Category: Pete du Pont

"Digital Divide" is how some people describe the underrepresentation of blacks and hispanics in top technical positions, supposedly because they didn't have early Internet access. They see racism at work.

The Dutch parliament recently passed a bill allowing doctors to carry out euthanasia. They built in a number of safeguards.

Since it's looking like a Bush presidency is finally a done deal, let's consider one of his campaign promises — and how it might be made more palatable.

Employers are shifting to a new, market-friendly system that will give workers more freedom and initiative — assuming some Federal Laws can be gotten around.

If I'd heard Al Gore's every-vote-counts pontificating one more time, I'd have screamed. So, for the last time:

During the long, contentious presidential post election, it became commonplace for the chattering classes to talk about the chaos and crisis resulting from the close count.

During the election, both major candidates touted prescription drug spending plans with the fervor of cold war warriors urging more money for national defense. But before the next administration goes crazy, it should check out a story in the November 6 Business Week.

Might we have reached the point where even baseball's nutty owners will say no to a salary demand. If so, Alex Rodriguez has taken us there.

The second most discussed subject in recent days – after who is going to be president – seems to be whether an economic recession is imminent. And the answer is … your guess and mine are as good as anybody's.

When you think about it, ten weeks is not a lot of time to get ready to run a government. That's why the transition is so important. And bush — and as we go to press, it's still bush — as leader of the out party has it tougher than Gore would have.

At this moment, George Bush is still the declared winner in Florida, and Al Gore is still in a snit. I can't fault him. He lost the presidency of the United States. I've lost elections, and it's not a good feeling.

2000 featured one of the most contentious and controversially close elections in our history. As 2001 dawns, it's time to take stock and resolve to do better in the coming year. Here are ten resolutions that Congress should consider this year.

It's the truckers versus EPA in the Supreme Court. Take my advice and pull for the truckers.

It only seems like yesterday we equated South Africans with Genghis Kahn and Ivan the Terrible. Now, should be learning from them.

Everybody loves lists. A survey by the Federalist Society and the Wall Street Journal polled 78 scholars to rank the 39 presidents who served more than a few months in office. It's billed as the most politically balanced ranking available.

William F. Buckley once said he'd rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard University faculty. I thought of that when I read Harvard law professor Lawrence Tribe's New York Times article which offered this solution to the Florida vote dispute: A *corrective election.* People who voted on Election Day would sign affadavits for a second election promising to vote for *whichever candidate they had intended to vote for on Election Day.*

Turned off by two-party politics? Some voters complain the sameness of the Republicans and Democrats causes lack of interest and low voter turnout.

There's a clamor to do away with the electoral college, but I want to argue in favor of keeping it.

I've done general Thanksgiving essays before. This one's more specific.

Earlier this year, Bill Clinton announced the National Debt had been reduced by $360 billion over three years, and $223 billion over the last year alone. But according to the Bureau of the Public Debt, the total debt at the end of FY 2000 was up about $261 billion over three years.

Today, a final election wrap, courtesy of a voters poll conducted by Public Opinion Strategies and the Mellman Group.

The Florida presidential voting showed us who was willing to play by the rules and who wasn't.

We typically think of deregulation as applying to business, but a new report, "Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival," by Paul S. Grogan and Tony Proscio from the Westview Press, shows it works in urban policy too.

U.S. prison populations fell in the '60s and early '70s. Americans got fed up with crime and criminals, and government started incarcerating more people. By the early '90s, the prison population was up nine percent, and crime was down: Potential criminals were deterred by the prospect of prison.

The Index of Economic Freedom', Seventh Edition is out. The Heritage Foundation report shows the number of free or mostly free economies has increased, but unfree economies still outnumber them, 81 to 74.