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  • Williams, More Jobs Please


    President Pro Tem of Connecticut’s senate Don Williams was invited by the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut to give a talk, presumably on the state’s faltering economy, a delicious irony, rather as if the moneyed classes of pre-revolutionary France were to invite Jean-Paul Marat to [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:57am EST

  • And God Said, “Let There Be Universal Health Care.”


    On the question of a public option in the health care debate, liberal Democrats are now playing the God card, and it would appear that every liberal’s favorite whipping boy, Sen. Joe Lieberman, is in their view a moral apostate.

    Lieberman, already in Dutch with [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:15pm EST

  • Income Tax Proponent Hale, Tax Scofflaw


    John Lender of the Hartford Courant notes: “If former Democratic state Sen. Gary A. Hale hadn't voted the way he did 18 years ago, he might not owe the state $77,951 in back taxes today.”

    Hale, a state senator in 1991 when the income' [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:46am EST

  • In Defense Of Lisa Moody


    The question at bat is: Was Lisa Moody, Governor Jodi Rell’s chief aide, the governor’s Svengalli?

    Svelgalli was a fictional character, an evil hypnotist in George du Maurier’s novel “Trilby.” Not even Moody’s most severe critics would assert that she manipulated the governor by hypnotizing [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 2:17pm EST

  • Blumenthal, Or The Ambiguities



    According to a story in the New Haven Register, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal put a stop to the chatter that he might run for governor “at a gathering of students, senior citizens and local dignitaries… arranged by The Women’s Center at Gateway Community College.” [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 5:18pm EST

  • Dodd, Dancing with “Scheme Liability” Lawyers



    In Stoneridge v. Scientific-Atlanta, the Supreme Court Ruled in 2008 that companies cannot be sued just for doing business with another firm that had committed fraud. In tandem with another precedent in Central Bank of Denver v. First Interstate Bank of Denver, the ruling put [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:19am EST

  • This Could Be The Start Of Something Big: Liberal Bloggers Apologize To Bush

    “If you have been reading us for any length of time [ “us” is the liberal blog HillBuzz ] you know that we used to make fun of “Dubya” nearly every day…parroting the same comedic bits we heard in our Democrat circles, where Bush is still, to this day, [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:44pm EST

  • First Person Singular: An Interview With Chris Powell On Connecticut's Senatorial Race



    Chris Powell, managing editor of the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, is a knowledgeable observer of Connecticut politics whose column appears in that paper and a dozen others in Connecticut and the Providence Journal in Rhode Island. When Powell became managing editor of the JI in [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:15am EST

  • Gov. Lamont’s Free Advice vs Mom's Free Advice


    Your mom, in a moment of brute honesty, may have told you that money can’t buy everything. But this was because she was not Ned Lamont or Michael Bloomberg.

    Lamont is the millionaire from Greenwich who wants to be governor of Connecticut, and Bloomberg is the present redundantly [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:17am EST

  • God Bless The US Marines On This Their 234th Birthday

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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:07pm EST

  • SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE, A VIEW INTO OUR FUTURE

    Karyn Frist, an American, had just given birth at Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton, England. She and her husband, William H. Frist, MD, were in England, he on a seven-month assignment from Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital.

    Dr. Frist, for his chief residency in cardiothoracic surgery, would be exposed [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:49pm EST

  • Lauds At Rell Leave-Taking

    One way to gain friends and influence people in the opposing camp, if you are a governor, is to leave office. This will please the opposition, particularly if you happen to be popular. As governor, Jodi Rell was more popular with Connecticut voters than any of the Democrats presently in [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:45pm EST

  • The Rell Frog March: Blumenthal Has A Game Plan


    John Lender of the Hartford Courant is reporting that Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, a partisan Democrat who was mentioned in a focus group discussion conducted by soon to be disgraced professor Ken Dautrich of UConn, is progressing quite nicely with his “investigation” of Republican governor Jodi Rell.

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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:12pm EST

  • Defending Lieberman


    Judging from what George Jepsen, a Hartford lawyer and former chairman of the state Democratic Party, might call the preponderance of evidence, it is an easy and painless matter to assault Sen. Joe Lieberman in print.

    This happens frequently, most recently when the Hartford Courant [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 10:24am EST

  • The Progressive U.S. Congress

    It’s official, Politico reports: There are 237 millionaires in Congress, some of them progressive Democrats.

    Quick – before they skedaddle -- tax’em! [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:30pm EST

  • Shays Points The Way


    Keila Torres of the Connecticut Post reports that former U.S. Rep. Chris Shays, the last moderate Republican in New England standing – before he was knocked down by Democrat Jim Himes – is selling his house of ten years and has made a handsome profit on the [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:15pm EST

  • To The Millionaires Sitting In Darkness


    At the beginning of November, there occurred on the blog site “Connecticut Local Politics” a fruitful discussion concerning the yet nascent conservative movement in Connecticut.

    The disputants fell into one of two pews: There were those on the left side of the church who, biting their knuckles, supposed [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:13pm EST

  • Governor Lamont's Chance


    The day after the mid-term elections in which Republicans in Connecticut appeared to have staged something of a come-back, evidence that the party is not cold-stone dead, Ned Lamont announced he was forming a committee to explore a run for governor.

    The following day, his announcement was wreathed [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:09am EST

  • The Republican Sweep


    The Wall Street Journal, the day after a Republican sweep, acknowledged that President Barack Obama was dealt a tough hand, a deep recession and a financial crisis.

    “But in New Jersey especially,” the paper notes, “former Goldman Sachs chief Jon Corzine became governor in the belief his [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:12am EST

  • Schiff Among The Liberals

    Liberal journalists don’t quite know how to undermine the candidacy of Peter Schiff, who is running against Sen. Chris Dodd as a Republican, but in time they’ll figure it out.

    On Dennis House’s “Face the State,” two liberal commentators, Rick Green of the Hartford Courant and Brian Lockhart of [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:58pm EST

  • Has “Socialism” Become A Red Herring?


    Yes, pretty much.

    Socialism arrived in Europe with the Christian message, tucked inside an embarrassment of Beatitudes.

    There are two sets of Christian Beatitudes. Mathew (5:1-12) is toothless, because none of the blessings in Mathew are accompanied by the red in tooth and claw curses found [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 3:27pm EST

  • Everything You Were Afraid To Ask About Dick Blumenthal



    Blumenthal and the Media

    It would be a considerable understatement to say that the relationship between Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Connecticut’s media is cordial. The great failing of the state’s media is that it seems to be unwilling -- or perhaps unable [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 8:41pm EDT

  • Yes Virginia, There Is A God

    This is the sort of “security breech” that makes journalists fall on their knees and exclaim with loud hosannas – “There is a God!”

    Owing to an accidental security breech, the deliberations of the US Congressional Ethics Committee have now been flushed into the public square.

    Reporters [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 5:12pm EDT

  • Has Socialism Become A Red Herring?

    Yes, pretty much.

    Socialism arrived in the West with the Christian message, packed inside an embarrassment of Beatitudes.

    There are two sets of Christian Beatitudes. Mathew (5:1-12) is toothless, because none of the blessings in Mathew are accompanied by the stinging curses found in Luke.

    Luke [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 8:32pm EDT

  • Everything You Were Afraid To Ask About Comparative Health Care In The US, Canada And Europe


    Thanks to Dave Price over at “The Blog Formerly Known As Dean’s World” for the following links on comparative health care. Dean, of Dean’s World, is taking a well deserved sabbatical.

    Price points out:

    "Advocates of socializing health care have asked: how can America’s relatively free" [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 11:51am EDT

  • Surfing The Slippery Slope: Moody Downgrades Connecticut’s Bonds


    Moody's Investors Service has revised its outlook on the State of Connecticut's general obligation bonds from stable to negative.

    Moody justified the rating change on Connecticut’s economic future for a number of reasons that should not surprise people familiar with the recent budget battle between [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 11:17pm EDT

  • HEALTH CARE: FREEDOM TO LOSE


    Milton Friedman in "Free To Choose" says that 46 percent of our country (in terms of corporate enterprise) is socialist. He said it in a 10-part TV series on Public Broadcasting Service in 1980, made into a book, "Free To Choose" (1979). It defines the [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 5:10pm EDT

  • The Courant And The Rumor Mill

    The Hartford Courant’s chief political writer, Christopher Keating, has swatted down some rumors circulating at the state capitol.

    The first is that Gov. Jodi Rell might hang up her spurs and decline to run again.

    No such luck. The governor has not yet make an announcement. Keating [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 1:38pm EDT

  • Judge Chatigny's Selective Memory

    According to news reports, U.S. senators Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman have sent to the White House a letter favoring Judge Robert Chatigny to fill a position left vacant on the 2nd Circuit by Judge Sonia Sotomayor elevation to the U.S. Supreme Court.

    Judge Robert Chatigny will [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 10:48am EDT

  • If You Want A Friend In Washington DC, Get A Robot

    According to the old saw, if you want a friend in Washington DC, you’d best get a dog.

    Or a robot…

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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 12:13pm EDT

  • Dodd's Insurance Policy

    Sen. Chris Dodd, hammered by his opponents and some in the media as having been intimate with Big Insurance from which has received in the past 20 years $2.3 million in campaign contributions, has been at some pains to show that he is not on their leash, which is why [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 10:07am EDT

  • Lamont Slaps Specter With The Bottom Of His Shoe


    Ned Lamont, the Greenwich millionaire who earned the undying gratitude of netrooters by opposing present Sen. Joe Lieberman in a primary some time ago, has taken himself to Pennsylvania to lend his support to Joe Sestak, a Democrat of high principle running against incumbent Democrat (for [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 6:45pm EDT

  • Palin on Health Care


    A Politico critique of Sarah Palin’s critique of the health care bill approved this week by the Senate Finance Committee is described by Politico as “wonky,” and decidedly non-vituperative, which is another way of saying that she can no longer see Russia from Alaska.

    [...]
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    Posted: October 18, 2009, 7:43pm EDT

  • Madam, Do You Favor Necrophilia?


    "Throw mud and some will stick. Stick but not stain." -- Cardinal John Henry Newman.

    The operative motto of all demagogic bloggers is: Why say something, when you can intimate it?

    Some bloggers are now intimating that Linda McMahon, a Republican Party U.S. senatorial hopefull, approves necrophilia [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2009, 12:08pm EDT

  • Body Slamming Corpses


    Recently at a public gathering that included former President George Bush Pere, President Barack Obama The Apologist, attempting to defuse his critics, once again intimated that the mess he was frantically trying to “mop up” was caused by his predecessor, President George Bush Fils; and he invited [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 9:20pm EDT

  • Khamenei Dead In Iran?


    According to two sources that do not usually peddle in rumor – the American Enterprise Institute
    and Beliefnet blogger Aziz Poonawalla --the Ayatolla Khamenei of Iran may have assumed room temperature.

    Here is the realtime search for Twitter in Iran. [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 10:03am EDT

  • Roping The Tea Baggers



    Democrats don’t really care to associate with tea party folk, even though some of them are Democrats. Republicans would dearly like to rope the rampant stallion and bring it home to the ranch. But, from the very first, tea baggers have proudly declared their formal non-affiliation with the [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 10:26pm EDT

  • The Energy Crisis Has been Delayed

    “Energy crisis is postponed as new gas rescues the world.”

    Now, there’s a headline that should cause a stir. And it did, most especially in Russia.

    But the crisis in American journalism is still with us. It took a Brit to get the story out.[...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 4:21pm EDT

  • CLIMATE CHANGE RECONSIDERED


    “In the last 50 years, there has been practically no net warming at all—and the Northern Hemisphere has actually cooled slightly” -- Warren Brookes, New York City Tribune, Sept. 22, 1989.

    “We owe it to our children and our children’s children to investigate all aspects of carbon dioxide [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 3:29pm EDT

  • Investigating Rell


    Some people in Connecticut, not a few of whom would be pleased to see their friends and acquaintances occupy Governor Jodi Rell's position, already have decided, perhaps prematurely, that it would be perfectly proper to haul the governor off to jail without observing the usual niceties.

    “First the verdict,”' [...]
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    Posted: October 11, 2009, 3:31pm EDT

  • Obama’s Nobel


    Even Bob Schiffer supposed that President Barack Obama was graced with the Nobel Peace prize because the Nobel committee was intent on firing yet one more round over President George Bush’s moribund  presidency.

    It’s a little bit like watching one deaf man shouting in the ear horn [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 10:49pm EDT

  • John Brown: The 150th Anniversary Of The Raid On Harper’s Ferry



    John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut in 1800. Brown’s grandfather, also named John Brown, was a captain in the 18th regiment of the Connecticut Colony in the Revolutionary War. His father, who lived for a time in Windsor, was deeply religious and unalterably opposed [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 5:15pm EDT

  • Welcome To The Future


    Our friends the Russians, the Chinese, the Japanese, France and Saudi Arabia have here entered into an agreement to marginalize the dollar as a world currency, according to an important article in the The Independent.

    “In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 11:32am EDT

  • Zombies Eat Michael Moore


    Good news for U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, who takes some lumps in the New Michael Moore propaganda film “Capitalism: A Love Story.”

    Zombieland, a film staring Woody Harrelson – "box office poison" according to this reviewer – has soared to the number 1 box office position [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2009, 11:14am EDT

  • Bomb, Bomb, Bomb… Bomb, Bomb Iran


    The New York Times, not generally regarded as the Doctor Strangelove wing of the Republican Party, is reporting that “Senior staff members of the United Nations nuclear agency have concluded in a confidential analysis that Iran,” which repeatedly has promised to destroy Israel, has “acquired sufficient information to [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2009, 8:41pm EDT

  • Wyman Has Seen The Future, And It Doesn’t Work

    Democratic state Comptroller Nancy Wyman has seen the future, and it doesn’t work.

    Cautioning that it’s a bit risky this early in the game to be “quantifying a general fund budget deficit amount,” Wyman was willing in comments to the Journal Inquirer to point to certain "risk factors" that [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 9:21pm EDT

  • Dr. Petit On The Road To Justice


    It is not likely that Joshua Komisarjevsky, one of the two alleged murderers in the Pettit case, need fear a cell invasion. But the lawyers for his partner in mayhem, Steven Hayes, who along with Komisarjevsky is accused of invading Dr. William Petit’s home and murdering [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 10:13am EDT

  • Dodd’s Prospects, The Coming kakistocracy

    There appears to be a lot of chatter among conservatives concerning Sen. Chris Dodd’s prospects for re-election. Most of them want a badly wounded Dodd to run for re-election. Independent voters, many of whom in Connecticut may be disgruntled Democrats, do not appear to be enchanted with Dodd’s re-election.

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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 1:48pm EDT

  • The Skin Of Dodd’s Teeth

    The Wall Street Journal is reporting: “The discovery that Countrywide Financial Corp. recorded phone conversations with borrowers in a controversial mortgage program that included public officials -- and that those recordings have been destroyed -- has prompted new congressional calls for more information about the program.”

    Just wait [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 9:27pm EDT

  • The Importance Of Being Transparent

    Someday -- hopefully soon -- transparency will come to Connecticut, and it will change the whole political landscape. Transparency opens government of any kind – state, municipal and federal – to as many people as are affected by political transactions, which is to say all citizens of the state.

    [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 2:59pm EDT
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