As has always been the case for Americans, the new year is a time for setting new goals, seeking restoration and renewal, shedding harmful habits, and resolving to do better in the future. Here are some resolutions that our nation would do well to adopt for 2016.

If there is to be a renaissance of American manufacturing, Congress must act to run out the clock on this administration, and enable the next president to repair the damage done in its wake.

Prior to his reelection, President Barack Obama said that the U.S. is the “Saudi Arabia of natural gas.” Like so many things, the President has no problem publically taking credit for what his Administration privately disrupts.

A major battle over President Obama’s plan to deindustrialize America is heating up in Congress as Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) has taken the first step toward overturning two of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) most egregious rules in its war on coal.

Looking at the rationale the president used to justify his politically motivated decision to kill the Keystone XL pipeline project raises the question, “Why do so many working-class Americans, and in particular low-income Americans, continue to support big-government Democrats, who are more interested in their left-wing agendas than creating jobs and prosperity in America?”

This used to be fundamentally and almost universally understood in America, nearly instinctively. You didn’t even really need to teach it in schools or anywhere else. It was “Duh!” obvious.

If we are too comfortable or otherwise engaged to “institute new Government,” might it be possible to at least return to the Constitutional limits upon the present one? If so, how can we go about it? Should we pass a law that says, “The Federal Government must abide by the Constitution” and then wait for the Supreme Court to interpret that to mean “The Federal Government can do whatever it pleases”?

Inexpensive, reliable electricity is an essential element that business leaders consider when choosing where to locate a job-creating factory, and this is one of the United States’ natural competitive advantages.

The years 2006 to 2015 will be the slowest period of economic growth since 1930 to 1939, which clocked in at an average annual 1.33 percent growth. Already 2006 to 2014 comes in at an anemic 1.29 percent.

Greece finds itself in the same demographic decline — with the working age population slowdown coinciding with the economic downturn — that Japan, the rest of Europe, and even the U.S. finds itself in.