By Cameron Arcand Gov. Katie Hobbs announced her operation with $500,000 to start in hopes of flipping the Arizona state House and Senate blue in 2024, as she’s currently facing challenges with Republican lawmakers. Republicans currently hold a narrow one-seat majority in both chambers, which has created a divided government after a tumultuous election year […]
By Catherine Salgado “The energy and the joy is contagious.” The Arizona March for Life happened on Feb. 23 starting at the State Capitol in Phoenix, Arizona. I attended the rally before the march, which drew a large crowd, and thousands participated in the march. While the mood was optimistic due to the 2022 overturn […]
By David Harsanyi The media’s hyperfocus on guns has led liberals to overestimate the danger. Anew Axios-Ipsos poll finds that a plurality of Republicans regard fentanyl and opioids as the biggest threat to public health, while Democrats are most likely to say guns. Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei tweeted that it was “wild” that conservatives were […]
By Cameron Arcand Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne is offering a grant to schools that take up an alternative to the controversial education practice known as social and emotional learning. Horne is asking schools to instead try a program called The Six Pillars of Character, which was developed by Drake University that emphasizes six […]
By Lee Williams Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and Open Society Foundation’s George Soros may appear to have similar goals. They have each spent massive amounts of their personal fortunes in pursuit of their political objectives through networks of shadowy cutouts, foundations and nonprofits. Both champion big government and abhor personal freedoms – […]
By Axel Weber Inflation is a government externality that has made my favorite cookies twice as expensive. Inflation sucks. When I was a kid, a pack of Oreos would cost $2.99: cheap and reasonable. Now, I would need to shell out about $5 for the same product—and I’m only 23! Even beyond shattering the hopes […]
By Catherine Salgado “It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals—and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration.” –Alexander Hamilton In an age where the Press/Media are corrupting political morals more and more, one man disrupted the evil infrastructure, became a beacon of truth, and […]
By Larry Bell During his State of the Union Address, President Biden blamed high U.S. energy prices on greedy oil companies despite as former presidential candidate Biden having virtually pledged to put them out of business. During a Democratic primary debate with Sen. Bernie Sanders, Biden said, “No more subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. […]
By Christy Narsi and Mary Vought After months of lockdowns and countless learning loss due to the COVID pandemic, will Arizona families take another step backward when it comes to providing children a quality education? That sad fate could happen if the state’s new governor, Katie Hobbs, gets her way. Hobbs has proposed undoing the […]
By Cameron Arcand Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a Republican-backed budget on Thursday afternoon. The budget was similar to the bipartisan budget signed by former Republican Gov. Doug Ducey last year. “Unfortunately, despite my call to take on these difficult choices and protect our state’s future, the budget approved by a slim, partisan majority in […]
By Wolf Richter In terms of closed sales, December and January usually mark the low point of the year for the housing market, reflecting deals made over the holiday period in November and December. But the spring selling season starts now. In January, mortgage rates had dropped on hopes of a quick Fed pivot and […]
By James D. Agresti The national debt has risen at a blistering pace over recent decades and is now higher than any era of the nation’s history—even when adjusted for inflation, population growth, and economic growth (GDP). Denying this reality, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman recently wrote two columns for the New York Times in […]
By Daniel Buck You don’t quickly forget the sound of a child gagging as another child clutches him in a chokehold. As a middle-school teacher, I turned the corner in the hallway one day and found a child with his arms wrapped around the neck of a refugee student — a population that was frequently the target […]
By Ian Miller A new study in The Lancet has confirmed that natural immunity from COVID infection is at least as protective and durable against severe complications as vaccination. Yet again, another COVID “conspiracy theory” has become today’s “The Science™.” Natural immunity has long been a well known and accepted part of immunology, despite rabid, […]
By Daniel B. Klein The title “The Godly Path to Adam Smith’s Liberal Plan” refers to Smith’s politics. He put it this way: “allowing every man to pursue his own interest his own way, upon the liberal plan of equality, liberty and justice.” My topic is the Godly path. When does it begin? One answer is with […]
By Selwyn Duke It was always there, just beneath the surface. Late radio giant Rush Limbaugh called it get-even-with-’em-ism. It’s that hostility that ever underlay racial quotas and that now, being more overt, is manifesting itself in “the largest racial tracking bureaucracy since the fall of Nazi Germany.” That’s how Fox News host Tucker Carlson […]
By Cole Lauterbach The portion of students taking advantage of Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program after previously attending a public school has dramatically shifted. According to the latest information from the Arizona Department of Education, the ESA program now has 47,200 students participating. The data, released Monday, is a marked increase from the roughly 30,000 […]
By Bruce Bialosky Americans are so detached from the products we buy in a grocery store we have little clue why they cost what they do. We recently toured a cheese manufacturing plant outside of Venice, Italy. We saw the trucks roll up to the factory with the milk that is used to make 100 […]
By Carly Moran In a recent poll, Democrat Ruben Gallego will lead the senate race against a split GOP voter base. Despite Democrats making up only 31% of the voter base in O.H. Predictive Insight’s pool of voters, Gallego is at a +5 advantage if both Doug Ducey and Kyrsten Sinema run for the Senate. […]
By Neland Nobel Is China helping Russia in its invasion of Ukraine? If so, what does that mean for the conflict? Secretary of State Blinken suggested that China is supplying Russia with “non-lethal” aid during a recent trip to Turkey. This statement came just before a “secret” trip to Ukraine by President Biden, which was […]
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