Last week, U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman announced that his department plans to invest as much as $250 million in alternative energy over the next five years. The idea, he said, is to spur American companies and universities to find more efficient methods of creating automotive fuels such as ethanol derived from renewable sources, including soybeans, wood chips and agricultural waste.

In the wake of peace accords signed last year, the remote and wildlife-rich rainforests of Indonesia are being felled faster than ever as former rebels trade their guns for chainsaws and an already booming timber black market goes gangbusters. Only the Congo basin and Amazon have more tropical forest than the islands that make up Indonesia, which have lost about 40 percent of their rainforests in the last 50 years.

You just can’t win with "progressives" who sometimes seem to want to fight each other because they can’t win very many of the real battles. We have a world to win, and they want to get all lathered up about "junk" mail and "spam?"