Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

The recently re-installed Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, will be the featured speaker at the Connecticut Democrat’s annual fundraising dinner. Pelosi is known, among other things, for her ability to bring home the bennies, and Connecticut Democrats no doubt will be happy to receive them – not that the state’s Democrat Party is, by any measure, a poor waif begging for pennies on street corners. The Annual Gathering of Democrats used to be called “The Jefferson, Jackson, Bailey Dinner.” But Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, author of the Declaration of Independence, and Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States, generally regarded as the father of the modern Democrat Party, were both booted from the marque some years ago because both were slave owners. Jackson, in addition, displaced Native Americans from their ancestral homelands in what later became known as “ The Trail of Tears .” Upon ejection, the Ha...

According to a recently published column written by Gerald and Natalie Sirkin, there may be the equivalent of a European Union in our future. By Gerald and Natalie Sirkin C2007 The strangest of all the failures of the news media may be their silence on the madness of what could be the biggest story of our time. We have heard mutterings of a United States-Mexico-Canada union, but it took digging on Internet to find out about it. The information is not secret. It just hasn’t been in the news. On March 23, 2005, President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin, met at the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas, to discuss integrating their countries. They then drove to Baylor University in Waco, where they announced the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) for the integration. Soon after, the Council on Foreign Relations on May 17, 2005, issued “ Creating a North American Community ,” a 59-page document proposing a five-year plan for a Nort...

There was nothing ambiguous in the statement released by the six retired Episcopal bishops concerning a decision made by Connecticut Bishop Andrew Smith. After the consecration of gay Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the Anglican Church throughout the world was riven. Here in Connecticut, six priests from the conservative Anglican American council, differing with Smith who supported Robinson’s consecration, petitioned to associate their congregations with a bishop that was, in their view, more orthodox. Smith’s response was Cromwellian: He delivered to the priests a notice that their removal was imminent – unless they reconsidered and chose to remain affiliated with him, a course of conduct their consciences forbade. Smith’s letter of removal provoked an ardent response from six retired bishops. “Bereft of the faith which alone establishes true unity in the Church,” the bishops wrote, “(Smith) now attempts to impose unity by uncanonical coercion against six faithful clergy in his...