New Haven (AP) – A New Haven board has voted to ask state officials to investigate apparent ties between Mayor John DeStefano’s re-election campaign last year and a political action committee.
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[...]House Republican leader Larry Cafero announced Tuesday afternoon that he will not run for governor, saying he will run for re-election for his own seat and as House party leader.
Cafero said he came "real close'' to deciding to run, but cited family considerations as his top reason for not running.
"It's a [...]
U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman who won reelection in 2006 with many Republican votes, is reverting back to character as Democrats forge ahead with their theft of the nation’s health care system.
Sen. Lieberman has voted twice with the Democrats over the weekend to end debate and [...]
Ridgefield First Selectman and Democratic candidate for Governor Rudy Marconi has this clever video out today exhorting his fellow candidates to “Go public or don’t go at all”:
Though 2006 Democratic nominee Ned Lamont seems to be the most immediate target of this video, the real target is likely to be [...]
Complete withdrawal of US from Iraq is prerequisite for a free country. (Zoriah.net)
By Nicola Nasser – West Bank
Nowhere it is more obvious than in Iraq that the existence of an election law, elections themselves and the constitution they are based on are not indicators of democracy [...]
(WTNH) – Will the Independent senator from Connecticut run as a Republican in the 2012 election? Lieberman is not ruling out the possibility.
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[...]According to CT News Junkie, while the Legislature was doing nothing inside their respective Chambers, out in the hallway Legislators were talking about what to do with the Citizens’ Election Program (CEP), the state’s publicly funded election system.
One of the program’s most prominent supporters, Rep. Chris Caruso, and an [...]
The Million-Dollar Man
...(W)ay back in September, the senator was publicly championing a Medicare buy-in.
In an interview with The Connecticut Post, he said he had been refining his views on health care for many years and was "very focused on a group post-50, or" [...]
Abbas does not want a second term in office due to frustrations with Israel and the US
The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has extended the mandates of both president Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas-dominated parliament until new elections are held.
The decision was made by PLO's' [...]
In addition to not fixing the state’s budget deficit Tuesday, the General Assembly also didn’t address Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell proposal to repair the state’s public campaign finance system.
[...]New York (AP) – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2009.
Last year’s winner was then-President-elect Barack Obama. The 2007 winner was Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Other previous winners have included Bono, President George W. Bush, and Amazon.com CEO and [...]
Courtesy Jed Lewison:
Joe Lieberman tells CNN's Dana Bash that he may join the GOP when he runs for re-election in 2012:
Transcript:
BASH: Any chance Joe Lieberman would run as a Republican?
LIEBERMAN: I don't know what I'll run as. I like being an independent, so that's definitely a possibility, but I'd' [...]
RAMALLAH – Official sources in the Fatah movement said they secured a promise from President Mahmud Abbas that he would not "make any surprise decisions" around whether or not to run for reelection in the next Palestinian vote.
The source said Abbas made the [...]
Representing the citizens of Connecticut is a great honor. I am proud to be an independent voice in a state with a legislative body that is addicted to deficit spending. This elected body is composed of a veto-proof Democratic majority that controls over 70% of the vote [...] 
Hamas: PA forces detain over 250 supporters
As part of the collaboration between the U.S., Israeli, and Abbas's Palestinian Authority, US General Keith Dayton trains PA forces to attack Palestinians who support Hamas.
GAZA – Hamas on Sunday accused the Palestinian Authority of stepping up detentions of [...]
As EU diplomats waste time arguing over words, Israeli occupation forces continue to demolish Palestinian homes. (Meged Gozani/Activestills)
By Hasan Abu Nimah, The Electronic Intifada, 9 December 2009
Israel started a preemptive campaign against a EU statement on the Middle East session even before it was formally [...]
As EU diplomats waste time arguing over words, Israeli occupation forces continue to demolish Palestinian homes. (Meged Gozani/Activestills)
By Hasan Abu Nimah, The Electronic Intifada, 9 December 2009
Israel started a preemptive campaign against a EU statement on the Middle East session even before it was formally [...]
Hizballah supporters cheer as Hassan Nasrallah delivers a speech in the southern suburbs of Beirut, May 2009. (Matthew Cassel)
By Matthew Cassel, Electronic Initifada
Last week Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech over video link from an unknown location, as he frequently does. The leader of the [...]
State Sen. Mary Ann Handley, D-Manchester, announced Friday that she is retiring from the state Senate effective January 2011 and that she will not seek re-election in November 2010.
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Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize only days after announcing an increase in troops in the ongoing US-led war in Afghanistan. (Pete Souza/White House Photo)
By Sayed Dhansay, The Electronic Intifada, 11 December 2009
United States President Barack Obama has just accepted the Nobel Peace Prize at [...]
EAST HARTFORD - Vice President Joe Biden came here Friday to shower this town with millions of dollars for a new firehouse and shower his friend, U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, with praise at a time when Dodd is down the polls and behind his Republican rivals in the 2010 election.
Standing [...]
