An excellent post at New London Calling today about The Day’s intellectually uninspired editorial.

Update: We’ve added New London Calling to the blogroll.

On Friday afternoons, we bring you a light-hearted video to get your weekend started a little early. Since our first ‘Happy Friday Afternoon’, we’ve brought you some hits - Karma Chameleon from Boy George, Van Halen’s Jump, and last week’s very awesome MacGyver opening credits.

Enjoy this week’s selection.

The conventional wisdom has always been that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani would be an extremely strong candidate here in Connecticut. Many of the good folks of Fairfield County commute into the City each day and know firsthand about the accomplishments and improvements made to the Big Apple during the Giuliani years. And no one forgets the 66 Connecticut residents lost their life on 9/11 nor the leadership shown by the Mayor thereafter.

It is against this backdrop that the Giuliani for President campaign makes inroads in Connecticut, and it clearly seems to be paying off. In our recent poll here, 31.5% of the vote went to Giuliani. With this in mind, it comes as little surprise that Giuliani announces today the growing strength of his campaign in Connecticut. In addition to the previously announced leaders of his campaign in the State, Senate Republican Leader John McKinney and House Republican Leader Larry Cafero, elected officials from all walks of life are now on board.

Ralph Capenera, a small businessman and member of the Republican State Central Committee will be the First Congressional District Regional Chairman.

Senator John Kissel from Enfield and State Representative Ray Kalinowski will be the 2nd District Regional Chairs.

Mayor Seb Giuliano of Middletown and Mayor Joe Maturo of East Haven, plus RSCC Member Art DeSorbo, will head up the 3rd District efforts.

Senator Dan Debicella will be chairman in the 4th District and

Mayor Tim Stewart in the 5th District.

It’s a veritable “Who’s Who” of Connecticut Republican politics from all across the State. Cafero is quoted thus: “Connecticut voters know of the executive leadership experience and the record of real results Rudy Giuliani got as Mayor of our neighbor New York City. We know he is the most experienced candidate who will get the same real results as President of the United States.”

In Connecticut, it seems, Giuliani will be the man to beat.

We’re starting a new feature here at The Everyday Republican. We want to call your attention to some of the other great ‘right-minded’ blogging going on in Connecticut from our very own blogroll. Today we start “Down the Blogroll”.

The first post of note is from Connecticut Commentary by Don Pesci, Carter Does Quinnipiac. Excellent breakdown of the ever-underwhelming Jimmy Carter. No wonder people voted for this guy.

Danbury Politics has a roundup of mayoral media from Danbury. Other than getting sued yesterday, Mayor Boughton seems to be rolling.

Headless Horseman has a great piece on the Chris Caruso lawsuit. Hilarious. Best line: “But he does have the right to call a press conference and demonstrate what a pompous, arrogant, blustering oaf he is. It’s his God-given right.” Indeed.

Genghis Conn over at Connecticut Local Politics did a ‘State of the Blogosphere’ post once that was a very instructive guide for getting into the often complex world of niche blogging. At that time, February 5, 2006, the blog Connecticut Conservative was one of the small handful of right-minded blogs that represented Republicans in the Connecticut blogosphere. But that blog’s creator, Sean, migrated to CTLP and then disappeared and was never heard from again. Since that time, Connecticut Republicans had been without a significant ’single stop’ for blogging in the Nutmeg state.

Chairman Chris Healy came to the CTGOP with the aim of contributing to a turnaround of the Republican Party’s fortunes in Connecticut. The disappointing 2006 election season, in which the disgust from Republicans over runaway spending and ethical lapses, war weariness from independent voters, and a virulent strain of antipathy motivating liberals, all combined to cause the stinging defeat of Rep. Nancy Johnson in the 5th District and Rep. Rob Simmons in the 2nd District. Many Republicans were, and continue to be, openly derisive of their Party. And so there was much to be done to re-energize Connecticut Republicans.

One effort we have made is to, on a daily basis, contribute to the political dialogue by blogging each day about current news and events - live blogging in some cases, and in most others reporting and commenting on issues as they arise. And by doing this, we have become a hub for Republicans in this State who seek out more information on politics. Our readership has grown from a few people each day to over a hundred each day. And we continue to grow.

The Everyday Republican will work to include new content and more information in the weeks and months ahead. We hope you will continue to visit.

The News-Times has the story here. As just seen on FOXNEWS, the city of Danbury was sued for aiding ICE in the arrest of illegal immigrants. Quotes from the story:

“I get out of the van to help demolish a fence, and all of the sudden I’m surrounded, shoved against the van, and told not to move,” said Juan Barrera, one of the 11, who spoke at a press conference Wednesday in Danbury held to announce the lawsuit.

Danbury’s Republican Mayor, Mark Boughton, said this: “This was an ICE operation from the beginning. They were arrested on federal charges by ICE. We helped ICE like we would help any federal agency that asks,” Boughton said. “We’ve helped the FBI, DEA, Secret Service and ICE.”

A week earlier, Baker said part of Danbury’s support in the ICE raid was that a Danbury police officer drove the van that picked up the day laborers. “This is a lot more about the politics of illegal immigration than it is about an arrest in Danbury,” he said.

“My father, my cousins, my grandmother all went through the process. They’ve been very frustrated by the process and in some cases thwarted by the process, but they’d be the first people to say you have to obey the law,” Saadi said.