By Craig J. Cantoni Yesteryear’s radical chic morphed into today’s wokeness and virtue signaling. Fifty-two years ago New York Magazine published “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s,” by Tom Wolfe. With his outstanding satirical talent and observational skills, Wolfe described the bizarre scene at a cocktail party at a 13-room penthouse duplex on Park Avenue, the […]
By Majid Rafizadeh The Biden administration, in an attempt to revive the nuclear deal, is continuing to forge ahead by negotiating with the government of Ebrahim Raisi, known — for his crimes against humanity and his involvement in a massacre of nearly 30,000 political prisoners — as the “Butcher of Tehran.” First of all, the Biden administration’s objective is not to […]
By Craig J. Cantoni The real racists in America are those who judge people on their pigmentation. Being white, or olive, or beige, or swarthy, or whatever color has been affixed to this Italian by woke affixers who care deeply about pigment but have no original thoughts about pigment and thus simply parrot prevailing pigment […]
By Bruce Bialosky Since Joe Biden was declared the 2020 winner, I have only written once about Trump. I have not changed my mind in that his policies were wonderful (particularly as contrasted with the disastrous Biden), but I think we should move on – there are better choices than Trump to move those policies […]
By Craig Rucker Devastating tornadoes struck America’s heartland Friday night leaving death, destruction, and heartache in their trail. When asked whether the tornadoes were due to climate change President Biden replied, “Everything is more intense when the climate is warming and obviously it has some impact here.” CFACT’s Marc Morano reports at Climate Depot that weather and […]
By Elizabeth Troutman It is now easier for Arizona drivers to obtain commercial driver’s licenses under a new order from Gov. Doug Ducey. Ducey and the Arizona Department of Transportation hope to “alleviate stress” on the transportation system and address the nationwide supply chain crisis, the news release said. “We are working to make sure […]
By Larry P. Arnn The following is adapted from a speech delivered at a Hillsdale College reception in Overland Park, Kansas, on November 18, 2021. Here are two questions pertinent to our times: (1) How would you reduce the greatest free republic in history to despotism in a short time? and (2) How would you […]
By Jon Miltimore Editors’ Note: This article was written in late November and notes inflation in the US hit a 30 year high. Last week, it was reported that inflation is at a 40 year high. That didn’t take very long, did it? History teaches us something important about inflation: it can spiral out of […]
By Phillip W. Magness When Nikole Hannah-Jones published the 1619 Project in August 2019, it initially came under an unfair line of attack from historians who took issue with aspects of its discussion of Abraham Lincoln. Hannah-Jones had correctly identified Lincoln as a supporter of black colonization – a common 19th-century “solution” to slavery that involved […]
By Wolf Richter Inflation for Urban Wage Earners & Clerical Workers (CPI-W) = 7.6%. Fed is still pouring fuel on the raging fire. Most reckless Fed ever. The broadest Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) spiked by 0.8% in November from October, and by 6.8% from a year ago, the highest since June 1982, according to data released by […]
By Hayden Ludwig Part of an ongoing CRC investigation into how the Left twisted the 2020 election The Left’s top “dark money” network was highly active in manipulating the 2020 election to elect Democrats and defeat President Donald Trump. That network, run by the shadowy consulting firm Arabella Advisors, was recently exposed by the Capital Research […]
By Neland Nobel “One of the biggest taxes is one that is not even called a tax–inflation. When the government spends money that it creates, it is transferring part of the value of your money to themselves.” Thomas Sowell “The cure for inflation is simple to state but hard to implement. Just as an excessive […]
By H. Sterling Burnett Global elites regularly decry the supposedly “existential” threat purported human-caused climate change poses to the environment, civilization, and even human survival. These elites propose policies intended to avert global climate disaster, almost all of them involving ending the use of fossil fuels and fundamentally changing how people live, forcing us to […]
By Rick Moran The “Yuma Gap” is the small corner of the world where Arizona, California, and Mexico intersect. And it has become one of the primary destinations for illegals trying to cross the border into the United States. It’s gotten so bad in recent weeks that Yuma has declared a local state of emergency […]
By Cole Lauterbach The woman who twice represented herself in successful discrimination lawsuits against now-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is not only refusing an apology but demanding Hobbs give up her bid for Arizona governor. Hobbs posted a three-minute-long video Wednesday expressing remorse for her involvement in former Arizona Senate staffer Talonya Adams’ termination. “Please […]
By Thomas C. Patterson Teachers’ unions appear to have run into a buzz saw. On October 25, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten tweeted enthusiastic support for a Washington Post article titled “Parents claim they have the right to shape their kids’ school curriculum. They don’t.“ By November 6, Her message had drastically […]
By Spencer Lindquist A public records request revealed that parents at Estrella Foothills High School in Goodyear, Ariz., successfully halted a Transgender Awareness Week that aimed to push left-wing gender theory on the school community. The week originally included a variety of different activities, including wearing name tags with students’ pronouns, wearing rainbow colors to celebrate the […]
By Craig J. Cantoni In the name of wokeness, one ugly slur has been replaced by another. Warning: The following is a representative sample of past and present racial/ethnic slurs and stereotypes. If you grit your teeth and bear with it, you’ll see why they’re repeated here. Poles were known as dumb Polacks. The Irish […]
By Tamara Fromm If 2020 and 2021 have you rethinking your child’s education path, you are not alone. The world is out of order and the public school system is facing extraordinary challenges in education. Luckily, you have options, lots of them. Homeschooling is one of those great options and parents are taking that leap, […]
By Cole Lauterbach (The Center Square) – A federal appellate court has flipped a lower court’s ruling, saying Arizona poll workers aren’t required to let a voter sign their ballot days after polls have closed. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling that said it’s unconstitutional to allow voters to […]
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