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”
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Biden’s cognitive decline, Murphy’s crocodile tears
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”
Winkler isn’t a Klansman and Tong is hardly a victim
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”
Cancel culture mob teaches there can be no forgiveness
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”
Slush funding will preserve state government’s excesses
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”
Other Connecticut policies kill far more than assisted suicide might
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”
Will the bonanza for schools ever cause students to learn?
By Chris Powell As hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants rain down on Connecticut’s schools, a potentially decisive experiment in education is beginning. Bright markers should be placed on the current measures of every school system’s performance and revisited often from now on to determine if the money makes any difference. The HartfordContinue reading “Will the bonanza for schools ever cause students to learn?”
The real gun problem is poverty and ‘clean slate’ won’t help
By Chris Powell Democrats in Congress, including Connecticut Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, are excited about the chance of enacting a federal law to require background checks for all gun purchases and transfers. Republicans in the Senate long have been the obstacle to this but they have lost their majority, and Democrats in theContinue reading “The real gun problem is poverty and ‘clean slate’ won’t help”
New Haven wants a bailout with no questions asked
By Chris Powell New Haven is clamoring at the state Capitol for a bailout, if not as big as Hartford’s three years ago. But the leaders of the General Assembly’s Democratic majority, including New Haven state Sen. Martin M. Looney, the Senate president pro tem, are asking only: How much do you want? Looney andContinue reading “New Haven wants a bailout with no questions asked”
DeLauro and her chief of state show what ‘public service’ means
By Chris Powell Congratulations to one of Connecticut’s forever members of Congress, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Democrat of New Haven, for teaching the country a wonderful political science lesson. Having ascended to the chairmanship of the House Appropriations Committee, DeLauro has just revived the infamous practice of putting “earmarks” in the federal budget — requirementsContinue reading “DeLauro and her chief of state show what ‘public service’ means”
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