Category: Pete du Pont

Remember a couple of years ago when the U.S. was sneered at for not ratifying the Kyoto Treaty on global warming? Well guess what? Neither has any other industrialized nation.

the XFL the end of civilization? No, but you can see it from there. The fact that a bunch of has beens, wanna bes and never weres could pull respectable ratings is bad enough, simply considered as a demonstration of football.

Now that California has hit the wall with rolling blackouts, demonized out-of-state power companies and the state has decided to do what it should have done a decade ago: Build some power plants, my reaction is, we'll see.

Exchange City is an economics education program run by Junior Achievement, a fourteen-business city that on this day was populated by seventy-five students from the Norwood Elementary School in the Interboro School District in Delaware County, Pa.

If the surplus is not returned to the taxpayers, Congress will spend it. True or false?

Rod Paige is the first black Secretary of Education, but perhaps of more significance is that he is the first Secretary of Education who has ever actually run a school system – the 210,000-student Houston Independent School District, seventh largest in the nation and 90% minority.

Europeans cling to their belief that government must be the central organizing principle of their society. One would think the fall of the Berlin Wall would have taught them otherwise. But no, Europeans insist on centralized organization of everything–for as any Frenchman will tell you, anything not controlled by governing elites is suspect and dangerous.

Bush's focus on improving public schools through flexibility, high standards and accountability has garnered praise from Republicans and Democrats alike. Even leading Congressional liberals have had nice things to say about the man and the program. This won't last forever.

A new study from the NCPA might help explain why privatizing Social Security's important.

Sometimes the tone of a story is as interesting as the facts themselves, like a recent one about the Scottish National Health Service.

Bush takes on the education establishment. Let's hope he's prepared to fight.

Yesterday I talked about California's disastrous attempt to deregulate electricity – by letting environmentalists stop the building of new plants, then forcing power companies to buy at market rates while selling to customers whose rates had been frozen.

California's running out of electricity — a state so commanding it would have the world's sixth largest economy if it were a country. How come?

A recent Wall Street Journal story showed in awful detail what happens when the Federal Government sticks its nose into the private sector.

In the 1960 World Series, New York outhit Pittsburgh 91 to 60, and outscored them 55 to 27. But Pittsburgh was the World Champion because it won four games to three. Now, imagine how different baseball would be if the series was decided by the most runs scored, or the most base hits.

Needless to say, I'm for George W. Bush's tax cut plan. And I know why he's going to have tough time selling it. It's because liberals can't see beyond the end of their noses.

There are a great many things we do not yet know about President Bush: how he will react under the pressure of an international crisis, whether he will be forceful in rejecting the malevolent hyperbole of the Ted Kennedy left. He is a quiet man, seemingly confident within and with a brief, serious style. But we do not yet know just how he will govern.

The Economist ran one of those end-of-the-century features that caught my eye. It concerned the mysteries of the market, the way prices of things rose and fell during the 20th century.

Bill Clinton is gone. The reviews are rolling in.

Regarding the proposed Bush pardon of Bill Clinton for his many crimes in office, my initial reaction was heck, no. First, it's not Bush's business. Second, Clinton has been found guilty of perjury by a court.

John McCain is back in the fight, pushing what he calls campaign finance reform and what I call limiting free speech. So before he puts an end to the First Amendment, let me offer a modest proposal.

You know when a conservative book gets favorable reviews from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and former Colorado governor Richard Lamm, a self-proclaimed member of the liberal democratic tradition, that somebody's doing something right.

California is running out of electricity. Lights must be dimmed, thermostats turned down, holiday lights extinguished. Intel announces the unreliability of electric power will cause it to build new manufacturing facilities in other states. Newspaper headlines warn: "California Prepares for Rolling Blackouts."

Ok, the FED has cut interest rates, so there's no more need for a tax cut like the one George W. Bush has proposed, right?

a few more notes on the Bush cabinet selections — or rather, the reaction to them.