April 30, 2010
Rising to the Challenge?
In 1893, Chicago hosted the World’s Fair, which celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in America. Designed by Daniel Burnham, the man who said, “Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir man’s blood,” and Frederick...
April 29, 2010
Immigration Reform Compromise
The new law in Arizona should be seen less through the prism of politics or constitutional law and more through the lens of national psychology. It really is a cri de coeur, or a cry from the heart. The law...
April 28, 2010
Careful What You Write
Martin Michael Lomasney, a Boston politician from the 19th Century, once said: “”Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink.” Being from Chicago, I was taught that lesson by more...
April 27, 2010
National Guard Or a New National Drug Policy
I turned on Fox News and watched Laura Ingraham interviewing a State Senator from Illinois. The State Senator wants to call out the National Guard to patrol the streets of Chicago, which has been enduring a running gun fight for...
April 26, 2010
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures
The Mexican drug war has spilled out over the border in the Southwest and has helped precipitate the new immigration law that just was signed into law in Arizona. Washington activists can cry out about the unfairness of the law...
April 24, 2010
Work Longer, Retire Later
My wife’s boss, George LeMieux, the junior Senator from Florida, gave me a startling statistic the other day. He said that he got it from Erskine Bowles, President Clinton’s former chief of staff. According to LeMieux, the Federal government is...