […]

By Robert Romano The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers are at it again, seeking to regulate every puddle, creek, and ditch in America as “navigable waters” under the terms of the Clean Water Act — even though you probably couldn’t navigate a […]

By Marita Noon After six years of dithering, the Keystone pipeline project has finally cleared both the Senate and the House with strong bipartisan support—mere percentage points away from a veto-proof majority. Now it goes to the White House where President Obama has vowed to […]

By Marita Noon OPEC’s Secretary General Abdulla al-Badri made headlines when he announced that the oil price may have bottomed out — indeed, we had four straight days of increase — and predicted “you will see more than $200 when it comes to future oil […]

By Rick Manning The science-is-settled crowd got a little more uncomfortable as the settled science of cholesterol being bad for us is being dismantled by the U.S. government’s top nutrition advisory panel. That’s right. After more than fifty years of government and public health harpies hectoring against […]

By Rick Manning Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) just made the strongest case for House Republicans to pass an EPA funding bill that rips the regulatory heart out of the rogue Agency. Alaska’s Murkowski who has just seen the Obama Administration unilaterally attack her state’s economic viability through […]

By Marita Noon President Obama’s newly announced plans to designate one of the largest oil fields in U.S . as “wilderness,” is foolhardy at best—and may be anti-American at worst. When you look at the bigger story, you have to wonder whose side he stands on in the new “cold […]

By Rick Manning President Obama and his regulators have made the people of the state of Alaska their personal punching bags over the past year with the announcement that an area that is the equivalent of 80 percent of the entire state of West Virginia will be […]

By Robert Romano It may be time for the wind energy industry to finally stand on its own two feet. On January 28, the U.S. Senate defeated an amendment by Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) in favor of the now-expired wind production tax credit. It failed by a vote of 47 to 51 . And that was […]