I'm a bit confused by news that the Archdiocese of Hartford is about to offer a program to help gay parishioners. I'm not scratching my head over the old bugaboo that if the Catholic Church talks to gay people, it encourages them to be gay. Talking about something doesn't make...

That giant sucking sound you hear is Ron Paul's presidential bid. For the sake of the country, though, I hope he wins Iowa.

Last week, Reuters reported on a solicitation in the early 1990s that urged voters to subscribe to his newsletters, The Ron Paul Investment Letter and...

NEW HAVEN -- Jack Fowler was not amused.

Or maybe he was. It's hard to say.

The publisher of the National Review was asked what he thought of the American flag being flown upside by protesters at Occupy New Haven on the city's historic Green. The flag has been...

Brian Stelter wrote last weekend about the news coverage of Occupy Wall Street and of its offshoots. Stelter reports that the Pew Research Center's new survey found that OWS captured just 10 percent of national news coverage (presumably liberal, moderate or conservative media combined) starting in October. Coverage...

Do we live in a corporate police state?

By that, I mean are we seeing the privatization of public authority (police, courts) and the privileging of property and capital in the prosecution of the law? So much suggests lately that our representative government doesn't represent the 99 percent. We...

Connecticut was the only state in the union to move completely to the left after the 2010 elections. While other states rushed to elect Tea Party-backed Republicans, the Constitution State sent liberal Democrats to the House. Life-long Democrat Richard Blumenthal beat billionaire Linda McMahon, the former CEO of World Wrestling...