By Neland Nobel Editors’ Note: Netanyahu is right now in the process of forming a new government. Bibi, of course, is Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest-serving Premier in Israel’s history. This almost 700-page volume (Bibi: My Story) covers his incredible career as well as many interesting historic takes on Israel, foreign policy, US relations, US political […]
By Trevor Schakohl Election day tabulator or printer issues affected more Maricopa County, Arizona, voting centers than authorities had previously claimed, according to a memo by an attorney who observed the voting process. On Nov. 8, the day of the midterm elections, 11 of the roving attorneys tasked with observing election processes in the Republican […]
By The Editors Editors’ Note – Unfortunately, the news about the Arizona 2022 midterm election, especially in Maricopa County, is too voluminous to publish article by article. As a service to our Arizona readers, the following is a listing of this voluminous news and informs the reader of the incompetent and highly questionable behavior of […]
By Peter Parisi If Arizona is genuinely interested in enacting much-needed state election reforms — and it should be, especially after this month’s voting debacle in Maricopa County, the state’s largest county — it’s now or never. Or at least for the next four or eight years. Term-limited outgoing Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey should […]
By Larry P. Arnn The following is adapted from remarks delivered on November 3, 2022, at a Hillsdale College reception in Santa Clara, California. If you want to see the problem with American education, look at a chart illustrating the comparative growth in the number of students, teachers, and district administrators in our public schools […]
By Jordan Boyd The cost to host a Thanksgiving dinner for your closest friends and family members is 20 percent more expensive this year, and President Joe Biden’s administration is to blame. According to a report from the American Farm Bureau Federation, the average cost to serve 10 of your guests a classic Thanksgiving dinner including turkey, stuffing, […]
By Robert Bluey Editors’ Note: We are glad to see real competition arriving to counter the legacy “chamber of commerce”. Too often over the past few election cycles, what passes as representatives of free enterprise have sided with the Big Government Left. Like other institutions, they seemed to have been captured by progressive socialist forces. […]
By Neland Nobel It really is about being grateful, which is something too few of our spoiled citizens appreciate. But since the holiday is being weaponized by “woke culture”, there are some other elements of the story to think about. The short version, the way it is taught today, is that greedy Pilgrims landed in […]
By Jeffrey Tucker A series of revealing texts and tweets by Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced CEO of FTX, the once high-flying but now belly-up crypto exchange, had the following to say about his image as a do-gooder: it is a “dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shibboleths and so everyone likes […]
By Tom Joyce If Arizona eighth-grade charter school students were a separate state, they would rank first nationally in math. Arizona’s charter schools, if separated from their public school counterparts, have eighth graders that perform at higher levels than nearly any other state. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, better known as the Nation’s Report […]
By Allan Stein The Arizona Attorney General’s Elections Integrity Unit sent a letter to Maricopa County demanding answers on problems that took place with the election on Nov. 8. In a letter to Civil Division Chief Thomas Liddy of the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Wright said the AG’s office had “received […]
By Neland Nobel Details concerning the attack on the home of Nacy Pelosi and her husband Paul, continue to trickle in and they remain confusing. As seems standard in these cases, the initial information is fragmented and contradictory. No one really knows what happened there and that includes The Prickly Pear. Further, local authorities in San […]
By Tom Joyce Photo Credit: Matt York/AP Photo Incumbent Democrat Kathy Hoffman conceded in the race for Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction on Thursday morning [November 17]. Hoffman trailed Republican Tom Horne by 8,718 votes as of Thursday morning. Horne was leading the race 50.2% to 49.8%, according to the Arizona Secretary of State’s office. […]
By Michael Senger A huge re-election victory vindicates his pandemic policies,” writes the Wall Street Journal. “With runaway win, DeSantis’s political career becomes supercharged,” writes the New York Times. “Ron DeSantis is the new Republican Party leader,” declares Fox News. “Florida’s governor turned his coronavirus policies into a parable of American freedom,” observes the Atlantic. As well they should. The self-perpetuating lockdowns, mandates, and state of […]
By Wolf Richter Sellers are struggling with denial: Priced “right,” a home will sell, but “right” is where the buyers are, and they’re a lot lower. Sales of all types of previously owned homes – houses, condos, and co-ops – fell by 5.9% in October from September, the ninth month in a row of declines, to […]
By Zachary Stieber Arizona Republican candidate Kari Lake said on Nov. 17 that she’s still fighting in the state governor’s race, in her first major update since Democrat Katie Hobbs declared victory. “I wanted to reach out to you to let you know that I am still in this fight with you,” Lake, a former television anchor, said in […]
By Neland Nobel Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken The recent results of the mid-term elections have a number of pundits puzzled, including ourselves. It was felt that the economy would be dominant. Inflation is at the worst levels […]
By Andrew Stiles November 20, 2022/in Featured, Latest News, Midterms 2022, Politics /by Andrew Stiles Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” — Sir Isaac Newton What happened: Sam Bankman-Fried, the digital guru who earlier this year pledged to spend as much […]
By John O. McGinnis Paul Clement, the best Supreme Court advocate of his generation, won an epochal Second Amendment victory for his clients this past summer. The august law firm of Kirkland & Ellis, where he was a partner, rewarded him by offering the choice of dropping his clients or leaving the firm. And he […]
By Tom Joyce (The Center Square) – A former Republican gubernatorial candidate has a request for the chair of the Arizona Republican Party: resign. Former Arizona Board of Regents member Karrin Taylor Robson, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican Party’s nomination for governor this year, wants to see Ward resign. Ward took the unusual step for […]
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