Don Pesci

Connecticut, Vernon

Political Commentator and Columnist, Red Notes From A Blue State at Freelance

I write columns for Connecticut newspapers. The blog is here: http://t.co/Ut1m1KsWxM

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The Left And Right In American Politics

1 week ago | connecticutcentinal.com | Don Pesci

Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gettr, Truth Social, TwitterA Doxology of the LeftIf you find yourself agreeing, even sleepily, to three or more of the italicized propositions below, you may proudly count yourself a man or woman of the left. 1) A Feodor Dostoevsky character exclaims in one of his novels, “If there is no God, anything is possible.” There is no God, and anything is possible.
Common Sense And Abortion

1 week ago | connecticutcentinal.com | Don Pesci

Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gettr, Truth Social, TwitterThe birth control pill has been with us for a long time. The “morning after pill”, as it has been called, a pill designed to abort birth after conception, is readily available in Connecticut for about $25, and surgical abortion, Planned Parenthood’s money maker, is also readily available in birth control Connecticut.
Common Sense And Deficit Spending

1 week ago | connecticutcentinal.com | Don Pesci

Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gettr, Truth Social, TwitterStates – Connecticut in particular -- should avoid deficit spending whenever possible for the same reason Mr. Micawber in Charles Dickins’ David Copperfield suffered misery because he had failed to keep his eye on personal debt.
Long Live the Pope – [your]NEWS

3 weeks ago | yournews.com | Don Pesci

By Don PesciColumnist for the New York Times Ross Dothat, a reliable guide in Catholic matters, tells us in a recent column – “Pope Francis and the end of the imperial papacy” — that the late pope had unraveled “the attempted doctrinal settlements of previous popes,” thereby “unsettling conservative like me.”The unraveling of papal authority had been hastened by “two rebellions” tolerated by Francis. The first involved a partly successful suppression of the Latin Mass.
Don’s Newsletter

3 weeks ago | open.substack.com | Don Pesci

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A Conservative View Of Connecticut Taxes

3 weeks ago | connecticutcentinal.com | Don Pesci

Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gettr, Truth Social, TwitterSome underrepresented conservatives and libertarians in Connecticut were buoyed, momentarily, by the neo-progressive resistance to President Donald Trump’s tariff initiative. A tariff is a tax, a political charge on incoming goods, said the anti-Trump chorus, and taxes raise the price of goods for middle class Americans and the American poor. This refreshing honesty burst several neo-progressive bubbles.
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3 weeks ago | donpesci.substack.com | Don Pesci

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The PURA Grand Guignol

3 weeks ago | connecticutcentinal.com | Don Pesci

Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gettr, Truth Social, TwitterComplexity has been added to complexity in the unfolding PURA mess. And we all know, do we not, that political fraud of every kind nests comfortably in complexity, awaiting a resolution that resolves little? PURA is Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.
The PURA Grand Guignol – [your]NEWS

3 weeks ago | yournews.com | Don Pesci

Complexity has been added to complexity in the unfolding PURA mess. And we all know, do we not, that political fraud of every kind nests comfortably in complexity, awaiting a resolution that resolves little? PURA is Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Until the elevation of Marissa Gillett to the commission’s top position, PURA was, according to statute forming it, a (six) member commission whose mission was the regulation of public utilities.
Interview With The Cynic, April 15, 2025

4 weeks ago | connecticutcentinal.com | Don Pesci

Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gettr, Truth Social, TwitterCC: We haven’t talked with you in a while. How are you? Cynic: Likely not as good as you, from the looks of you. CC: Meaning? Cynic: You are young, I am old: “I wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.”CC: Ah, T.S. Elliot. And Connecticut? How goes the state?