I own a small aerospace company that does some business with the U.S. government.
The relationship between carbon consumption and human well-being is causal, not coincidental.
There are many elements needed to secure economic growth. Certainly, people must be politically free to innovate, invest, build, and create things, and they must be incentivized to do so by knowing they can keep the rewards for their efforts.
Human population supplies the labor necessary for the creation of wealth; carbon supplies the matter and energy.
Economic growth must be the central issue because it is only through growth that the devastating threat of national bankruptcy can be averted. Furthermore, it is only by reviving American economic growth that the West's global predominance can be sustained, and peace and freedom kept secure around the world.
The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be.
The policy of the Obama administration is to employ regulatory strangulation to drive up the price of energy. This must be exposed and opposed for what it is: a policy of forced economic contraction.
What the world needs most for its stability, and what the U.S. needs for its national security, is economic growth, which is driven first and foremost by expanded carbon use.
Nothing could be more regressive than carbon taxes.
Nothing could do more to help the world's poor than to make fossil fuels cheap and plentiful.
Nothing could do more harm to America's national security than a carbon-restricted, depressed economy that would make funding our military impossible.
The issue comes down to this: The NSA metadata-collection program costs lots of money, and had funds not been expended on it, they could have been used to support other programs that might have been far more effective in saving American lives.
If we are to assess the rationality of government expenditures to protect the lives of Americans through massive domestic surveillance, we need to compare this program to others aimed at saving American lives.
Were the United States to pass a law requiring all cars to be methanol-capable flex-fuel vehicles, or simply repeal EPA regulations that prevent such conversions from being carried out privately, our immense natural-gas capacity could make a dramatic entrance into the liquid-fuel market.
The No. 1 purpose of the federal government is national defense.
Fewer jobs, at lower pay. That's what Obamacare means.
When the government mandates that everyone must buy a product, its sellers can, and will, increase its price, potentially without limit.
Snowden and NSA leaders should be brought together face-to-face for questioning in public by a congressional investigatory committee, with both parties allowed to make their points and to counter the assertions of the other. If Snowden is lying, it will come out. If the NSA is lying, it will come out.
Traditional Marxism attempted to argue against free enterprise by saying that capitalism causes poverty and that, therefore, socialism is necessary. That didn't work, because it was false.
What Russia really needs is not gay rights but human rights, and the rule of law.
