Science: Experiments performed by a European nuclear research group indicate that the sun, not man, determines Earth's temperature. Somewhere, Al Gore just shuddered as an unseasonably cool breeze blows by. The results from an experiment to mimic Earth's

Leadership: So the U.S. just spent $1 billion to liberate Libya from terrorist rule only to have Libya's new rulers thumb their noses at extraditing the Lockerbie bomber? Explain to us again what we've been doing in Libya. Presumably, President Obama's s

Leadership: House Republicans are launching a pre-emptive strike against the president's forthcoming jobs plan. Instead of more Obamanomics, they offer real relief for private-sector job producers. Appearing on Fox News on Monday, House Majority Leader E

Retirement: When Gov. Rick Perry called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme" and a "monstrous lie," the usual suspects complained about his irresponsible rhetoric. But why should Perry soft pedal a hard truth? When asked about Social Security at a presidenti

Federal Favors: The political left is always complaining about them — those undeserved subsidies for the hated oil companies. But when it comes to government subsidies, the renewable energy companies are king. 'Seniors are struggling. Oil companies are

Overcriminalization: Guitar. n. a stringed musical instrument with a long, fretted neck, a flat, somewhat violinlike body, and typically six strings plucked with the fingers. Also a target of the federal government. It's true that, since those long-ago,

Junk Science: The governor of a state under assault by the EPA takes on the patron saint of climate change over whether "warmers" or "deniers" benefit financially from the debate. Meanwhile, the nation loses. Is Texas governor and presidential candidate

Economics: Just a week before he unveils a new, improved jobs plan, President Obama has named a new person to be his top economic adviser, Princeton University's Alan Krueger. This doesn't bode well for job creation. Krueger, a labor economist, is no obs

Economy: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, in a much-anticipated speech at the central bank's annual Jackson Hole gathering, said he has no immediate plans to do anything dramatic. To which we say: good. Three years of hyperactive policy intervention, during wh

Leadership: A big protest in Latin America normally doesn't merit the time of day. But when the target is free markets — and it happens in Chile, one of the few nations that has them — then there's a leadership problem. President Sebastian Pinera, wh