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Our Elitist Environmental Experts Are Driving Us Over the Cliff

Aug 5, 2022

By Dr. Thomas Patterson | Leftist thought leaders insist that we are facing an environmental holocaust unless we immediately, drastically reduce carbon emissions. Yet it’s curious. The governing and influence elites demand massive societal sacrifice, while they are...

Arizona’s Movie Tax Credit Bill Is a Major Loss for Taxpayers

Aug 3, 2022

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | If you like forking over your hard-earned dollars to woke Hollywood liberals, Arizona lawmakers have you covered. Last month, the state legislature took on the role of “Minions” for the film industry. As you may recall, the Club...

Transit Tax Increase Earned a Well-Deserved Veto

Jul 30, 2022

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Governor Ducey made the right decision vetoing HB2685, the Maricopa County transportation sales tax increase that was forced through the House and Senate during the final days of the legislative session. But the reality is,...

Bulk Mail Voting Is the Main Obstacle to Election Integrity

Jul 22, 2022

By Dr. Thomas Patterson | The debate over election fraud versus voter suppression is high-stakes and high-intensity. Trump loyalists insist the election was stolen, mechanically rigged, and rife with fraudulent actors. Democrats continue to insist that fraud...

Don’t Confuse Meth Addiction with Homelessness

Jul 17, 2022

By John Huppenthal | I recently observed a tent camouflaged behind freeway road bushes in Chandler. Curious, I looked around the corner. I caught a man heating the bowl of a meth pipe in the act taking a deep drag. There were two men there. The second man looked in...

Lawsuits Against HB2492 Are Attacking a Commonsense Bill Backed by the Constitution

Jul 16, 2022

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Last week, the Biden Administration officially filed a lawsuit against Arizona over HB2492, which bolsters safeguards to our voter registration process to require proof of citizenship ensuring only U.S. citizens are voting in...

A Proposed Ballot Measure That Targets Donor Privacy Is Another Attack on Free Speech

Jul 10, 2022

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Every American should be free to peacefully support causes they believe in without being harassed or intimidated. Someone should tell that to Terry Goddard. For years, the former Attorney General of Arizona has been leading a...

Our Cowardly Handling of Ukraine Could Come Back to Bite Us

Jul 8, 2022

By Dr. Thomas Patterson | If America has learned anything from foreign entanglements over the past century, surely it is this: enemy conflicts must be engaged only if our vital interests are at stake. A war worth fighting must have clear objectives and a path to...

Arizona’s State Budget Proves That MAG’s Proposed $70 Billion ‘Momentum’ Plan Is a Complete Failure

Jun 26, 2022

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | State taxpayers should not be bailing out a broken Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) plan. But that’s exactly what lawmakers are doing in the recently enacted Arizona state budget. That’s right. Your elected leaders just...

Strong Families for All Are Worth Defending

Jun 24, 2022

By Dr. Thomas Patterson | In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a landmark report in which he contended that the rising number of black families headed by unmarried mothers would reduce the prospects for Blacks to rise out of poverty, in spite of that era’s...

California Unions Are Pushing a Debt Cancellation Initiative in Arizona That Would Make Bernie Sanders Proud

Jun 19, 2022

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | “Let’s just make everything free!” That might as well be the Left’s motto at this point as they clearly don’t understand how a good economy works. While the past 18 months under President Biden is proof enough of that,...

Another Guilty Plea in Yuma County Demonstrates How Voter Fraud Is a Real Problem

Jun 10, 2022

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | The Left says it isn’t happening. And they’re quick to run to their allies in traditional corporate media to further the lie that voter fraud is a made-up problem. But then maybe they would like to explain the guilty plea from...