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America’s Old K-12 Model Keeps Us ‘A Nation At Risk’

May 13, 2010 by

-By Dan Proft, originally posted by the Heartland Institute

Twenty-seven years have passed since A Nation at Risk, a seminal report on the state of education in America, famously concluded, “The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people.”

The report cautioned the nation’s “once unchallenged pre-eminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world” as a result of faltering public schools and the failure to prepare children to compete in an increasingly global economy.
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America’s Old K-12 Model Keeps Us ‘A Nation At Risk’”

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Dan Proft: It’s Curtains for Ali G

April 26, 2010 by

From Dan Proft, Urquhart Media…

Who would have thought that pawn broker Scott Lee Cohen, the deposed Democrat Lt. Governor candidate, would have turned out to be a more competent lender than former Democrat golden boy Ali G?

I guess Cohen should have played basketball with the President.

The “Ali G” I refer to is Alexi Giannoulias. The nickname is ripped from the fictional interviewer created by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Giannoulias’ comedic campaign for the U.S. Senate would normally be the stuff of fiction but this is Illinois.
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Dan Proft: It’s Curtains for Ali G”

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Proft’s latest: The Simple Math of Socialism

April 15, 2010 by

From Dan Proft…

The Simple Math of Socialism

If you’re like me, there’s nothing you enjoy more than listening to politicians you can’t trust try to explain legislation they haven’t read by arguing about accounting models they don’t understand lifted from government agencies they manipulate that leave you with tax bills you can’t afford.
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Proft’s latest: The Simple Math of Socialism”

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They came first for John Deere, Caterpillar, AT&T and Verizon…

April 8, 2010 by

From Dan Proft, Urquhart Media…

Henry Waxman is confused and afraid.

Waxman is the California Congressman who looks like a fruit bat and heads up the House Committee on Wealth Extraction and Job Disappearance.

Waxman is confused by the growing chorus of U.S. corporations reporting that Obamacare will add tens of millions of dollars in cost to their bottom lines and afraid of the implications.

So Waxman and his colony of fellow bloodsuckers have descended on the CEOs of John Deere, Caterpillar, AT&T and Verizon and will hold hearings to find out if one of those CEOs can teach them how to read a balance sheet.
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They came first for John Deere, Caterpillar, AT&T and Verizon…”

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Dan Proft: We Cannot Afford Chicago Democrat Rule

March 16, 2010 by

-By Dan Proft

The most painful wounds are those that are self-inflicted.

Until recently this statement would have been followed with a discussion of Republican political and policy failures.

No longer. Chicago’s neo-feudalists have helped disaffected Republicans learn to love again and broken the hearts of hopeful Independents.
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Dan Proft: We Cannot Afford Chicago Democrat Rule”

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Infantilized Illinois

February 26, 2010 by

-By Dan Proft

If the fiscal crisis in Springfield continues we’re going to have to childproof the State Capitol.

Watching Chicago Democrats generically embrace spending cuts is like watching a baby learn how to walk.

They are not clear where to start or where they intend to go and they are in desperate search for affirmation from anxious onlookers that they are doing good.
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Infantilized Illinois”