‘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”

Connecticut’s political left celebrates mental illness

By Chris Powell As President Biden reminded the country with his ill-timed proclamation, this year Easter Sunday fell on a new and more politically correct holiday, Transgender Day of Visibility. A few days earlier at the state Capitol in Hartford, Connecticut Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz led a celebration of a flag symbolizing transgender rights —Continue reading “Connecticut’s political left celebrates mental illness”

State treasurer repudiates parental and women’s rights

By Chris Powell According to state Treasurer Erick Russell, a wave of fascism is sweeping over Connecticut.  In an essay in the Hartford Courant last week, Russell wrote that several state legislators have “proposed legislation targeting transgender children,” legislation signifying “fanaticism” and an “extreme vision” that would deny rights to people.  What exactly is theContinue reading “State treasurer repudiates parental and women’s rights”

A Connecticut fairy tale; and hiding juvenile crime

By Chris Powell While few people were looking, and while most who were were too deceitful to explain or afraid to speak out, the General Assembly passed and Governor Lamont signed a law requiring public schools to distribute free feminine hygiene products in at least one male restroom. In anticipation of the law’s date ofContinue reading “A Connecticut fairy tale; and hiding juvenile crime”