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By Chris Powell Connecticut’s Constitution, in its Declaration of Rights, commands: “All courts shall be open.” So what has happened to the case of Hector R. Cruz? Cruz was 16 when, according to the charge against him — first-degree sexual assault, a felony — he raped a child in Glastonbury in December 2019. The chargeContinue reading “Where did that rape case go? And propagandizing vaccines”

By Chris Powell Many liberal Democratic officials around the country and especially in the Northeast, including Governor Lamont, are looking hypocritical for urging President Biden to help repeal the federal government’s limit on the deductibility of state and local taxes — the “SALT” tax deduction cap. Liberal Democrats usually advocate more progressive taxation — thatContinue reading “Lamont probably won’t mind denunciation as a moderate on taxes”

By Chris Powell Despite the criminal prosecution underway in Minneapolis for the wrongful death of George Floyd, police officers are far more sinned against than sinning and are crucial to decent society. So claims that a flag displayed to support them is racist are ridiculous. The flag in question, the “thin blue line” flag, isContinue reading “Show support for the police without ‘thin blue line’ flag”

By Chris Powell While Governor Lamont’s office has conscientiously produced detailed virus-epidemic data every weekday for a year now — a triumph of organization and persistence — his administration and news organizations have made too much of it and the governor himself is gently backing away from it. The daily data has included three mainContinue reading “Government and journalism made virus epidemic scarier”

By Chris Powell Connecticut’s lawns are turning green again. Robins are scouring them for worms, which are returning to the surface despite the high taxes and accusations of racism above ground. Redwings are trilling madly over the ponds, brooks, and marshes. Daffodils and crocuses are in bloom. Leaf buds on the trees are swelling. ManyContinue reading “Glorious spring proclaims: Try to restore Connecticut”

By Chris Powell Just as Hillary Clinton and the sleaziest elements of the Democratic Party gave the country Donald Trump, Trump and the sleaziest elements of the Republican Party now have given the country Joe Biden. Also a gift of Trump is the press that has fawned over Biden even as he stumbled up theContinue reading “Biden’s cognitive decline, Murphy’s crocodile tears”

By Chris Powell Participating in a legislative hearing on housing discrimination last week, state Rep. Michael Winkler, D-Vernon, may not have known (along with most of his constituents) a couple of disgraceful aspects of United States history: the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the internment of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent during World WarContinue reading “Winkler isn’t a Klansman and Tong is hardly a victim”

By Chris Powell Political correctness and its cancel culture are starting to evoke the second great Red Scare and the tactics of Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Last week the talented young political journalist Alexi McCammond was pushed out of the editorship of Teen Vogue magazine just as she was starting the job. Anti-AsianContinue reading “Cancel culture mob teaches there can be no forgiveness”

By Chris Powell With as much as $4 billion in discretionary largesse about to descend on Connecticut’s state and municipal governments and school systems, economizing and improving services to the public will be removed from the agenda for a long time. These slush funds can only worsen the excesses and exploitation in government, even asContinue reading “Slush funding will preserve state government’s excesses”

By Chris Powell What should the legislation now making another appearance in the General Assembly be called: “aid in dying” or “assisted suicide”? It depends which side you’re on. “Aid in dying” makes it sound a lot nicer, just as “pro-choice” has become the euphemism for “pro-abortion” or, more fairly, “pro-abortion rights.” Meanwhile there isContinue reading “Other Connecticut policies kill far more than assisted suicide might”