Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

US Senator Dick Blumenthal and Hillary Clinton were Yalies together back in the day. On Friday, April 10, Blumenthal “gushed” over his old Yale compatriot, according to an item by Neil Vigdor of the Hearst Group : “Blumenthal gushed Friday over Clinton’s political stock, ahead of the former secretary of state’s announcement Sunday that she is running for president in 2016. “’She literally can make history,’ Blumenthal told Hearst Connecticut Media. ‘How many people have been a presidential spouse, a senator in her own right and a distinguished secretary of state with a record of representing a major state (New York) and our nation abroad? By any measure, she is very seriously and significantly qualified, especially as compared to some of the other contenders.’

No national interest of ours could justify handing sovereign control of two-thirds of the earth’s surface over to the Third World . . . . The underdeveloped nations who now control the General Assembly are looking for a free ride at our expense—again. President Reagan, 1978 President Reagan sent his personal emissary, Donald Rumsfeld, to visit our allies around the world to explain his opposition to the Treaty and ask them to support him—which they did. Awaiting a vote now in the U.S. Senate, a “relic of the 1970s,” is the Law of the Sea Treaty, known by the acronym LOST. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has done a cursory review, holding two hearings. Seven witnesses testified in support, two against (Frank Gaffney of Center for Security Policy and Fred Smith of the Competitive Enterprise Institute). Not attending either hearing were two Republican senators who are up for reelection in 2...

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...

According to a Hartford newspaper , this is the kind of remark, made by Senator Joe Lieberman on a “Face the Nation” broadcast, that has “infuriated” a lot of his critics: “"If we leave precipitously - if we say we're going on X day, everybody's getting out - as bad as things are, they will get worse. There will be an all-out civil war in Iraq. Iran will surge in to control large parts of that country. There will be a wider regional war. And al-Qaida and similar radical Islamist terrorists will use Iraq as a safe haven from which to attack us and others." Some of Lieberman’s hot-headed critics are easily infuriated. Now, the first thing we should notice about the infuriating remark is that it is predictive rather than descriptive. Lieberman is saying “If A happens, B, C, and D will follow. There are only two ways to answer a prediction: You may wait until an event happens and then view the consequences to see if the prediction is true; or you may use your intelligence...