I have fought for fiscal responsibility and sustainability for more than 30 years. Unfortunately, our nation’s financial and fiscal outlook have deteriorated significantly during this period. In addition, the Treasury Department, Office of Management and Budget, Congressional Budget Office, Government Accountability Office, and the Federal Reserve have all stated that the federal government is on an imprudent
Photo: Gary Rasor (courtesy photo) Some Americans dismiss shoplifting as a victimless crime, even a rite of passage for rebellious teens. Some district attorneys have virtually stopped prosecuting retail theft altogether. But the case of Gary Rasor, the 83-year-old Home Depot employee who died just days ago of injuries inflicted by a fleeing shoplifter, reveals
Saying anything you like — or refraining from saying whatever you want — is one of the most fundamental rights in a free nation. Without it, the First Amendment is worthless. This week, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, the case of Lorie Smith, a Colorado designer who refuses
Donald Trump has more than $100 million in his political war chest. But he has something even more valuable — an active FBI investigation against him. Anyone can raise money. Few can dominate the nation’s political consciousness, cleaving the country into two passionately opposed sides and giving rise to perfervid theories and counter-theories, based on
On the afternoon of May 17th YCSO investigated a report made by a school bus driver for Prescott Mile High Middle School who informed school administrators that a 13-year-old male student had made numerous threats to “shoot up the school”. The driver said the child made the threat three times while speaking to him during
While many deplored the use of vigilante justice that permeated many of the cities and towns in the early years of the western territories and states, there was often no other law or justice available. After the brutal dispatching of a robber and murderer in Montana in 1864, one of those present wrote, “The question