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

11.12.2024 10

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

Hobbs can fix Arizona's painfully slow election system

09.12.2024 5

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

Trump is changing the world, without lifting a finger

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06.12.2024 9

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 now...

03.12.2024 4

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

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...

03.12.2024 4

Arizona Republic

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Governor better be on notice: Dems are coming for her

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27.11.2024 10

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 10

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

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 6

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

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 10

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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 5

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 attorney...

14.11.2024 4

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

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...

12.11.2024 5

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

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 5

Arizona Republic

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Opinion: How older women could change the election

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05.11.2024 50

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Opinion: He helped his people. Then he was beheaded

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01.11.2024 7

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 6

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 so...

22.10.2024 100

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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 10

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 6

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 a...

08.10.2024 20

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

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

Phil Boas

Opinion: Dems' glaring error on Jeff Flake endorsement

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02.10.2024 20

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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 6

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 10

Arizona Republic

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

19.09.2024 3

Arizona Republic

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OPINION: Mamas, don't let your babies drive for cartels

19.09.2024 4

Arizona Republic

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The GOP has now become the exact thing it hates

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16.09.2024 5

Arizona Republic

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Don't blame the refs. Trump lost this debate on his own

If you want to know who’s winning an NBA game, go on social media and see which fans are attacking the refs. I mean, you can see it every game. The...

12.09.2024 40

Arizona Republic

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$40 million stolen and no one notices? That's obscene

10.09.2024 6

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

JD Vance imploded the GOP while he was in Arizona

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06.09.2024 5

Arizona Republic

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What does it mean to be a McCain now?

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06.09.2024 5

Arizona Republic

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The new John McCain musical is all in Trump's head

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04.09.2024 30

Arizona Republic

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Media can't get story straight on Harris' border record

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29.08.2024 8

Arizona Republic

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RFK Jr.'s Arizona bombshell shows how weird we've become

27.08.2024 4

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

AZ's McCain family exemplifies the GOP split over Trump

On Thursday night, Republican Meghan McCain celebrated the Democratic National Convention in a way that hinted she may be changing sides.  For years,...

23.08.2024 5

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

Trump arrives in Arizona with a big antisemitism problem

Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative youth movement Turning Point USA, isn’t stupid. He knows he’s got a Candace Owens problem. He has to...

23.08.2024 10

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

Think we're divided now? 1968 will end your delusion

As Barack Obama dazzled Democrats at their Chicago convention on Tuesday night, he reminded them to keep their feet firmly on the ground.  We live in...

21.08.2024 10

Arizona Republic

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Even the left-leaning media is ripping Harris over this

With so many eyes on this week’s Democratic National Convention, a lot of Americans didn’t notice on Friday that the 2024 presidential election...

20.08.2024 6

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

I was wrong about former Gov. Doug Ducey all along

I was wrong about Doug Ducey. I had always seen him as the ice cream executive who we went from selling vanilla in waffle cones to selling vanilla in...

14.08.2024 6

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

Queen Creek board member must answer for vulgar posts

James Knox is getting an education in self-publishing. As a member of the board of the Queen Creek Unified School District, Knox has been sharing...

14.08.2024 10

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

Phoenix didn't test Kamala Harris, but Chicago will

Friday night at Glendale’s Desert Diamond Arena, Democrats who came to see Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz soon became their jubilation...

14.08.2024 5

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

Devin Booker is the best ambassador Phoenix could have

He is not the most dazzling star in the firmament. He glows warm. He doesn’t blaze like the supernova, LeBron James. But he is our star and our...

10.08.2024 4

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

Arizona hardly knows Mark Kelly. That needs to change

When the veepstakes were still going strong in Kamala-land and Mark Kelly was in serious contention, there came a cable-news feed that showed a...

09.08.2024 10

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

Shapiro was a strong choice for VP. Harris blew it

I was prepared to tell Democrats what a brilliant choice they made for vice president. Where Donald Trump had blundered, choosing a lock-step...

07.08.2024 8

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

3 more events that could mess up the election (again)

You probably don’t think much about the first game-changing event in the 2024 presidential election — it happened so long ago. May 30. That was...

06.08.2024 6

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

Mark Kelly is tough on crime. He's the VP Democrats need.

If you’re a conservative, it’s not presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris you fear. It’s her running mate. That is, of...

27.07.2024 10

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Why is there an Arizona connection to all that's insane?

The nation’s gaze has moved on from the near-assassination of Donald Trump to the coronation of Kamala Harris. But let’s not do that, just yet. At...

27.07.2024 6

Arizona Republic

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Raise a brew to save the second oldest home in Gilbert

Update: I got a note from one of our long-time and most thoughtful op-ed contributors, Mike McClellan, who says to make sure if you go to O.H.S.O. on...

26.07.2024 5

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

The media is still making excuses for Kamala Harris

25.07.2024 5

Arizona Republic

Phil Boas

Mark Kelly should have the GOP quaking in its boots

If you’re a conservative, it’s not Kamala Harris you fear. It’s her running mate. That is, of course, if she chooses the right running mate. ...

24.07.2024 7

Arizona Republic

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