Should governors pray publicly?

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Nick

Texas Governor Rick Perry is coming under heavy scrutiny in the press for his promotion and participation in a massive prayer event.

Five weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Perry bowed his head and said “amen” as a Baptist pastor led a prayer in the name of Jesus Christ. The prayer was noteworthy not for what it said, but for where it was said: at a student assembly in a public middle school in East Texas. Afterward, Mr. Perry said he had no problem ignoring the Supreme Court’s landmark 1962 ruling that barred organized prayer in public schools.

On Saturday in Houston, thousands of people are expected to gather at Reliant Stadium for a Christian-themed prayer service that Mr. Perry created and promoted. Though Mr. Perry has been criticized for spearheading an event that burnishes his conservative Christian credentials as he considers running for president, the prayer rally is only the latest instance — albeit the highest profile one — of the governor of the nation’s second-largest state emphasizing his Christian beliefs and muddying the line between church and state.

Should this concern us or is this what America needs?

More here: Prayer Rally Raises Anew Question of the Boundaries of Rick Perry’s Faith – NYTimes.com.

Family Institute Pastors’ Breakfast in Voluntown, July 28th

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Nick

On Wednesday, July 28th the Family Institute of Connecticut will co-host a Pastors’ Breakfast at Voluntown Baptist Church. Peter Wolfgang will speak on threats to religious liberty in Connecticut. Pro-family pastors in eastern Connecticut who plan to attend should RSVP to 860-548-0066 by Friday, July 23rd.

Click here for directions to the church.

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CNN reporter laughs when Senator’s daughters called prostitutes

Posted on July 17, 2010 by Nick

Could this kind of stuff be the reason why people don’t like to watch CNN or MSNBC?

March for Life today in Hartford

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Nick

From Family Institute of Connecticut:

Please be on the South Lawn of the state Capitol at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, January 22nd for a pro-life prayer march (participants will be from a wide variety of Christian denominations and each are invited to pray as they see fit). Afterwards, at 12:30 p.m., we will meet in Room 310 in the Capitol to hear local pro-life speakers including FIC executive director Peter Wolfgang, Rachel’s Vineyard leader Freddy Martinez, Theresa Kranowski of St. Gerard’s Center, Deborah Quinn of Silent No More, Mary Timmis of the CT Coalition for Life and Bob Judd of the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants.

Popular mayor says State is “on the brink”

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Nick

Danbury mayor and possible gubernatorial candidate Mark Boughton, in his personal blog (which posts also to his widely-distributed Facebook page) says we’re on the brink.

Here is a news flash…the State of Connecticut is broke. Busted. Cleaned out.

Here is another news flash…it is not going to get any better anytime soon.

It is time that we all recognize that we have entered a new economic era, and that we seize this moment to redefine the role of state government, examine the nexus between the state and the municipalities, and look at the services that we should offer, and most importantly, how we fund them.

Property tax reform has to be the first and foremost item on an agenda of reform. It is an unfair tax because it does not measure the ability of the property owner to pay. Many people in Danbury and across Connecticut are land rich and yet cash poor.

It’s refreshing to see this level of candor.

The New London Day, which isn’t exactly Connecticut’s answer to World Net Daily, says the state Democrats may face “well-earned losses” if they can’t muster up some courage here.

Frozen with fear when confronting a monster largely of its own making, the Democratic leadership in the General Assembly is readying to “gavel in and gavel out” when legislators return Tuesday for a special session, ordered by Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell to deal with a budget deficit approaching $500 million.

In other words, the Democrats in control of the legislature may once again ignore the fiscal crisis that confronts the state and instead head home for the holidays.

Alas for the Day and for your wallet, in 2009 State and Federal legislators have become deaf and blind to the angst (and phone calls) of those who merely pay the taxes.

More here: Dithering While Connecticut Sinks In Red Ink

Connecticut Senate race generates nationwide interest

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Nick

And according to Rasmussen, Senator Dodd would lose to every Republican, even Peter Schiff, whose financial media stardom hasn’t resulted in any name recognition in Nutmegland.

Former GOP Congressman Rob Simmons is still his toughest opponent, leading Dodd 48% to 35%. Seven percent (7%) prefer some other candidate in this contest, and 11% are undecided. Those figures are a slight improvement for Simmons since September.

The newest Republican in the race, Linda McMahon, the ex-CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, earns 44% of the vote to Dodd’s 38%. Eight percent (8%) opt for another candidate, with nine percent (9%) not sure.

Long-shot candidate Peter Shiff, the widely-known president of Euro Pacific Capital, is essentially even with Dodd and holds a one-point edge, 40% to 39%. In their race, eight percent (8%) like some other candidate, and 14% are undecided.

More interesting stuff here.

Farewell to a number of things…

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Nick

IN his column today, The Courant’s Rick Green says farewell to the old economy, complete with a scary graphic showing that Connecticut has lost over 15,000 manufacturing jobs in the last year. And then Mr. Green wonders if anyone is listening.

Actually, considering his appearance on the panel with Peter Schiff on Face The State, I find this highly ironic. (Watch the exchange that starts at about 3:00.) Hasn’t Schiff been the one saying that we’ve stupidly, deliberately exported our manufacturing base to Asia? I love watching people throw the accepted wisdom at Schiff.

With apologies to Mr. Green, having lost over 70,000 jobs in a year, I think we’re saying farewell not just to the old economy, but to our ability to pay for the welfare state we have constructed.

Governor Rell will not run again

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Nick

She will be remembered well. Lt. Gov. Fedele will definitely be a candidate, as he states in this Channel 8 video.

Whoever wins will need our prayers for the thankless task that awaits – dealing with Connecticut’s seemingly intractable budgetary and revenue problems.

Connecticut election results show broad dissatisfaction

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Nick

Republican candidates prevailed in most major races yesterday and, as Vincent at Connecticut Local Politics points out, Connecticut exemplified the trend better than anywhere.

Like New Jersey, we are a deeply blue state, so to see the GOP win in places like Stamford and Norwich and Stratford shows that something major was going on last night. (The only town that completely bucked the trend was West Hartford. Come on folks, get with it.)

What happened was a revolt against overspending. The GOP runs best in the Northeast when it sticks to three issues — taxes, limited government, and crime. In this economic climate, the party pounded the financial management issue, blaming Democratic mayors and councils for overspending during a recession. It clearly resonated. For example, in my hometown of Fairfield, the RTM swung from 27-23 Democratic to 38-12 Republican, and the GOP won almost all the open board seats (finance, education) as well….

Sure, we are a blue state, and so is New Jersey. But just because we are Democrats doesn’t mean that we like seeing the government nationalize the auto industry, or take over the health care industry. Nutmeggers remain New Englanders, who believe in private enterprise, personal responsibility and thrift. Watching the government triple the deficit and have little to show for it (except for make-work featherbedding like the torn-up-for-no-reason Merritt Parkway) drives people of our mindset nuts.

I think this is sound analysis. It’s become far too easy to make bogeymen out of Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh – as if there were nothing at all a rational person could find troubling about that tripled deficit.

A world without America?

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Nick

Investors’ Business Daily sounds an alarm about threats we face in a world still dangerous:

‘Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism?” Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked at a “World Without Zionism” conference in Tehran in 2005. “But you had best know that this slogan and this goal are attainable, and surely can be achieved.”

He added that Iran had a strategic “war preparation plan” for what it called “the destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilization.”

….The threat is called electromagnetic pulse. Sen. John Kyl, R-Ariz., calls it the one way we could lose the war on terror. As he notes, a single nuclear warhead, detonated at the right altitude, would interact with the Earth’s atmosphere, producing an electromagnetic pulse radiating to the surface at the speed of light.

Nobody is harmed or killed immediately by the blast. But life in the U.S., the world’s only superpower and largest economy, comes to a screeching halt as a country dependent on 21st-century technology instantaneously regresses almost a century in time.

Millions could die as hospital systems shut down and as rail and air traffic controls collapse. Farmers would be unable to harvest crops, and distributors couldn’t get goods to market. Energy production would cease. Computers and PCs would become large paperweights. Telephones, even cell phones, wouldn’t work.

Let’s continue to pray against terrorism and mischief-making by rogue states around the world.

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