By Chris Powell When in 1974, having persuaded Ohio’s state legislature to impose an income tax, Gov. John Gilligan, a Democrat, was narrowly defeated for re-election by his Republican predecessor, he was remarkably honest about it. He took full responsibility. The vote, Gilligan said, was simply a rejection of him. Gilligan fairly could have madeContinue reading “Can Democrats ever admit the true cause of their defeat?”
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Many Democrats are crazy too; and ‘on track’ to ignorance
By Chris Powell Supporters of Donald Trump have a reputation for being crazy. Of course some are, but the reputation is strong mainly because supporters of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris run most news organizations and the U.S. Justice Department and have made sure that Trump crazies are well publicized. Now maybe theContinue reading “Many Democrats are crazy too; and ‘on track’ to ignorance”
Immigration fraud racket operates from city halls
By Chris Powell Having stuffed absentee ballot boxes for Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim and the city’s Democratic machine only to be caught on surveillance video and charged criminally and belatedly fired from her patronage job as official greeter at City Hall, Wanda Geter-Pataky has found what may be a more lucrative racket. The New HavenContinue reading “Immigration fraud racket operates from city halls”
Republicans fake a mandate and Murphy fakes concern
By Chris Powell Having won the presidency, the Senate, and the House of Representatives, Republicans think they have a great mandate to remake the federal government. While there is indeed much to remake, the election’s vote totals, while shocking to many, don’t show anything close to a mandate. When all votes are counted Donald TrumpContinue reading “Republicans fake a mandate and Murphy fakes concern”
Stop the doom mongering and the abortion hysteria
By Chris Powell Democrats should knock off the doom mongering in which many are wallowing. Yes, in winning the presidency Republican Donald Trump made surprising gains among constituencies long allied with the Democrats, especially Blacks, Hispanics, and union members. But most members of those groups remain inclined toward the Democrats, and the defections resulted largelyContinue reading “Stop the doom mongering and the abortion hysteria”
Country decides that Democrats are even worse than Trump
By Chris Powell Dawn Wednesday slammed many Democrats with the question: How could this have happened? How could the country have returned to its highest office a man of such terrible character and demeanor as Donald Trump? Democrats should look in the mirror. For the country’s willingness to risk a second Trump administration is justContinue reading “Country decides that Democrats are even worse than Trump”
Wethersfield quickly tires of flagpole propaganda
By Chris Powell Connecticut’s cities and towns might do well to take note of Wethersfield’s experience this year with the use of government flagpoles for political propaganda. At the start of the year the Town Council had a policy of allowing only government flags to be flown on town government flagpoles. But in February theContinue reading “Wethersfield quickly tires of flagpole propaganda”
Case of illiterate Hartford girl should become a national scandal
By Chris Powell Hartford’s school superintendent, Leslie Torres-Rodriguez, says she’ll investigate the case of the girl who, the Connecticut Mirror reported a few weeks ago, graduated this year from Hartford Public High School without being able to read or write or do more than rudimentary addition and who then somehow was admitted to the University ofContinue reading “Case of illiterate Hartford girl should become a national scandal”
Why can’t people support their own children anymore?
By Chris Powell Government, the French economist and parliamentarian Frederic Bastiat wrote two centuries ago, is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else. Though there wasn’t much of a “social safety net” back then, Bastiat was correct about human selfishness and desire for power and privilege. Bastiat’sContinue reading “Why can’t people support their own children anymore?”
Journalistic endorsements now come in news coverage
By Chris Powell Journalists around the country are outraged that the publishers of the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times decided at the last minute to prevent their newspapers from publishing editorial-page endorsements of Democrat Kamala Harris for president. A few journalists at the papers have resigned over it. The writers union at the PostContinue reading “Journalistic endorsements now come in news coverage”
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