During the first quarter of 2015, U.S. GDP growth was 0.2%.  That’s two tenths of one percent, not two percent.  For March, the jobs number was 126,000, less than half of the 12-month rolling average – and most of those jobs were low-wage or part-time service positions.  Anyone who says good times are here again needs to spend some time in the real economy, not just in the well-funded halls of Washington. A major reason for the economic stagnation is the decline in oil and gas drilling, and in the energy sector more broadly, including coal.  Global price declines are partly to blame, but the underlying problem is the Obama administration’s hostility toward fossil fuels. If Obama had embraced fossil fuels from the start of his administration, today’s economic numbers would look a lot better.  Instead, he has imposed unnecessary environmental restrictions, blocked Gulf Coast drilling, vetoed the Keystone XL pipeline, and failed to...(Read Full Article)