Topic - Keystone Xl Pipeline

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  STEWARD: Voodoo environomics

  President Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline wasn't, as he claimed, based on science or the environment. It certainly wasn't based on sound economic policy, either. The decision was, in fact, the product of voodoo environomics: a destructive blend of bad science based on fear-mongering and manipulated research, the bad economics of green-job fantasies and "starve the beast" energy politics.

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  GINGREY: Keystone versus Solyndra

  Achieving energy independence is paramount to our economic prosperity and national security. How to accomplish these priorities, however, has been the subject of political debate for decades.

• Embassy Row

  Canada is putting diplomatic pressure on the White House after President Obama delayed approval of a major oil pipeline from Alberta, as Prime Minister Stephen Harper this week heads to energy-hungry China, which wants the fuel.

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  NUGENT: The Great Keystone XL Pipeline Massacre

  President Obama's decision to put a bullet in the back of the head of the Keystone XL pipeline is all the proof you need to know that his modus operandi is to sidle up to environmental green-energy crackpots instead of creating thousands of American jobs and honestly pursuing energy independence for America.

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  LUTHI: Obama's dishonest energy promise

  President Obama's ambiguous call to "open" 75 percent of the country's potential offshore oil and natural gas resources to exploration may sound generous, but the truth is, the areas containing those resources are technically already included in the upcoming 2012 to 2017 offshore leasing plan, and they are virtually the same areas where exploration and production have been allowed for decades.

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  OWENS: Keystone Kops energy policy

  In his State of the Union speech, President Obama had barely cleared his throat when he outlined his vision for an American "future where we're in control of our own energy, and our security and prosperity aren't so tied to unstable parts of the world." Just days before, he had delivered a crippling blow to his own plan.

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  EDITORIAL: Drawing a pipeline in the sand

  Sometimes "no" is not an acceptable answer. Last week, President Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, apparently dooming the 20,000 meaningful private-sector jobs the energy project would have created. House Republicans are sifting through the fragments of their smashed hopes, searching for a way to morph no into yes. It may be a long shot, but this deal is far too important to the nation to give up without a fight.

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  NORTON: Obama chooses American decline

  Which nation will be the world's leading superpower a few decades from now? I fervently hope it is the United States, and I have great faith in American ingenuity. But the Obama administration's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline is a reminder of why our No. 1 position is in jeopardy.

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  KNIGHT: Many to benefit from president's ruling, but not us

  Checking his sundial and solar-powered calendar, Barack Obama has decided that he did not have enough time to study the impact of the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, so he killed it.

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Keystone choice a stain on the White House

  The Keystone XL pipeline would have brought Canada's crude directly down to U.S. refineries, helping our country become less dependent on hostile foreign sources of oil ("Republicans fume as Obama rejects Keystone pipeline," Web, Wednesday).

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  Pipeline backers put Obama on clock

  The clock is ticking on the Keystone XL pipeline.

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  Obama, Congress begin 2012 in oil pipeline dispute

  President Obama and Congress are starting the election year locked in a tussle over a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from Canada to Texas that will force the White House to make a politically risky choice between two key Democratic constituencies.

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  Congress approves short-term payroll tax, unemployment benefits

  Congress closed out its legislative year on Friday the same way it began: with a divided House and Senate agreeing to a short-term extension, in this case renewing the payroll tax holiday for two more months, but leaving the bigger work for later.

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  GREEN: Obama's brass ring

  Michelle Obama left Saturday for the start of the first family's Hawaiian Christmas. President Obama stayed behind, supposedly to underscore the importance of Congress passing the payroll-tax extension - though some journalists noticed his announcement came awfully close to Mitt Romney's criticism of his planned golf holiday.

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  MURRAY AND BIER: Create wealth, not jobs

  Spending on construction and infrastructure jobs is a perennial favorite of government stimulus boosters. "There's no reason for Republicans in Congress to stand in the way of more construction projects," President Obama told an Ohio crowd in September. "There's no reason to stand in the way of more jobs." However, the president now wants to block a massive private-sector construction project that would create the thousands of jobs he demands - the Keystone XL pipeline.

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