Larson for Congress site A reliable analysis from the horse’s mouth, the Social Security Board of Trustees – not a MAGA outfit -- indicates social security’s main trust fund will flatline around 2035. The trust fund, the asset reserves of the Federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance and the Disability Insurance trust funds, will be depleted by 2035, around the same time survivors of the Biden administration are due to celebrate their victory over the assassination of the internal combustion engine. There are different reactions to this distressing news, depending on one’s place i ..read more

Michael Cohen, a former Trump “fixer,” is at the center of the only Trump trial likely to bear fruit before the upcoming 2024 presidential election. The other cases against Trump have been, not unexpectedly, delayed until the election has been concluded. Polls, the sour state of the U.S. economy, a suppurating southern border admitting into the United States millions of illegal aliens, and foreign policy blunders by the Biden administration, all suggest that former President Donald Trump may prevail in the election, grievously disappointing Democrats, some of whom have warned the architects ..read more

Murphy Carthago delenda est [Carthage must be destroyed] – Cato the Elder U.S. Senator Chris Murphy always has been a stalwart soldier in President Joe Biden’s army of progressive polemicists. But Biden‘s recent withholding of arms for Israel is, even for a practiced polemicist, an attempt to square a political circle. It is perfectly plain to all that Israel will never be safe from terrorist molestations unless Hamas and other Iran supported terrorists groups are militarily defeated. Biden’s recent decision to deny offensive arms to Israel is an attempt – some would say for politica ..read more

It was sainted President Barack Obama who was credited in a Politico piece in 2020 with having said about his Vice President Joe Biden, “Never underestimate Biden’s ability to f***k things up.” The quote was attributed to an unnamed Politico source, but it comes down to us fresh as the day it was uttered, mainly because President Joe Biden has valiantly continued to screw things up. Robert Gates, who served in both the Bush and Obama administrations as Secretary of Defense, retiring in 2011, said of Biden, “I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security ..read more

Looney The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin – Mark Twain CTMirror tells us that the friends of labor have produced a bill “expanding paid sick days” in Connecticut. The bill, then awaiting Governor Ned Lamont’s promised signature, was greeted with loud hosannas by  pro-union members of the General Assembly, most exuberantly by Connecticut’s answer to Vermont socialist U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, state Senate President Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven. “Sen. Julie Kushner, D-Danbury, who lobbied for the original law as a UA ..read more

The big three, Looney, Lamont, Ritter “No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session,” said Mark Twain. The life, liberty and property of Connecticut residents will be safe after May 8, 2024 when the General Assembly packs it in for the fiscal year. Of course, the General Assembly will reconvene in February, at which time the life, liberty and property of Connecticut citizens once again will be put in jeopardy. Some prospective bills never make it from the drawing board. Such was a bill, championed by environmentalists and politicians seeking to make ..read more

Lamont, Biden, Hayes Can you be a populist without being popular? Of course you can, sometimes. Can you be a populist if you talk like a member of Harvard’s Law faculty? Not likely. Bill Buckley, free of the stain of populism, once said he would rather be governed by the first hundred people picked at random from a phone book than the Harvard Law faculty. However, populism is not merely a matter of tone. Your mother – well, at least my mother – was engaging in populist rhetoric when she told you a couple of times every week, “You will be judged by the company you keep.” That sentimen ..read more

Matt Ritter CTExaminer State House Speaker Matt Ritter is shocked – SHOCKED! Connecticut is awash in Wall Street money, and the extra bennies from Wall Street will enable Connecticut to pay down a slender portion of its pension debts. “This” – the unanticipated boost in state revenue -- Ritter said, “might be the most shocking consensus revenue numbers we’ve seen in years. Positive, yes. Right now, we’re in good times. Yes, it is [Wall Street] money, so we’ll have to continue to talk about that as we go forward. If I hear the word ‘deficit’ – folks, the state is in a very solid finan ..read more

Inflation Calculators from InflationData.com Hillare Belloc’s Advice to the Rich: “Get to know something about the internal combustion engine. And remember -- soon you will die.” To what should we attribute the steep rise in gas prices? A Hartford paper noted Connecticut’s “double-digit spike” in gas prices under the headline “Pain at the pump.” Gas prices were far less painful under the administration of former President Donald – “drill baby, drill” -- Trump, now belabored with multiple court actions, none of them accusing Trump of a border policy that has ushered into the United St ..read more

The French created an ingenious prison cell so confining that the occupant of the cell could never stand, sit or rest at ease. They called it, appropriately enough, “the little ease.” Conservatives, libertarians and independents in Connecticut must occasionally feel the constraints of the little ease, but there are outlets in the state that relieve the constant pressure. Pastor Will Marotti’s radio program on WTIC 1080 provided some release. The above-named groups have been short sheeted in Connecticut for decades. There has been little presence of conservative, libertarian, independent and ..read more