Politics

Nick on January 22nd, 2010

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 [...]

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Nick on December 14th, 2009

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Nick on November 13th, 2009

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 [...]

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Nick on November 9th, 2009

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.

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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. [...]

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Nick on September 19th, 2009

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 [...]

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Here’s Congressman Pete Stark of California having another hard day, telling a constituent (at about 1:35) that he wouldn’t dignify him by peeing on his leg because it would be a waste of urine.
I’m not kidding.
It seems that the political pressures of the summer are causing everyone’s true colors to come out.
Oh well, closer to [...]

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Governor Rell will allow the budget which has been passed by the Legislature to take effect. From Mrs. Rell’s press release:
“Democrats have repeatedly called this budget a ‘compromise,’” Governor Rell said. “It is hardly a compromise. Last week I put a new budget proposal on the table – my fourth – in which I accepted [...]

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Words fail as I attempt to explain the bomb that charismatic author Rick Joyner dropped on the proposal for national healthcare. Before providing subscribers to his Special Bulletin a rundown of what’s objectionable in the legislation, Joyner unleashed an uncharacteristically apocalyptic salvo on the Administration and its motives, likening its plans to Hitler’s and Stalin’s [...]

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