There are almost no lengths a bureaucracy won't go to in order to garner more of your money. Almost none.
It looks like there's a very nice little scandal brewing over the Vice President's son and brother. Absolutely no proof of anything as yet, of course.
Something for Green types to think on. Self-sufficiency is the route to poverty.
If industrial production is a much smaller share of our economy than it used to be, does declining industrial production matter quite so much?
Schumpeterian creation in unusual places and unusual markets.
Perhaps the libertarian (or classically liberal) discussion around climate change should centre on what we're already good at: the economics of it all?