Tourism
Visit Connecticut (State of Ct tourism site.)
Destination Mystic mostly hotel listings for the Mystic area.
Connecticut State and Local Parks
Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
Connecticut DEP Recreation page
Hiking
Ct State Parks and Forest Maps
Airline Trail See Photos
S. 3480 - Lieberman's Call To Silence the People
See other notes on Senator Lieberman.
Environment
- Our Plunder of Nature will End Up Killing Capitalism: Joe Bageant (7/11/2010)
- Extreme Energy Nightmares to Come (6/22/2010)
- National Academy of Sciences urges strong action to cut greenhouse gases (5/19/2010)
- Gooey Black Corporate Greed (5/4/2010)
- What Conservatives are saying about the Gulf Oil Disaster (5/1/2010)
- Republicans blocked Climate Change action with Immigration
- The Climate Killers (Rolling Stone 1/6/2010)
- Bolivia Organizes Summit to Solve Climate Change Issues (12/21/2009)
- Copenhagen Ends in Failure (12/18/2009)
- U.S. refuses Kyoto as basis for Copenhagen (10/7/2009)
- Cassandras of Climate (9/27/2009)
- Global crisis 'to strike by 2030' (3/19/2009)
- Obama Restoring Endangered Species Act Provision (3/3/2009)
- Pace of Climate Change Exceeds Estimates (2/15/2009)
- Climate Change Largely Irreversible (1/26/2009)
- George Will's Global Warming distortion (2/22/2009)
- Political interference at the EPA
Economy
- GOP Economic Terrorism (7/12/2010)
- Republicans Want as Many Unemployed People as Possible, Because They Think it will get Them Elected (7/7/2010)
- Slouching Toward a Double Dip or a Lousy Recovery at Best (7/3/2010) Robert Reich
- Punishing the Jobless (Krugman) (7/4/2010)
- Sticking the Public With the Bill for the Bankers' Crisis (6/28/2010)
- Why Deficit Hawks are Killing the Recovery (5/28/2010)
- The Jobs Deficit & the Breaking Point (5/27/2010)
- America's Ten Most Corrupt Capitalists (5/13/2010)
- A Simple Way to End This Recession...Forever (5/10/2010)
- The Costs of Complexity (4/29/2010)
- Obama Packs Debt Commission With Social Security Looters (3/28/2010)
- Address Jobs Now and Deficits Later (2/24/2010)
- Financial Industry Heavily Backed Scott Brown (2/1/2010)
- Looting Social Security (1/5/2010)
- Lessons From America's Lost Decade (1/15/2010)
- 2010: "The Year of Severe Economic Contraction" (12/15/2009)
- Krugman: It Seems Like Washington Wants Another Financial Disaster (12/16/2009)
- America's Race For The Bottom (12/12/2009)
- Things Could Get Ugly Fast
- The Economic Crisis and What Must be Done
- Secret Plan to Ditch the U.S. Dollar's Dominance Uncovered (10/6/2009)
- Another economic fall ? (9/29/2009)
Elections
- Welcome to the Banana Republic of the USA where we still have Enron style elections (6/7/2010)
- BlackBoxVoting to File Anti-Trust Complaint against ES&S/Diebold merger
- Lessig Levels the Citizens United Decision (2/11/2010)
- Mysterious Death of Mike Connell—Karl Rove’s Election Thief
- Diebold admits voting machine flaws (3/22/2009)
- Diebold has a "Delete" button for erasing audit logs (3/3/2009)
- The Ultimate Election
- Election Machines are unreliable and prone to hacking (10/27/2008)
- Elections, Hot Air, and Gas (4/29/2008)
- Rambo and the GOP (12/01/2007)
- Obama Outwits the Bloviators (8/31/2008) (Note)
Politics
- Conservatives Don’t Care About the Deficit, They Care About Screwing the Poor (7/15/2010)
- The Tea Party is Dangerous (7/1/2010) (See this Note.)
- What's Wrong With Big Government ? 5/10/2010
- Conservative Republicans Want to Deprive Terrorists of All Rights — Except Right to Buy Guns (5/6/2010)
- This is Why We Need to Change Congress (4/26/2010)
- We're Living in a Kleptocracy (4/20/2010)
- 3 Toxic Ingredients for the GOP Victory Plan (4/12/2010)
- The Party of Cruelty (3/26/2010)
- The New Dumb (3/25/2010)
- Student Loans: The Right's Hidden Agenda (3/23/2010)
- Round Midnight: Tortillas and the Corporate State (2/25/2010)
- Do Republicans Deserve an Award ? (1/2010)
- Senate Republicans: Filibuster everything and win in November? (2/12/2010)
- Right Wing Politics is mostly dirty tricks (1/28/2010)
- Worst Supreme Court decision since Dred Scott (1/22/2010)
- US Government For Sale(1/21/2010)
- Massachusetts' Message of Stupid (1/21/2010)
- What Scott Brown's Victory Really Means (1/21/2010)
- The Great Tea Party Rip-Off (1/16/2010)
- No, We're Not A Broken People (12/31/2009)
- Can We Rescue the Republic Before the Dark Politics Take Over?
- Why Our System Doesn't Work (12/25/2009)
- We Need a Fighter to Take on the Deranged Right-Wing
- Meet the Stupids (9/4/2009)
- Conservatism is Evil (9/4/2009)
- Why David Broder is Wrong: John Conyers (9/3/2009)
- My 1933 Nightmare (8/11/2009)
- Conservatives Find New Way to Abuse the Constitution (8/27/2009)
- The Danger in the Right's Anger (8/3/2009)
- Excusing Outrages of the Right (6/15/2009)
- Government's Secret Treaty
- How Americans Came to Support Torture (5/12/2009)
- Appomattox Again (4/10/2009)
- Resist or Become Serfs (4/6/2009)
- Fools on the Hill (4/2/2009)
- America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout (3/25/2009)
- US is Facing a Weimar Moment (3/16/2009)
- The Laugher Curve (3/4/2009)
- Can You Trust Republicans ? (2/27/2009)
- The Wingnut Revolution (2/26/2009)
- Countering Conservative Claptrap (Robert Reich) 2/19/2009
- Conservatives Who Want the U.S. to Fail (2/14/2008)
- Republicans Clearly Are Willing to Let This Country Collapse if They Think it Will Win Them Elections(2/4/2009)
- Why House Republicans Aren't Worth Listening To (1/27/2009)
- About the New Republican Chairman (1/30/2009)
- Seymour Hersh writes Bloody Murder, but nobody notices. (3/14/2007)
- About Bush
Media
- The Disappearing Intellectual (7/12/2010)
- 15,000 Progressive Activists in Detroit: Why No Media or Respect? (6/26/2010)
- Why the BP Disaster Threatens to Expose Fox News' Insanity to Its Right-Wing Audience (6/24/2010) (note)
- Are Americans as Stupid as the Media Think They Are? (3/30/2010)
- Tribune Plans Millions in Exec Bonuses while Reporting Gets Cut
- Corporate Media Love a Horserace--but They Love Gatekeeping Even More (1/13/2010)
- Who Will Win the Cable Wars? Not You. (1/4/2010)
- Mad Men 2.0 (10/5/2009)
- The Rise of Gladiator TV (10/5/2009)
- Covering the Great Recession (10/02/2009)
- Where Did We Go ? (9/30/2009)
- First They Came For Acorn (9/26/2009)
- Time to Embrace American Royalty (8/30/2009)
- 30 Songs ? That'll Be $675,000 (8/1/2009)
- Limbaugh's $400 Million Contract Is an Even Match for Clear Channel's Layoffs (5/7/2009)
- Consolidation Won't Save the Media (3/26/2009)
- How the Pentagon Owns Media (Pulitzer) (4/21/2009)
- Cable Giants Continue Hoping No One Will Notice Their Attempts to Destroy the Internet (4/21/2009)
- Cable News Blues (3/26/2009)
- The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers (3/18/2009)
- Media's Deliberate Stupidity (3/13/2009)
- Right Wing Media and the Politics of Vitriol (1/2009)
- Most Outrageous Comments of 2008
- Burlington Telecomm Case Study
- Media threat to Democracy
- Corporate media is the enemy of Democracy
Healthcare
- Leading doctors call for urgent crackdown on junk food (7/11/2010)
- Healthcare Explainers (3/24/2010)
- 10 Most Outrageous Right-Wing Freakouts Over the Health Care Bill (3/23/2010)
- Pass the Bill
- What about Lieberman ? (video) Note
- Whose Team Is It, Anyway ?
- 'Conservative' Democrats Threaten Filibuster (11/23/2009)
- Lieberman Twists The Knife (10/30/2009)
- The Insurance Industry's Deceptive Report (10/12/2009)
- Revolving Door Shuts on Public Option (10/10/2009)
- Health Insurers Threaten Rate Hikes (10/9/2009)
- Democrats Ponder Health-Care Suicide (10/4/20009)
- Journalism in the Heartland (9/30/2009)
- Baucus Scores a Big Win for Big Pharma (9/24/2009)
- Sick and Wrong: Matt Taibbi
- A Public Option would save many Billions (9/1/2009)
- Healthcare's 13 Tyrants (8/14/2009)
- "Big Government" and the Health Care Crazies (8/20/2009)
- Healthcare Reform: Sick and Wrong (8/19/2009)
- Teabaggers protesting Healthcare (8/7/2009)
- How Republicans plan to thwart Health Care Reform (8/3/2009)
- Bill Moyers: Dangerous Alliance of Health Industry and Right-Wingers Will Stop at Nothing to Derail Progressive Reforms (7/27/2009)
- Healthcare Corporate Fraud (6/25/2009)
- Move to Single-Payer is Crucial (4/10/2009)
- Media Blackout on Single-Payer Healthcare (3/6/2009)
- "Socialized" medicine: Next front in the right's "-isms" arms race
- Why Conservatives are radical on healthcare (3/8/2009)
- Health Care Now By PAUL KRUGMAN January 29, 2009
- Lobbies backing Healthcare Reform (12/3/2008)
Labor
- Meet Joe Bageant
- American Jobs Plan
- GOP: 'ACTION ALERT - AUTO BAILOUT' (12/12/2008)
- Herbert Hoover time (12/12/2008)
Why Not ?
War
- Get Serious About The Deficit and Cut Military Spending (7/27/2010)
- Looking For A Fight (7/25/2010) (Bruce Gagnon)
- Obama Has Kept the Machine Set On Kill (Alan Nairn)
- Obama Dominated by the Military (Seymour Hersh: 5/8/2010)
- Have A Nice World War, Folks (3/25/2010)
- Hiding War Horrors from Americans
- 2010: U.S. To Wage War Throughout The World By Rick Rozoff
- War in South America ?
- Liberal Democrats take aim at funding for war (12/4/2009)
- The Land Mines Obama Won't Touch
- Who Are the Deciders ? (10/3/2009)
- Iraq - The Incredible Shrinking Story
- U.S., NATO Poised For Most Massive War In Afghanistan's History (9/24/2009)
- Making War to Bring Peace (Noam Chomsky) 8/3/2009
- About Guantanamo (Larry Wilkerson) (3/17/2009)
- War on Drugs is a Failure (3/13/2009) See this.
International
- US builds up its bases in oil-rich South America
- Reforming Global Finance (12/1/2008)
- The Global Crisis of Capitalism (12/11/2008)
- Regime Change in Global Finance (11/22/2008)
- Global Famine (5/2/2008)
- US Failing Foreign Aid Commitments (4/4/2008)
- What you should know about Norway (5/14/2009)
- What you should know about Finland.
- Robert Kuttner writes about Denmark
Connecticut
- Democrats are not to blame (12/27/2009)
- Use Waste Heat from Power Generation ? (7/30/2009)
- Connecticut Good News
