If You Ask Me

How often have you heard people say how proud they are that their ancestors who migrated to this country long ago came here “legally,” unlike those terrible illegals today.

When a 17-year-old driving a stolen Audi was arrested in New Britain after he killed a jogger in a hit-and-run late last month, we learned the teenager had been arrested 13 times in the past three years but had never been tried or otherwise disciplined for crimes ranging from reckless driving to assault with a knife.

After sending American troops into Afghanistan right after 9/11 to destroy the perpetrator Osama bin Laden, his terrorist group, al Qaeda, and their Afghan ally, the Taliban, the United States has ended the 20-year war after reaching just two of those three goals.

After seven years of trying and failing, the 2021 Connecticut General Assembly followed 18 other states in legalizing the possession and sale of marijuana.  

It’s far too early for any sensible observer of the political scene to be talking about presidential possibilities in the 2024 election, so let’s do it anyway.

“Not freedom for the thought of those who agree with us, but freedom for the thought that we hate.”

In the words of the legendary phrasemaker Yogi Berra, the University of Connecticut has found itself in an embarrassing “déjà vu all over again” situation by making another sweetheart financial deal with an ex president.

There has been talk about how President Biden’s ambitious legislative program — trillions for infrastructure, education, immigration reform, climate control — is reminiscent of the incredible first Hundred Days of Franklin Roosevelt’s first term. But is there really any comparison?