Robert J. Samuelson, Washington Post - Obama's energy pipe dreams

Just once, it would be nice if a president would level with Americans on energy. Barack Obama isn't that president. His speech the other night was about political damage control -- his own. It was full of misinformation and mythology. Obama held out a gleaming vision of an America that would convert to the "clean" energy of, presumably, wind, solar and biomass. It isn't going to happen for many, many decades, if ever.

Hybrid Sales Down - Planet Gore - National Review Online

The long goodbye to all of that taxpayer money sent to the automakers for cars Americans don’t want has begun

World Climate Report » Spinach Lovers Rejoice

Mrs. Obama’s husband has threatened to move on some “cap and trade” legislation to reduce the emissions of CO2 across this great country. But as we’ve seen in these three studies, higher levels of CO2 will produce larger plants, bigger leaves, higher rates of photosynthesis, and a greater level of water use efficiency. The beloved spinach in the White House garden is like virtually every member of the plant community—spinach loves higher levels of atmospheric CO2!

We hope that Michelle draws her husband’s attention to how anthropogenic CO2 emissions are certainly helping her cause.

Hot Air » Rahm on the way out?

While Obama won the ObamaCare fight despite Emanuel’s advice (a fact that Emanuel appears to be leaking copiously all over Washington), the battles have damaged Obama’s ability to move on any other issue in the weeks since. Thanks to a nationwide revulsion at the massive spending agenda the ObamaCare bill represents, Obama can’t even get a jobs bill through Congress now, let alone his cap-and-trade priority.