A month ago, anyone predicting $200-a-barrel oil would have been dismissed as alarmist. Not anymore. Today, Brent Crude is trading around $102–$108 per barrel, after touching highs near $119–$120, according to Reuters. At that price: When oil prices reach $200 per barrel, analysts predict U.S. gasoline prices will surge to $6 to $7 per gallon in Arizona … Read more
A Thai tanker burns after Iran attack in the Straits of Hormuz (Agence-France Presse news agency) Congressman Juan Ciscomani jumped to attention to support two major armed incursions by his boss, Donald Trump. Ciscomani extolled the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro: “a critical step toward disrupting…deadly [drug] trafficking operations.” He also jumped to the … Read more
With health care inflation rising and the Trump Administration doing everything it can to undo Obamacare/the Affordable Care Act, like taking away government subsidies from people who use it to get medical attention they can afford, Democrats, when they return to power, need to offer solutions that will guarantee Americans never have to fear losing … Read more
One would think that, since we are in a war against a nation that specializes in sending its third-party agents on terrorist sprees across the world, Republicans in the Executive and Legislative branches would want to make sure members of the Coast Guard and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) get paid. Wrong again. Funding for … Read more
While Arizona state spending on private education is exploding, public schools can’t even host SATs. Meanwhile, Juan Ciscomani supports gifting more taxpayer funds to inferior private schools and thinks you won’t notice. Juan Ciscomani has received an excellent public education in Arizona. With the help of scholarships and Pell grants, he graduated from Pima Community … Read more