By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut’s laws forbidding state and municipal police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities may not be unconstitutional, as is alleged by the lawsuit brought last week against state officials by the Trump administration, but the objective of those laws is exactly what the suit alleges: to turn Connecticut into a “sanctuary state.”Continue reading “Lamont, Tong, and Elicker escape immigration queries”
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Why should Connecticut waive law enforcement anywhere?
By CHRIS POWELL Hearings of the General Assembly on proposed legislation almost always could use more critical questions, especially when such questions are not merely politically inconvenient but politically incorrect. Suspension of fuel taxes won’t really save any money Public schools couldn’t meet new home-school standards Greens would cripple democracy in guise of making stateContinue reading “Why should Connecticut waive law enforcement anywhere?”
Lamont thrills Democrats with nullification rhetoric
By CHRIS POWELL Speaking to the General Assembly last week, Governor Lamont felt obliged to rile up members of his party’s big majority against immigration law enforcement. Referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, the governor said: “ICE, everywhere you go uninvited, violence follows. Go home. We’re keeping Connecticut safe without you.” Democratic legislators stoodContinue reading “Lamont thrills Democrats with nullification rhetoric”
Serious schooling could force kids to cut social media time
By CHRIS POWELL Kids always have spent too much time doing unproductive stuff for mere amusement. It’s called being a kid. Governor Lamont and Attorney General William Tong think they can change this by legislation restricting social media. They condemn “youth social media addiction,” which they say is shortening the attention spans of young peopleContinue reading “Serious schooling could force kids to cut social media time”
Medicaid could be reduced; and deliver the voter rolls
By CHRIS POWELL State Comptroller Sean Scanlon warns that Connecticut’s state budget is in danger of being devoured by its Medicaid program, whose costs are soaring even as federal aid to the program is being reduced. To ensure that the state’s approximately one million Medicaid recipients maintain their health insurance coverage, Scanlon says “every optionContinue reading “Medicaid could be reduced; and deliver the voter rolls”
Minneapolis incident distracts from the big underlying issues
By CHRIS POWELL Seven years ago a Wethersfield police officer shot and killed a motorist who drove straight at him after evading a traffic stop. While police video of the incident indicated that the officer could have gotten out of the way in time and didn’t have to stand his ground, the state’s attorney concludedContinue reading “Minneapolis incident distracts from the big underlying issues”
‘Gender-affirming care’ euphemizes sex changes
By CHRIS POWELL Propaganda is often a matter of names and terminology. For as the Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan observed, if you label something well enough, you don’t have to argue with it or about it. The label itself may settle the matter politically. Illegal immigrant’s supporters celebrate lack of due process Connecticut should pushContinue reading “‘Gender-affirming care’ euphemizes sex changes”
A big payday for child neglect? And not all cruelty is Trump’s
By CHRIS POWELL Everyone has heard the story about the boy who murdered his parents and then asked the court for leniency because he had become an orphan. Connecticut now has a case that goes one better. If ‘public benefits’ require deception, get rid of them Blumenthal chastises merchants who are more honest than heContinue reading “A big payday for child neglect? And not all cruelty is Trump’s”
Lamont, Tong applaud defeat of their party’s own water scheme
By CHRIS POWELL While it’s not likely to be widely understood, there may be a profound lesson in this week’s rejection by the state Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) of the bid by the South Central Regional Water Authority to acquire Aquarion Water Co. Hospital rescues promise far higher medical costs Wesleyan’s vegetarian plaque mayContinue reading “Lamont, Tong applaud defeat of their party’s own water scheme”
Democrats keep pretending that they aren’t obstructing ICE
By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut Democrats keep doubling down in support of illegal immigration and obstruction of immigration law enforcement even as they keep pretending they’re not doing so. Last week at the Legislative Office Building about 25 Democratic elected officials held a news conference that made a spectacle of their contradictions. Governor should make prisonsContinue reading “Democrats keep pretending that they aren’t obstructing ICE”
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