Author Archives: cxpowell

By Chris Powell Look who has just signed up for the politically correct speech police in Connecticut — not, as usual, more sanctimonious Democrats but two prominent Republicans, just so they could take a cheap shot at Governor Lamont. Answering questions from news reporters at the state Capitol last week, Lamont spoke about state governmentContinue reading “Governor is wrongly accused by Republican speech police”

By Chris Powell Governor Lamont is ready to use the Connecticut National Guard to compensate for any crucial labor shortages this week as his requirement for state government employees to be vaccinated or regularly tested for the COVID-19 virus takes effect and those employees not in compliance are placed on unpaid leave. Any such shortagesContinue reading “Connecticut’s Columbus Day holiday may survive all emergencies; and Blumenthal scapegoats Instagram”

By Chris Powell While President Biden, Governor Lamont, and their administrations cajole and coerce people to get vaccinated against the virus epidemic despite fears that the vaccines are really still experimental, the president’s administration has just admitted to the country about 12,000 Haitians without documentation of vaccination and without virus testing. U.S. citizens are findingContinue reading “Under Biden open borders come before public health”

By Chris Powell Higher education prattles about academic freedom but a recent poll of college students across the country supports the suspicion that higher education is becoming political indoctrination working against the country’s most basic liberty, freedom of speech. The poll, conducted by the market-research organization College Pulse, claims to have surveyed more than 37,000Continue reading “Do colleges in Connecticut make students totalitarians?”

By Chris Powell Strange that most of the clamor about electric rates in Connecticut is directed at the state’s electric utilities and so little at state government. For the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority and the state’s leading electric company, Eversource, agree that 15-20% of the typical Connecticut electricity customer’s monthly bill doesn’t pay for electricContinue reading “Hidden Connecticut sales tax on electric bills may be 20%”

By Chris Powell Frogs have gotten a bad reputation from the story about their supposed failure to jump out of a pot of water if its temperature is slowly raised to boiling, eventually killing them. For the story was meant as a metaphor to mock the tendency of people to accept gradually worsening conditions untilContinue reading “Trouble with schools and kids hints at Connecticut’s future”

By Chris Powell While billions in federal “rescue” money are raining down on state government and municipal governments and Connecticut’s members of Congress bestow new grants almost every day, a report from Connecticut Public Radio last week suggested that a glaring problem is still being overlooked. The report found that there is a desperate shortageContinue reading “‘Rescue’ money isn’t raining on special-education kids”

By Chris Powell An argument being made for extending Governor Lamont’s emergency powers to deal with the virus epidemic is that this would be more efficient than involving the General Assembly and enacting ordinary legislation instead of proclaiming emergency orders. But efficiency is only the old rationale for totalitarianism, and history doesn’t support it soContinue reading “Democracy won a world war and can handle Connecticut’s epidemic”

By Chris Powell Having just been appointed president of Huxley College in the Marx Brothers’ 1932 movie “Horse Feathers,” Groucho’s Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff quickly diagnoses the institution’s failure. “The trouble is,” he tells the faculty, “we’re neglecting football for education.” Lately the same might be said about the University of Connecticut, whose football programContinue reading “Groucho knew how to solve UConn’s football problem”

By Chris Powell While he tries to be a moderate Democratic governor and indeed is more moderate than his predecessor, Ned Lamont still feels obliged to make regular obeisance to his party’s left wing, which constitutes a majority of the party’s activists. So last week the governor posted on his social media channels a minute-longContinue reading “Lamont’s appeal on abortion won’t lure Texas businesses”