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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...

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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...

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The media is still making excuses for Kamala Harris

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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. ...

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The GOP can put dreams of a landslide on hold

Hold on to your hats, people. History is in the driver seat this summer. It’s got the roof down, the music jacked up and the tires screaming.  On...

22.07.2024 5

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Democrats put on tinfoil hats for shooting motive

As balloons fell like gold doubloons on Republican revelers in Milwaukee Thursday night the news was filtering out from Washington. The Democratic...

19.07.2024 2

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I'll miss my crackpot friend, Jana Bommersbach

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Kari Lake interview exposes MAGA's ugliness

The Republican Party gave Kari Lake the podium Tuesday at its national convention in Milwaukee. She used it to skewer the mainstream media. ...

18.07.2024 5

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Shooting will change Trump like with Reagan and MLK

Already we have seen signs that Donald Trump’s brush with death may have changed him. How could it not? Trump is now convinced that his slight turn...

16.07.2024 4

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Best conservative response to Trump shooting: Grace

Republicans will be greatly tempted to blame Saturday’s attempted murder of Donald Trump on the Democrats and left-wing media. They should resist....

14.07.2024 10

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This is how Gilbert begins to rebuild from the 'Goons'

There are roughly three days left to save one of the oldest homes in Gilbert. If something isn’t done, it will be demolished. A number of people...

12.07.2024 10

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DBacks charge $16 a beer? Yep, that's the right price

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11.07.2024 9

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Are the Gilbert Goons back or was this normal chaos?

Fresh off The New Yorker magazine treatment of our now infamous suburban street gang – The Gilbert Goons – youth violence is back in the news...

09.07.2024 20

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Boy's heat death proves summer is getting more dangerous

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Phoenix Mercury lost to Caitlin Clark and still won

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01.07.2024 4

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That wasn't a debate. It was a farce and a farewell

“The United States now confronts graver threats to its security than it has in decades, perhaps ever.”  — Robert M. Gates, former U.S....

28.06.2024 9

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Before we destroy our courts, let's listen to judges

We are on the brink of destroying our judicial system in Arizona. Partisan actors want to punish judges who have ruled contrary to their politics....

27.06.2024 3

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Maricopa County GOP tells us they are squalid bigots

25.06.2024 5

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Do science first, then legalize mushrooms and ecstasy

I wonder what the Romans were doing when their civilization started crumbling beneath their feet and the age of empire gave way to sloth and...

21.06.2024 20

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The WNBA is 100% right to challenge Caitlin Clark

No one in sports will ever endure what Jackie Robinson did when he broke the color barrier in professional baseball.  There are no parallels. He was...

19.06.2024 7

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Kris Mayes will regret threatening a big legal fight

“Speak softly, and carry a big stick.” — Teddy Roosevelt, Sept. 2, 1901 Kris Mayes commands an entire army of attorneys who — at a snap of...

18.06.2024 5

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We have a major Mexican cartel problem

We don’t understand the U.S.-Mexico border. Yes, we know illegal crossings have exceeded record highs the past two years, but that hardly begins to...

13.06.2024 2

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AZ will lose if it follows CA's minimum wage disaster

Arizona in recent years has been following the California model of electing more and more Democrats. Our state’s Democrats now command the...

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Trump's visit was a popcorn movie for the great unwashed

There are two kinds of movies. There are “art-house” movies for sophisticated tastes and there are “popcorn” movies for the great unwashed. A...

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Arizona isn't turning blue. The data prove it

Forgive the person who looks at Arizona politics and sees a purple state turning blue.  Why wouldn’t they? Democrats have taken the governor’s...

06.06.2024 5

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The question Trump can't answer during his Phoenix visit

The event is billed as a town hall. Donald Trump is scheduled to fly to Phoenix and on Thursday take questions from Arizona voters. You can bet the...

05.06.2024 5

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Latinos could hit where it hurts if immigration law OK'd

I’ve been asking the question in Arizona Republic editorial board meetings all year. Where is the Latino community? Where is the Senate Bill...

04.06.2024 10

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Sinema's election warning is even truer after Trump verdict

In the drone of commentary following the Trump verdict on Thursday, conventional wisdom decided it is too early to know its impact on the presidential...

01.06.2024 20

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GOP has no clue that impeachment is a gift for Mayes

30.05.2024 10

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Mormons can't use pot, but they sure can grow it here

I will take it on faith that when Brigham Young in 1878 sent five Mormon families to settle the high desert of eastern Arizona, he simply didn’t...

29.05.2024 20

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Maybe one day we'll buy Sen. Sinema's brand of politics

“I yield the floor,” Kyrsten Sinema told her fellow U.S. senators on Thursday. She was speaking literally, but she also seemed to be...

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Tom Horne's real sin? He wants schools to be too safe

Tom Horne should know better. Arizona public schools, like most in this country, are creatures of the left. That’s not a conspiracy theory. That’s...

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Rachel Mitchell is right to clap back at the Arizona AG

A snotty little footnote in a snotty little memo by the Arizona attorney general was all that Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell needed to clap...

21.05.2024 20

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California could push Arizona gas prices even higher

As neighbors go, I’ve always thought of Gavin Newsom as basically harmless, another big-mouth, small-game California governor trying to manage a...

20.05.2024 20

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Gallego wants Sinema's endorsement? As if he'd get it

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I nearly died confirming an Arizona Biltmore legend

16.05.2024 20

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Eva Longoria a no-show for Biden after giant Trump rally

15.05.2024 10

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Red flags emerge (twice) on Mayes' fake electors case

14.05.2024 10

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The GOP can still win the abortion debate. Here's how

14.05.2024 20

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The GOP can still win the abortion debate. Here's how

11.05.2024 20

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How Brittney Griner bested Russia's plans to divide us

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Arizona was a leader in ending diversity loyalty oaths

09.05.2024 20

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Brittney Griner chain smoked, suspected spies in prison

Brittney Griner’s new book “Coming Home” (Knopf, 2024) is a blunt depiction of the cold steel and desperation felt in a modern Russian gulag. ...

08.05.2024 20

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How Brittney Griner bested Russia's plans to divide us

Almost the moment Brittney Griner was arrested and accused of drug smuggling in Russia in 2022, the grumbling began on the other side of the...

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Sen. Kelly rides shotgun with Biden on Israel, abortion

I’m not going to sit here and mope that Arizona’s junior senator Mark Kelly in the last couple days has moved assertively to the left. As they...

06.05.2024 10

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Why antisemitic college protests are far more vile now

Americans both left and right have sensed for a long time that the society that created the world’s most durable constitution, its most robust...

27.04.2024 20

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Where was the Board of Regents during ASU, UA scandals?

Four years ago, the University of Arizona was still reeling from a men’s basketball scandal that had boiled up into the national news and...

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It'll be tough to convict rancher accused of murder now

The serious legal jeopardy isn’t over for 75-year-old George Alan Kelly, the Arizona rancher accused of murdering a Mexican migrant on his ranch...

23.04.2024 30

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Why protests at ASU and other campuses are poisonous

At the height of the pandemic and the race protests of summer 2020, one of the more perceptive thinkers in American journalism, Peter Savodnik, wrote...

22.04.2024 8

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Coyotes are leaving because, ultimately, we're unworthy

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has always struck me as an ill-tempered S.O.B. whose face was pre-cast in a permanent scowl.  But, my Lord, was that...

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