Zachary Janowski, investigative reporter for the Yankee Institute for Public Policy, addresses the Connecticut Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society on January 18, 2012. Dr. Roger Pilon, a Cato Institute Scholar, spoke earlier in the morning about whether the individual mandate will hold up at the U.S. Supreme Court.  

The Occupy Hartford protest on the corner of Broad St. and Farmington Ave. lacked protesters Friday afternoon, leaving only a small radio to speak for the movement amid the tents full of trash. “Neither rain nor snow nor dark of night,” one sign promises emptily. At shortly after 2 p.m. on a Friday – with [...]

“If there were, God forbid, some accident at this hotel, the Republican Party and the conservative movement in Connecticut would be decimated for decades to come,” The Weekly Standard’s William Kristol told a crowd of more than 200 at a Nov. 4 Yankee Institute luncheon. “So let’s hope everything is stable for the next hour.” [...]

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Sen. Joe Lieberman sat down for an interview with the Heritage Foundation’s Rob Bluey after giving the annual B.C. Lee Lecture Nov. 2 on America’s interests in Asia and the Pacific. Lieberman said a failure by the Supercommittee would lead to drastic cuts in military spending. “We would have failed to uphold our constitutional responsibility [...]

  Former Gov. Lowell Weicker, a Republican who became an independent, spoke to a luncheon July 15 hosted by No Labels and the Comeback American Initiative. He compared Gov. Dannel Malloy’s budget challenges with his own, which led to passage of the income tax.

  Former Rep. Barbara Kennelly, a Democrat, spoke to a luncheon July 15 hosted by No Labels and the Comeback American Initiative. She talked about how commonplace debt-ceiling votes are in Congress.

  Ben Barnes, Gov. Dannel Malloy’s budget chief, spoke to a luncheon July 15 hosted by No Labels and the Comeback American Initiative. He talked about reducing pension costs through an agreement with state employee unions.