TUSCALOOA, Ala. — Proponents of an American Nanny State have a plan to improve your health: tax sugar and “junk” food so you will eat less of it. Subsidies for broccoli and beets are close behind. These plans for bureaucrats and politicians to remake your diet are bad news for four reasons.

First, it is no one’s business but yours what you eat. The freedom to eat a slice of apple pie might not sound quite as stirring as freedom of speech, but the ability to choose how to live our lives is the most fundamental freedom. What you eat is no one’s business but yours.

The Obama administration’s decision that it would not decide until after the 2012 election whether to allow construction of the Keystone Canada-U.S. pipeline is a cynical effort to preserve support by environmentalists for the president’s re-election — even at the price of killing jobs.

The president had a clear choice between two parts of his coalition, organized labor and environmentalists. Organized labor lost.

Let’s be clear about what the pipeline decision is not about. It isn’t about stopping development of Canada’s tar sands oil.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Natural gas is a key part of America’s energy supply, providing nearly a quarter of our total energy needs. That includes a third of the energy used by industry, homes and businesses and nearly 30 percent of the electricity we generate.