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Democratic Death Wish?
Posted on July 13, 2011 | No CommentsIf you want to get the economy moving then you have to reduce government spending. Everything else is smoke and mirrors. -
Is Russian ‘Reset’ Worth Kicking Allies To Curb?
Posted on July 11, 2011 | No Comments[W]hy are the Russians determined to maintain the ability to successfully nuke the U.S. and why is the administration still willing to accommodate this demand? -
Budget Lies and Distortions
Posted on July 11, 2011 | No Comments[L]et us focus on the new in vogue term – tax expenditure. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A TAX EXPENDITURE. -
A Few Rich Libertarians Help Undermine Freedom
Posted on July 11, 2011 | No CommentsThe same sex marriage issue is about the right to redefine what marriage is. -
Government of Sociopaths
Posted on July 10, 2011 | No CommentsThe behaviors which are common to politicians are also common to sociopaths -
Oops I Forgot To Create Jobs
Posted on July 10, 2011 | No CommentsApparently, in Mr. Obama’s view, it is sometimes preferable for companies to be unprofitable – yet unprofitable companies don’t “create jobs.” -
Global Warming Season in Phoenix
Posted on July 9, 2011 | No CommentsArizona Republic leads with global warming doomsday piece. In July. -
Democrats Heading for the Cliff
Posted on July 8, 2011 | No CommentsNever interfere with the opposition when they are busily making a big mistake -
China’s Second Great Leap Forward
Posted on July 7, 2011 | No CommentsThe New China is on its Second Great Leap Forward and still trapped in Mao's legacy -
The Jewish Vote
Posted on July 6, 2011 | No CommentsThe Jewish vote will not change overnight, but its trajectory is slowly shifting -
Liberal La-la Land
Posted on July 6, 2011 | No CommentsYou can fool some of the people all of the time, said Abraham Lincoln, and it certainly seems that liberals are completely fooled about the financial meltdown and about Medicare. -
Ministry of Truth Explains Lack of Global Warming
Posted on July 5, 2011 | No CommentsApparently, the lack of global warming was caused by China's increased use of coal... -
Bachmann is Right About the Minimum Wage
Posted on July 4, 2011 | No CommentsMinimum wage, like most government programs targeted to low income Americans, hurts the very communities it purports to help. -
Cowboys vs. Superheroes
Posted on July 3, 2011 | No CommentsThat the cowboy has given way to the superhero in the American myth is painfully revealing. -
Khomeini Celebrated in … Kansas City. On July 4.
Posted on July 3, 2011 | 1 CommentApparently, the American concept of freedom is insufficient, and they’ve chosen July 4 to express their dissent. -
California,The “Failed State”
Posted on July 3, 2011 | No CommentsCalifornia’s leaders had plenty of money to spend on their unionized prison guards, yet it doesn’t have enough money to properly facilitate prisoners so as to comply with federal requirements. -
Leave Me Alones vs. Make It Betters
Posted on July 1, 2011 | No CommentsThe American narrative is still on the side of those who want to be left alone, even if the media and the cultural establishment is not. -
Putting unemployment insurance to work
Posted on June 30, 2011 | 1 CommentAn idea that many states – including Arizona – could benefit from is allowing employers and workers to divert the revenue from the UI tax into a private account that the worker could access if they became unemployed. -
Our Self-Congratulatory Democrats
Posted on June 29, 2011 | 2 CommentsArizona Democrats donate their special session paychecks to non-profit group -
When It’s OK for Liberals to Demonize the ‘Other’
Posted on June 29, 2011 | 1 CommentWhy don't liberals obey their own rules? -
Arizona State Bar protects checks and balances
Posted on June 29, 2011 | 1 CommentHopefully ... the Bar will stand by attorneys who, in good faith, advance state law when it clashes with federal law. -
Get Well, Hugo
Posted on June 28, 2011 | No CommentsOr maybe Hugo Chavez should play dead for a couple years -
K-12 Business School
Posted on June 28, 2011 | 1 CommentBusinesses (or nonprofit groups they create) can easily start schools that produce the skills they need—whether it’s technical training, math, engineering, or foreign languages. -
The Progressive Reactionarism of the Postmodern Left
Posted on June 27, 2011 | 1 CommentThe contradictions between the left's big government ambitions and its destruction of everything that makes it work dooms the whole project to a meltdown. -
Thank you, Eric Cantor!
Posted on June 27, 2011 | No CommentsAny tax increases today simply accommodates the recent massive, misguided and destructive expansion of government. -
Homes Are Not the Only Real Estate Being Destroyed by Government
Posted on June 27, 2011 | No CommentsIf history repeats itself, future “solutions” will only involve more meddling and result in less affordable housing. -
Good News From Libya
Posted on June 26, 2011 | No CommentsWhen Bush went into Iraq, it had genocide, chemical weapons and was a threat to the region. Libya has none of these. -
Wisdom For The Fed Chairman With “No Idea”
Posted on June 26, 2011 | No CommentsIn the Obama economy, the poor are told “you can’t accomplish it on your own.” The rich are told “you’ve accomplished too much.” -
Who is Kidding Whom?
Posted on June 24, 2011 | No CommentsThe result of the rogue NLRB will be legislation that limits the privileges of labor unions. -
A new bully on the playground
Posted on June 23, 2011 | No CommentsThe agency is using fees to coerce daycare centers to follow standards that ultimately are not within the agency’s power to make. -
Shock: Dept. of Defense Vindicates Fort Hood Killer
Posted on June 22, 2011 | No CommentsThe U.S. Army has tacitly endorsed a religiously bigoted position that it is perfectly fine for Muslim service members to kill non-Muslims, but killing their co-religionists is totally out-of-bounds and is grounds for an honorable discharge. -
Being better than half isn’t good enough
Posted on June 22, 2011 | 1 CommentWe’re isolated from the most populous part of country and we have no access to inexpensive water transportation. -
Technocracy Isn’t Policy
Posted on June 22, 2011 | No CommentsSocial media isn't leading to the dawn of a new age -
Bill, Amity, and Mort on Jobs
Posted on June 22, 2011 | No CommentsThe big problem with the economy is the economic detritus from a century of government meddling. -
Not Stealing Palestine, but Purchasing Israel
Posted on June 21, 2011 | No CommentsIronically, the building of Israel represents almost the most peaceable in-migration and state creation in history. -
Campaign finance debates and corporate ubiquity
Posted on June 21, 2011 | 2 CommentsCorporations are vitally dependent on workers, ordinary people, who cannot be and are not economically dominated or oppressed... -
Georgetown U. Received $325,000 Funneled Through Terror Front Group
Posted on June 21, 2011 | No Comments[O]penly promoting the OIC’s stated agenda of criminalizing “Islamophobia” puts [some of America's top universities] ...raises serious questions about their eligibility for public funding. -
Innovation found in Arizona, not Washington, D.C.
Posted on June 21, 2011 | No CommentsDuncan touted increases in federal funding and a $4 billion “school turnaround program.” -
Bachmann’s Challenge to Romney
Posted on June 20, 2011 | No CommentsMany who jumped on the Obama train understand that he was just slick, new packaging for old big government liberalism. -
How Environmentalists Cause War and Repression
Posted on June 20, 2011 | 1 CommentNo other group has done as much to keep America dependent on foreign oil as the environmentalists have. -
Stop Beating Up On Mitt
Posted on June 20, 2011 | 1 CommentWhat some Republicans are throwing at Mitt Romney, last Monday’s Republican debate notwithstanding, is way off base. -
America in a Chinese Mirror
Posted on June 19, 2011 | No CommentsThe Communist leadership wants America to go down, but not before China is ready to take its place. -
Why Isn’t the President ‘Creating Jobs’?
Posted on June 19, 2011 | No CommentsBarack Obama has treated American enterprise as a whipping boy, subject to his and his party’s penalties, requirements, fees, fines and demands -
None of Arizona’s “Free Money” Being Spent by Other States in Wake of Extended Benefits Session
Posted on June 17, 2011 | No CommentsMisconceptions, misunderstandings and misrepresentations -
E.J. Nostalgic for Bush
Posted on June 17, 2011 | No CommentsThey only get nostalgic when the new breed of extremists looks like they might actually win. -
The Liberal Apocalypse
Posted on June 17, 2011 | No CommentsIn the human economic ecosystem, a government cannot outgrow the resources it feeds off. -
Maricopa Community Colleges: Flush with cash and hungry for more
Posted on June 16, 2011 | No CommentsWhile Arizona has lost over 300,000 jobs since 2007, the MCCCD has turned requests for property tax and tuition increases into an annual event. -
Arizona’s Openbooks Reveals More than Just Spending
Posted on June 15, 2011 | No CommentsHow do state managers manage when they don’t know how money is being spent? -
Legislature: 79 Weeks is Enough
Posted on June 14, 2011 | 1 CommentThe government should do nothing more often -
Loughner and the Insane State
Posted on June 14, 2011 | No CommentsThe Giffords shooting speaks to the failures of the left's regulatory state, and the insanity of its ambitions. -
Defending the right to a secret ballot and Arizona’s constitution
Posted on June 14, 2011 | No CommentsThe NLRB under President Barack Obama is quickly becoming a rogue agency. -
Only Remedy for Weiner is Limited Government
Posted on June 13, 2011 | No CommentsLimited government enforced by a functioning constitution is our only hope. -
The “Government Is Always Good” Economy
Posted on June 12, 2011 | No CommentsLots of “Obama faithful,” who were quick to embrace his economic rhetoric as the 2008 crisis unfolded, are now genuinely shocked that things haven’t worked out. -
Schooled in Obstruction: Maricopa Community College Staff Blocks Cost-Cutting Reforms while Pushing Tax and Tuition Hikes
Posted on June 12, 2011 | No CommentsChancellor Glasper, “Staffing is a means and not an end, and means are my prerogative.” -
The Emptying of Yemen
Posted on June 11, 2011 | No CommentsIn this darkest hour, Yemenis are on their own. -
The Twilight of the Educated Gods
Posted on June 11, 2011 | No CommentsWe must argue against liberals using their own thinkers. -
Beer, Ham and Muslim Shoes
Posted on June 11, 2011 | No CommentsIt's not the offense politicians worry about, it's the explosive reaction from Muslims -
Can Arizona follow Rhode Island’s lead on health care spending?
Posted on June 9, 2011 | No CommentsArizona should pursue a waiver similar to Rhode Island’s. -
They Want YOU to Do Without
Posted on June 8, 2011 | 3 CommentsDo as I say, not as I do -
The Rise of the Post-American Empires
Posted on June 8, 2011 | No CommentsThe Utopians see the triumph of their way as inevitable
