Goldwater Institute’s Guide to the 2022 Arizona Ballot
The Goldwater Institute has taken a position on the following measures that will be on the ballot for Arizona voters in 2022 . YES: Prop 128Most of the destructive initiatives that have appeared on Arizona ballots over the past few election cycles have been developed and funded by out-of-state special interests. As such, they are […]
What I Saw at the National Conservative Convention (NatCon)
Editors’ Note: The recent Nat Con Convention demonstrates that debate within conservatism is alive and well. While seemingly incoherent, the various shades of thought and opinion is normal when a new political movement is forming. It is an attempt to draw together legacy conservatism with the newer, more assertive, MAGA agenda. Readers can find many […]
Easy Money and Hard Economic Times
Editors’ Note: As the article below indicates, a new magisterial history of interest rates and central banking has been published. The author, Edward Chancellor wrote a previous book just before the last great financial crash called Devil Take the Hindmost, which was extremely timely if not prescient. This new book is extremely critical of current […]
Will Libertarian Candidates Again Deny GOP the U.S. Senate?
The more powerful the Libertarian Party becomes, the more certain it is that they will turn America over to Democrats—rendering the majority sentiments of Americans politically irrelevant. The political reality in America today is that of a two-party system. Embracing this reality means if you want to change the political direction of the nation, you […]
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, April 2024 Update. Biggest Price Drops from 2022 Peak in San Francisco, Seattle, Phoenix, Portland, Denver, Las Vegas, Dallas
New Highs in Miami, Los Angeles, San Diego, Boston, Chicago… The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index, released today and dubbed “March,” is a three-month moving average of home prices whose sales were entered into public records in January, February, and March. So that’s the time-frame we’re looking at here. It reflects Rate-Cut Mania that commenced in […]
Executing a Long Term Plan While Playing Dumb
Pundits commonly depict the ongoing calamity at our border as the result of the Biden administration’s incompetence. As with inflation, urban crime, and the deficit, their near-complete lack of insight and management skills is leading us over a cliff. But this analysis itself is a major error. They know exactly what they are doing and […]
Weekend Read: “The Talk” About Police
What I have told my children and grandchildren President Biden, in his address to the graduating class of Morehouse College, said: “If Black men are being killed on the streets, we bear witness. For me, that means to call out the poison of white supremacy, to root out systemic racism. I stood up for George […]
Against Climatism
The Right needs a total vision overhaul on energy. For over half a century, the environmental perspective has succeeded in overtaking every other outlook on energy and industry. Even fossil fuel companies and their allies like the American Petroleum Institute cast themselves in the green idiom. In the era of climate change, wherein major […]
After Trump’s Conviction, Republicans Should Do To Democrats What They Did To Him
Either you’re willing to jail Democrats on the same terms they’re using to jail Trump, or you’re merely controlled opposition. The conviction of former President Donald Trump on manufactured charges in a Stalinist show trial this week marks a crossroads for the Republican Party. From now on, the civil war inside the GOP will be […]
When the Family Is Abolished, People Starve
Editors’ Note: In the current election cycle, Republicans remain concerned that they have lost the college-educated suburban soccer moms. Democrats hope to use abortion as the wedge issue to keep moms from drifting towards Republicans because of crime, illegal immigration, and the economy. There is a certain irony here that conservatives need to use to […]