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The Rise of ESG, Replacing Profits with Paternalism, and Strategy with Standards

By Kimberlee Josephson The movement for creating systemic change in the economic system is growing. Traditionally, investments in entrepreneurial ventures were based on expectations for a favorable return given the risks involved. Businesses were expected to perform at their best to ensure shareholder value, and to do so they needed to cater to consumer needs, […]

Arizona AG’S Office Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Tucson

By Tom Joyce Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s office filed a civil rights lawsuit against the City of Tucson over its COVID-19 vaccination requirements. The Attorney General’s office says the city violated Arizona law and discriminated against Tucson employees by not honoring religious and disability-related medical exemptions to the city’s coronavirus vaccine mandate. The Attorney […]

Musk: “Civilization Will Crumble” Without Oil and Gas

By David Kelly Editors’ Note: Elon Musk is hard to categorize. On the one hand, he is selling a lot of cars because of government subsidies, tax breaks, and coercion. But on the other hand, he notes such policies are anti-human and will lead to great misery and chaos. His space business gets a lot […]

Who Are You Calling A Fascist, Mr. President?

By David Harsanyi The other day Joe Biden accused voters of the opposition party of turning to “semi-fascism.” This is probably the first time in American history a president has openly attacked the opposing party’s constituents in this way. Grammatically speaking, the accusation could use a little work. What Biden probably meant to say was that […]

POLL: Don Bolduc Leads By 21 Points In New Hampshire Senate Primary

By Sarah Weaver A new poll from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) has Trump-endorsed candidate Don Bolduc 21 points ahead of Chuck Morse in New Hampshire’s Republican Senate primary. Bolduc, a retired brigadier general, and an Afghanistan veteran claims former President Donald Trump won the election in 2020. Trump has yet to endorse Bolduc, but the former […]

To Help Biden, FBI Interfered With 2020 Election

By Will Thibeau As if the FBI’s reputation were not already in tatters, we have yet another bombshell, courtesy of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, about FBI malfeasance during the 2020 election.   It turns out that the FBI used its previously concocted Russia hoax as an excuse to pressure Facebook to censor the factually correct […]

AZ Voters Divided on Abortion, Energy Subsidies; United Against Higher Taxes and Bad Economy

By The Editors at Center Square The tight race for Arizona governor is within the margin of error, according to a new survey from Scott Rasmussen’s RMG Research, and incumbent U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-AZ, holds a 7-point lead over Republican challenger Blake Masters. On hot-button issues such as the economy, Arizonans took positions Rasmussen believes could […]

Errant DAs Are Not Only Ones Destroying Our Justice System

By Bruce Bialosky There is an active revolt going on against District Attorneys who once elected decide to take the law into their own hands and apply laws at their personal whim.  This has caused havoc and uproar across our nation highlighted recently by the charges against a bodega worker in New York City (later […]

FBI Is So Committed To Transparency Nearly Entire Trump Raid Affidavit Is Redacted

By Tristan Justice On Friday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released the affidavit supporting the FBI’s warrant application to raid former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence. Nearly the entire 38-page affidavit released was redacted, with few lines offering insight into the FBI’s unprecedented raid of a former president. The document outlining the justifications to redact […]

Inflationary Vice

By Theodore Dalrymple Samuel Gregg, in his article on the French economist, Jacques Rueff, provides a timely reminder that inflation is much more than merely an economic phenomenon. It also has profound social effects. This, of course, was recognized by Keynes himself in the book that made him famous, The Economic Consequences of the Peace. […]

There Was No Pandemic Mastermind

By Steve Templeton “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn There is a lot of celebratory football-spiking going on in COVID response-skeptic social media circles. When two groups of people are diametrically opposed to one another […]

TikTok’s New ‘Elections Center’ Is A Massive Threat To National Security

By Emily Jashinksy That we’ve forfeited this much control to a hostile foreign power is one of the most mind-boggling, slow-motion political blunders in modern history. TikTok just unveiled an “Elections Center” that will put detailed voter profiles in the hands of a company based in Beijing, stocked with party members and state employees, subject […]

Tucson’s Mayor v. Miami’s Mayor

By Craig J. Cantoni The only thing that the two mayors have in common is a Spanish surname Tucson, Arizona, and Miami, Florida, are similar in some respects and quite different in others.  One of the differences, as will be discussed momentarily, is the thinking of their respective mayors, both of whom have Spanish surnames, […]

Judge Chastises DoD, Marine Corps in Order Granting Class Action Status in Vaccine Mandate Case

By Bethany Blankley U.S District Court Judge Steven Merryday issued a blistering rebuke of the Department of Defense and Marine Corps for refusing to grant religious accommodation requests to service members. Merryday did so when issuing a 48-page ruling Thursday in which he granted class-action status for all active and reserve U.S. Marine Corps service […]

Arizona News: August 29, 2022

By The Editors Are you fed up? Are you worried that America in rapidly sliding into a neo-Marxist state by the radical left in control of Washington with historically narrow majorities in the U.S. House and Senate and an Executive controlled by unnamed far leftists in place of a clinically incompetent President Biden? They are […]

Arizona Supreme Court Blames Hobbs For Preventing Validation Of Petition Circulators

By Terri Jo Neff While Katie Hobbs continues to ignore public demands that she debate Kari Lake, three new reasons she may want to avoid a face-to-face with her gubernatorial opponent came to light this past week with the issuance of three Decision Orders by the Arizona Supreme Court in election challenges to voter initiatives. […]

What Would Global Decarbonization Actually Cost?

By Robert Lyman and Dr. Jay Lehr As those who write frequently on climate policy issues, we are often asked, “What will decarbonization cost?”. Decarbonization is the term used to refer to effectively eliminate emissions of greenhouse gases, usually measured in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent, allegedly to stop human-caused global warming. In practical terms, that […]

California Once More Giving Business Owners the Shaft

By Bruce Bialosky While our gallivanting Governor Gavin has been vacationing in forbidden states and running ads in Texas and Florida touting the excellence of California, he and his party once again have given the short straw to our state’s employers. They completely ignore the mass migration of businesses to other states thinking no matter […]