DOE

It’s high time the U.S. government, especially the Department of Education, looked to parents for some advice on how to run things, rather than the other way around.

For Americans who want parents and local communities to be in charge of K–12 education, the presidential election yielded positive results.

All parents should be able to customize how their children learn, and their children shouldn’t have to be in failing environments to be offered a better opportunity.

What does DOE do, anyway?

For much of the past 35 years O’Keefe, a Libertarian, has encouraged the establishment of independent political organizations to hold politicians accountable. One such organization was the Wisconsin Club for Growth, which played a large role in supporting Gov. Scott Walker’s reform of union regulations in 2011 and 2012.

An Inspector General’s report, released yesterday, shows that Solyndra executives may have deliberately misled the DOE when applying for one of the President’s Department of Energy loans.

A stimulus-backed Department of Energy loan program that has not been tapped for four years, and was deemed unwanted two years ago by the Government Accountability Office, is suddenly ready and willing to dole out more taxpayer millions again – to a corporation that doesn’t need it.

In a May 23, 1977 column for Newsweek, titled “A Department of Energy?” the late Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman wrote: “Do not be misled into supposing that the energy problem is a purely technical problem that engineers can solve.”

Think of the millions of birds being killed by renewables. Think of the billions of taxpayer dollars that have gone down the drain in “the quest for the holy grail of cheap renewable power.” Whether you oppose death by renewables for avian or economic reasons isn’t important. But what does matter is making your opposition heard.

Thirteen of Fisker Automotive executives made more than six figures in the past year, despite manufacturing zero cars.

We are weeks away from being fully immersed in the 2014 election cycle. Predictions abound, likening the 2014 cycle to 2010—when the House flipped from Democratic to Republican. Only this time, it is the Senate that has the potential to change. Twenty of the 33seats up in 2014 are currently held by Democrats—more than half of whom are in trouble.

The Obama administration’s record of bad loans to companies providing renewable power—wind and solar—is testimony to the waste of billions of taxpayer dollars.

It was all too much too soon for the electric car with a minimal track record.