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How Blackrock Investment Fund Triggered the Global Energy Crisis

By F. William Engdahl Most people are bewildered by what is a global energy crisis, with prices for oil, gas and coal simultaneously soaring and even forcing closure of major industrial plants such as chemicals or aluminum or steel. The Biden Administration and EU have insisted that all is because of Putin and Russia’s military […]

BREAKING: Kari Lake Trial Reveals 42.5% of Randomly Examined Ballots Were Improper

By Collin Rugg According to Republican governor candidate Kari Lake’s legal team, 42.5% of examined ballots in Maricopa County for the 2022 governor’s race were illegitimate. Lake’s trial began on Wednesday were she is attempting to prove that wide scale fraud took place in Maricopa County on election day. The Lake War Room tweeted on […]

Rapid Factory Growth in Arizona Led by Record-Breaking Commerce Authority Effort

By Carly Moran Last week, two technology companies announced new factories in Arizona, leading to over 500,000 total private sector jobs created by the Arizona Commerce Authority under Gov. Doug Ducey. These three factories are a part of over a dozen manufacturing companies that announced their expansion in Arizona this year. In total, over 15,000 […]

Kari Lake Discusses This Morning’s Court Hearing On Bannon’s War Room At TPUSA America Fest With HUGE Crowd Behind Her

By Jordan Conradson Kari Lake joined Steve Bannon’s War Room at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest this afternoon, with hundreds of Patriots surrounding the War Room booth. Lake’s interview began with the HUGE crowd chanting her name. The Gateway Pundit reported on Kari Lake’s first major address since the stolen election last night at AmericaFest, where […]

Super Bowl Suppression: Phoenix Gov’t Lets NFL Censor Free Speech

By John Thorpe Want to communicate with the public on your own property in downtown Phoenix? You’d better get permission from the National Football League (NFL) first. It sounds outlandish. But as Phoenix gets ready to host Super Bowl LVII festivities in February, the city government has given the NFL the authority to censor signs […]

Twitter Files Reveal A Bitter Irony About The Democratic Party

By Deroy Murdock Before the mid-term elections, Democrats chanted the word “democracy” more often than “and” or “the.” They called themselves democracy’s defenders and relentlessly claimed that if Republicans prevailed, Nov. 8 would be America’s final Election Day, ever. “I’m worried that if Republicans win in the midterm elections, voting in this country as we […]

Revising America’s Original Sins

By Neland Nobel The story of Kennewick Man is a story that branches into anthropology, archeology, history, politics, DNA testing, our legal system, and the frustrations of simply attempting to derive a scientific truth while in conflict with bureaucracy. Kennewick Man was discovered in 1996 quite by accident by two college students in south-central Washington […]

The Word Should Be Banned for All

By Bruce Bialosky I have been pondering this subject for a long while. I have had discussions with people which have elicited an array of reactions. There is a word that is banned from use for almost every population. Yet, the one population that it would be addressed toward in a derogatory manner uses it […]

Arizona Judge Approves Lake Request to Examine Ballots

By The Editors A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has approved Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s request to have ballots inspected as she prepares for trial in her ongoing challenge to the state’s gubernatorial contest. Judge Peter Thompson on Thursday issued the ruling, which allows the inspection of random ballots in the county ahead of […]

Hillsdale’s Imprimis: Complications of the Ukraine War

By Christopher Caldwell The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on October 4, 2022, during a Center for Constructive Alternatives conference on the topic of Russia. According to what we hear from the White House and from the television networks, the issues at stake in the Ukraine War are simple. They […]

A 16,000-Ballot Discrepancy in Arizona? Another Chip Falls for Kari Lake

By Monica Showalter Fresh from a court victory granting her the right to examine a random sample of Arizona’s ballots from its skeezy midterm election, Kari Lake has managed to notch another advance in her quest to halt the obviously fraudulent election of her Democrat rival, Katie Hobbs. According to Just The News, citing the results […]

Why Business Should Dispense with ESG

By Samuel Gregg “Milton Friedman’s shareholder doctrine is dead.” Such was the headline of a 2020 Fortune magazine article critiquing Friedman’s famous New York Times opinion piece which, fifty years earlier, had argued that the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. The Fortune article was just one of many op-eds, academic papers, […]

Arizona Ballot Proposition Roundup

By Cameron Arcand The Arizona-based Common Sense Institute released its 2022 Initiative Results & Free Enterprise Analysis report on Thursday, which analyzed how the proposition that voters approved will impact the economy. Its report looked at four propositions, including Prop. 130, which has to do with property taxes, Prop. 132, which requires a 60% approval by voters […]

How Arizona’s Attempt To Pass Voter ID Laws Ironically Failed At The Ballot Box

By David Thalheimer On Nov. 8, Arizona’s Proposition 309, which required more proof of identity to vote by mail and in person, fell short by 18,487 votes and was defeated by the small margin of 49.6 percent to 50.4 percent. The Republican legislature and governor successfully passed numerous voting-related laws but failed to pass a measure to increase […]

The Government Conspired with Big Tech to Infringe on Free Speech

By Justin Hart The defenders of censorship hate the sunlight from @elonmusk. They complain “but Twitter was a private company!” US case law throws cold water on this defense! “A fundamental principle of the First Amendment is that all persons have access to places where they can speak and listen.” Packingham vs NC. Bottom line: the […]

The Border Is Less Secure Than Ever, and the Implications Are Deadly

By James D. Agresti During a recent hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee, Congressman Dan Bishop (R–NC) asked Homeland Security Director Alejandro Mayorkas, “Do you continue to maintain that the border is secure?” Mayorkas replied, “Yes, and we are working day in and day out to enhance its security.” Contradicting that claim, objective measures show that the border […]

Starting to Be Housing Bust 2 for Homebuilders & New Single-Family Houses

By Wolf Richter To get rid of ballooning inventories amid spiking cancellations & plunging sales, builders try to sell to rental operations, but they pulled back too. If a homebuilder cannot sell their ballooning inventory of unsold new houses to households, at current prices and mortgage rates, amid plunging sales and soaring cancellation rates of signed contracts – […]