Who really cares about the sexual orientation of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s nominee for chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, Associate Justice Andrew J. McDonald? Malloy seems to care a lot. His announcement made much of McDonald’s sexual orientation….
Boy, it was cold across America last week. It was so cold, politicians were picking their own pockets, people were flocking inside the U.S. Capitol just for the hot air, and the outlook for anti-Trumpers has been downgraded from miserable…
I’ve been working to fix and strengthen our government’s Buy American requirements since I first got to Congress, but now I’ve got powerful new partners in the effort – President Trump and two influential Republican senators. That may sound odd,…
Perhaps because immigration has become such an issue, the notion of exile has been on my mind of late. Abraham leaving the land of Ur; Francis of Assisi separating himself from family and fortune; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn expelled from his beloved…
We saw the art of the deal, or did we? To start with, it was puzzling when President Trump had an hour’s worth of televised negotiating with members of Congress on rescuing the 800,000 or so Deferred Action for Childhood…
WASHINGTON – It starts with body aches, chills, exhaustion, headache and fever. Then come congestion, sore throat and cough. It is miserable. It is the flu. In Ohio, where I picked up the bug that laid me low despite a…
Recently, many Americans have become emboldened to discuss the matter of President Trump’s mental competence because Michael Wolff’s instant best-seller, “Fire and Fury,” quotes former Trump adviser Steve Bannon as saying the president has “lost his stuff” and claims every…
Reversing Obama-era policy, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has given federal prosecutors the discretion to prosecute marijuana traffickers. That’s good news for those who believe in the rule of law. And good news, too, for those concerned about public health and…
While it was terribly inconvenient for two days, last week’s near-blizzard brought some good news to Connecticut as well as a lot of snow. The storm showed state government and municipal governments are very good at keeping the roads passable…
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, life expectancy in the United States has decreased for the second consecutive year. The average American life span was 78.6 years in 2016, the most recent year for which data are…
Care to go back to 1917? No, I don’t mean 2017! I mean 1917. Life expectancy was about 50. If you were lucky enough to own a car, gasoline was about 15 cents a gallon, and about the only place…
My father is behind the curve on social media, but I think he is on to something. You see, my father was born in 1933. He was a paperboy in the days when paperboys stood on city corners and shouted…
If you’re among the great majority of Connecticut’s population that reportedly dislikes Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, especially for the two record-breaking tax increases of his seven years in office, you may have fonder memories of his Republican predecessor, M. Jodi…
On Dec. 28, President Trump wrote on Twitter: “In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other…
Connecticut may have a plausible independent candidate for governor this year – Richard N. “Oz” Griebel of Simsbury, recently retired chief executive of the MetroHartford Alliance, the Hartford regional chamber of commerce. Griebel sought the Republican nomination for governor in…
A National Security Strategy is less a plan of action than an attempt to prioritize. Who, in the president’s judgment, most threatens America? What means do we have, and what capabilities must we develop, to defend the homeland and protect…
Some people think private possession of high-powered rifles should be prohibited. Others think the private possession of all guns should be outlawed. But how should such policy be decided, especially when the Constitution establishes the right to bear arms? Relatives…
When members of Congress battled over the budget, some threatened to block funding unless Congress provided amnesty to illegal immigrants who benefited from former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which President Trump announced he is…
Because Democrats have been wandering aimlessly since the 2016 election, I thought it would be helpful to give them some suggestions so they can get out of their funk. So here goes: n We reap what we sow. The 1960s…
Running for the Democratic nomination for governor of Connecticut, Middletown Mayor Dan Drew is soliciting campaign contributions with a pledge to impose a “single-payer” medical-insurance system on Connecticut – that is, a government monopoly on medical insurance. Drew’s pledge comes…
By Chris Powell
Is there really nothing to be reduced in public-education spending in Connecticut? That’s what the state Education Department and Commissioner Dianna R. Wentzell told Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Jan. 3. But the Education Department omitted from its calculations the…
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