The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

People in red states and blue states can agree that we are a nation blessed with extraordinary natural wealth and beauty, which we would be foolish to waste; therefore conservation and efficiency are values we all can share.

Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

People are going to have to do a big reset. But this is a big wake-up call to the entire establishment, including the Democrats. And not just because of the failure.