Referendum failure dramatically changes the politics of private school vouchers. The attorney general should have a nondiscretionary duty to defend duly enacted state laws.
Let competition in AZ higher ed rip
ASU getting into the associate degree business should trigger a lifting of all restrictions on community colleges offering four-year degrees.
Allowing legislators to keep audit secrets
The Arizona Supreme Court decreed that a judge-invented legislative privilege supersedes a public records law promising an “accurate knowledge” of the origins and operations of Fann’s misbegotten election audit.
Discovering the need for RINOs
Kelli Ward’s letter asking Mitch McConnell to bail out the Blake Masters campaign was curious and instructive.
The distorting role of subsidies
They don’t make things cheaper. They raise prices and misallocate capital.
Right message, wrong messenger
As the alleged beneficiary of the mythical stolen election, Biden isn’t best positioned to debunk the Big Lie or frame the 2022 election around it.
The Political Notebook 9.1.22
Inane NRSC ad attempting to depict Mark Kelly as a wimp. Strategically misguided Katie Hobbs border security ad.
Are Republicans fascists? Are Democrats socialists?
These and other words need protection against the perversions of politicians, so they retain their real meaning and impact.
The state Supreme Court says: You can’t vote on that
The only redeeming feature of the court’s explanation of why it booted the flat tax referendum off the ballot is Montgomery’s originalist tour de force dissent.
The Political Notebook 8.19.22
Bad general election bets: Lake and Masters on increasing MAGA turnout; Democrats on abortion.