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August 25, 2008
If Russia exited Georgia — as it should — and the Bush administration dropped its wish to expand NATO to Russia’s border — as it should — there...
August 22, 2008
Illinois Senate President Emil Jones has never been fully appreciated as a legislative leader. Jones, who announced his retirement last week after years at the helm, has a ma...
August 19, 2008
Yesterday, I wrote about how U.S. foreign policy ignites and engenders a variety of crises, especially since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Empire...
August 15, 2008
The tragic events in the nation of Georgia show that U.S. foreign policy is a bust. In particular, NATO must go. This may seem counterintuitive, but this relic of the Cold...
July 28, 2008
SACRAMENTO - On June 2, California celebrates the 10th anniversary of Proposition 227, the "English for the Children" initiative many believed would end bilingual...
July 25, 2008
Women and children are literally being thrown into the street while the three-headed monster which runs Illinois government continues to do battle with itself.
Over a thousa...
July 21, 2008
Most world governments are unitary; all powers are exercised from the center. By definition that means dictatorships, but it also applies to most democracies. Only a few of...
July 21, 2008
Recently, leaders of the world’s richest countries, the Group of Eight (G8), met to chart the course of the global economy at the luxurious Windsor Hotel Toya Resort...
July 17, 2008
A popular 1970s poem taught us that children “learn what they live”. In recent years, we’ve seen the truth of that maxim played out in schools and...
July 14, 2008
The Chicago region is well-positioned to be a center of the rapidly growing green economy if we seize the strategic opportunities. That requires savvy policy and business...
July 8, 2008
Proft's latest featured commentary on Don Wade & Roma: Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has chosen to make the gun issue personal. Okay, I'll bite.
Daley's reaction to...
June 30, 2008
Governments cannot create wealth.
But neither can people create very much wealth without intelligent people in charge of government that know the difference between money...