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Schumer’s Peace

Schumer “They have dressed the wound of my people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace [at all]” -- Jeremiah 6:14, from a Hebrew translation . According to an AP report reprinted with some excisions in the Hartford Courant on March 15, 2024, “Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday called on Israel to hold new elections, saying he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ‘lost his way’ and is an obstacle to peace in the region amid a growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. “Schumer, the first Jewish majority leader in the Senate and the highest-ranking Jewish official in the U.S., strongly criticized Netanyahu in a 40-minute speech Thursday morning on the Senate floor. Schumer said the prime minister has put himself in a coalition of far-right extremists and as a result, he has been too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows. “’Israel cannot survive if it b
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A Guide For the Politically Perplexed: Hamas and Israel

Netanyahu and Biden -- Avi Ohayon, Israeli Government, via Associated Press Hamas is one of three terrorist entities supported financially and ideologically by Iran, one of three permanent enemies of the United States. The other two are Putin’s Russia and Xi’s China. Not only is Hamas a terrorist fox in the bosom of Israel, it is the once and once-only elected government of Gaza-Palestine, supposedly one of the “two states” often mentioned by American politicians when they begin prating about a “two state solution” to problems in the Middle East. It has become clear in recent days that the Biden administration favors the much sought after, politically mystical “two state solution.” That is, the Biden administration looks kindly on the treacherous fox in the bosom of Israel that threatens to destroy it and had on October 7, 2023, through its aggressive military actions, very publically declared open war on Israel. Following the brutal surprise attack on Israel by Hamas, Prime Min

The Left’s Anti-Christian Gag

George Orwell State Representative Jillian Gilchrest, a Democrat from West Hartford, is vigorously supporting a legislative proposal that would, according to a piece in CTMirror , “ban religious objections to reproductive health care in Connecticut.” She is “one of several lawmakers who recently unveiled legislative priorities for reproductive rights.” Christians, anti-Christians and practical atheists will note the distortion in language here: Reproductive rights – that is, abortion rights – rarely result, when broadly exercised, in the reproduction of the species. The expression “reproductive rights” is used most often on the left as a euphemism for “abortion rights.” Gilchrest and a supportive group in the State’s General Assembly, the legislature’s Reproductive Rights Caucus and Reproductive Equity Now censors, are likely to be disappointed once their legislation, if passed, wends its way through appellate courts that regard the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as more

Welcome to Bridgeport

Joe Ganim, (Ned Gerard, Hearst Connecticut Media) Henry Mencken reminds us that “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Welcome to Bridgeport, Connecticut’s most populous city. The current mayor of Bridgeport is ex-felon Joe Ganim. Ganim was Mayor of Bridgeport from 1991 to 2003, having been elected six times. He was convicted in 2003 on multiple corruption charges. The mayor was sentenced to nine years in prison and fined about $300,000 in restitution, in addition to $175,000 he had previously stipulated he owed. U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton noted at the time that Ganim's crimes were "stuff that cynicism is made of" and she determined that Ganim had "lied to the jury when he denied any knowledge of fee-splitting deals and other incriminating evidence.” A 2001 New York Times piece, “ Bridgeport Mayor Convicted On 16 Charges of Corruption ,” noted that “today's conviction appea

A Primer on Connecticut’s News Business, 2024

What is the difference between political commentary and reporting? The distinction between the two is not as sharp now as it once was, or pretends to be. Pretends to be? I do not think a convincing case can be made that print media in the United States had ever been politically unconnected . News writers gather their news from working politicians – that is politicians holding office. Here in Connecticut, Democrats have ruled the political roost, particularly in the state’s large cities, for almost half a century. The last Republican mayor of Hartford, Connecticut’s Capital City, was Antonia (Ann) Ucello, who left office in 1971, a distant 53 years ago. The state’s General Assembly is dominated by Democrats; all the members of Connecticut’s U.S. Congressional Delegation are Democrats, the last Republican U.S. House member, Chris Shays, having been defeated by Jim Himes in the 2008 election; the last two governors are Democrats. And registered Democrats outnumber Republicans in t

Connecticut, the Abortion State

Duff -- Wilton Bulletin It’s been decades since former President Bill Clinton said that abortion should be “safe, legal and rare”, a formulation launched by Clinton in 1992. According to a 2019 article in Vox , “The language was likely meant to appeal to people who supported the right to an abortion in principle but still felt morally conflicted about the procedure — a large group, according to some polling. But many abortion rights advocates argued that calling for the procedure to be ‘rare’ placed a stigma on people who seek it.” The use of the word “stigma” in such a context is bitterly ironic, and a profanation. The word “stigma’ is derived from the Latin word “stigmata,” the wounds of Christ on the cross transposed onto the human flesh of saints in the Christian Church such as Francis of Assisi. In Connecticut , abortion, both surgical and medical – within a certain period, women may abort their fetuses by taking a pill, widely available and at low cost – is hardly rare. S

Hillsdale’s Matthew Spalding on George Washington

Matthew Spalding -- Hillsdale Matthew Spalding is Vice President for Washington Operations and Dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College. Those reading these words who know little of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan have some homework to do. Hillsdale has a post in Somers Connecticut, The Hillsdale College Blake Center for Faith and Freedom. Spalding’s address on February 22, 2004, “Pater Patriae: George Washington as America’s Founder,” was delivered before a standing room only, appreciative crowd at the Blake Center, and Spalding did not disappoint. The Blake Center itself, an architectural wonder, a brick by brick accurate replica of Thomas Jefferson’s Home in Monticello, was, in many ways, a perfectly appropriate site for Spalding’s remarks. Spalding’s address sought to answer, among other questions: Does character in politics matter? It does and did, prior to, during and after the American Revolution. The larger question that confronts us i