Posted on July 27th, 2018 by Winston Smith
(1) The Blue-State Housing Bubble (American Thinker) (2) Connecticut is drowning in debt. Should the rest of us have to pay? (Washington Post) (3) Carol Platt Liebau: Not one cent more (Connecticut Post) “Here’s the truth: Connecticut has not suffered for lack of transportation money. Rather, the governor (like his predecessors) and the legislature have […]
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Posted on May 7th, 2016 by Winston Smith
(1) Letter: ‘Empathizing’ with Malloy is ludicrous (Fairfield Citizen) (2) General Electric Planning Job Cuts in Connecticut (Hartford Courant) (3) Connecticut Tax Boomerang (Wall Street Journal) (4) 2016 Regular Session: Winners and Losers (CT News Junkie)
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Posted on October 3rd, 2015 by Winston Smith
(1) Checkmate: The Economic Chess Masters Play a Losing Game (National Review) “The nature of our technologically enabled present global connectedness means that for the first time in human history all economic activity happens in immediate relation to everything else. You cannot isolate the variables, which is a real problem if you believe in political […]
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Posted on March 22nd, 2015 by Winston Smith
(1) Eminent domain on steroids? New bill threatens cities, towns (Fairfield Citizen) (2) How Bad Religion Has Bequeathed Us ‘An Anxious Age’ (The Federalist)
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Posted on January 6th, 2013 by Winston Smith
This is WHY I stopped writing about politics. The first example is local and the second is national BUT both demonstrate the “I got mine, you get yours” attitude of the New Aristocracy. Peggy Noonan wrote an op-ed in 2005 about the elites and since its publication they [elites] have grown more brazen in their […]
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