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As Americans start the summer driving season this Memorial Day weekend, they face gasoline prices that are memorable—for all the wrong reasons.   The national average for a gallon of regular gas was $2.37 at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration Jan 21, 2021. This metric hit an all-time high of $4.60 on Thursday, AAA reports—up 94%   Biden…

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., introduced two energy bills last week that are worth paying attention to. But first, consider a few statistics for some context, and why it’s good to see the senator, and those with him, step up. Americans get 70% of all their energy from oil and natural gas, and 94% of Americans’…

This commentary is part of a series on the rogue prosecutors around the country who have been backed by liberal billionaires such as George Soros and Cari Tuna and the threat those prosecutors pose to victims and others alike. Previous entries in the series have focused on the rogue prosecutor movement; prosecutors in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Fairfax,…

By early April, the average price for a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. had reached $4.23, up more than 78% in the 14 months since President Joe Biden took office. It’s a political albatross around his neck, but it’s one that his policy team has deliberately placed there. If the president wants to blame…

LOS ANGELES—What is a rogue prosecutor? Why is Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon considered one of the most progressive prosecutors in America? How have his new policies led to a crime increase in Los Angeles?  Gascon has “really completely abandoned his responsibility to the public” as district attorney, says Kathy Cady, a former…

As gas and other energy prices continue to soar, Americans are desperate for relief. The question is, what does Congress plan to do about it? Rep. Debbie Lesko, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has some answers on today’s edition of “The Daily Signal Podcast.” Lesko, R-Ariz., pledges that if the GOP…

Across President Joe Biden’s America, motorists are suffering from gas pains. In Chicago, for example, on March 25, the average price for a gallon of regular was $4.85. Two years earlier, on March 25, 2020, when Donald Trump was president, the price there was $2.16. In Los Angeles, the price late last week was $5.91,…

As gas prices rise, the Biden administration is “looking for someone to blame, and unfortunately they really just need to turn and look at themselves,” Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., says.  The Biden administration “talks about environmental sustainability, [but] they don’t think about economic sustainability as well,” Graves says, adding that when it comes to energy…

American energy producers have been punching above their weight, making the U.S. the largest producer of oil and natural gas in the world in less than a decade—with one major caveat. But the good news first. Take liquid natural gas for starters. In October 2021, LNG exporters in the U.S. were operating beyond capacity. And…

Unprecedented is an understatement to describe what’s happening in Congress right now. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., are driving Congress to pass a $3.5 trillion spending package to go along with the more than $1 trillion infrastructure bill that passed the Senate in August. Transparency and debate are…

In the face of persistently high U.S. gasoline prices this summer, national security adviser Jake Sullivan announced last week that the Biden administration was “engaging with relevant OPEC+ members” to increase oil production. Not only is this confusing because OPEC+ is a cartel of nations competing against private American companies and includes political adversaries of…

As cybersecurity technology becomes more powerful, so has the technology that is used to hack phones, computers, and other devices. When this technology falls into the wrong hands—for example, a totalitarian government—it can be exploited to create a nightmare scenario for millions of people. Unfortunately, such a scenario recently occurred in multiple countries using Pegasus,…

Committees in the House and Senate are scheduled Thursday to hold hearings on energy innovation. The hearings come in the wake of the American Jobs Plan and the Biden administration’s budget, including massive proposals for taxpayer-backed research, development, demonstration, and commercialization, particularly for energy technologies.     While there is a role for the federal government,…

The best ways to tame environmentally harmful emissions is to allow the private sector to innovate cleaner and more efficient ways to produce, distribute, and use energy. Unfortunately, government subsidies, mandates, and other regulations largely fail to spur such developments, and instead bolster government-favored technologies. The latest example of this is a  recent proposal from…

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., was the first woman ever elected chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. And now, as the ranking Republican on the panel, McMorris Rodgers is pushing back on the far left’s harmful climate policies and fighting to protect American jobs.  McMorris Rodgers joins the show to talk about that and to discuss…

This commentary is part of a series on the rogue prosecutors around the country who have been backed by liberal billionaires such as George Soros and Cari Tuna, and the threat those prosecutors pose to crime victims and others alike. Previous entries in the series focused on prosecutors in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, and Fairfax County, Virginia, and potential U.S….