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STEPHEN MOORE: Want To Soak The Rich? Tax Elite Universities’ Prized Endowments

Mar 11, 2025

By Stephen Moore | Republicans are searching for ways to “pay for” their tax cuts. Democrats want the rich to pay more tax. Here’s a solution that should make everyone happy. House Ways and Means Committee chairman Jason Smith is suggesting a tax on the $840 billion...

MIKE BENGERT: SUSD Assistant Superintendent Equates Students’ Academic Performance To Playing Basketball

Mar 8, 2025

By Mike Bengert | At the Scottsdale Parent Council (SPC) meeting in February, Dr. Cindy Bochna, Director of Assessments and Accountability, and Ms. Lea Mitchell, Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services from Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) gave a...

AZFEC: Cost Analysis Shows The APS Plan To Go Net Zero Would Cost Ratepayers Billions And Lead To California-Style Blackouts

Mar 7, 2025

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | From the Paris Climate Accords, to the Green New Deal (in the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act,”) the global “Net Zero” agenda has been steaming ahead at full speed. And it hasn’t been just in the form of government mandates....

STEPHEN MOORE: It’s About Time A President Cut Loose Deadweight In Government Workforce

Mar 5, 2025

By Stephen Moore | All of Washington is acting like their hair is on fire with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) requirement that federal employees list what they accomplished. Many are acting like they don’t know the answer and they want to phone a...

TOM PATTERSON: It’s Time To Get Past Our EV Obsession

Feb 28, 2025

By Dr. Thomas Patterson | When electric vehicle subsidies were introduced around 2010, they were sold as a short-term fix to allow the undeveloped EV market to get its legs and compete with Internal Combustion Engines (ICE). The subsidies were justified on the basis...

DAVID BLACKMON: Trump’s Energy Secretary Issues Dire Warning To Globalists About Green Energy Lunacy

Feb 26, 2025

By David Blackmon | During a 12-minute video appearance at the 2025 Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) Conference held in London, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright told the audience that “Net zero by 2050 “is a sinister goal.” That is a bold statement,...

TYLER O’NEIL: What’s Really Behind The Left’s Freakout As Trump Dismantles ‘Environmental Justice’ Offices?

Feb 23, 2025

By Tyler O'Neil | The Trump administration has been hard at work dismantling offices of “environmental justice” in the federal government. Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it began implementing Trump’s executive order “Ending Radical...

MIKE BENGERT: Financial Troubles Continue For SUSD Amid Declining Enrollment

Feb 19, 2025

By Mike Bengert | The Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) Governing Board held its regular meeting on February 11th. And it was significant for several reasons. Most notably, the District’s Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Maintenance & Operations and District...

TOM PYLE: You May Have Missed This, But California Taxpayers Dodged A Green Bullet … With Trump’s Help

Feb 18, 2025

By Morgan Murphy | President Donald Trump’s opening week included a flurry of executive orders seeking to make good on his promise to restore America’s energy dominance, sidelined by the Biden administration. While we should all applaud the president’s vision for...

AZFEC: Scottsdale Council Moving Fast To Repeal Woke Agenda Left Behind By Their Predecessors

Feb 15, 2025

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | “Drain the swamp” is fun to say, and it makes for a great slogan for an election campaign. But too often, that’s where it stops. How many times have you heard politician after politician use such a phrase only to be elected and...

TOM PATTERSON: Can We Shake Welfare Dependency In Time To Avoid Fiscal Collapse?

Feb 14, 2025

By Dr. Thomas Patterson | “Rust Belt city benefits from Bidenomics” headlined an article last month in the Wall Street Journal, detailing the economic rebound being experienced by Terre Haute, Indiana, a former manufacturing center in decline for many decades....

MORGAN MURPHY: Things Are Going From Bad To Worse For The Permanent Bureaucratic State

Feb 12, 2025

By Morgan Murphy | Welcome to the D.C. Thunderdome. Thanks to DOGE and four wunderkind coders in Treasury’s basement, Americans learned this week that their government sent millions to fund a “DEI musical” in Ireland, a “transgender comic book” in Peru, electric...