Focus Point – The China Threat
Not that I want to get your New Year off to a disturbing start, but unsettling you occasionally is one of my jobs.
Populism in Search of Legitimacy
In truth the Electoral College is not unfair, any more than requiring the World Series Champion to win four games is somehow unfair to teams that score more runs. It is a very good system; its replacement with a direct popular vote to choose our president would alter the solar system of American politics and trigger the demise of a great many cherished American principles.
Focus Point – Bush Appoinments
Are you as impressed as I am with George W. Bush's cabinet selections?
Liberal Democrats Should Remember Three "Rs" Of Mid-Term Elections
There's an old adage that says, "No man is an island." But if liberal Democrats make good on some of their pre-session threats to obstruct economic and entitlement reforms they could find themselves politically adrift, separated ideologically from an electorate that's starving for bipartisan cooperation.
Focus Point – Review
Best policy initiatives: House and Senate passage of a package of bills that would have phased out death taxes and the marriage penalty, increased the amount we could have contributed to our IRAs.
Focus Point – Bad Schools Burn Money
It's time to face the fact that most American public schools are educating poorly, and thereby denying millions of American children the opportunity to succeed.
I Told You So…And It's a Pretty Good Argument for a Sweeping Tax Cut Too
There's an old adage that says if you lined up every economist end to end, they still couldn't reach a conclusion. And it certainly looks that way when it comes to President-elect George W. Bush's proposal for a sweeping, across-the-board tax cut.
Focus Point – What Recession?
Are we headed for a recession? The answer is, your guess and mine are as good as anybody's.
Focus Point – Tobacco Follies
A lasting legacy of the Clinton Administration will be its legal battles with the big tobacco companies. As a legacy, it isn't much.
Senator Lot
Sen. John McCain has pledged his life, fortune and sacred honor to limiting political speech in the name of campaign-finance reform. But before we eviscerate the First Amendment, let me offer a modest proposal for cleaning up politics.
Focus Point – Hillary's Memoirs
Question: what are Hillary Clinton's memoirs worth?
Focus Point – New Year's Reflections
I'm Pete du Pont with the National Center for Policy Analysis with best wishes for the new year. My grandmother was 14 when the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, and 80 when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. "That's a lot of change in one lifetime," she said. She didn't know the half of it.