Yesterday in a speech at the 2017 Boy Scout Jamboree, the President of the United States joyously proclaimed that the U.S. would soon be an energy exporter. The Secretary of Energy and top Administration boy scout, Rick Perry, energetically applauded behind him. Great, right!? Except, unfortunately, he is not referring to clean energy -- which is the type of energy most of the developed (and developing) world are wanting to buy. Secretary Perry, along with his colleague an

Joe Scarborough, a former Republican Member of Congress, and a popular political commentator on MSNBC, announced this past week that he is leaving the Republican Party to register as an Independent. Not many insiders are surprised about this. Conservatives will lash out at him as a closet democrat, self-promoting and narcissistic, and party democrats will point in glee and applaud too much about a turning tide to reject the republican party as blind and hateful. But, we sho