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Reality Check Ahead on Deficit Spending
By Craig Eyermann | George Orwell has a famous insight from his 1945 work Notes on Nationalism. “One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.” Most people run into this insight in a paraphrased form....
2021 Seniors: Overcoming Pandemic Setbacks To Graduate
By Catherine Barrett | As graduation season is quickly approaching, many high schools and universities are faced with deciding between virtual or in-person ceremonies. As states begin to lift mask mandates, as reported by The New York Times, educators choose to...
Regulatory Capture, Teacher Unions, And COVID Child Abuse/Imprisonment
By Dr. Donald S. Siegel and Dr. Robert M. Sauer | In his seminal article in 1971 on the economic theory of regulation, the Nobel Laureate George Stigler of the University of Chicago argued that government agencies were often “captured” by the industries they were...
CEOs Whiff On Election Integrity
By Dr. Thomas Patterson | Members of the Public Policy Committee of Greater Phoenix Leadership recently endorsed an editorial entitled “Disenfranchising Voters is Not Election Reform”. “As an organization of CEOs at the helm of hundreds of thousands of employees in...
Instead of Following Science, the CDC Listens to…a Teachers’ Union
By The Arizona Free Enterprise Club | This was all supposed to be based on “science.” Or so claimed groups like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for over a year now. It was the rationale for the draconian lockdowns. It was the reasoning behind the...
Acknowledged, Systemic Racism Exists: It Doesn’t Originate Where You Think, However
By Jeff Utsch | Every so often, the answers to problems of the day are best revealed through questions. Jeopardy gets it right. So, today’s answer is, “These are the True Racists,” and the questions are as follows: Are racists those who want to keep minorities...
Holocaust Education, IHRA And Anti-Semitism In Arizona
By Paul Miller | House Bill 2241 requires Arizona students to be taught about the Holocaust and other genocides twice between seventh and twelfth grades. Although the bill passed unanimously in February of this year, at issue is a proposed Senate amendment...
Is Critical Race Theory Coming To A Public School Near You?
By the Free Enterprise Club | They’re at it again. You would think that public school districts would learn their lesson at some point. After all, many of them turned their backs on students and parents in the wake of COVID-19. And now, those school districts are...
ASU Conservatives Smeared In Online Campaign
A group of conservative students at Arizona State University was smeared in an online social media campaign, targeted with doctored images and false claims. According to documents obtained exclusively through YAF’s Campus Bias Tip Line, a current...
The Worst COVID Tyrant You’ve Never Heard Of
By Brian Anderson | How Phoenix Mayor “Queen Kate” Gallego mismanaged (and exploited) the COVID-19 pandemic. As normal life returns and Americans look back at the past year with clear eyes, it’s almost difficult to believe the actions that some local...
Arizona Cities Are Sitting on a Mountain of Cash—So Why Are They Opposing Tax Cuts?
By the Free Enterprise Club | The Arizona state coffers are running over with cash. The state is set to receive $12B in federal recovery funds, more than the entire annual state budget. On top of that, forecasting by the Joint Legislative Budget Committee projects by...
The City of Phoenix Is Pushing Back on Tax Cuts so It Can Keep Fleecing Taxpayers
The Arizona state General Fund is flooded with revenue. Latest projections show the state with $1.2 billion in ongoing revenue and a cash balance upwards of $6.5 billion in FY2024. This is by far the largest budget surplus in state history and doesn't even...
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