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Let’s Get Serious About Eliminating The Department Of Education

Aug 4, 2023

By Dr. Thomas Patterson | “The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2023.” If you’ve read this far, you have completed HR899, introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie. Abolishing the DOE isn’t a new idea. The department was created in 1979 by the Carter...

Why Proposed Rural Groundwater Control Legislation Is Bad For Arizona

Aug 2, 2023

By Rep. Gail Griffin | There has been a lot of talk recently about rural groundwater bills not getting a hearing at the Arizona State Legislature. Over the years, proposed legislation has gone by many names, including “Groundwater Conservation Areas,” “Special...

Democrats Are Quickly Transforming Into The Party Of Censorship

Aug 2, 2023

By Betsy McCaughey | A Pew Research poll released July 20 found that 70% of Democrats think the government should restrict what appears on social media, a dramatic change from five years ago when a majority of Democrats supported a free marketplace of ideas....

Stopping The Unelected Bureaucrats: Unleashing The Holman Rule On The Swamp And Deep State

Aug 1, 2023

By Paul Burton | Let us diagnose the problem, namely we have bureaucrats that are behaving as an unelected fourth branch of the federal government. It does not matter which agency we look at; they are oversized, bloated with funds allocated for redundancies, and...

Phoenix Wants To Eliminate Parking Spaces In Another Ridiculous Push To Become A 15-Minute City

Jul 28, 2023

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | How much do you like to walk in 110-degree heat? If you’re a resident of the city of Phoenix, you may need to start getting used to it if the city council gets its way. A proposed ordinance in Phoenix is looking to significantly...

What Is Mightier Than Both The Pen And The Sword?

Jul 27, 2023

By Cheryl Todd | The pen might be mightier than the sword, but apathy defeats them both. The phrase, “The pen is mightier than the sword” implies that ideas trump action. Apathy is a complacent and marked lack of interest. The opposite of love, it is said,...

Ranked-Choice Voting Could Come Back To Bite Alaska Republicans … Again

Jul 26, 2023

By Suzanne Downing | Rep. Mary Peltola continues to have support among left-leaning American politicos, after emerging victorious in Alaska’s messy open-primary, ranked-choice general voting system in 2022. Conservative Alaska voters, faced with a contentious field...

The Second Amendment Is The Great Unifier

Jul 22, 2023

By Cheryl Todd | We all want to protect what we love. No matter your age, your background, your ethnicity, or your religious affiliation, there is one thing that we can all agree on: nothing is more important than protecting what you love. Where we...

EVs Aren’t The Solution To Anything

Jul 21, 2023

By Dr. Thomas Patterson | Electric vehicles have become the centerpiece of the plan to ward off climate change by drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Biden administration seems to feel that if we can just get people to plug in their cars to a...

ASU’s Carefully Worded ‘Fact Check’ Of Our Article Leaves A Lot To Be Desired

Jul 19, 2023

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | It looks like we struck a nerve at one of the largest universities in the United States. Last week, the Free Enterprise Club published an article on Arizona State University’s (ASU) failure to uphold free speech. The article came...

Democrats Are Throwing Kids Under The Bus

Jul 18, 2023

By Stephen Moore | Have you heard the outrageous story of what happened recently in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s capital? Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.), elected in 2022, had campaigned on school choice for tens of thousands of children, mostly minorities, who are forced to...

Jungle Primaries? Just Another Bad Idea Designed To Turn Arizona Into California

Jul 16, 2023

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Bad ideas never seem to go away. And in politics, they often get recycled every 10 years because consultants need to make money. That’s why it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that we’re seeing another push for jungle...