Although the nation's mortgage meltdown has kept the Senate Banking Committee plenty busy, they managed to find a moment last week to deal with a far different threat to America — Iran.   Read More »

Love him or hate him, Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy is to politics what Marlon Brando is to film — a dramatic force. Cheers echoed through the Senate last week as the 76-year-old slowly walked   Read More »

WASHINGTON — President Bush is expected to seek a troop surge in Iraq as part of a new strategy for a war that has gone terribly wrong since his 2003 declaration aboard the USS   Read More »

I really hate to gloat, but boy did I nail my predictions for 2006! Every single prognostication came true! That's no easy task. Just consider that professional prognosticators at California   Read More »

U.S. Sen. John Kerry still thinks he's a presidential contender, but the only way he is getting into the White House is on a tour. Kerry killed his chances for a second shot at the nation's top job   Read More »

With the Thanksgiving holiday behind them, Congress should return to the Capitol and complete action on a 2006 budget that is long overdue. The fiscal year began Oct.   Read More »

Humility is not a lesson often learned in victory, but it is one that Sen. Joe Lieberman and Rep. Christopher Shays should heed. They survived the political guillotine on Tuesday by the thinnest of margins and largely because Connecticut voters believe in redemption.   Read More »

With Election Day fast approaching, MSNBC pundit Tucker Carlson steadfastly refused to apologize to Connecticut voters after inartfully referring to them as "bizarro.   Read More »

With control of the House and Senate on the line, the mud is flying fast and furiously this election   Read More »

Cut and run.Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., appears to have adopted that much derided strategy this election cycle. For Democrats there are few places where more is on the line than in Connecticut.   Read More »

A sober reading of the National Intelligence Estimate released to the public last week leaves no doubt that America faces an expanded terrorist threat since invading Iraq in March 2003.   Read More »

In a last-minute flurry of futility, members of Congress submitted 341 new bills for consideration in the 109th session as they headed out the door to campaign full time for re-election.   Read More »

As supporters of Sen. Joe Lieberman gathered at the Goodwin Hotel in Hartford Tuesday, Carlos Arredondo stood vigil outside, patiently waiting to   Read More »