WHERE THE JOBS ARE: Canada’s Oil Sands Are A Jobs Gusher. “Canada has recovered all the jobs it lost in the 2009 recession, and Alberta’s oil sands are no small part of that. The province is on track to become the world’s second-largest oil producer, after Saudi Arabia, within 10 years. Meanwhile Mr. Obama clings to his subsidies for solar panels and his religious faith in green jobs. . . . The Bakken region of North Dakota, where private land ownership gives drillers relief from federal obstructionism, shares a similar, if smaller, story. Oil production there is booming, and North Dakota unemployment is 3.3%.” Generally, sectors the feds can’t touch tend to do better.

Plus this: “A serious jobs proposal would address these issues. Mr. Obama doesn’t have one.”