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Climate Change Fanaticism Was The Big Election Loser

Nov 12, 2024

By Stephen Moore | A few days before last week’s election, Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a dire warning to voters. If Trump won, “the struggle against climate change will be over.” He had that right. Climate change fanaticism was effectively on the...

Arizona’s House Speaker Race: People First Or Pay-To-Play?

Nov 11, 2024

By Merissa Hamilton | Voters are sending newly elected Arizona legislators to office with a clear mandate from the people of Arizona: The people must be the chief stakeholder of their representatives. The days of woke and swampy lobbyists and consultants overriding...

Time Is Running Out To Fix Social Security

Nov 9, 2024

By Dr. Thomas Patterson | Here are the hard truths of our threatening situation with Social Security and Medicare. We have a looming major fiscal crisis which no one denies. There are solutions but no politically easy ones, and our options get worse with time. Yet...

Feds Often Pick The Wrong Horse. Intel Is Just The Latest Example

Nov 8, 2024

By Stephen Moore | One recurring theme that no one in Washington seems capable of learning is that the best way to destroy an industry is to have the government subsidize it. That lesson came shining through in recent days when Intel acknowledged that it...

Trump’s Win Is A Mandate For Change

Nov 6, 2024

By Christian Whiton | Against all odds, former President Donald Trump appears to have won a decisive victory and will become the 47th president of the United States. He will be only the second American in history reelected to a non-consecutive...

We’ve Proven We Can Keep A Republic

Nov 4, 2024

By Sean Noble | As I endure the last few months of this election cycle, REM’s “It’s the End of the World As We Know It,” has been playing on repeat in my mind. From cable networks to talk radio, from my X feed to late night TV, partisans are working overtime to...

Do Arizona Candidates Stand With Women?

Nov 1, 2024

By Riley Gaines and Sami Keddington | By now, my story is pretty well-known. I (Riley Gaines) swam against Lia Thomas (who had previously competed on Penn’s men’s team before switching to the women’s team) in the spring of 2022, and we tied for fifth place. Officials...

Abortion Vs. Miscarriage Care: Exposing The Misinformation Behind Prop 139

Nov 1, 2024

By Katarina White | The Arizona Abortion Access Campaign has engaged in a widespread misinformation campaign, suggesting that if Proposition 139 fails, women in Arizona could lose access to vital miscarriage care. Nothing could be further from the truth. Current...

Scottsdale Cannot Afford Another Failed ‘Superintendent Of The Year’

Oct 30, 2024

By Mike Bengert | Can we truly take the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) seriously? They claim to be the premier association for school system leaders and the national voice for public education and district leadership. But do they speak...

A Different Look At Trump’s Economic Plans

Oct 30, 2024

By John Huppenthal | This analysis looks at President Trump's first three years in office—2017, 2018 and 2019, the pre-COVID era—to get a more unbiased view of the policy impact of his approach. In Trump's first three years: Trump extended economic growth to achieve...

Arizona’s Legacy Media Is Misrepresenting Mesa’s School Board Candidates

Oct 29, 2024

By Dennis Liles | School board elections in Arizona are a non-partisan race, by law. In an ideal world, candidates should be focused on the well-being of students, academic achievement, and facilitating as much parental involvement as possible. That’s definitely true...

Rank Choice Voting Is Unfair And Undemocratic

Oct 28, 2024

By Christy Narsi | This November, Proposition 140, the Make Elections Fair Arizona Act, will be on the ballot. Prop. 140, if passed, would create a Rank-Choice Voting (RCV) system, where voters rank candidates in order of preference. Supporters of the proposition...