Under Paris, China doesn’t even have to start reducing emissions until 2030. Meanwhile, under the original Obama-era agreement, America is required to slash emissions by 26 to 28 percent in the next five years. But Biden has promised to go further, entirely eliminating carbon emissions from the electric sector by 2035 and imposing strict gas-mileage standards to reach zero emissions by 2050.
While people admire the Governor Lamont's calm and conscientious manner, they may lose patience as his plan for returning Connecticut to normal starts reversing. His reversal amid fears that the epidemic is surging again should prompt reconsideration of the measures being used to set policy.
After many false starts — including the zero-tolerance policy that drove family separations — the Trump administration got a handle on the border thanks to its “remain in Mexico” policy and “safe third country” agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
The Trump administration managed to get Mexico to agree to the so-called Migration Protection Protocols. This meant that asylum-seekers from countries other than Mexico could be made to remain in Mexico while their claims were adjudicated in the U.S. Also, under the safe-third-country agreements, asylum-seekers could be sent to Guatemala, El Salvador, or Honduras (whichever wasn’t their home country) to apply for asylum there.
Zoning for residential housing is on the ballot this November. Activists and Democrat legislators in Hartford have plans to change how we govern and live in our towns.
Their agenda? To denounce Connecticut as one of the most racially segregated states in the country, geographically and economically. Then, demand that the only solution is a statewide takeover of local zoning laws that would result in denser housing and less open space than we now value.
At first glance, the final presidential debate might have seemed like a draw, but a closer look shows that Trump was the big winner. Trump landed blows that damaged Biden with a constituency Biden desperately needs to win the presidency — African American voters. Trump cleaned Biden’s clock on race.
Democrats are threatening to pack the Supreme Court if Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed, but they might not have the Senate votes if the chamber is closely divided. No problem: The number of seats in the Senate, as on the High Court bench, can be adjusted to fit Democrats’ evolving ideological preferences.
In June the House for the first time passed a bill that would make the District of Columbia a state, and Barack Obama in July called Puerto Rican statehood a progressive priority.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said recently that he’d “love to make them states.” This can be done with an act of Congress, so a 104-seat Senate would be on the table with a Democratic sweep.
The late Tom Petty unwittingly vocalized lyrics aptly prophetic of the current perspective of Connecticut's ruling emperor Ned Lamont. "It's good to be king just for a while / To be there in velvet, to give them a smile / It's good to get high and never come down / It’s good to be king of your own little town."
I can't blame the governor for seizing power from a docile, Democrat-controlled legislature eagerly willing to roll over for a gentle political belly rub while the outnumbered and impotent Republican leadership weakly feigns opposition, resulting in the vexatious simulated white noise that fades harmlessly into our subconscious. Connecticut's long-standing one-party rule has quickly become a one-person rule and the citizens have been cast as the Serfs.
Absolute power is intoxicating and it's easy to envision the governor sitting on his velveteen throne, barking executive orders to his scurrying minions. Apparently, democracy in the Nutmeg State is old fashion as recently the governor commented on his expanded powers saying, “Having everything up for a vote by 151 people is not the way to go." Clearly Connecticut is the newest benefactor of a benevolent dictator.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was leading a hunt Sunday for a gunman who shot two deputies multiple times in an ambush Saturday night.
Both deputies were in critical condition, officials said.
The deputies, who worked in the department’s transit services bureau, were shot while sitting in their parked patrol vehicle near the Compton station of the Metro A Line, a light rail in Los Angeles. The gunman walked past the passenger side of the car shortly before 7 p.m., the officials said, then turned around and fired several rounds from a pistol into the vehicle. He then fled on foot, the officials said.
