This is the story of our Mothers and Grandmothers who lived only 90 years ago. Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote. The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote....
Read more »
In a separate survey of Republican likely primary voters, Rob Simmons trails Ms. McMahon 47 – 30 percent, with 14 percent for Peter Schiff. This compares to a 52 – 25 percent McMahon lead in a July 16 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University. Looking at McMahon and Simmons, Republican voters say: •...
Read more »
Keynesianism didn’t work for Hoover and Roosevelt in the 1930s, didn’t work for Japan in the 1990s, and didn’t work for Bush in 2008. Proponents of this approach have a childlike faith in the Keynesian model and its ability to generate very specific (albeit completely inaccurate) numbers. The fault line in American politics is...
Read more »
Here is a new flowchart prepared for the Joint Economic Committee showing the healthcare system under Obamacare. It’s not as if it was not complex enough as it was. A system that only a Government bureaucrat could love. Just think of all the lovely interactions with Government employees we get to have trying to...
Read more »
So much for transparency Dunstan Prial reports: Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act. The law, signed last week by President Obama,...
Read more »
From ATR.org In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2011: (N.B. This version of the document contains even more tax hikes than the original version did) First Wave: Expiration of 2001...
Read more »
The Cato: The debate on extending the Bush tax cuts has begun. Those opposed to extension argue that the cuts would greatly increase the federal deficit. The first thing to note is that extending all the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts would lose the government about $216 billion a year in 2012 and rising...
Read more »
Previously we offered Brooklawn Strategies LLC the opportunity to explain their methodology and experience in polling. They took us up on it. On July 13th and 14th Brooklawn Strategies conducted a poll of likely Republican primary voters in the 2nd Congressional District for the Peckinpaugh for Congress campaign. Calls were placed by Western Wats...
Read more »
Press Release from the Dubitsky2010 Campaign: Chaplin, CT- Doug Dubitsky, Republican candidate for Congress in Connecticut’s 2nd district, responds to false allegations that he is a “liberal tree-hugger.” The Dubitsky campaign has learned that a small but vocal group supporting one of Mr. Dubitsky’s opponents is about to launch a media attack on Mr....
Read more »
With a looming state budget deficit of historic proportions, a majority of legislative Democrats on the budget-writing Appropriations Committee voted in favor of a budget adjustment adding $700 million in taxes for 2011 Fiscal Year – on top of the $1.5 billion in new taxes enacted only seven months ago and a projections of...
Read more »
From The Hartford Courant ….who responded with a hostile diatribe this week to Gov. M. Jodi Rell‘s request for more concessions. It was unworthy of the representatives of working people. The tone of their letter was insulting and unacceptable and won’t win the unions any friends. The state budget for the current fiscal year...
Read more »
The Board of Finance met on 3/16 in the school media room (library), to review the budget as presented by the Board of Selectmen. you can review the same package by downloading the budget off the town website, front page in the upper center. Most of the night was spent in line by line...
Read more »
State Sen. Mary Ann Handley, D-Manchester, announced Friday she will not run for another term, leaving the Fourth State Senate district open to a potential Republican pickup in 2010. Handley, 73, who was one of most pro-public sector union legislators at the Capitol, sited a desire to enjoy more time in her community. Handley...
Read more »
The aim is to give a new as yet unnamed U.N. body the power to directly intervene in the financial, economic, tax and environmental affairs of all the nations that sign the Copenhagen treaty. The reason for the power grab is clear enough: Clause after complicated clause of the draft treaty requires developed countries...
Read more »
The Chinese News media is rather fasinated with the Tiger Woods crash and possible extra affairs of the billionaire golfer. Lacking real video, they simulated the accident. BookMark To:
Read more »
Ct Taxes In The News