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By Chris Powell Reading the campaign flyers, postcards, and handbills that have been flooding Connecticut’s mailboxes on the eve of a state election, people might think that personalities are the only reasons for voting. Almost all candidates for the General Assembly profess to care, to support good schools, to want to reduce crime and restrainContinue reading “Campaign flyers stress trivia while serious issues abound”

By Chris Powell Another state election campaign has prompted candidates to pander to parents and teachers about the wonderfulness of Connecticut’s public schools. Of course neither parents nor teachers want to hear that their schools are not really so wonderful. Instead parents want to believe that, as in Lake Wobegon, all students are above average.Continue reading “Connecticut’s student performance was sinking long before epidemic”

By Chris Powell As a stalwart of the Democratic left, where much politically correct demagoguery originates, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal may deserve the P.C. demagoguery hurled at him last week by Fox News and his Republican challenger, Leora Levy. But it was demagoguery all the same. Levy touted a Fox News report asserting that asContinue reading “Bilge from Fox and Levy; and state isn’t flourishing”

By Chris Powell Another front has opened in Connecticut’s flag war, this time in Stonington, where, responding to a complaint and acting on legal advice, the school superintendent determined that the “rainbow” or gay pride flags teachers had placed in their classrooms are political and told teachers to remove them. Whereupon students and others complainedContinue reading “Rainbow flag, being political, doesn’t belong in classrooms”

By Chris Powell What happens in Connecticut when a 15-year-old lives in a home with abusive and neglectful parents, drug abuse, and violence, ends up on the street, joins his friends in car thefts, gets high on marijuana, steals another car, leads police on a chase, drives the wrong way on a one-way street, strikesContinue reading “Delinquent’s derelict family gets rich at public expense”

By Chris Powell Since the government of Saudi Arabia is repressive, should people care that the Republican nominee for governor, Bob Stefanowski, has been doing consulting work for a Saudi company in which the Saudi government is invested? Maybe people should care, but not before they decide whether they care that so many of theContinue reading “Stefanowski’s Saudis are bad so how can Biden’s be good?”

By Chris Powell For years environmental extremists and animal lovers have been telling Connecticut residents that they must learn to live with the state’s growing population of bears. But live with them as roommates? The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection reports that as of last month bears have broken into homes in theContinue reading “Living with bears is no fun; and early voting is too vague”

By Chris Powell Are Republican candidates in Connecticut helping or hurting themselves with the lawn signs for their campaigns? Most lawn signs for Democratic candidates in the state identify the candidates with their party, but few if any Republican signs do. If a candidate’s sign fails to identify his party, you can be pretty sureContinue reading “Lawn signs reveal a party ashamed of itself”

By Chris Powell Election officials throughout Connecticut are properly worried by the sharp increase in absentee ballot applications being requested by political campaigns and distributed to voters who have not requested them. The practice will cause confusion and facilitate fraud. Anyone can request an absentee ballot application for himself or others, and applications can beContinue reading “Absentee balloting is a risk; and will Title IX be erased?”

By Chris Powell Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign rally last week in New Britain for the re-election of U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes may be considered a success, since the vice president didn’t perform as she has done elsewhere recently, as by declaring the southern border “secure” and proclaiming an alliance with [ITALICS] North [END ITALICS]Continue reading “Most abortion extremists in Connecticut are Democrats”