Tag Archives: Colleen O’Connor

O’Connor: Is Arizona’s immigration policy our new ‘Civil War?’

Thomas Jefferson called slavery, “a fire bell in the night.” He saw it as one of the seminal causes of the U.S. Civil War, just a few decades away. In order to form any union, let alone a perfect union, the Founding Fathers finessed the issue of slavery when writing the U.S. Constitution, just as [...]

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O’Connor: God bless Sarah Palin, the Tea Party Movement

By: Coleen O’Connor, SDNN Consider the following: A just released Pew Poll finds that nearly 80 percent of Americans do not trust their government. This is hardly a surprise. Predictably, the survey finds “a perfect storm of conditions associated with distrust of government – a dismal economy, an unhappy public, bitter partisan-based backlash, and epic [...]

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O’Connor: Is Nancy Pelosi radioactive or retiring?

By Colleen O’Connor Who can forget the images? Just over a year ago. Hillary Clinton, defeated in her quest to become the first woman elected President of the U.S.— returning to the U.S. Senate for an agonizing and awkward reunion with her colleagues — and suffering the embrace of Sen. Ted Kennedy, who endorsed the [...]

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Colleen O’Connor: Meg Whitman could win

[Editor's note:  This column was written June 2009.  It is as up to date in it's analysis as if it was written this weekend] By:  Colleen O’Connor Few believe that any Republican can win the governorship of one of the country’s most dependably Democratic states—California. I beg to differ. It could happen. Everything seems to [...]

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O’Connor: Bank on California’s future (yes, it still has a future)

By: Colleen O’Connor Lunar New Year began Sunday. The Year of the Tiger, a symbol of courage, and celebrated by the Chinese, Vietnamese, Koreans and others. An apt description for the Chinese economy—a tiger that the world envies for its strength and fears for its power. “As a rebel, the tiger goes up against authority [...]

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The Solid Principles Report: February 11th, 2010

The Solid Principles Report: February 11th, 2010 We speak with SDNN Political Columnist Colleen O’Connor about the allegations Steve Poizner has made against Meg Whitman and the Californian Gubernatorial Race.  Hear an extract of our upcoming interview with John Dennis, currently challenging Nancy Pelosi in the 8th Congressional District seat.  We also speak with John Cronin about the upcoming Obamacare Forum with Republican Leaders, [...]

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Three liberal states have been hit with TNT, is California next?

by Colleen O’Connor To hear an interview with Colleen O’Connor, download episode 19 of the Solid Principles Podcast ‘T’ is for Tea Party The fuse was lit in Virginia. It moved along in New Jersey. And it caught fire in Massachusetts. The “Teabag Revolution” has put every politician on notice. Some political and electoral dynamite [...]

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SOLID PRINCIPLES PODCAST: Episode 19

SOLID PRINCIPLES PODCAST: Episode 19 The Colleen O’Connor Interview OR A funny thing happened on the way to the Senate in Massachusetts: A rare interview with San Diego News Network political columnist and professor Colleen O’Connor on the subject of Obama, The Massachusetts Special Senate Election and The California Gubernatorial Race. DOWNLOAD, add the RSS Feed [...]

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Solid Principles.com Interviews San Diego News Network’s Colleen O’Connor

Great News!!…….Craig just finished the interview with Colleen O’Connor of the SAN DIEGO NEWS NETWORK and he said it turned out great. Colleen emailed me a couple of days ago to let me know that we are the ONLY ORGANIZATION that she has granted an interview to and that she has been approached by other [...]

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O’Connor: Can the Clintons save Obama and the planet?

Colleen O”Connor, in her piece for the SDNN, says that:  “Obama has lost the trust of the majority of Americans.”  This perception has been spreading month by month and it is graphically depicted in the trend line of Rasmussen Reports Presidential Approval charts. Craig Edwards and I have been talking about this for months on our [...]

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