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On Friday the news broke that pro-abortionists are trying to censor a pro-life state license plate. On Saturday one commenter at Connecticut Local Politics noted that the license plate “has the potential” to become a campaign issue while another wondered if my criticism of a “Trainspotting” quote meant that I was “saying pro-choice people are […]

An excerpt from “LeBeau faces conservative,” a May 23 Journal Inquirer article that is not available online: Democratic Sen. Gary D. LeBeau of East Hartford will run for a sixth term in the 3rd Senate District against Republican newcomer Eric A. Thompson Sr. Thompson is the director of religious outreach for the Family Institute of […]

First we defeated a pro-abortion attack on the religious freedom of Catholic hospitals. Then we defeated the pro-abortionists’ attempt to financially penalize those hospitals. Now those same pro-abortionists are trying to censor pro-life license plates: A swirling national First Amendment debate hit Connecticut Thursday as the Department of Motor Vehicles said it will stop issuing […]

“After 91 years, St. Margaret’s School will close its doors next month for the last time,” begins the sad front-page story in today’s Republican-American: Soaring health insurance costs and dwindling enrollment are forcing church officials to close the Willow Street Catholic school after graduation. The school has 180 students from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade. “This […]

Dan Malloy, Mayor of Stamford and pro same-sex “marriage” extremist, won the Democratic Party’s endorsement for governor. Pro-family Democrats voting in the August primary and the November election should know that their party’s endorsed candidate considers them “cynical” and “ignorant”: Mayor Malloy opined that opposition to gay rights was based on a mix of political […]

There will be several “Rallies of Reparation and Protest” against the anti-Christian Da Vinci Code movie throughout Connecticut the weekend it opens. The O’Neil Theater located on Route 12 in Lisbon will be the site of one protest from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Friday, May 19. Also on May 19, beginning at 11:00 […]

A judge in Georgia has struck down a Marriage Protection Amendment that was approved by more than three quarters of the voters: ATLANTA — A judge has struck down Georgia’s ban on same-sex marriages, saying a measure overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2004 violated a provision of the state constitution that limits ballot questions to […]

Since Monday’s post, a few of you have e-mailed us about Kevin Rennie’s April 30 Courant column regarding Sen. Andrew McDonald. Here is the relevant section: The other chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Andrew McDonald, D-Stamford, initiated some unsettling contact with [chief state’s attorney] Christopher Morano. In 2005, Morano’s office began an investigation into […]

Sen. Andrew McDonald (D-Stamford, Darien), one of the state legislature’s biggest proponents of same-sex unions, may have a pro-family opponent in this year’s elections according to the Stamford Advocate: Rick Giordano is a supporter of the Family Institute of Connecticut, a group that lobbied hard against the civil union legislation passed last year, and Democrats […]

They can begin applying for $20 million of taxpayer funds to clone-and kill human embryos: Connecticut scientists today can begin applying for $20 million in state money to conduct stem cell research… Preference will be given to research conducted with human embryonic stem cells… The committee’s work was delayed briefly by a State Ethics Commission […]