Beginning in 2014, candidate elections in Arizona will all be held at the same time and only in even-numbered years.  This is the result of a long battle fought primarily by conservative activists, but the results are something that enjoy broad bipartisan support.

More people will …

It’s a simple enough headline: Brewer signs new business tax cuts into law. But it is a very important step in restoring a healthy economic climate in Arizona.

Simply put, business taxes are among the most damaging to an economy.  A recent study from …

Keith Russell Judd is a self-proclaimed superhero and Rastafarian Christian who has run for President every time since 1996.  The finance reports he files with the FEC are rambling, typewritten documents that have little to do with fundraising and much more to do …

From Human Events:

President Barack Obama has displayed an insatiable appetite for higher taxes, but Americans are wary of trusting him with any more of their money.

He has demonstrated staggering economic incompetence, manifested in his weak “recovery,” a $1.3 trillion deficit, doubling gas prices, …

Voters in Europe have chosen the welfare state delusion over reforms that would enable the region to become prosperous again.

In Greece, and now France, outright socialists have taken control of the levers of power.  The person responsible for the maximum 35-hour workweek in …

Batman speaks truth to union power in this amusing video by Steven Crowder. He tells us how much Bruce Wayne is really paying in taxes and just what those would-be Jacobins in the Occupy movement are really all about.

Warning: Some slightly coarse language and graphic …

By Dick McDonald

Many things escape the telling when you read the New York Times. As the leading proponent of progressive liberalism they infer that Apple as well as Google, HP and other high tech firms are not paying the “fair share” of local, state …

Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-5
Chair, Border Security, Federalism and States Sovereignty Cmte.

(Phoenix, State Capitol)—-Senator Sylvia Allen (R-District 5) pointed out again today the need for a stronger presence to protect Arizona’s southern border. In remarks on the Senate Floor, Senator Allen quoted from a …

It seems that Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing:  the federal government should continue dumping taxpayer money into the financial vampire that is the university system.  Both parties have arrived at the conclusion that the interest rate on federally-subsidized student loans for undergraduates …

Investigative report by Mark Flatten
Goldwater Institute  

(Part 1, Part 2)

Dollars and Debt

The most definitive source about bonded government debt in Arizona is an annual report by the state Department of Revenue. Cities account for the biggest …