Rex Murphy: This is a Green column. It must be good for you | Full Comment | National Post

The greatest verbal talisman of all is of course the word “green.” We have whole utopian economies being projected, economies that leap into being and replace the models of the last century and a half, merely by tossing the word “green” in front of the outlandish fantasies of eco-fabulists who’ve never manufactured so much as a belt or sold so much as a jellybean.

Everything from sex toys to lumbering luxury sedans are seen as being rescued from all possible objection if they are described as “green.” Green is the most transformative word in the entire modern political and economic lexicon. BP was, until recently, a huge oil company peddling itself as green.

Green is a wand that has mesmerized or frightened half the governments of the world...

American Thinker Blog: Gore also beneficiary of federal green dollars in PA

So now we know why the federal government is showering our money into this solar green scheme.

After all, it can't be the jobs, which are so few and temporary in nature that the costs per job created is $386,000. It is Other People's Money so the return on investment for federal officials spending our money is infinite for them, anyway. Why not send even more green Gore's way. It is just becoming funny money anyway - and he may need a few million here and there for his Marin County hideaway.