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Reality sets in for RFK Jr. Measles outbreak could end him.

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Phil Boas

'Liberals' have become nothing but control freaks

'Liberals' have become nothing but control freaks
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Arizona Republic

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Texas is full of the measles. That's a threat to Arizona

Texas is full of the measles. That's a threat to Arizona
yesterday 7

Arizona Republic

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Scottsdale had all the evidence it needed to reject DEI

Scottsdale had all the evidence it needed to reject DEI
15.02.2025 4

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Pope Francis may be liberal, but he has a point

Pope Francis may be liberal, but he has a point
12.02.2025 5

Arizona Republic

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Arizona had a plan to nix the penny long before Trump

Arizona had a plan to nix the penny long before Trump
11.02.2025 7

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I underestimated Trump before. Who's laughing now?

I underestimated Trump before. Who's laughing now?
09.02.2025 70

USA TODAY

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Mexican flag-waving protesters are making a huge mistake

Mexican flag-waving protesters are making a huge mistake
06.02.2025 10

Arizona Republic

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I misjudged and underestimated Trump. Not any longer

I misjudged and underestimated Trump. Not any longer
05.02.2025 6

Arizona Republic

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Maybe Trump is not that nuts on tariffs, after all

Maybe Trump is not that nuts on tariffs, after all
04.02.2025 2

Arizona Republic

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Air travel is safer than ever, despite DC plane crash

Air travel is safer than ever, despite DC plane crash
31.01.2025 10

Arizona Republic

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Finally, Trump could give Phoenix its police back

23.01.2025 4

Arizona Republic

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Ruben Gallego is saving Democrats from themselves

23.01.2025 4

Arizona Republic

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Trump returns as a conquering warrior while Gen X cheers

21.01.2025 3

Arizona Republic

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Sports betting makes the wrong people in Arizona rich

17.01.2025 5

Arizona Republic

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State Farm is not the bad guy in LA fires. Neither is AZ

14.01.2025 40

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About time Facebook removed its muzzle on free speech

10.01.2025 3

Arizona Republic

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How WNBA players are fighting back against low pay

Next month will mark three years since Russian despot Vladimir Putin took Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner hostage and a week later launched...

08.01.2025 3

Arizona Republic

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Why Democrats need a leader like ASU's Michael Crow

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05.01.2025 10

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Winning isn't everything. ASU just triumphed in defeat

04.01.2025 10

Arizona Republic

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CEO's murder is now a punchline. We're doomed

In the early morning of Dec. 4 in midtown Manhattan, a man with a 9 mm handgun and silencer shot Brian Thompson repeatedly in the back. Thompson,...

29.12.2024 20

Arizona Republic

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Thankfully, Phoenix airport shooting still shocks us

As if the original call wasn’t weird enough:  Things were about to get even weirder. Roughly two hours after all that, some guy shows up at Sky...

27.12.2024 3

Arizona Republic

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Trump's endorsement for governor shows he wants to win

On Sunday, Karrin Taylor Robson grabbed the brass ring, one of the biggest prizes in modern Republican politics — the Donald Trump endorsement....

24.12.2024 2

Arizona Republic

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Sinema gives Democrats a compass to save themselves

21.12.2024 3

Arizona Republic

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My bet: Feds know all about those mysterious drones

As we try to comprehend the frenzy over drones on the East Coast, understand this. These are friendly aircraft.  Because there is no way, NO WAY,...

18.12.2024 5

Arizona Republic

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CEO's murder is no time to trash health care industry

Are we really going to go there? Because if that’s where we are as a country, then the most important story on the shooting death of...

11.12.2024 4

Arizona Republic

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Hobbs can fix Arizona's painfully slow election system

The best argument for Arizona to create an election system that is fast and accurate is this: It can be done. Other states are proving every cycle...

09.12.2024 5

Arizona Republic

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Trump is changing the world, without lifting a finger

06.12.2024 6

Arizona Republic

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Rep. Stanton criticizes Biden's pardon, the right way

On Sunday, Joe Biden broke his word and granted his son one of the most generous pardons ever issued by an American president. Hunter Biden will...

03.12.2024 7

Arizona Republic

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End the debate: 'Die Hard' is a Christmas movie

As its name implies, the motion picture “Die Hard” isn’t going to go away any time soon.  You’ve probably seen the film, but to understand the...

03.12.2024 3

Arizona Republic

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Governor better be on notice: Dems are coming for her

27.11.2024 7

Arizona Republic

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Why the BYU game is so painful for many of us ASU fans

If you were a Mormon kid growing up in Phoenix in the early 1970s, this was the game you dreaded. Brigham Young vs. Arizona State. One of your two...

23.11.2024 4

Arizona Republic

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Don't expect Gallego to be another bomb-throwing liberal

The Ruben Gallego makeover is complete.  Only a few years ago, he was a bomb-throwing, back-bench liberal who called a conservative lawmaker an “...

21.11.2024 3

Arizona Republic

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Democrats will regret their social media retreat

Denial is a river you can watch in real time. At the moment it flows from social platform X, formerly known as Twitter, to social platform BlueSky,...

20.11.2024 5

Arizona Republic

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Sen. Kelly is right to grill Trump's pick for Defense

That’s some heat Mark Kelly just threw at Donald Trump’s new pick for U.S. Defense secretary. The U.S. senator from Arizona and former astronaut...

15.11.2024 3

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: Kris Mayes thumps her chest while she retreats

Never will you see retreat wrapped in so much tough talk and chest thumping as Kris Mayes displayed at her Tuesday press scrum. The Arizona...

14.11.2024 3

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: Tirade explains perfectly why Democrats lost

On Nov. 5, when the Democratic Party had become a smoldering mass of debris, a member of the Fourth Estate tweeted out: “I don’t understand. I just...

12.11.2024 2

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: Move to Canada to escape Trump? That won't work

Democrats are doing it again. They’re threatening to bolt to Canada after Donald Trump got elected president. In 2016, they so overwhelmed the...

08.11.2024 1

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: How older women could change the election

05.11.2024 40

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: He helped his people. Then he was beheaded

01.11.2024 3

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: 'Hitler' moves among us as Donald Trump

“Hitler” is not a metaphor. He moves among us as Donald Trump, imploring us to grant him dominion over the U.S. government and its armed forces. ...

24.10.2024 5

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: Trump went to McDonald's and torched Harris

It had reached the point where no one could break through. The presidential election had turned into a blur of cannon fire with each side shooting...

22.10.2024 100

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: This is the moment Kari Lake lost the debate

For about the first five minutes of Wednesday’s U.S. Senate debate in Phoenix, you saw what Kari Lake could have been. Well pressed and pinpoint in...

11.10.2024 9

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: Bad news on the border for Biden and Harris

So, it turns out Donald Trump was right about the bipartisan immigration bill. We didn’t need it to stop historic levels of illegal immigration....

08.10.2024 1

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: Don't call Sen. Mark Kelly cautious anymore

Mark Kelly used to lay low in the U.S. Senate before Kamala Harris named him as a potential running mate earlier this year. Before then, caution was...

08.10.2024 10

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: VP debate's biggest moment wasn't spoken

The most important moment in Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate was not spoken. You can’t put quote marks around it, because it was said visually,...

03.10.2024 10

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: Dems' glaring error on Jeff Flake endorsement

02.10.2024 8

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: GOP may lose an election and win a culture war

You had to be a target of critical social justice to truly understand how insidious it is. When I say “critical social justice,” I mean the new...

26.09.2024 3

Arizona Republic

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OPINION: Trump is driving a wedge in the LDS church

Mormons were never entirely monolithic in their politics. There was a time long ago when members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...

21.09.2024 9

Arizona Republic

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OPINION: Don't let anyone shame you for voting for Trump

This column has been updated to correct a typo. Mesa Mayor John Giles is a man of high character, so I respect his decision to vote against his...

19.09.2024 3

Arizona Republic

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