Arizona Citizens Defense League
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Legislative Update We are now three weeks into the 2021 Arizona legislation session. The number of bills filed has climbed to over 1,400. Key bills that AzCDL is monitoring, and their status, can be found on our Bill Tracking page. It is updated daily. The final day for Senators […]
Lockdowns Have Depleted Capital in All Forms
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes When lockdowns first happened, my initial thought was geeky, and only later did I begin to realize the implications for human rights and liberties. My thought was: this is going to be devastating for future capital investment. The basis of my fear was the knowledge that in almost all poor […]
POLITICO: Biden in Crisis
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes By Adam Cancryn, Jonathan Lemire and Eli Stokols REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware — President Joe Biden’s reelection bid appeared to be nearing the point of collapse on Thursday, amid a cascade of warnings from the Democratic Party’s top leaders that they have lost confidence in his candidacy. Senate Majority Leader Chuck […]
Teachers’ Unions — Killing the Competition
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Suppose “New Burger” (a new chain of burger joints) opened to great reviews – perhaps something that is not very surprising. What would be surprising is if McDonald’s decided it was going to throw all of its massive resources at New Burger to kill it off. If McDonald’s made charges […]
Good Election Integrity Reforms in Arizona Must Focus on These Four Key Areas
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Though the November 2020 election is over and the results a foregone conclusion, the pervasive distrust of the U.S. elections system continues to linger. After all, when voters are given $25 gift cards in exchange for their votes like they were in Nevada, a judge is caught taking bribes to […]
The Truth About the November 2020 Election
The Prickly Pear’s TAKE ACTION focus this year is to help achieve a winning 2024 national and state November 5th election with the removal of the Biden/Obama leftist executive branch disaster, win one U.S. Senate seat, maintain and win strong majorities in all Arizona state offices on the ballot and to insure that unrestricted abortion […]
The Past And Future Of Incitement
Current law stands in the way, however. Following the evolution of free speech over the decades, it has created increasingly specific tests to determine when speech becomes such a danger that it must be stopped. There’s a lot more to it than just that old bit about not being allowed to shout fire in a […]
Money, Debt, and Bitcoins
Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes Suppose soaring inflation caused our money to be of so little value that it was no longer acceptable for business purposes. It should be obvious that a modern economy cannot function purely on barter trade. What would we do? This has happened in many countries. Usually, they turn to doing […]
AZ Supreme Court Says No to Sweetheart Deals for Private Companies
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes In a major victory for taxpayers, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that the city of Peoria violated the state Constitution’s Gift Clause when it gave away nearly $2.6 million to two private businesses who promised nothing in return to the public, but only to run their own businesses for their own private […]
The Latest Notion On How To Fix Arizona’s Universities
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes A new study claims that increased state funding will increase college enrollment, which will in turn bring billions in economic gains to the state. A group named Education Forward Arizona says that if enrollment at Arizona’s three public universities is increased by 20 percent through increased state funding, $5 billion […]